Much of Western thought has been built on the idea of dualities, pairs of elements in opposition to one another, separate and competing: good/evil, male/female, light/dark, heaven/hell and so forth.
The contemporary world has seen the destructiveness of these dualities when they are consider in an inflexible way. Morality is full of grays, and good and evil can flip flop in the context of cultures and circumstances. Male and female are fluid in a world of multiple sexualities, genders, gender transformations and the increasing equality of the sexes. The concept of race is under question. Heaven and hell have lost their residences in an expanding and complex universe.
These kinds of fluid interpretations can create anxiety for some. But they are inescapable reality. They challenge our comfortable perceptions, but they bring us closer to understanding our human selves.
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