Time to reconcile our two different worlds

wo different worlds, we live in two different worlds.” When Don Rondo made that song famous some 60 years ago, the United States was No. 1 in the world and a country that spoke with one mind on practically every major issue. Those “separating “words were foreign to the mindset of a nation on the rise and the envy of the modern era.

Who could have thought that in 2018 the American people would have grown so far apart in their political, social and cultural thought that, at the very least, we would be living in two very different worlds? That we would be living two very different realities.

Today is Easter. It is a holy day celebrated by Christians all over the world, symbolizing the very best of man’s nature and an everlasting hope for better times. It even has an abundant supply of bunny rabbits and colored eggs to bring smiles to the faces of children across the planet. It is a good day.

On this wonderful Easter holiday and at this time in our nation’s life, we are faced with a situation that has forced Americans in every state to retreat to two very different places —one is a world which is concerned about a crazy, unchecked operative in the White House wielding the greatest power on Earth, and the other is a world in which a crazy, unchecked operative in the White House is not only celebrated but protected by many people dedicated to the tenets of faith and sworn to uphold both the Constitution and the dictates of decency.

And I, for one, am almost at a loss to explain how we bring those two different worlds back together.

While the Christian world is celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Jewish world is celebrating the power of a loving God during this Passover holiday.

When Pharaoh refused to release the Jews from slavery, Moses delivered God’s punishment against the strongest ruler on Earth and a man who would not recognize that the power of faith trumped any temporal power Egypt’s leader thought he possessed. The Jews threw off their chains of slavery and moved their future to the Holy Land. Israel stands as a beacon for religious and personal freedom and exemplifies the achievement of people willing to stand against tyranny and oppression.

In the end, the stories of Easter and of Passover are very much the same. Belief in something greater than ourselves leads people toward a path of righteousness, peace and prosperity. Belief in our own supremacy often leads to a lesser fate.

And that brings us back to the different worlds in which Amer-