{"id":473,"date":"2017-05-11T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:58:28","slug":"the-scars-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-scars-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scars of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_Napalm_Girl2_MEM_151026_4x3_992-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-474\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_Napalm_Girl2_MEM_151026_4x3_992-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_Napalm_Girl2_MEM_151026_4x3_992-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_Napalm_Girl2_MEM_151026_4x3_992-2-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_Napalm_Girl2_MEM_151026_4x3_992-2-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_Napalm_Girl2_MEM_151026_4x3_992-2.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 As a woman and a lesbian I wear the first hand scars of the injury done to my soul by sexism, heterosexism, and the not so subtle message that I am \u201cless than.\u201d I also carry within me secondary scars of evil. As a white person, I the carry the secondary scars of racism, as a non-Jew, the secondary scars of Nazism. As a citizen, the secondary scars of violence. As a human being, the secondary scars of intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I made that up, secondary scars, or maybe have heard in another context, but what I mean is that I and we carry in our persons the consequences of evil that is done to others. We are not separate from that which is perpetrated on others. We are injured either by our complicity or our compassion, whether conscious or not. It is those scars that make it impossible for me to remain silent.<\/p>\n<p>Godde calls us all to confront evil with love and love seems like an awfully flimsy weapon given the depth of evil we are capable of perpetrating on one another. But the activity of love is justice and Godde enlists human souls to do justice and <em>be<\/em> justice as the antidote to evil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; from <em>A Gracious Heresy,<\/em> by ConnieTuttle<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 As a woman and a lesbian I wear the first hand scars of the injury done to my soul by sexism, heterosexism, and the not so subtle message that I am \u201cless than.\u201d I also carry within me secondary scars of evil. As a white person, I the carry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-scars-of-evil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Scars of Evil<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,13,24,17,8,23,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}