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david-laguardia (39)in #book • 6 years ago
Book 15 - Ch. 7 (1 of 1) - The Warrior's Path: What Makes a Hero?
I believe America has a model of heroic warriors that transcends war. We celebrate the Americans who toiled through the Second World War, calling them “The Greatest Generation.”…
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david-laguardia (39)in #religion • 6 years ago
Book 14 - Chapter 6 (1 of 1) - Violence and the Warrior Ideal
(Note to the Reader: The next two chapters focus on our internal battle with selfishness. In these chapters, among other things, I grapple with a personal tension: can a person…
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david-laguardia (39)in #religion • 6 years ago
Book 13 - Ch. 5 (1 of 1) - The Almighty Dollar: Self-serving and other-sacrificing
Religious justification of exploitation and control has an ancient history. It did not start with Christians using god to justify slavery, colonization, and other evil realities.…
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david-laguardia (39)in #religion • 6 years ago
Book 12 - Ch. 4 (1 of 1) - God on Our Side & at Our Service
The Christian tradition often invokes the term “our god.” On the positive side such language provides a personal and communal sense of relationship with god or the mystery of…
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david-laguardia (39)in #spirituality • 6 years ago
Book 11 - Ch. 3 (4 of 4) - The All-Good Ideal
ALL-GOOD Within the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, god has historically been understood as entirely good. As children of this all-good god, we sometimes assume ourselves to…
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david-laguardia (39)in #spirituality • 6 years ago
book 10 - Ch. 3 (3 of 4) - The All-Knowing Ideal & Reflections on Prejudice
ALL-KNOWING Another part of our idolatry of self is assuming, like god, that we are all-knowing. Christianity has often spoken about god in certain terms. That certainty easily…
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david-laguardia (39)in #spirituality • 6 years ago
Book 9 - chapter 3 (2 of 4) - The All-Powerful Ideal
Unlike the traditional assumption regarding the “all-powerful” god, Jesus does not impose his will. The story of “The Rich Young Man” reveals Jesus to be uninterested in…
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david-laguardia (39)in #spirituality • 6 years ago
Book 8 - Ch. 3 (1 of 4) Who or What is our god?
WHO OR WHAT IS OUR GOD? The Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition’s creation myth connects our archetypal sin with the desire to be like god. The serpent tempts Eve to eat the…
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david-laguardia (39)in #immigration • 6 years ago
Immigration response
Well, I received my first critical response. I don’t enjoy debate. I am inclined toward right relationship and feel uncomfortable when someone is in disagreement with me…
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david-laguardia (39)in #politics • 6 years ago
Immigration: How does one get people to re-think a political issue?
I have been feeling down recently. It’s frustrating to see so much unnecessary hurting in America, and to feel so powerless to address the problems. Last week I attended a couple…
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david-laguardia (39)in #love • 6 years ago
Book 7 - Ch. 2 (1 of 1) - Seeing Our Broken World
SEEING OUR BROKEN WORLD Cardinal Joseph Cardign developed a popular approach to social justice described simply as the See-Judge-Act method. Reflective of modern, secular…
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david-laguardia (39)in #spirituality • 6 years ago
Book 6 - Ch.1 (3 of 3) -The Self Dilemma
(This is the 6th post from a book I spent the last 5ish years writing. I published "I am not God: Searching for a path toward Personal and Global Well-Being" last June. I will…
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david-laguardia (39)in #christianity • 6 years ago
Book 5 - Ch. 1 (2 of 3) - A Natural Response to a Natural Question
A NATURAL RESPONSE TO A NATURAL QUESTION It is reasonable to ask, “Isn’t it natural to be self-centered?” Selfishness and self-centeredness can legitimately be viewed as…
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david-laguardia (39)in #religion • 6 years ago
Book 4 - ch. 1: The Question (1 of 3)
A friend of mine recently gave me a book titled "Divinity of Doubt: The God Question." The author, Vincent Bugliosi, offers reasonable critiques of famous religious thinkers as…
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david-laguardia (39)in #love • 6 years ago
Book 3 (Introduction 3 of 3) - Overview: A Spirituality Everyone Could Agree On
(I am going to the mountains for a week, so I'll start posting Ch. 1 late next week - peace) OVERVIEW: A SPIRITUALITY EVERYONE COULD AGREE ON Ultimately, this book is an…
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david-laguardia (39)in #introduction • 6 years ago
Book 2 - Intro (2 of 3) - Going Forward
GOING FORWARD (a few notes) (1) While I have read and found life-changing inspiration in much non-Christian spiritual literature and find tremendous value in the discoveries of…
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david-laguardia (39)in #introduction • 6 years ago
Book 1 - Introduction (1 of 3)
(I intend to post my whole book on Steemit in the upcoming months. This week, I will post my introduction in three parts - the first of which follows this note. When I share my…
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david-laguardia (39)in #beautiful • 6 years ago
On failure
The summer of 2016 I was involved in organizing an alternative political convention. “The people’s convention for peace and justice” was to be a community effort to create a…
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david-laguardia (39)in #introduceyourself • 6 years ago
Introducing myself
Thanks for visiting my new steemit page. Before I start putting out content, I’d like to spend my first post introducing myself and the blog. Currently I teach social justice to…
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