"Humans, man!"

This is a quote from the TV show, "Supernatural."  After all the monsters, witches, ghosts, demons, etc., they encountered, Dean Winchester found humans to be the most horrifying.  Forgive me, but I understand his feelings.  As a Christian, I know -- I KNOW -- how it could be, how it should be.  I then must face each day the way it is...knowing why it is.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech....But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."
 - Genesis 11:1,5-6

If we truly chose unity over self, there is nothing we could not accomplish!  This is how it could be.  The very next verse shows God's reaction: "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

Why would he not allow us to keep this kind of unity?


The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
 - Genesis 6:5-6

This is how it is.  That kind of powerful unity fueled by evil, self-serving intent?  Yeah, that would be bad.  Truth is, everything that is wrong in this world -- everything! -- is our fault.  For one thing, Jesus said poverty would always exist (Mark 14:7).  Why?  The problem is not that there aren't enough of life's necessities to go around; the problem is that we seem to forget, as we "grow up," what our parents teach us about sharing.

As a dreamer who lives with depression (yes, as a matter of fact, this is a fascinating paradox to manage), the realities of how we live for self and treat each other in this "dog-eat-dog," "every man for himself" world are sometimes too much to bear.

I really don't know how God stands it....