The Inferno Is Not the Same as the Atmosphere

Part of spiritual direction is helping people see what they're really capable of. And if i'm hiding from that all the time, i'm suppressing it all the time. That's not the thing. If we don't do that spiritually, then we're not understanding redemption and a salvation. We tend in our society to worship naive trust by making the claim that people are basically good. But cynicism is actually an improvement over naivety. Ian.