Anarchy

History is a part of who we are now. There may have been events in the past that we can look back on and be horrified by, but we can’t undo them. Everything exists in its own time and people behave according to the rules and beliefs of the era they live in.

At the moment, groups of people are jumping on issues and telling everyone how to react and condemn you if you don’t think as they do. As I write this I am thinking particularly of colonialism and the cruelty that was inflicted on indigenous peoples. Of course we can look back now and we would never sanction such behaviour, or we like to think that we wouldn’t, but these issues do belong in the past.

We would be living in a completely different world if certain events hadn’t taken place and who are we to be the judge and jury? A society is built on its past and we can’t know where we would be if our history had been different. There are repercussions we can’t possibly predict.

Rebellion seems to be the answer to anything people see as a wrong. Rather than attempting to make people aware of what they feel about an issue in a peaceful way, groups of people will now react very strongly, breaking the law and disrupting others’ lives.

We can’t possibly approve of some actions taken in the past and would never condone them, but we don’t live in that era and can’t really pick and choose what we would change and know that this would have led to a better present world.

Unfortunately, we are living in a broken world, not the world God intended when he created it. We must just make sure that we aren’t adding to this.

God bless,