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> Most people don't like to hear the real truth
This reminds me to re-read St Basil's sermon to the rich. It is unsettling and I need to be unsettled. I think that very few people indeed would be willing to read it as addressed "to me" and as a list of things (wholly unrelated to party politics) in which I am unthinkingly, habitually complicit. bekkos.wordpress.com/st…
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> Most people don't like to hear the real truth
This reminds me to re-read St Basil's sermon to the rich. It is unsettling and I need to be unsettled. I think that very few people indeed would be willing to read it as addressed "to me" and as a list of things (wholly unrelated to party politics) in which I am unthinkingly, habitually complicit. https://bekkos.wordpress.com/st-basils-sermon-to-the-rich/
Thank you for this link. I need to read it too.