Oneness

When one hundred scientists opposed Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, each one signed a document against it. In response, Einstein said that if he were wrong then only one objection would have sufficed. Galileo lived when everyone believed the world to be flat. He dared question that. He was put under house arrest.

It is a pity the more things change, the more they remain the same. Why can’t we think for ourselves? If we must copy the weak, why must we also copy the good, like their highly developed sense of individualism, which is nothing more than thinking for oneself.

What we think informs our values. That is the entire point. Apart from being an “expose-as-much-skin-as-you-like”, ape the West society, we are deeply religious. 70% claim to be Christians; the rest are Muslims or subscribe to some other faith. How come such saturation of the word of God has not put a little fear or a desire for the modesty that practically all faiths promote? How come all this religion has no bearing on our public conduct.

I suspect the answer is hypocrisy. It seems that we are mostly a bunch of pretenders, desperately wanting to be something that we are not. Even our religion is indicative of trends. Some are in the churches because it is fashionable, not because it will help them to come to an individual understanding and peace with their Maker. Not because Jesus Christ, or Allah, is worth following, but because there is security in numbers.

Bro Joseph Onyango (Suna, Kenya)