This blog is
looking at just one of the many forms of hypocrisy we see in our society.
We are not God,
and neither should we try to be. We are simply not capable of fulfilling that
role without corruption. To put ourselves in this position is bad for us AND
bad for everyone else.
We all know
the saying about the hungry person.
‘Give someone
a fish and they aren’t hungry that day. Teach them how to fish and they can stop
themselves being hungry for the rest of their life.’
When we give
the fish and stop there, what have we done?
For sure the
giving of the fish is a good thing; we aren’t letting them starve; so we’ve
done ‘good’.
But if we don’t continue on to teach them how to catch the fish for themselves,
but rather put them in the position of being reliant on us for ever, we have
corrupted that original good deed.
They are now dependent on us. We have their lives in our hands. We have now
cast them in the part of slave and us as master. We are their God – and they
must be grateful.
That’s
unacceptable, morally.
Why should
we take to ourselves, and be proud about it, the mantle of being free
independent souls who have control over our own lives, but deny that freedom,
that independence, and that positive feeling of self-esteem, of purpose, of
meaning, to others?
Yet so
often, this is what we see.
From
politicians who promise permanent and ever increasing handouts. Permanent State
largesse for life, as long as you keep us in power. All you have to do is vote
for my Party, and nothing else is expected or required of you. In fact the less
we hear from you the better. The last thing we want is you feeling genuinely independent.
Or the
charities who claim to care about those they help but who don’t care enough to
want to be put out of existence by actually succeeding. They don’t want to be
so successful that they close down because they’re no longer needed. Too much
money, too many jobs, too much moral self-congratulation involved to want the
reason for their charity to actually end.
That’s a corruption of the original good because it tempts people to claim that
things haven’t got better, when they have; worse, not to try as hard as they
might to fully succeed.
And the Church
of England. With its constant bowing down to whatever the secular liberal fad
is of the day.
Where has that got Christianity in this country?
The church has been constantly ‘modernising’ for over 50 years now and yet, and
yet – regular church attendance has dropped by 90% in the last 50 years and the
average age of the regular Church of England attendee is over 60.
We don’t have enough clergy to properly cover even those reducing number of
churches that still have a meaningful congregation.
And in the latest 10 yearly national survey, for the first time ever, less than
50% put themselves down as Christian.
So the
constant modernising has utterly failed by any serious measure. But does that give
the leadership pause to wonder if perhaps we need a rethink? Nope, not a bit of
it.
The Church
of England used to be called the Tory Party at prayer. It’s not been that for
decades. It’s now the Liberal Democratic Party at prayer. Woke, wealthy
middle-class eco-socialism. A socio-economic political institution masquerading
as spiritual Christianity.
The
Archbishop of Canterbury, always outspoken against any attitude or political policy
that wouldn’t be welcomed by Blair or Clegg, and yet, when a woman was arrested in
this country last week because she was stood across the road from an abortion clinic,
causing no actual trouble, just silently praying, we hear nothing from the wealthy
former corporate oil executive now posing as a man of God; the head of the
church; living in luxury.
And as we’ve
always known, the root of this form of corruption is almost always position and/or
money, one way or another.
Those at the
top in politics, or business, or the law, or media or academia or even the
church - their relative wealth & influence means they have no real skin in
the game anymore. Their grasp of the daily life of the majority is tenuous at
best. Their views are either closed-mindedly set in the unreality of decades
ago or based on socio-economic ideological theory, not the practical daily reality of the majority.
They make decisions affecting millions, sometimes without even being elected (Bill
Gates; WEF; UN bodies; media barons, judges, quangos etc). Decisions that don't affect THEM
in any meaningful way.
There are rarely, if ever, meaningful repercussions for
bad decisions by these elites. They are putting themselves in the position of God.
And that
needs to be changed somehow. Because it's always the poorest in society that
suffer when elites, playing God, make society changing decisions.
I think we
need far more plebiscites/referenda to act as a counter to the elected
dictatorships we currently have.
Look at the
damage to women’s rights being done by the SNP currently. All the polls in
Scotland show that the majority don’t agree with biological males being allowed
in biologically female toilets, changing rooms, sports, prisons etc but when
the elected dictators play God, putting their socio-political ideology first, there
is nothing can be done to stop them, apparently.
It all comes
down to people abusing their positions and placing themselves in the position
of God.
For God is always right; never needs to consider the effects of actions
on those who will be negatively affected; never needs to think whether they are
throwing the baby out with the bathwater; never considers that slow &
gradual change may be better than sudden rushed enforced change; never
considers whether a referendum of the people may be the best way to deal with
an issue because, of course, the ignorant bigoted peasants might give the wrong
answer – again!
NO – much better to connive, back-stab, lie, toady, bribe and corrupt your way up the
greasy ladder and then impose your dogmas, lord it over the masses - God-like.
They’ll thank
you for it eventually – or be miserable and die. Either way, the
self-proclaimed gods win!
Whoop de do!
Hooray!
