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Le feu est ainsi un phénomène privilégié qui peut tout expliquer. Si tout ce qui change lentement s'explique par la vie, tout ce qui change vite s'explique par le feu. Le feu est l'ultra-vivant. Le feu est intime et il est universel. Il vit dans notre cœur. Il vit dans le ciel. Il monte des profondeurs de la substance et s'offre comme un amour. Il redescend dans la matière et se cache,

latent, contenu comme la haine et la vengeance.

To many the last five years have been a disenchantment. Every cloud has a silver lining, and we take strength from the fact that, through all the difficulties of the time, the strength and moderation of the character of our people has once again shown itself, and in our country, almost alone in Europe, have we had freedom from unconstitutional rebellion. And more than that, I think we may say of

our own people that feelings of hatred and vengeance have no permanent root in their hearts.

Les deux choses qui m'ont le plus frappé chez les chrétiens d'Irak c'est : pas un seul reniement de leur foi, et pas un seul appel à la vengeance. Les 21 martyrs coptes qui meurent en disant « Jésus est avec nous », c'est la même histoire que Jeanne d'Arc qu meurt sur son bûcher en répétant le nom de Jésus. Je crois que les gens sont très touchés. Il y a pas mal de chrétiens qui

font la sieste en France, et tout à coup, ils se disent : « Et moi, je suis chrétien ou pas? »

There is a regrettable interpretation of the cross that has, unfortunately, infected the minds of many Christians. This is the view that the bloody sacrifice of the Son on the cross was satisfying” to the Father, and appeasement of a God infinitely angry at sinful humanity. In this reading, the crucified Jesus is like a child hurled into the fiery mouth of a pagan divinity in order to assuage

its wrath. But what ultimately refutes this twisted theology is the well-known passage from John’s Gospel: God so loved the world, that he sent his only Son, that all who believe in him might have eternal life.” John reveals that it is not out of anger or vengeance or in a desire for retribution that the Father sends the Son, but precisely out of love. God the Father is not some pathetic

divinity whose bruised personal honor needs to be restored; rather God is a parent who burns with compassion for his children who have wandered into danger.

Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead.
He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring.
He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their

possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that

he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies.