"Opposition is the path to peace, and the sharper and deeper the opposition, the more complete and lasting the peace. That is the law of human progress."
-- Rev. Salem Bland, Methodist minister and a leading Canadian proponent of the radical wing of the social gospel in the early 20th century
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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hmm, law of human progress...there's someone deeply irritating about someone who subsumes opposition so thoroughly into a law that makes his kind of change inevitable...
True...and there is a certain narrowness of vision and the arrogant positivism of the age that is trumpeted from even the best of the social gospel of that time. But I still find something kind of amazing about a Canadian Protestant minister saying things like I interpret Bland to be saying here -- "Peace will never come from pious words alone but only from a vigorous struggle for justice," or something like that -- as opposed to the individualistic moralism, disconnection, stuffiness, and not-at-all-credible-to-me metaphysics that I grew up exposed to.
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