The only real conflict humans face is between loyalty to the truth and loyalty to oneself.
Mother Nature unleashes her fury only to save the truth.
When individuals knowingly support a person, a cause, a leader--religious or otherwise--despite evidence of wrongdoing, malice, or crime, they are not being loyal to that person, but to themselves.
It is a calculated move.
"I know this person is terrible, but it will help me politically, financially, or socially to support this person," or "This person's vision of what the country will look like will benefit my children. "
It is all about oneself.
When people choose leaders based on how the stock market will do, how it would benefit their children to ethnically cleanse the land without thought of humanity, their hollowness, and moral vacuum explodes through a sham of pretentious statements about family values.
It takes courage to stand up for what is right even if it harms you.
The vast majority of people in this world are not courageous, honest, or truthful. That is human nature.
How can we expect the truth to triumph? Only if we start with recognizing that there is a problem with ourselves and address it--as it is with all problems. We are too familiar with blaming everyone else.
The WHO warned us of a catastrophic moral failure in the context of vaccine distribution i.e younger patients in rich countries are receiving the vaccine before the more vulnerable elsewhere.
It is important to look at the moral failure that has allowed us to be where we are in the world. Whether COVID was one of the many natural disasters facing humanity or not, people are anxious everywhere. And our anxieties over an uncertain future cannot be separated from our own choices and willful ignorance of what matters.
Just a few minutes every day. Maybe less time than one spends on social media or one's stock market portfolio. Just a few minutes loosening one's stiff and inflexible attitude towards the truth. And our self-serving choices masked in talking points.
The next time faced with a hard unpopular choice to oppose what you know is wrong, are you going to remain silent?
