Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n
Explanations of theodicy run aground on Haiti, just as they do on the Holocaust, Rawandi, Sudan.\u00a0 When a nation as poor and crippled as Haiti gets hit with a major earthquake, how does one reconcile that with a loving and just God?\u00a0 No intellectual fancy footwork can answer that question.<\/p>\n
I’m reading a book sent to Kate by Jon, Children of Dust.\u00a0 It’s a memoir of a young Punjabi who makes several circuits through various perspectives on Islam from conservative to fundamentalist to ethnic and, I understand, eventually out.\u00a0 This is the second memoir I’ve read recently, the other being Escape, about the FLDS.<\/p>\n
With this one I have doubts about the accuracy of it.\u00a0 Memoirs are tricky at best, memory changes as we remember, in fact it changes before it becomes solid memory.\u00a0 Eye witness accounts are, according to some criminologists, the most unreliable testimony.<\/p>\n
There is, of course, the need all of us to be the heroes in our own story,\u00a0 the need to smooth out the most raggedy parts of our performance as a human being.\u00a0 There is a desire to be accepted that goes beyond this tendency to encourage putting the very best light on what we do.\u00a0 In addition, the most memorable moments are emotionally\u00a0 highly charged and therefore subject to distortion in the moment, much less over time.<\/p>\n
And each of these can loop back on themselves to create another level of distortion.\u00a0 That is, I admit my tendency to smooth out the raggedy parts so I show you raggedy parts.\u00a0 In fact, I may make them grimmer than they were in order to convince you I’m honest, which I’m not.\u00a0 Anyhow, the labyrinth here is difficult at best.<\/p>\n
Children of Dust is worth a read, perhaps less as a memoir than as an impression of the complex lives Muslims live in contemporary world culture.\u00a0 It succeeds brilliantly in doing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights Explanations of theodicy run aground on Haiti, just as they do on the Holocaust, Rawandi, Sudan.\u00a0 When a nation as poor and crippled as Haiti gets hit with a major earthquake, how does one reconcile that with a loving and just God?\u00a0 No intellectual fancy footwork can answer that … Continue reading Theodicy<\/span>