Christmas Is The Voice of The New Age

I believe there is a recalcitrant “Old Order” and an ever-emerging “New Order.”  The old order is marked by lies, greed, hate, animosity, power, death, deceit, war, and selfishness.  The new order is marked by love, community, equality, decency,  justice, peace, and selflessness.  History is the on-going story of human beings seeking their human fulfillment.  It is an “up and down,” a “rise and fall” story of the eventual overthrow of the existing old order and the dawning or inauguration of a new and better world.  On this fifth day of Christmas I would describe this new world as one in which men and women live together as brothers and sisters (in community), beating their old animosities, greed, power and selfishness into care, support and love for one another.   It is a world in which the dignity and worth of every human personality will be respected and honored.

This new age can be delayed and is always delayed not only “by the guardians of the status quo” but also by those who unwittingly or willingly allow dehumanization to happen in any form, or who become part of an “attention-deficit” culture, ignoring the present “great last-minute breathing power…with their oxygen tents” attempting to keep the  old order alive.”  We must overthrow the present order which presently treats human beings, persons, immigrants, political rivals, races, women, religions, the media, supposed enemies, other nations and national leaders, and the judicial system as though they were cockroaches to be stomped upon.  I’m not suggesting the use of “political correctness”—I’m talking about the dignity and worth of human personality!

Where is the outrage?  Where is the outcry?  Where is the voice of the church, the synagogue, the mosque?  Where is the voice of the prophet?  

And in despair I bowed my head:

“There is no peace on earth,” I said,

“For hate is strong and mocks the song

Of Peace on earth, good will to men.

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:

“God is not dead, nor doth he sleep,

The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,

With peace on earth, good will to men.”