This week’s Blog By Rev.Tom Mc Neil
“I recommend for careful and thoughtful reading an essay in May 2008 Harper’s Magazine, pages 35-42, by Wendell Berry, “Faustian Economics: Hell hath no limits.” The focus is on our attitude of “limitlessness” in the use of natural resources that is derived from our sense of omniscience and omnipotence over nature without any sense of responsibility or accountability. In turn, as European scholars have indicated, our sense of ourselves has become autistic as we’ve relied on an “autistic industrialism” (p. 36). Mr. Berry observed, as an alternative:
“… our identity is located not in the impulse of selfhood but in deliberately maintained connections” (p. 38).
Well, interestingly, this is what the “Ten Commandments” are about; and, Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that the Church needs to focus less on institutionalism and more on human relationships.”
“What do you think of these statements and how can we go about focusing more on human relationships?”
