Light in the darkness
Dear reader, is the darkness now light ? Here we are at the beginning of another year, when the light starts to return. The light is what keeps all living things going, it drives everything on this small orb. It is the true light that illuminates the darkness, it is bigger than us, and yet we are intimately reliant upon it. There is another kind of light, the human intellect, this light is dangerous to us in a way the true light isn't. The intellect can be manipulated and weaponised. I once called myself 'Christian' because I saw in Christ a deep and integral humility that was lived. Our history in the west has been coloured by the perception that 'Christianity' is somehow superior to any other belief and must be upheld through the use of force. Bombs are dropped and land and people destroyed. The Christ I tried to follow had compassion and rejected the way of violence walking a path of non violent resistance to authority, one of humility, even to the point of bei...