This is just as good as dialogues get. There's deep, deep, wide-ranging thought and gracious, open, lucid discussion. I can't bear to pick one bit to quote because the standard of what is said is so unfailingly high. And, interestingly enough, another student from my poetry course suggested it to me - thanks!
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2 comments:
I appreciate the way they talk to each other, but it frustrates me what Francis believes. It almost hurts, and I can understand why people are so liable to fighting on this issue, because it feels like someone is being flippant with a human life.
To ask for some 'breathing room', or compromise, feels like someone asking for only a bit of slavery, or just some domestic violence, or even just a bit of murder. I'm not saying it's what they are asking for (it's obviously not), but it hurts to compromise on something you think is fundamental. It's why people are one-issue voters.
It's really hard.
Yeah, I know what you mean RodeoClown. So hard to talk dispassionately and 'on equal grounds' about what we see as the killing of people. But I'm pretty sure that it's the only way to make progress in an exchange like this. Maybe the way to do it honestly is to do as David Gushee does - and privately before and after to weep and pray.
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