XYZX responds to her Reverence Abigail Adams…another of our Founding Fathers heard only in Letters.

My dear Abigail Adams, thank you for your visit today.

You asked about my true opinion of religion after it appeared in a previous blog, Plato’s Cave; in it you felt I seemed to be critical of religious thinking and religion in general.

Reading back I see how another might think I am “anti-religion” so wish to present a different opinion, particularly, because you have asked and I value what you think.

By the way …our friend Franklin believes that “Dr.” should be added to your name… though I doubt your interest in such plummery… a made up word from “flummery”…with plumes for Courtly extravagance:

When I heard about his raccoon skin hat worn in France I had to laugh at his daring: That’s the imp in a “Frank-ling” as you say and we know it contrived but admire.

I like religion and religious thinking in general having benefited from every page turned and practice witnessed wherever I am: I mean by “practice witnessed” a value that offers kindness and restraint in opinion while being helpful: not whether it is practiced and observed on a day and hour for other reasons ... for instance to get to a given heaven or hell faster or better than another.

Essentially, I am targeting sectarianism where ever it is including our current political reality filled with sectarian opinion ancient or newly found. All of it being unfounded in us as a proprietary right rather than natural to us as a species together; to be realized within us via every single action. I think most might agree and hope you in particular do.

For instance; if we esteem fairness, the instinct in our sense of fair play as central to our consideration of what is just…then, the doing of it is a virtue done to and for all…this sense need not wait to be applied later say in Court, or Congress or a Heaven, after Life, weighted by saintly dominion: It comes most often, in my experience, raw most often ragged.

In this sense our exercise of virtue draws upon vast cognitive pools within every living being… daily refilled and grown by what we become and have inherited …our inheritance being reason, imagination, intuition, wonder and diligence at work in order to apply and find as the hard problems experienced by all of us with lessons of their cost to themselves to relearn.

Fasting forward:

in this area Ukraine is right: Putin and Russia under his dominion wrong.

Instantly those who grow at our border understand as all here do the necessity to be fair to those who are driven to come here vs those who see their jobs given away by those let into our country with no expectation no responsibility. Justice and fairness first to both congregations.

 

My problem with sectarianism is not only with religion and its’s divisive warring sects, it is also world politics…political sects , educational and economic ones… where hoarding is a given: these represent real problems in our day more easily resolved if we work together along a parallel track called value affirming actions v denying ones.

Please visit often, stay on if you will and please say hello to our friends held in mutual esteem… those who are honestly,just folks as you are we need more of… I in particular.

Indeed, we appreciate Frankling and admire Hamilton with his devils eyes and heart quite founded all.

Peter Brabbee

Publisher of XYZX Editions (xyzxeditions.com)

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