The Blessed Revolution

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I think the Beatitudes is not
just for people of all religions,

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but for people with no religion.

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In fact, I can remember
I was invited by

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the Skeptic Society in Australia
to go to the Red Brick Hotel to …

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to ... and they asked me
to talk about something that

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they thought would be
relevant for them.

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And so I went to talk
to them about

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the Blessed Revolution of Jesus

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and looked at the Beatitudes
as the personal political

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dynamics of a transformational
reformation.

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And they loved it because
once you unpack those truths,

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and you set them free from
a very arcane religious context,

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and people actually reflect
on those things -

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that we are called to identify
with the poor in spirit,

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with all those who struggle;

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we need to enter into
their pain empathically;

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we need to get angry
about the injustice;

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we need to channel our rage
creatively in the struggle for justice;

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our struggle for justice needs
to be freighted with mercy;

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we need to act with integrity
in the midst of the struggle;

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and then work for peace
in the midst of war;

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and suffer violence rather
than inflict it.

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All of a sudden we've got a way

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of engaging a world of poverty
and violence

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that reaffirms what all human
beings, whether religious or not,

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desperately and deeply
want to believe in.