An old man meets a young man who asks:
“Do you remember me?”
And the old man says no. Then the young man tells him he was his student, And the teacher asks:
“What do you do, what do you do in life?”
The young man answers:
“Well, I became a teacher.”
“Ah, like me?” Asks the old man.
“Well, yes. In fact, I became a teacher because you inspired me to be like you.”
The old man, curious, asks the young man at what time he decided to become a teacher. And the young man tells him the following story:
“One day, a friend of mine, also a student, came in with a nice new watch, and I decided I wanted it and I stole it, I took it out of his pocket.
Shortly after, my friend noticed the flight and immediately complained to our teacher, who was you. Then you went to the class:
‘This student's watch was stolen during classes today.
Whoever stole it, please return it.’
I didn't give it back because I didn't want to. Then you closed the door and told us all to get up and you were going to search our pockets one by one until the watch was found. But you told us to close our eyes, because you would only look for his watch if we all had our eyes closed.
So we did, and you went from pocket to pocket, and when you went through my pocket, you found the watch and took it. You kept searching everyone's pockets, and when you were done you said,
‘Open your eyes. We have the watch.’
You didn't tell me and you never mentioned the episode. You never said who stole the watch either. That day you saved my dignity forever. It was the most shameful day of my life.
But this is also the day my dignity was saved and I decided not to become a thief, a bad person, etc. You never said anything, nor even scold me or took me aside to give me a moral lesson, I received your message clearly.
And thanks to you, I understood what a real educator needs to do. Do you remember this episode, professor?
And the professor answers:
‘I remember the situation, the stolen watch, which I was looking for in everyone’s pocket, but I didn't remember you, because I also closed my eyes while looking.’
This is the essence of teaching:
If to correct you must humiliate; you don't know how to teach.
“Well, yes. In fact, I became a teacher because you inspired me to be like you.”
The old man, curious, asks the young man at what time he decided to become a teacher. And the young man tells him the following story:
“One day, a friend of mine, also a student, came in with a nice new watch, and I decided I wanted it and I stole it, I took it out of his pocket.
Shortly after, my friend noticed the flight and immediately complained to our teacher, who was you. Then you went to the class:
‘This student's watch was stolen during classes today.
Whoever stole it, please return it.’
I didn't give it back because I didn't want to. Then you closed the door and told us all to get up and you were going to search our pockets one by one until the watch was found. But you told us to close our eyes, because you would only look for his watch if we all had our eyes closed.
So we did, and you went from pocket to pocket, and when you went through my pocket, you found the watch and took it. You kept searching everyone's pockets, and when you were done you said,
‘Open your eyes. We have the watch.’
You didn't tell me and you never mentioned the episode. You never said who stole the watch either. That day you saved my dignity forever. It was the most shameful day of my life.
But this is also the day my dignity was saved and I decided not to become a thief, a bad person, etc. You never said anything, nor even scold me or took me aside to give me a moral lesson, I received your message clearly.
And thanks to you, I understood what a real educator needs to do. Do you remember this episode, professor?
And the professor answers:
‘I remember the situation, the stolen watch, which I was looking for in everyone’s pocket, but I didn't remember you, because I also closed my eyes while looking.’
This is the essence of teaching:
If to correct you must humiliate; you don't know how to teach.
***
With astonishing regularity, "conservative" "Christians" (who are neither) are not interested in real "salvation" but rather in guaranteeing that their judgmental God punishes wrong-doers.
But since we all do wrong, "Christian" "conservatives" often end up as hypocrites, wagging their fingers at others (particularly at doctrinal infidels) while pointing to themselves -- and everyone else in their "confirmation bias" bubbles -- as "The Good People"... "The Saved!"
Very close to bedrock, "The Saved!" stake their happiness on the certain damnation of others.
Very close to bedrock, "The Saved!" stake their happiness on the certain damnation of others.
"There is no fear in love.
But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
1 John 4:18
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And since these "Christians" presume their salvation -- without any need to incarnate goodness if only they proclaim faith in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior -- they end up in any number of psycho-spiritual traps like licking Trump's boots, certain that Jesus wants them to be "the smiting hand" of God, an unshakable belief rooted in their complete conviction that "becoming Godly" obliges them to live in a frame of mind that skewers others upon a roasting spit in a lake of never-ending fire.
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Although an additional essay would be needed to elucidate the conviction of conservative Christians that they are saved, their conviction distills to the "undeniable fact" that abortion is The Worst Possible Sin. And since these good, conservative Christians are "the only ones" who Do Not Commit THAT Sin, they declare themselves innocent in a way that enables them -- always and everywhere -- to applaud themselves, while doing their "Godly" duty of damning anyone who would kill a Completely Innocent Human Being while inside its mother's womb. These "good Christian Inquisitors" cannot entertain the likely prospect that those nations which outlaw abortion often have higher rates of abortion, or the fact that the current abortion rate in the United States is lower than it was on the eve of Rowe v. Wade.
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Meanwhile, not one "conservative" "Christian" in a thousand conceives the slightest contradiction between Paul's view of greed and Malignant Messiah's.
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Short Form:
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Long Form:
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My Own Contact With Family Separation, And The Young Girl Who Died
(The Story Of UNC-CH Public Health Professor John Hatch)
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"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"
The Daily Show
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The Daily Show
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"A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken"
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The Daily Show
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-divinity-of-donald-trump-daily-show.html
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"A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/03/according-to-trump-only-human-who-can.html
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/03/according-to-trump-only-human-who-can.html
"The Moral Confusion Of Trump Christians," John Pavlovitz
"Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/are-highly-religious-people-less.html
Multiple Studies Show That Money Makes People Less Compassionate, More Selfish
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Meanwhile, "The Good Christians" believe this guy:
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