Ayrimciligin en fazla oldugu saat…
Hristiyanlarin pazar gunleri kiliseye gittiklerini bilmeyeniniz var mi?
Ben cok kucuk yaslarimdan beri bilirim Pazar’in Hristiyanlarin kutsal gunu oldugunu… Tipki Cumartesi’nin Yahudilere ve Cuma’nin bize kutsal olmasi gibi.
Peki Cuma’nin ‘cemaat‘lestirici = ‘cem edici‘ vasfi Cumarteside var midir? Veya Pazarda? Nihayetinde Cuma kelimesi Arapca’da ‘toplanma‘ kokunden turemekteyken Pazar kelimesi en inanilir rivayetlere gore “gunes gunu“nden gelmedir. Pazar gunu pazar kurulur, pazarlik yapilir, pazarcilik oynanir… Cuma gunu toplanilir, omuz omuza verilir, saffa durulur, namaz ikame edilir. Hatta alimlerimiz daha iyi bilirler, Islamdan once araplarda Cuma yerine Arube kullanilirmis. Islamin bu gune hediye ettigi isim “CUM’A“.
Hristiyanlarda toplanmiyor mu canim Pazar gunleri, ha kilisede olmus bu toplanma, ha Cami’de… ‘Ha Cuma ismi verilmis toplanti gunune ha Pazar’ mi dersiniz?
Kesin kaniya varmadan once dilerseniz Amerikan baskan adayi Obama’nin son konusmasindaki bir cumlenin icine sizalim: “…the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning (Amerikan hayatinda ayrimciligin en fazla oldugu saat Pazar sabahindadir.)” Bunun ne demek oldugunu anlamak pek de zor degil! Onlarca degil ‘tonlarca’ mezhebin her birinin ayri birer kilisesi, beyazlarin ve siyahilerin, Korelilerin ve Hispaniklerin ve hatta Mezhepsizlerin bile kendi kilisesi var Amerika’da. Her pazar din adina toplanilan bir gun Pazar gunu ama ayni zamanda farkli motivasyonlar adina ayrilmanin, kendine benzerlerle bir araya gelmenin, kategorize edilmenin de gunu.
Soz konusu olan, ‘kalabaliklar icinde yalnizim’ ironisine benzer bir durum. En yogun bir sekilde toplanmalarin yasandigi bir saat, ayni zamanda en buyuk ayriliklari su yuzune cikariyor.
NOTLAR:
1. Ufak bir arastirma yaparak buldugum ve soz konusu cumlenin benzerinin ilk olarak Dr. Martin Luther King’in agzindan cikmis oldugunu anlamama yarayan link: http://www.wmich.edu/library/archives/mlk/q-a.html
2. MLK‘nin sozleri:
“As a preacher, I would certainly have to agree with this. I must admit that I have gone through those moments when I was greatly disappointed with the church and what it has done in this period of social change. We must face the fact that in America, the church is still the most segregated major institution in America. At 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation. This is tragic. Nobody of honesty can overlook this. Now, I’m sure that if the church had taken a stronger stand all along, we wouldn’t have many of the problems that we have. The first way that the church can repent, the first way that it can move out into the arena of social reform is to remove the yoke of segregation from its own body. Now, I’m not saying that society must sit down and wait on a spiritual and moribund church as we’ve so often seen. I think it should have started in the church, but since it didn’t start in the church, our society needed to move on. The church, itself, will stand under the judgement of God. Now that the mistake of the past has been made, I think that the opportunity of the future is to really go out and to transform American society, and where else is there a better place than in the institution that should serve as the moral guardian of the community. The institution that should preach brotherhood and make it a reality within its own body.”
3. Ve youtube’den ekledigim konusmanin tamami - dusuk kalitede (metni okuyarak dinlemek icin…)
