Reply #3: Repentance and absolution are not required for change

[RichardRay]

in the exterior world, only to change the experience and perspective of the sinner, internally. Politics and world power are not about internal experience; they are the ultimate example of externalities played out without connection to each individual's experience. Good can be obtained in the worlds of politics and power with the complicity of the most awful or abhorrent individuals and the value of the Good obtained is in no way reduced for the Sudanese who is no longer starving or for the Burmese who finally gets help needed.

I know many feel politics is personal; I don't agree. It's impersonal a big rock rolling down hill. Expecting the rock to feel guilt or seek redemption for crushing me isn't going to change the direction it's rolling. I can create change, but not that way.