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Snakes and Ladders The very old version of the board game Snakes and Ladders is definitely not 'p.c.' It lists the Vices and Virtues quite plainly. Good deeds alone may not really get one up the ladder into heaven, but Vanity, Greed, Carelessness and Anger can certainly cause us to tumble down the snakes, in real life as well as in the game. With all the awful events happening around our world at the moment one must ask why they happen. If we dig under the layers of cultural and religious differences, poverty, morality, tradition, geographic location, I wonder if we would find real old fashioned 'Envy' as a root cause of such unrest. We in the First World possess so much: wealth, education, power. It is not hard to see that those in other places would view our advantages with some discontent, especially when Western culture flaunts itself with such gross insensitivity all around the globe. While we don't need to fall into a huge 'mea culpa' and live in fear of constant attack, we might do well to cultivate some of the virtues of the old board game: Meekness, Penitence, Truthfulness, Kindness and Honesty would go a long way towards honouring God and giving less offence to our fellows, and might just make the world a more tolerable place for everyone. We could take note of Ecclesiastes 30.24: 'Envy and wrath shorten the life.' |
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