The Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
Weekly Newsletter - September 29, 2016
From Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
- Interested in an E-Book Edition of Guided by the Faith of Christ: Seeking to Stop Violence and Scapegoating by Stephen R. Kaufman, MD?
- Comment on “Why the US Is Destroying Its Education System”
- This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman
1. Interested in an E-Book Edition of Guided by the Faith of Christ: Seeking to Stop Violence and Scapegoating by Stephen R. Kaufman, MD?
The second edition this book was published earlier this year. We wonder whether there would be interest in this book being available in e-reader (e.g., Kindle) format.
Please let us know your thoughts at [email protected].
Thank you.
2. Comment on “Why the US Is Destroying Its Education System”
In this remarkable essay, Chris Hedges argues that “No Child Left Behind”
and grading teachers according to their students’ performance on
standardized testing discourages teachers from encouraging creativity and
critical thinking. Hedges argues creativity and critical thinking among
workers and low-level managers are unwelcomed by the ruling class. I have
shared this essay with many public school teachers, and they have all said
that it was right on point.
In the essay, Hedges writes, “As Arendt pointed out, we must trust only
those who have this self-awareness. This self-awareness comes only through
consciousness. It comes with the ability to look at a crime being committed
and say ‘I can’t.’ We must fear, Arendt warned, those whose moral system is
built around the flimsy structure of blind obedience. We must fear those who
cannot think. Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands.”
I think there is an analogous state of affairs when it comes to animal
issues. People have been taught to blindly accept animal suffering and abuse
as “necessary” and “natural.” They have found it convenient to abide by
widely held but little examined beliefs that discourage mercy, such as the
claim (very poorly supported by the Bible) that God made animals for human
consumption. Moral blinders have been disastrous for nonhuman animals and,
as I have argued previously, humans have suffered as well. What is the
source of human arrogance and callousness? I will start to examine this
question next week.
Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.
3. This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman
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