“Our world is going through a crisis of dehumanization, breakup of family life, a general loss of moral values.”
― Edith Stein, Essays on Woman (c. ~1930)
"Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you."
Today idols arise and demand our worship: success at any cost, money, an obsession with appearance, popularity, or the unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes, in order to win the approval of others, we may go so far as to lie, betray, or humiliate someone on social media. Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina
isn't it funny how there's one version of "I'm playing both sides" that leads to you always winning and another version of "I'm playing both sides" that leads to you always losing?
"This American Life" finds it totally unremarkable when a black interviewee says (of blacks and Arab-Americans like El-Sayed) "We need to band against white people, you know, my opinion. Because it's us against them."
This is her pitch to "talk [people] out of their prejudice."