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Matt Schmidt's avatar

Wow. Asad looks like Hauerwas. Or Hauerwas looks like Asad.

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Kathleen Kelly's avatar

Where is the text you are referring to?

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David Dark's avatar

Thank you for this, Kathleen. If you click the name (Talal Asad) beneath the passage, itll take you to the whole thing.

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Scott Miller's avatar

Hmmm...what would it look like for the state to teach us how to befriend one another?

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Scott Miller's avatar

Yes we get to carry each other, but someone needs to teach us how to do that

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David Dark's avatar

Great question. I'm not sure the state can any more than the Roman empire can BUT...the state CAN serve those who assume responsibility for their own government: That's citizenship, as I understand it. Libraries, fire departments, roads, childcare, healthcare, museums, water, electricity, and education. That last one involves employing qualified & caring teachers. My brother, my sister, my wife, my mother, my father, and I have all undertaken that work. I wouldn't call that the state doing it so much as funding it. Even then, it's people paying other people to do a needful thing. State as co-op. But "state," in Asad's parlance is darker than what one thinks of as a co-op.

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Scott Miller's avatar

Right. Teaching is an opportunity. A window to change. Thanks David.

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