Comments on: Tom Fox Found Dead http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/11/tom-fox-found-dead/ Current Blog Project: Six Months With a Quaker Preacher Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:46:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: 9rules Religion Community Ping Homily on Courage at gathering in light http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/11/tom-fox-found-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-261 9rules Religion Community Ping Homily on Courage at gathering in light Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:38:05 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/11/tom-fox-found-dead/#comment-261 [...] The other kind of courage often follows from this and comes from those who physically try to save those children, and not just the children but the mother’s (and father’s) that Shawn spoke of.  I find people who face the powers of evil, like Goliath and Herod, in the name of justice, peace and non-violence, to be among the most courageous of all.  Tom Fox, a Quaker who was a part of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, is one example of this peace embodied courage.  Courage challenges the powers that wish to deny and destroy the powerless.  His courage came from his faith in God’s power, the same way David’s and baby Jesus’ did.  When we are courageous we are in some way putting faith in something or someone.  Fox is not alone in his courage facing the powers, many others have gone before him and many will follow in the footsteps of David, Jesus and Tom Fox - in that child like courage that confronted the those who are powerful and use it to harm others.  [...] [...] The other kind of courage often follows from this and comes from those who physically try to save those children, and not just the children but the mother’s (and father’s) that Shawn spoke of.  I find people who face the powers of evil, like Goliath and Herod, in the name of justice, peace and non-violence, to be among the most courageous of all.  Tom Fox, a Quaker who was a part of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, is one example of this peace embodied courage.  Courage challenges the powers that wish to deny and destroy the powerless.  His courage came from his faith in God’s power, the same way David’s and baby Jesus’ did.  When we are courageous we are in some way putting faith in something or someone.  Fox is not alone in his courage facing the powers, many others have gone before him and many will follow in the footsteps of David, Jesus and Tom Fox – in that child like courage that confronted the those who are powerful and use it to harm others.  [...]

]]> By: C. Wess Daniels http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/11/tom-fox-found-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-254 C. Wess Daniels Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:41:18 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/11/tom-fox-found-dead/#comment-254 I think this is a really sad commentary on a person whose integrity doesn't seem to apply to be who are killed for their faith. Whether or not you believe that non-violence is always proper, even people serious about trully living out the "Just War Theory" will be non-violence 9.5 times out of 10, that said I think its shameful to say these kinds of things about anyone trying to promote peace in the world, let alone someone who was recently murdered. To be honest I rarely screen comments that get put here, as I try to keep in mind my particular theme "gathering in light," which among other things is informed by a Quaker understanding that all people have a some measure of the Light of Christ and I (as well as others) have something to learn from all people. Thus, here on my blog, all people have a voice. But lately I have witnessed a couple comments (this one, <a href="http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/03/evangelicalism-and-subcultures-part-v-2/#comment-222" rel="nofollow">and another one</a>) that have made me question whether I can unilaterally publish every comment, comments that are spoken militantly, and with the purpose to hurt, harm or cut down me or others here are becoming less and less likely to get the "approve this comment" click. The other part about my blog name is the "gathering" part, which assumes that we are coming to gather and learn from one another - these hurtful comments do not follow this kind of rubric in their understanding. I think this is a really sad commentary on a person whose integrity doesn’t seem to apply to be who are killed for their faith. Whether or not you believe that non-violence is always proper, even people serious about trully living out the “Just War Theory” will be non-violence 9.5 times out of 10, that said I think its shameful to say these kinds of things about anyone trying to promote peace in the world, let alone someone who was recently murdered.

To be honest I rarely screen comments that get put here, as I try to keep in mind my particular theme “gathering in light,” which among other things is informed by a Quaker understanding that all people have a some measure of the Light of Christ and I (as well as others) have something to learn from all people. Thus, here on my blog, all people have a voice. But lately I have witnessed a couple comments (this one, and another one) that have made me question whether I can unilaterally publish every comment, comments that are spoken militantly, and with the purpose to hurt, harm or cut down me or others here are becoming less and less likely to get the “approve this comment” click. The other part about my blog name is the “gathering” part, which assumes that we are coming to gather and learn from one another – these hurtful comments do not follow this kind of rubric in their understanding.

]]> By: Right Wing Nation » Blog Archive » Somebody Has To Say It http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/11/tom-fox-found-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Right Wing Nation » Blog Archive » Somebody Has To Say It Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:16:19 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/03/11/tom-fox-found-dead/#comment-249 [...] He was not a "human rights activist," a "peace activist," or a "hero." He did not "give comfort, hope and relief to the families so devastated by the violence of each day's struggle"; he gave comfort to the enemy, to terrorists. He was a traitor — nothing more, and nothing less. And while he was murdered by savages (not poor oppressed disadvantaged disenfranchised marginalized little brown people), his death only points up the stupidity and the utter amorality of these so-called "Christian" leftists. [...] [...] He was not a “human rights activist,” a “peace activist,” or a “hero.” He did not “give comfort, hope and relief to the families so devastated by the violence of each day’s struggle”; he gave comfort to the enemy, to terrorists. He was a traitor — nothing more, and nothing less. And while he was murdered by savages (not poor oppressed disadvantaged disenfranchised marginalized little brown people), his death only points up the stupidity and the utter amorality of these so-called “Christian” leftists. [...]

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