Society is increasingly rejecting the moral confines of Christianity

By Letter to the Editor on March 6, 2021.

Editor:
Yay us! It’s been about a year since the beginning of the COVID restrictions. By and large, we’ve learned to cope. We’ve learned how to be friendly — mask and all Ð and have made the necessary adjustments in our routines. Thankfully, the slogan “Strong Together” is no longer being used, for we have never been less together, nor have we been more aware of our fragility. Wipes, hand sanitizers and vitamin C are available again in reasonable, even abundant, supply. Huge strides have been made in the need for technology.
Teenagers and geeks alike are teaching us older folks how to benefit from live-streaming, Zoom, Face Time, and online shopping. We now have quick and easy medical tests to show if one is positive for the dreaded virus. Unfortunately, there are no such tests for loneliness or depression. We’re alerted, through all kinds of media, with a list of symptoms for the need to self-isolate but there is no equivalent list of symptoms for the need for less isolation.
By turning our culture and economy upside down we have kept the first and second wave of the virus from overflowing our hospitals and cemeteries. We are now similarly handling the third wave and one can only assume that this will continue with the fourth and fifth waves and however many waves after that. Overdoses, suicides, crime, and terminal conditions such as cancer and old age continue to claim lives like they always have.
No vaccine can stop them. We have locked down the care-requiring elderly, the terminally ill and the disabled — to keep them safe – while Ottawa just legislated expanded boundaries to assist them in dying.
While our society tries to be more eco-conscious, our landfills are bursting at the seams with the influx of disposable protective supplies, home-delivery packaging material, last year’s computer hardware and, eventually, plexiglass. As a global culture, we are increasingly rejecting the moral “confines” of Christianity. Instead we have allowed a select “wise” few to make decisions about most aspects of our lives, and we are too busy coping with “staying safe” in our own little corner to argue. Yay us?
Theresa Teerling
Lethbridge