These Political Times

As I sit this morning and peruse the political headlines in multiple news venues, I can’t help but be reminded at how messed up we can make the world.  I reflect upon how we started as a people.  God made a perfect world for us.  He asked us to not be stubborn and want to be as a god and do what we want to do, but to trust His Word simply because it was Him who said it.  He is the Lord and there is no other.  It was only one simple instruction of not.  All the other instructions were to go and do.  Being unable to follow that single instruction, the result was that one of the next two humans ever to set foot on the planet would kill another one.  One of the four killed one.  The decent of man into the opposition to a Holy God is quick.

Looking across the political landscape, I can’t help but wonder if there are any good men left who are willing to sacrifice their entire lives to politically lead.  Unfortunately, that is what it takes with our entertainment industry’s insatiable appetite to find the most deplorable thing about anyone who is not who they decide should be the leader and exploit it until you don’t exist.  It’s a murder in its own right without physically performing the action.  But that’s okay, we’ve made murder legal.  As long as killing is done with the perception that it is a noble action of saving yourself, it is okay, in fact you should be commended for being so good.  And so, the press is completely validated as they work so diligently to slaughter anyone who isn’t who they decide to lead, in fact, in their mind they should be commended for their heroic actions to save the republic.

It is very difficult not to see a vast conspiracy against the ideals of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution and against anything that indicates there is a Holy God.  One distinct problem we have is the majority of Americans have no stake in the game.  Being an American hasn’t cost them anything, so they expect more while not willing to risk anything.  The founding fathers risked everything just to be able to write the Constitution, let alone live by its decrees.  The original pilgrims in this land came risking all just to be able to worship the Lord in peace.  I stand agasp that anyone really thinks they are more intelligent than the founding fathers and are therefore more informed and capable of modifying the Constitution.  I personally do not know anyone or have ever heard someone who I believe capable of modifying it.  From my own reading of the writing of some of those founding fathers, they were way ahead of anyone in our society and most depended upon their faith as a foundation of their character that heavily influenced their writing. 

Yet, there is a political party whose very existence and purpose is to re-write our society so we are very far from resembling the true intentions of the Constitution.  Everyone is not to be free but to become a ward of the state, but not by force, you’ll choose it.  Through the weapons of moral relativity that enable them to define what is good and bad, control of the media so they can guide the mob, and the power to redefine justice through judges who are allowed to rewrite laws, there is no balanced control to stop the momentum outside of revolution and un-civil war.  I struggle to see how either of those are possible by the people considering how powerful and advanced the military is. 

That puts me right where God wants me.  Depending completely upon Him by believing in Him and trusting Him and nothing or no one else.  The exact expectation He had for Adam and Eve.  “Walk with Me and trust in Me for I am the Lord and there is no other!”

"Do not be wise in your own eyes.  Fear the Lord and depart from evil.  It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones." - Proverbs 3:7-8

If we want to be a healthy nation again, there is an easy prescription written here.  It's another simple instruction, if we will only follow it.

Exploring Moral Relativism

Moral Relativity is a philosophical position, or more accurately, non-position that is destroying the American society and Christians must be aware, prepared, and able to refute it when confronting it, which will happen every day once you are aware of it.

Google defines moral relativism as “the position that moral propositions do not reflect objective and/or universal moral truths, but instead make claims relative to social, cultural, historical, or personal circumstances”.  The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry (CARM) defines moral relativism as “a philosophy that asserts there is no global, absolute moral law that applies to all people, for all time, and in all places.” 

To sum up these definitions describing relative moral philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “You have your way, I have my way.  As for the right way, it does not exist.”  This is an excellent definition of the dominating theology that is worshiped in the American culture today and unfortunately in many Christians today.

How does a country founded on religious liberty who’s constitution is based on Biblical morals and ethics find itself dominated by a non-Biblical moral and ethical conscious?

1. Theory of Evolution.  People are just the result of odd reproductions of cells dividing in the right temperature and environmental setting.  There is no intended result.  Paul Kurtz wrote in the book The Humanist Alternative, “If a man is a product of evolution, one species among others, in a universe without purpose, then man’s option is to live for himself.” 
2. Political Correctness (PC).  Our culture has become dominated with a hypocritical concept that some things cannot be said or done solely on the basis that they might offend another person.  All other basis do not merit criteria.  In other words, saying something that is true, but offends someone cannot be said.  Being PC is more important than being truthful. 
3.  Acceptance of Abortion.  The cultural acceptance of describing and defending life only after it has left the womb has made murder legal.  This acceptance has allowed all other moral or ethical “truths” to be questioned and regarded as optional or unnecessary.  If we can justify defending a one-day old baby, but not a 9 month old unborn, then we can justify all other sins much more easily.

So, how then are today's moral “currents” defined?  …  Exactly. …  How indeed?  They aren’t.  They are accepted or rejected based on the popularism of each topic with the mob.  The person who leads the mob defines the morals.  They will change with the shifting of the wind to whatever definition leads the mob to the most comfort in the near term. 

This is the description of our culture today and this is the recipe for a quick complete and total destruction.  As soon as one single strong person can lasso the mob into a direction, they will be able to control everything.  In less than a decade, Hitler came to power, led the people into a world war and the purposeful effort to exterminate Jews, and led Germany to defeat – 10 years. 

If Christians want to be relevant, they must be aware every time they encounter moral relativity and be prepared to live in and speak with a Biblical perspective.