“And if this hurries me to death before my time, why, such a death is gain.”
Antigone, Act II
A lover of literature, I do not seek to fuse Grecian paganism with Christianity. I use the name Antigone because Antigone’s dilemma is that of a double bind, by which doing that which was right would lead to her undoing. As Christians, we do face an amount of persecution, the assumption being that we are religious crazies, and being stereotyped, labeled. The Cross compels us to walk by faith, and yet we are punished by this world. Sometimes the persecution is small, such as stereotyping; sometimes, in other countries, we die for our beliefs.
Unlike Antigone, however, we do not worship impersonal gods, or gods who punish us for our talents, out of jealousy, no god who creates tragedy out of amusement or malice, but the God who became man, enduring the agony of the Cross, that we could be accepted into his household as beloved sons and daughters.
We die before our time; we die to our sins to experience birth into spiritual life, that when our flesh is gone, we walk with God. Whether we live tomorrow or die tomorrow there is One whom we will wake to see. Antigone’s death was for a noble cause, but our persecutions are for yet a nobler cause–for sharing the love of Christ with the world.
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