What the world needs now is not love, sweet love; well, certainly not what is regarded as love in common parlance. (But, that is a whole other blog.) What the world needs now is humility, honest and sincere humility – by the bunker load.
The lack of humility, which manifests itself as arrogance, rudeness, naked ambition, soaring egotism, discrimination, prejudice, cruelty, colossal selfishness (and I could go on!) blinds and binds individuals, communities and societies.
Interestingly, the lack of humility always finds a common expression amongst it proponents. The common expression is the attack (multi-dimensional) of anyone who has faith. Even individuals who profess a faith themselves can and do lack humility to such an extent that they attempt to justify the arrogant bullying of “others into the right way of thinking”; those “others” who were happily engaged in their own business!
What has happened to an individual’s right to be and believe? If a person’s faith/belief system is unobtrusive and harmless to others – what rationale or incentive does anyone have to attack it?
I have just spent an imposed fortnight with three atheists – and how very tedious they truly were.
They discovered, through interrogation on day one, that I have a faith. Every day, since that time, they have debated with each other the impossibility of religion. Dissatisfied that I do not engage in their ridiculous and illogical discussions, they have asked me questions and been baffled by my responses. (I have absolutely no desire to share the after-life, in which they claim not to believe, with these people and have not the slightest inkling to evangelise.)
Interestingly, it has come to light that one was raised by very religious parents, the second has his children at faith schools and is fascinated by theology, whilst the third speaks fondly of witnessing the delightful devotion of the faithful whenever he is abroad.
Clearly, these three atheists (like Richard Dawkins) lack the humility to acknowledge the truth. No-one, who truly disbelieves something, wastes irreplaceable and obsessively long periods of a finite existence focussing upon it. That is madness.
