EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN THE ORDINARY TIME YEAR C
4th August 2019.
ECC 1:2; 2:21-23; COL 3:1-5, 9-11; LK 12:13-21.
The best meaning attributed to our terrestrial existence is that it is temporal. The reality of death makes the world a temporal place, nothing is permanent. The Christian faith discovers meaning through the immortality of the human soul. Thus, our aim in life is to nourish and purify the soul through life. The necessities of life are not for keeps, but to nourish the soul through a decent life. Thereby getting the soul ready for life after death.
Transhumanism is an attempt to alter the finitude that characterize terrestrial existence. According to Anders Sandberg, transhumanism in its most radical forms, is an attempt to retreat from this existential challenge. The rich fool of the gospel presumed that an abundance harvest with expanded storeroom will safeguard the future. But for how long? He failed to see how investment in humanity could go a long way to soothing the soul, guarantee and safeguard the future.
He was called a fool because he failed to see that only a long-term investment in humanity can guarantee the future. While robotized manufacturing systems achieve mass production, humanized manufacturing systems with all its challenges touch lives in the enhancement of the soul through labor. Humanized manufacturing system is a way of distributing wealth that soothes the soul.
Creative distribution of wealth will keep the future alive, and dispel the pain that comes from one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property.
Anthony Ekpunobi, CM.