America's Ethical Perversity
Morphizm has stayed far away from the Eliot Spitzer hyperdrive. What is there to say? No one is innocent. Priorities are reversed. The usual. In other words, no thanks. I'll hand this one off to a rabbi, Michael Lerner of Tikkun mag, to be exact:
Eliot Spitzer and America's Ethical Perversity
[Michael Lerner, Morphizm]
Elliot Spitzer deserves to be critiqued and ought to be doing deep atonement for what he did. His previous moral arrogance and willingness when he had power to do so to prosecute others for their participation in creating prostitution rings makes him an easy target. We, in turn, might practice the forgiveness that our religious and spiritual traditions preach, particularly those of us who have been willing to honeslty face how flawed we ourselves are, and how at times we ourselves fail to embody in our actual practice with others the values that we publicly espouse. Humility and compassion are also part of the path of a spiritual progressive.
But the intensity of the critique of the N.Y. governor, tied with the demand that he resign, shows more about American society's ethical perversity than about Spitzer... MORE @ MORPHIZM
Eliot Spitzer and America's Ethical Perversity[Michael Lerner, Morphizm]
Elliot Spitzer deserves to be critiqued and ought to be doing deep atonement for what he did. His previous moral arrogance and willingness when he had power to do so to prosecute others for their participation in creating prostitution rings makes him an easy target. We, in turn, might practice the forgiveness that our religious and spiritual traditions preach, particularly those of us who have been willing to honeslty face how flawed we ourselves are, and how at times we ourselves fail to embody in our actual practice with others the values that we publicly espouse. Humility and compassion are also part of the path of a spiritual progressive.
But the intensity of the critique of the N.Y. governor, tied with the demand that he resign, shows more about American society's ethical perversity than about Spitzer... MORE @ MORPHIZM
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