Archive for September 10th, 2009

“That Pig is Well”

Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 09/10/2009

In Asia, a dialogue can go like this:

“How is your lovely home?”

“That wreck is fine.”

“And how is the flower of your household?”

“That pig is well.”

So Political Correctness is not the only faith to look upon insults to oneself, one’s country and one’s family as the highest sign of civilized behavior.

Jesus reduced the Ten Commandments to two, something today’s churches do not accept. One of these commandments was “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” But the Trappists were proud that it would have been illegal, even in Medieval times, to treat anyone else the way they treated themselves.

Trappists have stopped that nonsense. Yes, even the most extreme portions of the Catholic Church can learn. A generation ago no one would have believed that the Trappists could outgrow their self-torture.

Dave has pointed out brilliantly how this sort of “sacrifice” is SICK. Political Correctness will have to catch up with the Trappists. Whipping yourself violates the Golden Rule. Hating and insulting your own is not immoral.

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