Life would be so incredibly funny at times if it weren't all so sad. Today's readings seem to all point to stiff neck peoples, hardened hearts, outrage, indignation and opposing camps of people, neither of which which will back down. It seems as bad as the situation in America with Trump and the opposing political figures, democrats, republicans, liberals and tea party hacks all going at it in the melee of the millennium. The readings today are so typical of our times that I almost feel someone might jump and say all the problems are Obama's fault!
If I could come up with a way to interpret these passages today and open the hearts of every reader I would have greater hope for the outcome of the state of American politics but I don't think I am that good a writer ( or preacher ).
The question in my mind is how do we open hearts and minds when they are so sealed shut? When someone sees you as the anti-Christ of life in one way or another and seemingly there is nothing you can say or do will change their mind. You become evil to the core, everything is your fault and we kill you, it will even be justified in the eyes of God.
This is, again, the status of American politics today much of which is based on one simple act Obama continues to assault us with, the very act that he breathes. How is such hate and irrationality engendered? It is not unlike the irrationality and misinformation about gay people, Muslims, blacks and countless others who are doomed no matter how good they are or how loved they are by the same God that the Nebuchadnezzars of the world use as the basis of their own righteousness. Personally I always though the best way to assure lunacy in the masses was to stifle education. I am big proponent of basic, intermediary and higher education as a mandate for all. An ignorant mind is just to dangerous a thing to let fester. Education is key.
You can and should read the passages for today and from our safe distance in time, see just how many problems we have are typified in the similar behaviors of the past. Perhaps fervent prayer and a retreat to to that old Indian proverb about not judging until you walk a mile in someone else's mocassin
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