Day after day for the past week, I see and read news of the devastation of the Haiti earthquake. We grieve when one of our loved ones pass on from this life; the Haiti quake has claimed 200,000 people. How do we even start to imagine the degree of grief there….of the families, the community, the entire country? Watching how the survivors fight - and kill - each other to get water, that crump of food, medicine….I figure this is the sad, inevitable state of the human race. That when our most basic physiological needs are threatened or deprived, we would not hesitate to kill another human being. In this respect, humans are no different from any species of the animal kingdom. Yet, in other parts of the world, human beings are killing one another because of mere ideological differences. Yet again in another part of the world, human beings are killing other human beings because they swerved their car in front of theirs without signalling. Maybe the gods took a good look at the state of the world and shook their heads, saying this world is beyond saving….let’s just wipe them out and start all over again. So, dear human beings reading this, may I ask you - what are we really fighting about?
Joe