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Good People, Bad
People, Democracy,
& Spiritual Warriorhood 12/11/2024 |
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One person whom I spoke with recently told me that the bottom line to his disappointment in this election was the following: That he learned that the majority of Americans are not good people. And this has totally altered his view of America and living in America. |
Another person told me something similar. Now, when he walks down the street, he wonders about everyone he passes. “Did that person vote for Trump?” he asks himself. Can a person who voted for Trump and his 33,000 lies last |
From validation to terror: “Donald Trump won the election. How do Americans feel about it?” | USA
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time in
office, lies pronounced rally after rally after rally in Election 2024, be called a “good person”? Voting for some one who promises to free from prison on his first day in office the legions of violent protesters who strove to overthrow the government by attacking the capitol and the very peaceful transfer of power on January 6? Meister
Eckhart gave us a very profound and practical definition of a good person when he said, “a good person is one who praises good people.” A good person is looking for goodness. Such a person is not stuck in envy or competition and has not lost the art of praising. A good person praises. A good person
lives with a Via Positiva, a love of life, close to their heart. In contrast, a bad person does not praise good people. Thomas Aquinas alerted us to how “a tyrant is more afraid of good people than of bad people.” Good and Beauty and Truth were on the ballot this November. And they
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Trump is planning trade wars and sanctions that are bound to crash the world economy….with a bailout that will make the wealthy even more wealthy. Tax researcher Richard J Murphy comments. | The list of cabinet members proposed by the president-elect is not overflowing with good people. A person who does not care about truth in any fashion has lost his/her soul. The Christ by any other name is rightly called “the Truth and the Light.” The winner on November 5 was not truth or light or the Christ by |
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other name. The best of human nature did not win on November 5. But the worst. Expect more violence; more hatred; more racism; more sexism; more compulsion to control women’s bodies; more corruption; more rule by the few; more distractions; more circuses; more entertainment; more injustice; more denial of and
work against climate change; more privileges for the few and well connected (tax cuts for example); more indifference to right and wrong; more efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid; more crackpot Christianity; more idolatry; more scapegoating; more lies; more hypocrisy; more patriarchy; more global warming with all its consequences; more class warfare; more billionaires running the media spewing lies without end of which the Murdochs were the trend setters; more billionaires
making decisions in all of our names. |
More government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires. This in contrast to the first Republican president’s leadership to defend what he (Lincoln) called a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” The former, not the latter, is what America voted for six weeks ago. No wonder people are sad and grieving and dropping out. Elections, as they say, have consequences. |
Resistance forming: Human Rights Campaign National Press Secretary Brandon Wolf speaks at the STOP PROJECT 2025 Rally opposite the Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, 1/27/2024. Photo by Elvert Barnes Photography, Wikimedia Commons |
But people are also organizing to resist and to gather and speak truth to power. To awaken the spiritual warrior in themselves and their work worlds. To be continued |
See Matthew Fox, Trump and the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society.
And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred
Masculine.
Banner Image: “Donald Trump Inauguration Day protest in Seattle,” 2017. Plans for Inauguration Day 2025 protests are in motion. Photo by Scott Lum on Flickr. | A Caring Note from the DM Team: The results of the U.S. election are affecting us all in a variety of ways, and challenging
times certainly lie ahead. If the burden becomes overwhelming, we urge you, please, to seek support. Here are a few resources that can help: National Helpline for essential services: 211 or 211.org National Suicide/Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. Veterans Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 LGBTQ Youth Lifeline: Call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678678. Trans
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Queries for Contemplation |
How are you doing? Are you gathering up your energy and powers of spiritual warriorhood to resist and continue giving birth to goodness in the world and in the body politic and encouraging others to do so? |
Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the
term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity. For immediate access to Trump
& The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE. Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil
that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly
masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an
ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael
Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God |
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The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages
The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new relationship with the masculine by way of Father
Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder
of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. |
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