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Originally Posted by Igzy
We liked to say that we weren't separating from the people, but from the system. This was a rationalization, because the net effect was that we separated from the people in a major way.
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As WL would say, "
hate the system, but love the people." Talk about an impossibility!
Eventually, after I left the program, I understood what this saying was actually instructing us to do. It's just like saying to your wife, "I love you dear, but I hate the way you talk, the way you keep house, the way you cook, the books you read, the way you raise the kids, and the clothes you wear ... but I still love you!
Isn't that ridiculous? But isn't that what we were instructed to do? How do you separate a Christian brother from "the system?" And what if he doesn't like our "system?" We were taught to hate everything about our fellow Christians, and then told to "love" them. Talk about neurotic.