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
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This letter begins and continues with some reasonable observations and then strays into the realm of reactions of “moral” standards, meaning Christian values have been abandoned. (Her reference to MAID says it all). The writer even acknowledges the positive effects of lockdowns on the pandemic’s deadliest outcomes.
Her final paragraph containing the aforementioned religious tone is a confusing mix of ecological concerns with that of some reference to being under the control of “wise” folk who dictate how to “stay safe”. If she means wearing masks and lockdowns, then please say so.
Is Ms. Teerling attempting to suggest that among the religious and non-religious of the world, Christianity is the only system to offer a moral code of conduct?
In referring to the “wise”, is Ms. Teerling rejecting and mocking both democracy and science?
Is Ms. Teerling suggesting that the COVID pandemic is a conspiracy and that all of the developed protocols for lockdowns, mask wearing & etc. is merely a distraction, a waste of time and resources and are, moreover, infringing on personal freedoms?
Admittedly, Ms. Teerling is concerned about many things. I wonder, though, how would her concerns be expressed were she writing from the confines of a bomb shelter during the German blitz of London from 1940 to 1941?
society has been rejecting the immoral confines of christianity, and other such crude and stifling religions that really have been about power and control. unfortunately, power and control remains no less an issue, as it has simply been shifted to a political-economic power and control elite. just like religions, the new system also has its official narratives and retributions that are entrenched, like scriptures, in order to keep the masses in check. but rest assured, covid is no hoax, but is likely just a taste of what else is to follow.