Guest guest Posted July 5, 1999 Report Share Posted July 5, 1999 On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Tony O'Clery <aoclery writes: >Tony O'Clery <aoclery > > >Namaste, > >Hero worship must be in perspective, Jefferson, Washington etc, >talked >of all men being equal at the same time as they kept slaves. There is >a White History, and there is a Black, Native and Hispanic, History. >Let us make Saints out of Sages, not politicians Otherwise we build >democracy with a false bottom. > Let us not "make Saints" at all (as if we could!), let us rather look to that within us that is indistinguishable from that within all authentic "Saints" -- any "Saint" who points elsewhere is as suspect as the "politicians." There is a difference between rightful bhakti and starry- eyed, obsequious hero worship. http://www.users.uniserve.com/~samuel/brucemrg.htm http://www.users.uniserve.com/~samuel/brucsong.htm m(_ _)m _ _________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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