“When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them.”
― Frank Herbert
Where do you see too close a relationship between politics and religion?
Why, when there is so much grandeur up above, would a person choose to look down at the floor? Perhaps because the floor is also beautiful.
Where will you look for beauty today?
“As a species we’re fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”
― Stephen King
What do you do to counteract your natural inclination to pick sides?
Perhaps one measure of the power you are exerting is in how great the force is that comes out to oppose you. What you find pushing against you tells you just how much force you are bringing to bear.
What are you pushing against? What is pushing against you?
“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth ― that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community ― and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
― Wendell Berry
What do you do to promote the commonwealth of your neighborhood or community?
