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In reply to the discussion: CNN.Hillary Clinton Deleted All Emails From Server. [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)We don't just glorify war; our whole culture is immersed in violence to the point that we can hardly conceive of solutions based on, say, nurturant motives. The archetypes of violence and vengeance are ascendent, all our metaphors are war metaphors.
What is peace?
Most people define it in merely negative terms--peace is when we re not at war, peace is when people are not fighting. So peace itself gets defined as the absence of something else rather than as an active condition characterized by positive values such as love, generosity, nurturance, compassion and positive happiness.
You have made ho secret of your Christianity. I'm not a Christian (more of a Buddhist/pagan or something), but I certainly endorse what I consider to be the heart of the Christian message, which I take to be the ascendence of love as the primal principle. The work we need to do on our culture to restore it to a humane society is far deeper than we generally imagine.