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The two major disrupters in the world today suggest an even deeper issue … of the human heart <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The image of George Floyd <\/em>being held down by the policeman and saying \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d <\/em>is a very potent one. Now is a pivotal time for our culture, a Kairos <\/em>moment. We have been watching images for a number of weeks of COVID-19 patients on ventilators where \u201cthey can\u2019t breathe.\u201d It is as though there is a resonance in the community mind: a being \u201cheld down\u201d by oppression in one form or another.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are in the midst of an unprecedented event, having to remain indoors to \u201cprotect the NHS\u201d and secondly to protect those most at risk from catching the virus. People are feeling more anxious, fearful, aggressive, unloved and, in a sense, rootless.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ironically, this eruption of violence in the \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d campaign, contains a seed for the hope for the future: that in making life better for others we make life better for ourselves. But where are our leaders in this rising tide of anger and resentment? What is their response in this time of political correctness which is stifling freedom of expression \u2013 \u201cwe can\u2019t breathe?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two major disrupters in the world today suggest an even deeper issue … of the human heart The image of George Floyd being held down by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,41],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}