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Buridan's Ass, ascribed to French philosopher Jean Buridan, dramatizes a person's inability to make a decision between two equally potent choices. In the figure, the unfortunate animal stands midway between two identical stacks of hay and starves because it cannot choose which to eat. Human behavior makes the figure all too real and disturbing. General Friedrich von Paulus had the problem at Stalingrad in World War II. He knew his sixth Army could not hold the gains it made there and that its only hope lay in a breakout. Yet, his devotion to Hitler kept him in the city because Hitler fanatically refused to surrender it. Because von Paulus stood between the options, looking but doing nothing, he accomplished neither. He lost both Stalingrad and the sixth Army, the critical loss of the eastern campaign. All too often, indecision afflicts people spiritually. Liberal religionists find themselves there. They have an insatiable addiction to knowledge but none for decision. They summarize the meaning of existence as the search for — not the discovery of — truth. They unfailingly temporize, not finalize, truth. Since they don't want to hear it, they feel no one does. Though they have an irresistible attraction to truth, it is only to flirtatiously dance around it. Indecision is an all of Satan. Deciding to remain undecided is an affirmation of evil.  Quote this article on your site | Views: 242 | Print | E-mail
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Lectionary Passages for November 23rd 2008
[Year A]
Proper 29(34)
Sundays after Pentecost
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100
Matthew 25:31-46
Ephesians 1:15-23
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