"Longing for God shatters our dreary routines and impels us to make the changes we want and need.   Longing for God has its roots in the past yet does not remain there: it reaches out to the future."
We live in "A World of Disarray" (Richard Haass). The souls of people are torn apart by religious fixations in old politicized structures that have lost a sense of longing for God, but which seek to impose faith control over others.
In this day and age, a little more common-sense civil behavior would go a long way toward informing a religious sense of civil understanding/ behavior. Too much, politicized religion lacks sense of place in the present and in the future. Missing is appropriate response to the love-light that the birth of innocence offers, if only we can warm to it. Every newborn is a Jesus' Presence, if only we have eyes to see. Love heals. Love is not militant. Child Presence is a healing presence; let's open to it and spread the Love.