Fuckedupness

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Following Alastair McIntosh, the theological sense is intended. In an interview with the Sunday Herald Alastair defined his approach to activism:

  It�s about each of us taking responsibility for how fucked up the world is, and I use that expression in its theological sense; Jeremiah 20 says words to that effect. We must recognise our complicity in it and confess that to ourselves. The problem now is we are in denial.

In the 'Spiritual Activism Handbook', he expands on this:

  The Book of Jeremiah, chapters 15 & 20, depicts the prophet in despair at his vocation that required him to denounce abuses of power. He feels that God is overpowering him, and he even, according to some authorities, uses a Hebrew expression that implies being raped. In what has been described as the most blasphemous part of the Bible, he curses the life that God gave him. And yet, he concludes �there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones and I am weary of holding it in.� And so he continues his work, even though his enemies put him in the stocks and down a well.

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