What happens now when a city is destroyed? We've been talking for a while about how Yerushalayim went through the stages of trauma with the sadness, anger, depression, epiphany, reevaluation, and being ready to move on. Thing is, that was something that happened because the people sinned. There were religious connotations to every step they went through in the process.
Do people nowadays do something similar? In places like Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 or the tsunami in Japan last year, did people think that they were going something wrong? I can imagine them going through the sadness, anger, and depression, but if there was nothing they did wrong, and therefore nothing for them to change, what epiphany and reevaluation would they have gone through? How would they have been able to move on?
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
What happens now?
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What an interesting observation, Steve! I think that when something terrible happens today, such as the tragedies in Haiti or dapan, religious people are definitely going to go and pray for the safety of those in danger. I don't think, however, that the religious people are going to think "Hmm.. I wonder what they did wrong.." Should they? I think that would be kind've weird, personally, but maybe they should!
ReplyDeleteI think these days when something goes wrong it's a "we did something wrong" but in a different way. Like- we did something wrong aka we are destroying our environment. Or- we did something wrong by not taking precautions earlier. People aren't thinking so much about- "we did something wrong ie we sinned".
Cool to think of.
Ps. Miss you, steve!
Wow - interesting perspective! I don't know if people nowadays do that -- I feel like we often skip the reevaluation and epiphany parts. We don't really think about what we have done to cause it -- we just get so caught up in the fact that it happened. Especially in such extreme cases like tsunamis, it's really hard to imagine what you could have done to cause it!
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