Excellent article. Give yourself a treat and read this interview with Archbishop Tutu and his daughter Mpho Tutu. A few quotes: “God doesn’t want us being childish. God may want us to be childlike but not childish. We’ve been given intellectual gifts. We should go and question things we think are dubious intellectually. God is not sitting on edge that someone is going to find out eventually that the area of God’s control is shrinking. It’s not. God is not on edge. God says, ‘Bah!’ God is thrilled that we’ve been discovering all kinds of things. When you look at what science has discovered, God says, ‘Yay. There they go. That’s what I would like them to know.’” + Look at “the imperialism we Christians practise,” Tutu replies. “We think we have a corner on God and that other people have a look-in because of our generosity in allowing them… You imagine when the Dalai Lama gets to heaven and knocks on the door and St Peter – and God – says, ‘You know, Dalai Lama, you are such a lovely person, you are so serene. What a pity you are not a Christian!’ + As the ANC became rather accustomed to the perks of power, so his critiques sharpened. In 2004 he lamented that only “an elite few” had reached the “promised land”. Just four months ago, he said that he would no longer vote for the ANC, citing inequality, violence and corruption as among the reasons for his loss of support. When I ask for his current thinking on the party, he turns to “a lovely quote in Isaiah”. “‘Look to the rock from which you are hewn.’ We were hewn from a rock of people who were ready to lay down their lives for freedom… We have very many good things that are happening but you long for us to remember why we were in the struggle and what kind of South Africa we would love to see. We have accomplished a part of the dream… and some things subvert that dream.”
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:17:23 +0000
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