Compromise
I was drawn to comments I heard the other day about things not being right or wrong in the minds of some people but instead they reside in some neutral territory. We all have a few things in this category. Were not for them, but we have no problem if others want them, so we have this indifference and sometimes that’s all right — but there are times it isn’t.
There are people in our society that see this as an effort to find common ground and they see themselves as peacemakers and pacifiers. It hurts peoples’ feelings when you tell someone they shouldn’t be doing that, so let’s just all agree to disagree and get on with it.
Increasingly, however, we are being asked to change the way we think on issues that were sacred to our families for generations. What we’re being told is in effect, that we were wrong all of the time and the brighter smarter minds of today’s society have found the key to social harmony and a world filled with love and compassion. Well, look around you my friends and tell me that this is a better world than the one I grew up in over the last 70 years.
No matter how you look at it some things are just wrong, no matter how you color them. We have challenged the moral authority that many peoples’ faith was built on. We have rewritten the laws of decency that this nation was founded on and all in an effort to just make everyone happy. What they are telling us is they weren’t really laws at all we so fervently believed in, but just advice. Well, enjoy your new-found freedoms and 70 years from now we will see if you made this a better world.
Mike Holst
Crosslake
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Add commentSacred Family Issues For Generations ? In a Global Environment
Im fairly certain ( using the 70 year time frame) , considering 70 years ago we were in the middle of WWII. There are large groups of individuals in Europe, the US, and the Far East that are just happy to have survived. The world is indeed a better place today.
Doubt sacred family issues had much to do with our new found freedoms.
" Sacred family issues" is
" Sacred family issues" is what we were fighting for. The question is will we still stand up for those values. Compromising with the devil only brings us closer to his agenda. "We the people", need to stand firm and NOT compromise our values.
"Compromising with the devil
"Compromising with the devil ......".
There exists no devil(s), boaz (and M. Holst, for that matter), other than those which reside in the dark recesses of fundamentalist hearts and minds. Take joy in the knowledge that no 'eternal lake of fire' awaits you and after being recycled, your next awareness could be that of a monarch butterfly. Imagine how glorious that might be!
“I heard the other day about
“I heard the other day about things not being right or wrong in the heard the other day about things not being right or wrong in the minds of some people but instead they reside in some neutral territory. We all have a few things in this category.”
No we don’t. We’re not all Democrats.
Why don’t we all look to our core principles, examine our consciences and decide which principles are worth defending and which should be totally abandoned(compromised) A few abortions here and there might be okay.( Murder is always the taking of another’s God given right to life On this issue right is right, wrong is worthy of condemnation. And we can never agree to disagree on this.
"your next awareness could be
"your next awareness could be that of a monarch butterfly. Imagine how glorious that might be!"
But then again,you might come back as a grate on a G eorge Foreman grill . Imagine how cozy that might be. Well done love to all - Steve.