Sunday, July 04, 2004
God and Freedom
Morality.
Lack of.
It is either what you think or what you see, or what you think you see.
Sure, poke around. You'll see lots of bad stuff. Fools. It's too easy to see the bad stuff. Immorality abounds.
But if I turn off my TV, turn off the computer, and look out the window, I see quite the opposite. It's Sunday morning. There they go, darling little girls, smartly dressed young men, moms and dads, into the minivans and off to church. These are hard working people, patriotic, PTA/school/church volunteers, nice people. They are my neighbors. Their home and cell numbers are programmed into my cell phone. We call on each other for help every day. There is well-placed trust with each other and our children, homes, and pets.
We don't go to the same church, we don't work at the same company, we come from different places, different heritages. Yet with these diverse pillars to our lives we have all done one thing the same; we have chosen, through the freedom granted by our forefathers, to be moral. Our morality is not imposed, through law or coercion or fear of stoning or beheading. That type of morality it too easy. Choosing to be moral, while being constantly bombarded by vice after vice, is hard. We are not perfect, well, at least I am not.
Please have a look at this article, which was the motivation for writing this.
Lack of.
It is either what you think or what you see, or what you think you see.
Sure, poke around. You'll see lots of bad stuff. Fools. It's too easy to see the bad stuff. Immorality abounds.
But if I turn off my TV, turn off the computer, and look out the window, I see quite the opposite. It's Sunday morning. There they go, darling little girls, smartly dressed young men, moms and dads, into the minivans and off to church. These are hard working people, patriotic, PTA/school/church volunteers, nice people. They are my neighbors. Their home and cell numbers are programmed into my cell phone. We call on each other for help every day. There is well-placed trust with each other and our children, homes, and pets.
We don't go to the same church, we don't work at the same company, we come from different places, different heritages. Yet with these diverse pillars to our lives we have all done one thing the same; we have chosen, through the freedom granted by our forefathers, to be moral. Our morality is not imposed, through law or coercion or fear of stoning or beheading. That type of morality it too easy. Choosing to be moral, while being constantly bombarded by vice after vice, is hard. We are not perfect, well, at least I am not.
Please have a look at this article, which was the motivation for writing this.
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