Nov 3rd, 2021: Let Us Take Down These Walls
This picture is about one of the oldest structures built in Canada. It is a fort that protects new settlers from outsiders. It has been a lasting fort even though people built it almost 300 years ago. It is still there today.
Nowadays, we build different kinds of forts even though we talk about inclusiveness. The evidence tells us that we are far more removed from one another than previous generations were. We do not use barb wires to shut one another out. We use languages and social concepts to do so.
The wall of politics: we have retreated and built higher walls in our political affiliations. Our nations are more divided than ever because of it. It is no longer just political ideas. It is about many changes that have taken in our unworkable democracy. It starts with not believing that there is right and wrong, truth and lie, courage and cowardice, and more. We seem to tolerate the practice of immortality in politics. Integrity is a hard commodity in the world of politics these days.
The walls of economics: the gap between the have and the have-not has gotten bigger. Those who do not have economic power do not seem to have a voice. The pandemic tells us that the poor and the underprivileged will be the first ones to suffer in any serious health event. They will be living outside the protection of the fort that belongs to the wealthy. The wealth of the world will soon belong to a smaller group of people. Eventually, these walls will rob away much of human dignity.
The walls of advanced methods of manipulative communication: we are no longer able to discern what is true and what is not because of the many calculated and controlled algorithms in social media. We want to get away from it, and yet we do not know how. It is like an addiction. It is like an abused relationship. We end up getting back to it after saying that it is not healthy for us. These walls have also created the alienation we have with ourselves, one another, and God. Our security is now compromised.
Integrity, Dignity, and Security are the casualties of these walls. Now, I understand better why God needs to break these walls by being one among us.
Luke 11: 17
"But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.”"
Romans 8: 38-39
"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
