f
which are based on total ignorance of what I actually said have
actually validated my point, but I’m quite certain that was not the
intent of both the professional and amateur critics who have demanded
everything from my being banned from ever speaking in public again, or
wished me a slow and painful death. On that alone, I wish to acknowledge
that the left has again shown that it defines tolerance and diversity
as being tolerant only of that with which it agrees, and diverse only to
include slight shades of the orthodoxy of liberalism to which they
adhere. They abhor censorship of their own profanity, obscenities, or
graphic violence, but are the first to demand that a voice that invokes
the name of God to be silenced. A specific act of violence is rarely the
result of a specific single act of a culture that prompts it. In other
words, I would never say that simply taking prayer and Bible reading
from our institutions or silencing Christmas carols is the direct cause
of a mass murder. That would be ludicrous and simplistic. But the cause
and effect we see in the dramatic changes of what our children are
capable of is a part of a cultural shift from a God-centered culture to a
self-centered culture. We have glorified uninhibited self-expression
and individualism and are shocked that we have a generation of loners.
We have insisted on a society where everyone gets a trophy and no one
loses and act surprised that so many kids lack self-esteem and feel like
losers. We dismiss the
notion of natural law and the notion that
there are moral absolutes and seemed amazed when some kids make it their
own morality to kill innocent children. We diminish and even hold in
contempt the natural family of a father and mother creating and then
responsibly raising the next generation and then express dismay that
kids feel no real connection to their families or even the concept of a
family. We scoff at the need for mothers and fathers to make it their
priority to train their children to be strong in spirit and soul and
responsible for right and wrong and exalt instead the virtue of having
things and providing expensive toys, games, and electronics that
substitute for parenting and then don’t understand why our kids would
rather have ear buds dangling from their ears, fingers attaching to a
smart phone, and face attached to a computer screen than to have an
extended conversation with their family at dinner. And we don’t teach
them there is a Creator God who sets immutable rules, a God who is
knowable, and to whom we are ultimately responsible. Instead we teach
that God was not involved in our origins, that our very lives are
biological happenstances and in fact are disposable should they be
inconvenient to us, and that any outrageous behaviors are not sin, but
disorders for which we should be excused and accommodated. I realize my
viewpoint sounds out-dated and archaic, but when that world view was the
foundation of our nation’s social contract, we got in trouble at school
for talking in class, chewing gum, pulling a girl’s pigtails, or
slouching in our school desks. We took guns to school, to be sure, but
they were in the gun racks of our trucks and we used them to hunt before
and after school. It never occurred to us to use them to murder our
teachers and fellow students. So yes, I can stand the contempt and
criticism of the left. I’ll gladly accept their scorn as they substitute
creative language with a steady stream of profanity-laced tirades that
I’m an idiot, a throwback to the past, and a person who should be
forever silenced. But when we as a nation feared God, we didn’t fear
that a 20 year old with a high powered rifle would gun down our children
in their schoolrooms.I also agree with this. How about you?
No comments:
Post a Comment