So, what are we to do then? We broken members of the fallen human condition?Clearly, as my sister JoAnne is so fond of saying, we must "Think globally, act locally." Thanks Jo!
Each of us is called according to our gifts, and naturally, by the promptings of The Holy Spirit.
But, are we listening? Are we tuned in to the Divine message being broadcast to us all?
I'll be the first to admit, sometimes my radio is unplugged, or even if I'm tuned in, I'm not really listening.
Burying our heads in the sand is not a solution (and we all know if we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem)
Brothers and Sisters, we are at a moral crossroads. Sides are being taken, and the line has been drawn.
St. Paul addresses the Romans in this way: "Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good, and pleasing and perfect". (Rom 12:2)
Part of the reason we have fallen to where we are in this current age is because it is so easy to conform and to "Go with the flow". (More on this later).
The meaning of the word Tolerance has been mutated over time.
It used to mean something like this:
I hold belief A. You hold belief B.
While I do not espouse your belief, I recognize (tolerate) your right to have such beliefs.
Now it means something like this:
I hold belief A. (Ex. Abortion is perfectly OK) Do not make any comments about it for fear of offending someone (political correctness). Accept that the act itself is commonplace and there -fore OK. Neatly sanitize the language surrounding it (Don't you dare call it the murder of an innocent unborn child. Say "The products of conception were removed". Pressure the Judiciary Branch to pass a law making abortion legal, and finally, have the US Taxpayer subsidize the whole program. And Voila! You and I must tolerate the practice of subsidized murder.
Hello! McFly! Anyone home?
We have now, by "tolerance", circumvented the basis of all natural and Moral Law.
And this concept of the new tolerance is what is contributing to our downfall.
Coming up: Moral Relativism.
Be well.
Marty
2 comments:
Out and out intolerance, a refusal to dialogue is also to blame. i.e. You, and / or your belief's must be eliminated. An example here
http://how-the-west-was-lost.blogspot.com/2008/09/atheist-fundamentalism.html
Marty, on the day you become a woman who has been brutally raped and has become pregant by no choice of your own and may give birth to a baby with any number of diseases, then....and ONLY then will I listen to your rhetoric on abortion. As it stands right now, you are NOT qualified to make any kind of moral judgement on ANYONE. Give it a rest!
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