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Resentment & The
Politics of Resentment, continued 10/18/2024 |
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In yesterday’s DM, biologist Rupert Sheldrake instructed us on how resentment and those who preach it can create an entire culture or political movement around it. One wonders if that is happening today in America. |
It has been said that hatred is anger oriented to the past and resentment is anger oriented to the present. Anger stored in the memory keeps the fires of hatred going, and some cleansing of the memory is needed to calm those fires. I understand resentment to be the simmering hatred that makes
itself known in the present. We fool ourselves if we underestimate its power for |
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destruction. Resentment happens when we hold hurt in a long time and it festers and rots and seeks expression in hatred and violence. Resentment represents an advanced state of ire and anger, a situation that develops readily into bitterness and rancor. This anger lodges in the heart if it has not been purified and redirected in the third chakra. Resentment builds up and up over time if it is ignored and not dealt with. This is why it gives birth to so many forms of hatred and revenge. I met a man from Bosnia who told me that the entire war and all its awful genocide in his country was due to one thing: the politicians who tapped into the resentment among the three different groups in his culture—the Roman Catholics, the Orthodox, and the
Muslims. |
“110-y.o. Palestinian refugee remembers the 1948 Nakba” in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced in the founding of Israel. The New Arab | All three had long-standing complaints against the others, and
the politicians, with their own agendas, exploited this resentment. Politicians love to exploit resentment. Exploitation does indeed follow on resentment. Resentment is such a powerful force because it |
stems from love energies that are denied us—it bears all the power of love behind it as a giant thrust against that which we hate. Being a great misdirection of love energy, resentment will eventually not be denied and those who exploit it know this. Hitler knew a lot about resentment and
the trick of creating scapegoats; otherwise he could not have achieved his programs of destruction. He appealed to his citizens’ resentments and they gladly responded in kind. There is only one cure for resentment and that is forgiveness. But resentment refuses to let go and refuses to forgive. It learns to cherish its hurt
and to cherish its anger and hatred. Like a child refusing to surrender its teddy bear, a resentful person refuses to let go of the security and comfort that spite gives him or her. |
Like love, resentment grows; it does not stay still. It builds up over the years, over the generations, over time. One can feel that quite palpably in the struggle still being waged between war and peace in the Middle East. Again, certain politicians have staked the |
The end result: Nyamata Memorial Site to the victims of Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Wikimedia
Commons. |
success of their careers on appealing to people stuck in resentment. And the violence and hatred that resentment gives birth to is only too evident, whether in the Middle East or America. Consider how in today’s presidential politics one candidate talks openly of imprisoning his rivals and executing others. Resentment is a sign of the antichrist insofar as Jesus and the Christ in all of us (or Buddha or Image of God) seeks to learn and practice forgiveness and letting
go. |
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 288-290.
See Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, Natural Grace: dialogues on creation, darkness, and the soul in spirituality and science, pp. 98f.
See Matthew
Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you recognize Resentment playing an important role in this year’s presidential race? And scapegoating? How do you rid yourself of resentment? How can a country do the same? Do you recognize grace as a liberation from resentment? |
Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science
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