This - as with all your posts Rev T - is so thought provoking. I think your last sentence, asking whether we still have the 'moral imagination', has really made an impression. 'Imagination' requires us to want to see where our thoughts and feelings go... to take the thinking further. Imagination sounds easy, but it's effortful when the subject matter is troubling. I think this is, maybe, the heart of the problem. Imagining what might be or what could be, or should be doesn't feel pleasant or easy, so we avoid it. And the work that needs to be done is individual as well as collective... we need to engage that moral imagination, I think.
I believe Pope Leo recently said -- and I'm paraphrasing -- that a country's moral wealth is seen in how that country treats its most vulnerable, the "poor" being one of the most vulnerable. The Department of Defense wants a trillion more dollars, while millions in America suffer from food insecurity and a host of other trials that require government assistance. Where is our country's heart? What does it hold? Does it hold the Beatitudes or fear, fighting, and an insatiable thirst to covet and gain? As far as this administration goes, I'd say the latter.
This - as with all your posts Rev T - is so thought provoking. I think your last sentence, asking whether we still have the 'moral imagination', has really made an impression. 'Imagination' requires us to want to see where our thoughts and feelings go... to take the thinking further. Imagination sounds easy, but it's effortful when the subject matter is troubling. I think this is, maybe, the heart of the problem. Imagining what might be or what could be, or should be doesn't feel pleasant or easy, so we avoid it. And the work that needs to be done is individual as well as collective... we need to engage that moral imagination, I think.
Thank you
I believe Pope Leo recently said -- and I'm paraphrasing -- that a country's moral wealth is seen in how that country treats its most vulnerable, the "poor" being one of the most vulnerable. The Department of Defense wants a trillion more dollars, while millions in America suffer from food insecurity and a host of other trials that require government assistance. Where is our country's heart? What does it hold? Does it hold the Beatitudes or fear, fighting, and an insatiable thirst to covet and gain? As far as this administration goes, I'd say the latter.