[Vision2020] gift-giving

[Joseph Campbell]

The downside of unbridled evangelicalism is that it turns off as many folks
as it converts. But it is a complicated issue.

What does it mean to say ³Christianity doesn't hold a monopoly on virtue²?
Why not? Isn¹t this Christ, for crying out loud?

That opens up a spectrum of questions, none of which I expect you to answer.
None of which I could answer.

Part of me wants to say that each of us tells a different story, all of them
equally true. But that only sits well with me to the extent that they all
share general, metaphorical features and that it is these features that are
important and not the particular, literal features of any world view.

But only in a given sense, for in another sense the particular, literal
features are the most important of all.

Joe

On 11/30/08 12:01 PM, "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:

> 
> To my off-list correspondent (there are a few of them, actually) --
> 
> Yes, I do think it's sad that Paul's Wiccan friend shows such generosity of
> spirit in her gift-giving ethic when so many followers of Jesus, myself
> included, act during the holidays in a way that denies the Christian teachings
> of selflessness, self-denial, generosity, unattachment to possessions, and
> love.  But I'd also point out that we have lots to learn from not only this
> Wiccan priestess, but all other people of goodwill.
> 
> Christianity doesn't hold a monopoly on virtue.  Lamentably, though, its
> adherents often display behavior that makes the virtue demonstrated by
> followers of other faiths look a lot more like that of Christ than what we do.
> 
> Keely
> http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
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