Politics and Religion

People do many things in life that they never attempt to explain in terms of motive or underlying cause; they just do what may or may not be assessed good or bad by others. And what is daily done will usually go unassessed by everyone, including the person that has done it.

Mother Teresa devoted her life to the good service of others, and this humble woman did not boastfully claim great piety or God’s favor by parading her religion alongside what she did.  In fact, this good woman lived a doubt-filled life of selfless service to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying.  To these she gave the comfort she could not find for herself—as she wrote to her spiritual confidant:  “the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see—Listen and do not hear—the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ...”

Some politicians and their holier-than-though supporters boastfully attribute and code-talk signal that their actions and intent are specially directed by God to and through them by their one, true and slam-dunk religion.  They may fool those that long to be fooled—on TV, was that a cross or bookcase in that political Christmas card, or a bookcase intended to look like a cross to those in the know?  I have heard of Bible code; do we now have Season’s Greetings code?  Sorry, I should have said Merry Christmas.

Perchance it has been written for those that think it of import:  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life?  It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.  But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil." ~ Jas. 4:14-16.