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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (6909)	10/4/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

This whole conversation is so OT that we should probably move it to another thread--you, Lisa, and I--or start another. I shall post this message to Lisa as well. However, to respond to your comment, he was accommodated because he had to much to "say." Consider his observation in The Sign of Jonas: "The life of every monk, of every priest, of every Christian is signed with the sign of Jonas, because we will live by the power of Christ's resurrection. But I feel my own life is especially sealed with this great sign, which baptism and monastic tradition and priestly ordination have burned into the roots of my being, because like Jonas himself I find myself traveling toward my destiny in the belly of a paradox." Merton was also a social activist, as you know--and his activism was tolerated, as you point out. However, there is one notation in his essay, "Symbolism: Communication or Communion" (1968) that applies directly to this thread and to all political threads: "...there must be a renewal of communion between the traditional, contemplative disciplines and those of science, between the poet and the physicist, the priest and the depth psychologist, the monk and the politician. But one thing is certain, if the contemplative, the monk, the priest, and the poet merely forsake the vestiges of wisdom and join in the triumphant, empty-headed crowing of advertising men and engineers of opinion, then there is nothing left in store for us but total madness."