#robert george

[Cornel] West: The conception of life in which you are a pilgrim or sojourner, moving through time tied to something bigger than you, even beyond time, means you’re going to be less likely to succumb to the forms of idolatry. If you have a conception of yourself tied to something that’s broader than just time and space, it means your sense of calling is deeper than just your sense of career. Me and Robbie encounter this all the time when young people come and say, "We love your brand." We say, "No, we don’t have a brand." We have a cause. We have a calling. And it’s beyond just history and time and space. And historically, it’s been those figures who had a sense of what John Coltrane called the bigger picture that connects us to the smaller picture that allows us to persevere with levels of integrity and love and honesty that make no sense in the eyes of the world.

It was for my sins that the Son of God suffered and died. It was for my selfishness, my pride, my greed, my lusts, my covetousness, my self-indulgence, my injustices, my failures of courage and of love. I hear St. Francis of Assisi talking to me when he says: 'It is you who have crucified him and crucify him still when you delight in your vices and sins.' Yes, it is true. I am the one. I am responsible. And I am sorry.

Just helped annoy Robert George vocal homophobe and transphobe from Princeton to the point he left mid speech from our campus and will never come back.