The story of the Nativity has resounded through the ages, a powerful metaphor for the numberless on the margins of society. Barney Zwartz provides some food for thought as Christmas approaches christmas poverty
“It’s really highlighted pre-existing fractures in society, as opposed to making new ones, but there are serious issues about who makes those decisions about the worthiness or unworthiness of minority groups, and how we treat them. The virus doesn’t know racial or religious difference, it’s not particularly interested, but we are and that’s how we are making decisions, it seems.”
Preece says Australia has abandoned its position as a global citizen, which eventually leads to “turning on your own. And that’s what happened.” He cites the federal government’s refusal to let citizens return for months at a time, even“If you adopt that attitude it doesn’t just stop at the borders. It’s infected the whole attitude of the states in Australia. There’s been an obsessiveness and lack of compassion in so many cases, operating out of fear.
Cordner, a former head of the Melbourne University philosophy department and an agnostic, says the Christmas narrative strips away all worldly pretensions: “Of course it’s about our relations and obligations to others but only against the background of this utterly unique conception in Christianity of divinity and godhead. Christianity is the only one of the great religions that has this utterly paradoxical and philosophically unintelligible concept of incarnation at its centre.
Central American children wait for shelter outside the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City earlier this month.Jesus finds rejection from his birth onward, according to the biblical narrative, she says. “The Christmas story is partly about seeking space in our lives; are we going to let in the sacred, are we going to let in God?
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