Dan~ wrote:This is because you have a different idea about what power is and what political is.
When i refer to political power, the vile kind,
i mean, everybody obeying an individual.
The more people you control, the more power you gain.
Charity and government can cause one another.
I never said good and government can't mix.
I tried to describe power by referring it to animal power.
It is that which can secure your life and make your will manifest in the world.
The definitions of my words are my own a little bit.
Power is often used as a synonym for energy. In classical mythology there are different kinds of power typified by the gods and the heroes. There's a power of Zeus's Thunderbolts. The power of Heracles' strength. The power of Aphrodite's beauty. Embodied power is easier to understand. Of course now we have the impersonal power of the nuclear warhead.
Theists pray to God the almighty and all-powerful thus making power a divine attribute which can never be left out because it makes God God. If power is the indispensable divine quality why not to use it affirmatively for humanity and the world?
Asclepius and Jesus had the power of healing. There is a need for healing today if our sick and broken souls are going to approach anything like wholeness.