"Then, to show he's righteous, Bo Xilai said he would be willing to allow his wife to be tried".
I ask Allah to make me a shahied (iA) to allow me to return to him and be among all the righteous people in the highest levels of heaven.
"It is true the papers were false, but the scriptures allow the righteous to adopt falsehood to do good".
Isn't that what Abraham does with the news of the impending destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, where he raises his fist to the heavens and proclaims, "Will the judge of the entire earth not Himself practice justice?" Would God really allow the righteous to die along with the wicked?
Isn't that what Abraham does in this week's Torah reading where he raises his fist to the heavens and proclaims, in the face of God's announcement that he is destroying all the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, "Will the judge of the entire earth not Himself practice justice?" Would God really allow the righteous to die along with the wicked?
Rather than dealing honestly and effectively with the plain fact that our nation is now armed-to-the-teeth -- recent estimates indicate we have more than 300 million guns in this country, enough to arm every person with a few rounds to spare we are allowing the righteous anger and urgency of Sandy Hook to dissipate in shadow-boxing the same old tired self-serving defenses of the gun lobby.
And so to those of us who would burn holy books, mock righteous paths to love and allow our shadow to swathe our lives, I embrace you.
Such a simplistic viewing of the challenge allows self-righteous people to call for real bipartisan solutions, while offering nothing of substance (I say this only somewhat self-consciously).
I'm going to ride these Weves of hopefulness for an amicanleitherlution for as far as they'll take me, but once weaponizeched "fuck you, pay me," I'll be ready thatirect my itch and energy for scraps with white supremacists to whatevulgarityy is standing between me and what's mine.
We can either weaponize that vulgarity for righteous purposes or allow it to be used to oppress us.
