One of the most challenging tasks we will encounter in our lives will be to become the whole person we were created to be. The following is an article that was presented at a conference I attended.
The title of the article is "The Community of Man." It goes as follows.
"It is still one of the tragedies of human history that the 'children of darkness' are frequently more determine and zealous than the 'children of light.' "
Mammoth productive facilities with computer minds, cities that engulf the landscape and pierce the clouds, planes that almost outrace time--these are awesome, but they cannot be spiritually inspiring. Nothing in our glittering technology can raise man to new heights, because material growth has been made an end in itself, and, in the absence of moral purpose, man himself becomes smaller as the works of man become bigger. Gargantuan industry and government, woven into an intricate computerized mechanism, leave the person outside. The sense of participation is lost, the feeling that ordinary individuals influence important decisions vanishes, and man becomes separated and diminished.
"When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied. When culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a soulless society. This process produces alienation--perhaps the most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we digest the messages that are expressed, we must remember that it is the moral responsibility of all of us to insure that the identity of man does not become absorbed into the mechanisms and materialism that surrounds us from all sides today. Please lets join hands and work together to maintain the type of balances that enable us to become the whole person we were created to be.
The preface and closing is by me. Leroy Mc Intyre
