It was an interesting conversation that you nicely turned away from the initial gossip and bad-mouthing into something more of substance....
The biblical idea of remnant is never isolationist in its application. One must always be embedded within one's community. She intuitively understands that an excess of purity and a lack of the full spectrum of humanity turns tyrannical and destructive in the hands of a homogeneous self-selected population. Excesses of the right hand. It's why we don't harvest the edge of the field and why we have fringe on our garments....
Such a fascinating discussion
Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch... these things have NO power over the flesh...
It was an interesting conversation that you nicely turned away from the initial gossip and bad-mouthing into something more of substance....
The biblical idea of remnant is never isolationist in its application. One must always be embedded within one's community. She intuitively understands that an excess of purity and a lack of the full spectrum of humanity turns tyrannical and destructive in the hands of a homogeneous self-selected population. Excesses of the right hand. It's why we don't harvest the edge of the field and why we have fringe on our garments....