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Early start, train to Norwich via Stowmarket; interesting
meeting with Tim, out for lunch & annual review; train back
again - got some mail flushed intermittently as I went.
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Suitably horrified by the attack on free speech today.
Horrible. Interested by the confusing narrative of peaceful Muslims
vs. aggressive ones I found this analysis of
positions including Qutb's provide some enlightening hermenutical
keys. Theology aside, I worry for the backlash on my (blameness)
Muslim neighbours. Beyond that - this sort of ideology strikes me
as pretty curious with its powerful message that God's only hands
are our hands - ie. the idea that we should go around smiting
people because God is incapable of doing it in a timely way. To shoot
someone and say "God is the Greatest" seems to me to be
tantamount to a faithless personal aggrandisement. Christianity,
while acknowledging just war etc. seems to me to not only try to
humanely seek temporal justice, but also to recognise its profound
limitations. Who can give two lives in return for those they took ?
I take comfort from Romans 12's "It is mine to avenge; I
will repay," says the Lord ... Do not be overcome by evil,
but overcome evil with good. - (emphasis mine). If only it were
easy. Yet that same confidence in an ultimate judgement that is not
only certain, but truly just - taking into account all circumstances
and backgrounds - informs a Christian motivation for prison policy:
societal protection & re-habilitation among many other things.
Still - a sad day.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
