{"id":21653,"date":"2012-09-24T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21653"},"modified":"2012-09-19T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T11:00:16","slug":"a-global-plea-for-spiritual-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/09\/a-global-plea-for-spiritual-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Global Plea for Spiritual Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rhymed Reflections<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In polite conversation, we sometimes use the phrase &#8220;in all due respect&#8221;<br \/>\nbut in our public interactions, how do we one another relationally affect?<\/p>\n<p>On DIGNITY the wise tradition of HUMAN RIGHTS is firmly based<br \/>\nbut how dignifyingly are universal human problems being faced?<\/p>\n<p>To different belief systems we may belong but such differences notwithstanding<br \/>\ndo we succeed globally in sustaining DIGNITY through spiritual understanding?<\/p>\n<p>When religious\/spiritual systems are communicatively disrespected and violated<br \/>\nUniversal spiritual dignity is not only being infected but literally decimated<br \/>\nEcumenically we say that in all spiritual systems that we can live by<br \/>\nthere is a supernatural being\/force\/power that can lift us on high<br \/>\nWhat is sadly shown when a human being another person`s faith offends?<\/p>\n<p>That Education for Spiritual Dignity is a challenging road that never ends<br \/>\nOne day, one day, religious intolerance, violence and killing will globally disappear<br \/>\nFor that to happen, let\u2019s start being spiritually worthy right now, right here!<\/p>\n<p>________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author,<\/em><em> among others, of the book<\/em> Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (<em>2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai\u2019i). Downloadable at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonkilling.org\"  target=\"_blank\">www.nonkilling.org<\/a><em>. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhymed Reflections<br \/>\nWhen religious\/spiritual systems are communicatively disrespected and violated<br \/>\nUniversal spiritual dignity is not only being infected but literally decimated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}