LAUGHING & WEEPING
Only those who are capable of joy can feel pain at their own and other people’s suffering. A man who can laugh can also weep. A man who has hope is able to endure the world and to mourn . . . Thus both the laughter of Easter and the sorrow of the cross are alive in liberated man. They are not only laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep, as Paul proposes in Romans 12:15, but they are also laughing with the weeping and weeping with the laughing as the Beatitudes of Jesus recommended. Their game always points critically at the oppressors. It therefore constantly provokes harassment by those who prohibit laughter because they fear liberty. From Theology and Joy, by Jurgen Moltmann, SCM Press, London, 1973, as quoted in the Special Issue # 2, 1984 of the Verdict
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