BOSTON-Can we have a "faith in ourselves" through a politics of love?
I savored Meg Mott's column. However, I found it very sad, even if true, and a little ironic that "In 2025 fewer people may be persuaded by references to Jesus."
Is it possible that in 2025 we won't recognize that Jesus's radical message, which changed the entire course of human history by sharing in painstaking detail the gold standard for dealing with "fear, deception, and hatred"?
Christ's personal and universal transformative message has endured globally for more than 2,000 years, vastly longer than any government, global power, or theory conceived in any modern academic discipline, but not as long as say, the Socratic method, which we have also abandoned in the ongoing fever of a losing politics of rage, silencing, blaming, name calling, killing, fear, deception, alienation, and hate.
The notion of having faith in ourselves to embrace a politics of love in 2025 seems to be rather quaint, and on very shaky ground.
Barry L. Adams
Boston
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