Day 1 - Impacts of the Urbanization
„The Lord sent
Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, There
were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. (2Sám
12,1)
Nathans’s
parable is a juridical parable. The situation when a rich and a poor
mand live next to each other, today it can be a typical situation in
any city. The prophets were always insightful. They were opened to
moral and social problems, therefore they consciously chose the
environment for their messages, where the real problems were actually
occured. They bring on their problems and they have sentenced the
phenomenon of urbanization about 2-3 thousand years ago and put us
wise to the numerous negative consequences. The propeth Isaiah writes
that: Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till
no space is left and you live alone in the land” (Ézs 5,8) This
behavior not only can be affected to the human relationships, but
also have a negative impact to the soil fertility. (Ézs 5,10)
Drawing-away from God is the reason and the consequence of this
problem at the same time.
