Recognizing another people’s wounds is a precondition of religious or moral vision

Evidence

The story of Thomas may be a story about how difficult it is to recognize the wounds of another and how such recognition is necessary in order to see the resurrected Jesus. The Bosnian Muslim has been the “other” for much of the Christian world. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 371

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The claim that the targeted group has been cast as ‘the other’ for the Christian world parallels the ‘Grafting & Growth’ theme of infrastructure and the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ theme of othering — the mechanism of scapegoating an out-group to consolidate an in-group identity.
• XREF: connects to: Wounds and scars function as symbolic surfaces for exchanging bodily signs — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 372; Acknowledging harm openly, not avoiding it, honors small lives — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 307; Moral healing requires facing a community’s past sins directly — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 176