The author, Jeanette Winterson, has an occasional column in the Books section of the Times newspaper on a Saturday. The headline for her article in Saturdays’ edition was - ‘Capitalism’s collapse is on a scale undreamed of at the altars of idols’.
Her article was thought provoking. Here are some extracts to ponder over.
“We laugh at the primitive religious idea of human sacrifice – but whatever fancy words and theories you want to play with to describe this present spectacular collapse of global capitalism, it is human sacrifice on a scale undreamt of at the altars of idols.”
“the kingdom of this world, as the Bible puts it beautifully, can be balanced only by the Kingdom of God. This is not literal; it is symbolic. It is how the inner life checks the outward show. It is how conscience bridles impulse, it means recognising that there is much more to human life than to worship between the twin towers of money and power. The job of religion is to keep this in our sights.”
“At the moment when the empty secularism of the crumbling Roman Empire found no answer in the paralysis of the existing religious attitude, the birth story is the longed-for miracle - not because a militant avenger has appeared, nor a divine avatar, but because a baby – new life - will ask us to understand everything differently. That’s a story worth reading”.
Christians might want to take issue with what she means by 'divine avatar', but she offers some interesting words.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment