A place for friends to meet... with reflections on politics, history, art, music, books, morals, manners, and matters of faith.
A blog by Elena Maria Vidal.
I eventually left my Wall Street job and started working with and photographing homeless addicts
in the South Bronx. When I first walked into the Bronx I assumed I
would find the same cynicism I had towards faith. If anyone seemed the
perfect candidate for atheism it was the addicts who see daily how unfair, unjust, and evil the world can be.
None
of them are. Rather they are some of the strongest believers I have
met, steeped in a combination of Bible, superstition, and folklore.
[...]
In these last three years, out from behind my computers, I have been
reminded that life is not rational and that everyone makes mistakes. Or,
in Biblical terms, we are all sinners.
We are all sinners. On
the streets the addicts, with their daily battles and proximity to
death, have come to understand this viscerally. Many successful people
don't. Their sense of entitlement and emotional distance has numbed their understanding of our fallibility. (Read more.)
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Courteous comments are welcome. If a comment is not published, it may be due to a technical error. At any rate, do not take offense; it is nothing personal. Slanderous comments will not be published. Anonymity may be tolerated, but politeness is required.
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