Hi Billy, On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Chris : > Maybe we need to differentiate "closed system" prophets from > "challenge to the system" prophets. But I donno. > > Even within a community I am most attracted to "prophets" > --here using the term metaphorically moreso than not-- > who become prophetic precisely because the system > needs to be challenged and no-one else is doing the job. > After all, it takes a certain amount of guts to be prophetic. > If we are speaking of genuine prophets. > It is a fair point. Given a sufficiently radical challenge to a sufficiently corrupt system, it is impossible "a priori" to distinguish between a nutjob and an authentic revolutionary. Then again, that same problem exists for non-spiritual actors. Arguably including ourselves. :-) That could actually be one reason why Old Testament prophets made predictions, as a way to independently validate their spiritual power (and thus authority). -- Ernie P. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
