http://growmercy.org/2009/06/27/gospel-tunes-ears-to-victims-voice/ Mercifully gumming up the scapegoating mechanism Tue, 22 May 2012 23:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://growmercy.org/2009/06/27/gospel-tunes-ears-to-victims-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-37798 stephen t berg Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:25:26 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2009/06/27/gospel-tunes-ears-to-victims-voice/#comment-37798 Thanks Lucy, and of course you're perfectly right. We are finely tuned to the crimes of others, and blind to our own prisons. Thanks Lucy, and of course you’re perfectly right. We are finely tuned to the crimes of others, and blind to our own prisons.

]]> http://growmercy.org/2009/06/27/gospel-tunes-ears-to-victims-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-37754 Lucy Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:39:57 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2009/06/27/gospel-tunes-ears-to-victims-voice/#comment-37754 I observe around me only too well how victim-blaming becomes a way to avoid looking at one's self. Broken relationships, addiction, pain... But then my noticing how others do that without noticing my own can be my own way of avoidance can't it?! I observe around me only too well how victim-blaming becomes a way to avoid looking at one’s self. Broken relationships, addiction, pain… But then my noticing how others do that without noticing my own can be my own way of avoidance can’t it?!

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