Divided

The 1/18/2022 paper, The Cavalier Chronicle, on Page 7, carried a homily entitled Divided We Fall. That weekly homily is from the 1992 Revised Common Lectionary. I will quote the homily and then comment on it: “The Apostle Paul asked an early church if Jesus had been divided. He called for unity and purpose of mind. It should be no different for us. Join together with your Christian brothers and sisters this week in church . . . that all of you be in agreement . . . I Corinthians 1:10-18.”

 

My response: Divided we do fall, but, being born in sin, we seek to fight and quarrel and gain unearned rank and power over our neighbors, so life, individually and for the whole country is based on endless power struggles between rival groups and rival individuals. Some couch their quarrel as compassionate and for the sake of the downtrodden, but, stripped of the rationalized propaganda, the dispossessed are but a means for an out-of-power elite to overthrow the status quo so that the replacement ruling elite can be installed. Things never improved for the ruled and subjugated, the vaunted revolution is really a mere, coup d’état in disguise.

 

We are far more life to achieve peace, lasting peace, harmony, cooperation and good relations in a federal nation, a constitutional republic, that is populated by supercitizens, individualists and individuators.

 

 

War and strife between neighboring countries is really tribe versus tribe, and that is altruism writ large.

 

For unity of purpose in mind within and without society, let the supercitizens run things. It will not be heaven on earth, but, with God in their hearts and guiding their public affairs, things should be better and more peaceful.