Meditations

At present we are experiencing the greatest availability of knowledge in history. We know more about the past of all cultures than at any other time. But are we learning from this history. NO! In fact, we are accelerating in the repetition of these mistakes. We have war to end all wars and wars increase. We have agricultural knowledge beyond any other time in history and still people starve. We have medical knowledge beyond any other time in history and still people go uncared for. We have schools more than ever and the uneducated remain, and even worse choose that path. We have religion and still people are lost. Why? Because man cannot be taught. If man could be taught, then the Law of God would have taught man and not just shown him that he was a sinner. Fact is, it has not even done that. Then there are those who say that it is the cause of religion interfering with science which has retarded the teaching of man. The teaching of what? You see, because man cannot be taught this is true on both counts. Religion retards the sciences and the sciences retard religion. Argue that point and you only end up proving it and demonstrating that you are unwilling to be taught and as such become just another man, who cannot be taught. Then, this can go on forever, but the fact remains:
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us, but passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us. “Samuel Taylor Coleridge