____ Terence
Terence's words are more than 2,000 years old. Nevertheless, men and women in media, education, and politics who can make wrong appear right are still in demand.
Who should we vote for? Does it even matter? Yes it does. Although it is apparent that too many political candidates are willing to promise the voting public whatever they want to hear, making wrong appear right. And TV and movies? Our entertainment industry makes a fortune perverting morals and making wrong appear right. During the last several decades, America's major news media mastered making wrong appear right while viciously belittling those who advocate Judeo-Christian values. And today, revisionist church leaders of major church bodies rush to embrace the latest politically correct theme—making wrong appear right.
There is a cost. Nowhere has secular morality, making wrong appear right, taken such a heart rendering toll than on America’s youth. The "Blame America Firsters" dominate our halls of higher education. From kindergarten to highschool, public education is a full-time apologist for the latest secular fetish or politically correct fear campaign, whether it be explicit homoerotic sex education for kindergartners or Al Gore’s "the sky is falling" Chicken Little campaign.
Many dedicated and capable public school teachers remain. But they now work in a moral vacuum. A void created during the last 50 years by secularists who have worked to remove prayer, bible reading, and Judeo-Christian values from our public and private institutions.
Relative ethics of secularism is replacing the moral absolutes of Judeo-Christian values. From abortion to euthanasia, secular answers, basing human worth on materialistic value, have failed to convince many youth life is worth living. That human life has value. The result?
A number of American youth—many adults also—lacking sustaining values feel hopeless about the direction of their lives and helpless to do anything about it. Without hope and unable to cope with life’s problems, many seek worldly messiahs or temporary destructive diversions—or the final diversion, suicide.
The seeds of secular morality are producing a growing crop of fear, anger, despair, and loss of hope. The result, an expanding number of Americans no longer see America as the land of opportunity. Many give up. This trend of secular induced anger, despair, and self-indulgence can be reversed. To do so will take the leadership of real men.
Unfortunately too many of today’s American men are hand wringing Girly men. Others are self-indulgent neanderthals more interested in sports' magazines with playboy covers than America's institutions. America needs real men—not macho men who swagger like a John Wayne, nor sensitive flowers who prance like Phil Donahue. America needs men—and women—with strong Judeo-Christian convictions, and the intestinal fortitude to stand up and speak out for those convictions.
Perhaps we are seeing a nation, under the judgment of God, with government tyranny, the largest Internet pornography business, the country owned by others, pansexuality proclaimed from its pulpits, and divorce rates among Christians as high as those who proclaim no religious faith—a nation fast becoming, in the words of one columnist, "impotent and irrelevant."
____ David W. Virtue - Virtue on line
Not good. Is it too late? No, but real change is needed. It will take a complete turn about of our Nation’s direction.
By influencing public opinion and or being involved in the political process, advocates of Judeo-Christian values can replace a judge, change a school director, or elect a legislator. And through prayer we can change a nation. It is not too late.
_________ Michael E. Odell
"Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it." ___ G. K. Chesterton
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