Archive for February, 2010

Conversion

Conversion is another one of those words that doesn’t always communicate what’s at the heart of the issue (like the word “Christianity” that some of us are discussing).  Let me ask three questions to get us started thinking about this: Do you have the power to “convert” people?  To anything…. If you don’t, who does? . . .

What is Fear? Part 3 of 8: The Relationship Between Fear and Impulse To War

I believe childhood’s compromise at the hand of fear is at least part of the cause of humanity’s greatest wars – such as the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While I appreciate the immediate logic of maintaining worthy status quo defense - particularly when the lives of a country are at stake, I believe that these actions - primarily of men on both sides of the conflict – are at their deepest level very possibly exponentially excessive responses to fears borne of greatly traumatized childhoods. They are also understandable . . .