Close Call for a Heathen Who Likes to Sing

Was going to church to sing Christmas Eve—honest, I was—but at the last minute ended up with a schedule conflict. In the run-up to the holiday, the weather was so inclemently below zero outdoor caroling was out of the question. Unless we all had fur coats, hats, etc!

There’s the dilemma: While I love carols, which would not exist without the pomp and circumstance of religion, church singing is also deeply disconcerting. What concerns me is that the inequities among the human race are dealt with through the myth, i.e. fecklessly. Major social reformers have not accomplished a lot through religion.

So, much of my life, I have gone to city council far more often than church. I see greater possibility for effectively dealing with inequity there.  However, gradually, especially in the last 30 years, I have seen those possibilities abrogated, ignored, or annulled at all levels of government national, state, and local. The most recent Cascade City Council meeting, case in point.

Thus, America enters a new political era with some of the greatest inequity in its society in the industrialized world. A developer is moving into the White House and I haven’t any greater hopes for him than the one out the road, or the old one that developed the southeast side of down, toasting his buns in Texas while the rest of us deal with the inequities he brought about.

A critical Eye wonders where to look next.