A Christian leader and educator, Father John Jimenez has served as chaplain of San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School since 2017. Over the years, Father John Jimenez has authored numerous sermons and articles including “Resist the ‘Expanding Bubble of Desire’ that Displaces Residents, #MeToo’s Innocents, Fuels Mass Shootings.”
The daily newspaper the San Francisco Chronicle published this article on November 5, 2019. The piece explained Father Jimenez’s notion of “the expanding bubble of desire” to decry the dehumanization and objectification of certain populations as well as the terrible consequences of this dehumanization and objectification. He points to the expanding bubble of desire as a leading cause of regarding other human beings as “the other.”
Based in part on the work of Stanford anthropologist Rene Girard, the expanding bubble of desire harkens back to Jesus Christ calling his disciples the “salt of the earth.” By stressing the essential value of basic fundamental goodness, people can resist the never-ending drive of personal desire and stop dehumanizing and objectifying others.
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