When I started my blog in November 2022 the title of my first post was: A simple faith or a simplistic theology? By 'simple faith' I sought to convey the idea that faith can be described in simple terms, without using theological jargon. Simplistic theology was a reference to the 'it's in the bible so it must be correct' genre so beloved by bible literalists and fundamentalists.
In the intervening time I replaced faith, first with belief and now with opinion. I hold now to the simple or straightforward opinion that it is our duty to love our neighbour. This equates to loving all humanity and caring for the environment, leading us to campaign for social justice and protection of the environment. In other words, activism.
My blog posts have referred on a number of occasions to the point that we should not consider issues in a vacuum or adopt a silo mentality. Our world, our understanding of the world, is a consequence of many factors interacting with each other. We should seek to understand the relationships between politics, economics, law, religion, science, history, geography, etc. The interplay of these factor has shaped the world, our communities, our lives, our identity, our fears, our hopes, our expectations. It is a matrix.
Do we understand the fluidity and ever-changing landscape we are part of? How do we react?
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