"The Hour is rapidly approaching..."
Sounds ominous, but what does it mean? Taking sides is what we have been about in
recent years and polarization seems to be the new established trend in
communicating. Most of you will continue
to avoid being caught up in the social-political-policy battles smeared all
over the Internet and that is probably a good thing.
Those who do join the fray are pilloried before being burnt
at the stake for getting involved as there is no such thing as normal
communications on the social media sites of the Internet. People are angry, frightened, fearful, and
downright obnoxious in their blind defense of whatever side they choose to
advocate.
Polarization will never lead to progress and blind loyalty
to a cause, whether liberal or conservative, progressive or right wing,
democrat or republican, is an insult to our Constitution and founding
principles. All Americans enjoy
individual liberty, are endowed with many Constitutional rights, and can practice
free speech no matter how intense, callous, or dark it may be.
All radical views and personal bias are tolerated as long as
you accept and respect the right of everyone else to have their views. When it comes to running our nation, no
single bias can ever dominate as it violates the individual rights and freedoms
of others as guaranteed by law.
Ours is a quite complicated system. Most people mistakenly sense we live in a democracy
when, in fact, we live in a Republic.
Most people think we must have majority rule and the Electoral College
process denies it. They demand immediate
change to the system. Sadly, they do not
even understand the very system we have lived under since the adoption of the Constitution
September 17, 1787, 231 years ago.
How sad so many are so ignorant of the history and principles
of the most democratic institution in world history.
Over those centuries our political, cultural, and religious institutions
evolved and there have been some improvements.
During that same history there have been many calls to modify our sacred
Constitution, some successful, many not.
Still we endured.
Today we have reached a point when, thanks to technology,
citizens have far greater knowledge of world affairs, of cultural differences,
and to endless sources of history and there is open communication and dialog
between peoples from all over the world.
Unfortunately, that same technology has simply overwhelmed
the public with information, diluted their ability to think for themselves, obliterated
our knowledge of what happened in the past, and made us dumber than probably
any time in our storied history.
We are no longer the compassionate, generous, hopeful, innovative,
determined, and optimistic people whose blood lines came from all over the
world to find a place where all were treated equal. We are too caught up in texting or gaming to
bother to research the hopes and desires of many generations of our ancestors
who often risked life and limb to get here as immigrants.
While we may have evolved on many fronts, when it comes to
spiritual evolution, we have run into the same impenetrable brick wall found
throughout the world. We no longer hear,
we no longer see, we no longer understand the nature of our own being.
We have forgotten the most important aspect of our
existence. We
did not come from the blood of our flesh nor the body of a human. We are the sons and daughters of God and
until we love one another we can never know Jesus nor the path he gave us back to
the Kingdom.
Pray for enlightenment from the Holy Spirit so that we may
find our path back to the Garden.
