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Well...
It's that "quadrennial time" in the American life cycle, when - once again - it's necessary to re-state the obvious.
"If You Vote For The Lesser Evil, There Will Be Less Evil"
Perfectionism be damned.
Progress, not perfection.
Containment, not extermination.
"Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's."
"Give the devil his due."
Religion and Perfectionism
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
More Merton Quotes
Any "conservative" "Christians" ha
”Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity And Normality”
Carl Jung "On Self Knowledge"
(I should add that I do not see Joe Biden as an evil person. I see him as a quite good person, albeit flawed like the rest of us. However, in this email I "frame' Joe as "the lesser evil" as a tactical manoeuvre to reach the people most in need of reaching.)
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