Reply #65: You assume a conceptual framework based upon power and realpolitik...

[Tigermoose]

Your framework excludes spirituality and the basis of the good news of the Gospel. Your framework is one of power, of actions as the acquisition and fight over power. For a world based solely on this conceptual framework, please reference the book, 1984. Jesus died on the Cross rather than accept that framework. When one of his disciples attempted to fight back with the sword, that disciple was rebuked and told to put away the sword. Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are the poor in spirit. Love thy neighbor. Love is the antithesis of power.

Of course, because you hold a conceptual worldview based upon power and its acquisition, you will say that love is for the weak and for "enablers and unwitting collaborators." From the perspective of Love, you are the one that is being used by those in power. You are in a world that has nothing to look forward to but the image of a boot stamping in the face of humanity.