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Rebecca Varidel's avatar

when we are connected this is the most amazing and inspiring prompt and protection

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Daniel Pembrink's avatar

Lorenzo, thank you for writing with such poetic conviction. I can sense how deeply this vision speaks to you and to many who long for healing, peace, and coherence. But I want to gently invite a deeper dialogue—because what’s being offered here, though luminous on the surface, may carry hidden costs for those still carrying real pain.

From a Concordian Catholic perspective, this worldview—however beautiful—risks becoming a kind of spiritual performance: one that speaks of light but cannot name darkness, one that praises “only love” but leaves no room for actual evil, trauma, or the burdened cry of the human conscience.

When you say, “There is no evil,” what happens to the child abused? The betrayed spouse? The refugee driven from home? Are they simply “remembering wrong”? Must they dissolve their wounds into cosmic coherence in order to be healed?

That’s not liberation. That’s suppression with a smile.

Burden ethics teaches: love doesn’t deny pain—it kneels beside it. It doesn’t erase shadow—it carries it. It doesn’t dissolve suffering into metaphor—it dies with it, and rises.

There is real sin in the world. Real evil. And that’s why the Cross matters. Not as energy. But as mercy that bleeds.

If you're open, I’d welcome a conversation. Not to debate, but to discern. To name what’s being bypassed in this theology of performance. Because I believe people need more than positivity. They need truth that can hold their pain without erasing it.

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