{"id":3037,"date":"2010-08-16T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2010-08-16T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:14:55","slug":"pinata-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/pinata-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi\u00f1ata Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smash him for candy?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arizona isn’t the only place struggling with immigration issues. My county in Pennsylvania is too.<\/p>\n

Some drunk teens, in a nearby town, beat a Mexican man to death, and their (mind you, local<\/strong>-and NOT exactly urbane) peers on the jury fully<\/em> exonerated<\/strong> them all. Whether the man was an illegal immigrant is not the main issue. (Many have said, “If he was in his own country it wouldn’t have happened. He got what was coming to him.”) His life was taken by thugs, a proper punishment is important.<\/p>\n

The Feds have stepped in, and a different outcome for the teens may occur. There is lots of corruption tied to authorities in that region as well. (The latest of that news here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This problem of groups and individuals taking out their aggressions on weaker or less powerful people is actually a spiritual problem. It takes many forms, most typically some sort of bullying, but also an attempt at degradation is a classic symptoms. I think, in some ways, we all can do it. Yelling at the kids, railing on other drivers, malicious talk, and of course beating someone up with your karate moves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I call it Pi\u00f1ata Syndrome: <\/strong> It is s when one person (or group) takes it upon himself (or themselves) to mistreat or abuse another, hoping to get some candy in the end (so to speak).<\/p>\n

Who are other famous pi\u00f1atas in history?<\/p>\n

The most amazing human pi\u00f1ata of all?<\/p>\n

I’d say Jesus Christ. He took our beating (and death sentence), by those hoping to “get candy” (or some sweet deal) from doing so.<\/p>\n

Here’s the twist, you may not like as much:<\/strong> Jesus asks his followers to do the same as he did. Self-sacrifice. “Take up your (pi\u00f1ata) cross, and follow me”.<\/p>\n

Are we treating people (or groups) like pi\u00f1atas, or<\/strong> are we being a pi\u00f1ata, in some way, for the sake of Christ?<\/p>\n

What are some other examples of pi\u00f1ata syndrome?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Explaining “Pi\u00f1ata Syndrome”.. do you do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[245,520,13,1524,1620,1621,1755,1756,1761,41,1900,1985,2209,2567,2568,2758,73,3200],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-arizona-immigration","tag-bullying","tag-christianity","tag-grace","tag-help-the-foreigners","tag-help-the-poor","tag-illegal-aliens","tag-illegals","tag-immigration","tag-jesus","tag-justice","tag-least-of-these","tag-mexicans","tag-pinata","tag-pinata-syndrome","tag-racism","tag-social-justice","tag-spiritual-maturity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}