On Evil, the Sacred, and What’s at Stake on this Election

I acknowledge fairly an inventory of points and selections at stake on this yr’s presidential election. In any other case I’d not have written a e book on Christ and Anti-Christ, the Sacred and Evil. (Christ being a reputation for the Sacred; and Anti-Christ being a reputation and archetype for Evil.)  Allow us to identify some:

Our Sacred Earth is on the poll. Its future as we all know it’s in jeopardy attributable to local weather change and its deniers. 

Species that reside on the Earth are in jeopardy. To call only a few: Whales, elephants, tigers, lions, forests, rainforests, timber, canine, cats, horses, camels, eagles, condors, parrots, birds of many varieties, bees, flowers, fishes, kangaroos, pandas, orangutans, bears, butterflies, buffalo, chimpanzees, gorillas, zebras, and so on. and so on. 

Is each whale sacred? And each elephant? Each tiger, lion, forest, rainforest, tree, canine, cat, horse, camel, eagle, condor, parrot, hen, bee, flower, fish, kangaroo, panda, orangutan, bear, butterfly, buffalo, chimpanzee, gorilla, zebra, and so on?

The Sacred habitats by which they dwell together with rivers, marshes, lakes, oceans, plains, woods and the remainder. Are they sacred?

Ladies and their proper to make selections about their very own our bodies. Are ladies and their our bodies sacred?

Males and the proper to make selections about when to develop into fathers. Are males sacred? Is fatherhood sacred?

Kids and their proper to stay up for a full and wholesome life. Are youngsters sacred?

And grandchildren. Are they sacred?

Democracy and the proper to decide on a authorities that serves the frequent good. Is that one thing sacred?

Democracy as outlined by Abraham Lincoln: A Authorities of, by, and for the folks, and as an alternative choice to rule by the few.

Democracy in distinction to fascism and power-over and institutionalized violence and the wedding of companies and authorities.

Democracy in distinction to theocracy and Christian nationalism and Christofascism.

A steadiness of the masculine and female energies vs. Patriarchy as rule by males, of males and for males.

Options to Patriarchy as a philosophy of power-over.

The actual which means of wholesome masculinity and virility has to do with qualities of inside power and self-knowledge, virtues and values like respect and decency and caring and therapeutic and justice-making price growing in self and society. 

The frequent good.

Justice.

Love.

Forgiveness. 

Ardour and compassion.

At stake on this election as nicely is the triumph of Evil, in any other case referred to as the Anti-christ. Such points as these stand out:

• Ignoring local weather change and subsequently collaborating in matricide and the killing of Mom Earth.

• The world’s largest agribusiness company is Cargill Inc. With extra billionaires in a single household than another worldwide, it has introduced concerning the destruction of forests, displacement of indigenous peoples, little one labor, modern-day slavery. An enormous mural in Sao Paolo, Brazil, was painted with ashes of forests destroyed by Cargill to construct its plantations. Mud from flood-ravaged areas of Brazil was additionally employed within the mural. “Each brushstroke represents the forests and communities devastated within the identify of revenue.”*

• $2 billion has been pumped into election 2024 by billionaire households—a certain manner for billionaires to rig the system to their liking. 72% of it went to Republican candidates.**

• Texas politicians, by taking away ladies’s rights over their very own our bodies, have induced the deaths of two Texas ladies who couldn’t get vital remedy of their time of miscarriage. 30,000 rape victims in Texas have been pressured to hold their rapists’ infants to time period. Two ladies in Georgia additionally misplaced their lives over that state’s new abortion legal guidelines.

Evil and the Sacred are dancing collectively at this election time. Which can prevail?

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• * Matt Jacobson, “Taking up Cargill: Beka’s Highly effective Story,” Stand.Earth, October 30, 2024.  

  ** Julia Conley, “That is Simply the Traceable Cash,” Alternet Media, October 30, 2024.

  See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.

  And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.

  And Fox, The Pope’s Battle: How Ratzinger’s Secret Campaign Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved.

  And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors To Awaken the Sacred Masculine.

  To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.

  Banner Picture: The Sacred Earth. Watercolor portray by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash.

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Queries for Contemplation

Do you sense the identical points at stake on this election? What others would you add to this record? Have you ever voted and are you busy getting others to vote? Michael Moore says there have been 80 million non-voters in election 2020 and 100 million in 2016 in America. A small p.c may resolve the election in 2024 in the event that they have been satisfied to vote.

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Advisable Studying

Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and concern. Nonetheless, given at present’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
For quick entry to Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. 
To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white photographs, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. 
To obtain a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE.
Order the audiobook HERE for quick obtain.

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox presents a brand new theology of evil that basically modifications the normal notion of excellent and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we will do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics

The Pope’s Battle presents a provocative take a look at three a long time of corruption within the Catholic Church, specializing in Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The ultimate part within the e book focuses on birthing a very catholic Christianity.
“This e book must be learn by everyone, not just for its ferocious braveness, but in addition for its imaginative and prescient for what must be saved from the damaging forces that threaten genuine Christianity.” ~ Andrew Harvey, writer of The Hope.
“Within the gripping The Pope’s Battle, Matthew Fox takes an unwavering take a look at the layers of corruption within the Catholic Church, holding ethical fact towards energy.”   — Jason Berry, writer of Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Energy within the Papacy of John Paul II

The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine

To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he reveals ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historical pagan image of our elementary relationship with nature,  to the Religious Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their greater calling to hook up with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this e book — to not point out each lady who desires to know the struggles, usually unconscious, that form the boys they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, writer of The Left Hand of God

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