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A thought-provoking reflection on Mumbai on the cusp of Advent
Posted by civil truth on December 1st, 2008
Yesterday, my blogging friend Pat Hickey over at his blog …With Both Hands posted a most thoughtful and reflective essay on Mumbai and its juxtaposition with the beginning of Advent titled Watch – Mumbai is Kankakee, Chicago, or Anywhere..
His identifying a worship of will as a driving force behind Mumbai (and naming its enablers and co-conspirators here in the U.S.) was quite insightful, but what I found particularly inspired was his comments about nuance and the way it paralyzes the modern secular mind:
There are devotees of WILL here in the United States ready to parse and dissemble the root cause of the Monsters with backpacks loaded with weapons in Mumbai. Ramsey Clark is no doubt ready to board a plane and take up the cause of the Monsters (one of the miserable bastards survived and whined to security forces “put me on saline”); Noam Chomsky and Billy Ayers have no doubt penned a clever contrarian essay on the massacre and its radical implications for Identity politics here in America.
The balance of us must be watchful. Advent calls to mind the Promise of Arrival. At Sacred Heart Mission on 116th & Church Street here on the south side of Chicago, Father Gallagher, a retired but active priest, explained the Gospel today. Words and thoughts that would be lost on a smug dissembler like Ramsey Clark, or a Noam Chomsky, or a Billy Ayers. We, the rest of us, must humble ourselves in order to be vigilant enough for the Coming of Christ and all the other expectations that living demands of us. Tough call.
We do not want someone telling us what to watch out for . . . especially during the Holidays. Modern thought depends upon the clever parser’s rule to nuance -Who’s to say? Jesus, I hate that expression of nuanced smugness. With those words the Nuanced act to Isolate people and then they can collect them all into their Will
The Disciples of WILL appreciate the slaughter of the innocents in Mumbai as it Reifies Will!
Folks, We must put Will on the back burner. It starts with yours truly, here. I take a back seat to no one where stubborn Pride is concerned.
There’s something about the exposure of monstrous evil that directs us back to our roots, therein renewing our spirits. I encountered this on 9/11, where I clearly saw the undeniable face of evil. Pat has alerted us to the most recent manifestation of the face of evil.
Read the whole piece.
December 1st, 2008 at 7:01 am
you know there are democrats and the left who think terror attacks are “chickens coming home to roost”. What kind of person could think that, what kind of person would listen to that?