Slaves of erroneous ideologies – Fr Charles Cini
We write our own history day by day. Every one of us is responsible for writing his own story, minute by minute, and his own history to better pass it on to our children. Sometimes, we are not aware that we are losing our control over our pulse and our vigour.
We are forgetting what our forefathers did for our country, to protect the gift of beauty and freedom given to us by God. The great sacrifices they made and the battles they fought. It is enough to remember the Great Siege and World War II, the many enemies who tried to possess Malta and Gozo, the many people who gave their lives. But, today, the battle is waged by the Maltese themselves; one against the other.
We are becoming slaves of erroneous ideologies, we are losing our identity, our faith, while some are becoming rich at the expense of others. Power, money, property and being fake is the motto of the day and the rule of behaving. If our great thinkers, poets and writers were living today, like our great Dun Karm, they would denounce this behaviour.
The problem is that, today, the more one has, the more one wants. We have sold our soul to iniquity. We have exchanged our faith for pleasure and money.
They are the same...