Date sent: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 18:42:53 EST
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Subject: Re: hypocrites?/convictions
> Hi!
> The problem is we are not working together - if I am working for my God and
> you are working for your Goddess - how are we working together? We are not
> using our God/Goddess to put forth our needs we are setting them up against
> each other. In other words that is what I read when someone says "you keep
> your God and we'll keep our Goddess!" Can't we agree that we need to find
> some spiritual commonality if we are to work together?
But then you'd insist that the commonality be your father god on
your terms. You ask for unity, then refuse all compromise.
Or, does the
> commonality remain - we all want to fight for women's rights and environmental
> integrity - let's keep spirituality out it? Will there every be a universal
> spiritual understanding? If not how can there be global unity? What will be
> the uniting factor?
The uniting factor is the recognition by everyone (even you, Angela)
of the basic freedom of religion, faith, thought and conscience of
everyone else (even me). Action, however, is a different matter.
Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins; your
freedom to dump toxins does not exist (aquifers, oceans or
atmospheres are everywhere); they must be processed into
environmentally acceptable forms. Also, having too many children
steals bread from the mouths of all. Likewise, no one should be
allowed to oppress another, or pollute our common home; nor should
we accept excessive human procreation, for it intrudes on the lives
of all of us (and not just the humans). Joe
> Shouldn't environmental integrity - and the rights of the entire planet come
> before the rights of an individual - whether that individual is male or female
> should be irrelevant -
Exactly my point concerning the need for population control. Joe
