Where has the Kingdom of Christ gone?
When we look around, the world seems further than ever from the kind of world envisaged by those who read the message of the Christ. Whether or not we accept the religion of the Church, or even profess to a Christian life, the words of the Christ and other avatars or messiahs lead to thoughts of a better world. The possibility of a world where Mankind loves without rancor, where we can trust one another and where we might all work towards a more enlightened life for all is enough to make most people fall silent as they have a brief moment of wishing.
Then we open our eyes and see a world where our leaders are greedy and venal, where lying is rewarded and the media tell us how most of us will crucify our fellow man for the slightest of advantages. We throw away food and resources while just over ‘there’ children die from need and illness we conquered a century ago rips families apart with death and horror.
And our leaders tell us obvious untruths, fabricate stories to get us to react a particular way and ignore our needs as they play their power games. Financial institutions make exhorbitant profits and then tell us how urgently they have to increase their fees – AFTER our governments legislated to make us use the electronic banking system instead of cash. We get charged to put our money in, to leave it there, to move it, to pay bills or to withdraw it.
These people make laws for us and break them almost before they are ratified – the latest such example I have seen can be found in the US site where people can supposedly trade in their old cars for money.
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