{"id":553,"date":"2010-06-30T07:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=553"},"modified":"2010-06-30T07:56:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T14:56:17","slug":"the-theology-of-the-crumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/30\/the-theology-of-the-crumbs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theology of the Crumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The second symptom of the illness of man\u2019s faith stems from relationship among fellow human beings: The Politics of Marginalization; more forcefully, Ang Politika ng Pagkamanhid.\u00a0\u00a0 The Rich Man did not mind Lazarus, covered with wounds and praying for mere crumbs that fall from his table.\u00a0 There was a great chasm between them, even,though Lazarus was just at the Rich Man\u2019s door.\u00a0 Because the Rich Man was already comfortable, his world no longer accounted for Lazarus.\u00a0 Farther and farther, every single day, araw-araw, until every single day reached forever at death, and the chasm became permanently unbridgeable.\u00a0 Man responds to a similar situation every single day; a tap on the car window for every street children begging for coins; an absent nodding of the head for a lola on the umpteenth retelling of the story of her life; bribing for one\u2019s convenience.\u00a0 In a sense, this politics of marginalization is necessary to the economics of affluence.\u00a0 Once man starts serving mammon, one can no longer be present to the people around him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:DIVxahkeszkJ:www.pondongpinoy.com.ph\/files\/theology_of_the_crumbs.doc+%22Theology+of+the+crumbs%22&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\">THE THEOLOGY OF THE CRUMBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second symptom of the illness of man\u2019s faith stems from relationship among fellow human beings: The Politics of Marginalization; more forcefully, Ang Politika ng Pagkamanhid.\u00a0\u00a0 The Rich Man did not mind Lazarus, covered with wounds and praying for mere crumbs that fall from his table.\u00a0 There was a great chasm between them, even,though Lazarus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/30\/the-theology-of-the-crumbs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Theology of the Crumbs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,89,99,146,147],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-community","tag-injustice","tag-listening","tag-stewardship","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}