{"id":19410,"date":"2020-10-16T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19410"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:41:49","slug":"corporate-evil-and-corporate-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19410","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Evil and Corporate Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What Do We Do with Evil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Corporate\nEvil and Corporate Good<\/strong><br>\nFriday, \u202fOctober 16, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t-29WLQ3trA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Both Jesus and Paul radically reframe the human situation\nand invite us to live a vulnerable human life in communal solidarity with both\nsin and salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Neither sin nor salvation\ncould ever be exclusively <em>mine<\/em>, but both of\nthem are collectively <em>ours!<\/em><\/li><li>Universal solidarity is the\nimportant lesson, not private salvation.<\/li><li>We all hold responsibility\nfor all instead of blaming one or the other.<\/li><li>Human solidarity is the\ngoal, not \u201cmy\u201d moral superiority or perfection.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nknow that does not, at first, feel like a strategy for successful living, and\nit is certainly not one that will ever appeal to the upwardly mobile or the\npure idealists. It first feels like capitulation, but that is not Jesus\u2019 or\nPaul\u2019s intention at all\u2014quite the opposite. Paul believes he has found a new\nkind of victory and freedom. He himself calls it \u201cfolly\u201d or \u201cfoolishness\u201d (1\nCorinthians 1:21, 25, 27; 4:10), as it is for most people to this day. He often\ncalls it a \u201chidden mystery\u201d that only the wise discover. Paul believes there is\na hidden, cruciform shape to reality, even revealed in the geometry of the\ncross (see Ephesians 2:13\u201322). The world is filled with contradictions, false\nalternatives, zero-sum games, paradoxes, and unresolvable evils. It is\nfoundationally unjust, yet we must work for justice in order to find our own\nfreedom and create it for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul\nis an utter realist about life on this planet. We must fully recognize and\nsurrender to this foundational reality before we try to think we can repair the\nworld (<em>tikkun olam <\/em>in Hebrew) with freedom and\nlove. For Paul, his insight is symbolized in the scandalous image of a man on\nthe cross, the Crucified God who fully accepts and transforms this tragic human\nsituation through love. If this is the reality to which even God must submit,\nthen surely we must and can do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\ngiving ourselves to this primary human absurdity, which shows itself in\npatience, love, and forgiveness toward all things, we find a positive and\nfaith-filled way through \u201cthe world, the flesh, and the devil.\u201d This is not by\nreally resolving it or thinking we can ever fully change it, but by recognizing\nthat we are all complicit in this mixed moral universe. This is perhaps the\nhumility that Christians need in their campaigns for social reform. This is \u201ccarrying\nthe cross\u201d with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans\noften end up doing evil by thinking they can and must eliminate all evil,\ninstead of holding it, suffering it themselves, and learning from it, as Jesus\ndoes on the cross. This ironically gives us the active compassion we need to\nwork for social change. My acceptance of a cruciform world mirrors my ability\nto accept a cruciform me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God has created\na world where there is no technique or magical method for purity or perfection.\nForgiving love is the only way out and the only final answer is God\u2019s infinite\nLove and our ability to endlessly draw upon it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Do We Do with Evil? Corporate Evil and Corporate Good Friday, \u202fOctober 16, 2020 Both Jesus and Paul radically reframe the human situation and invite us to live a vulnerable human life in communal solidarity with both sin and salvation. 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