Lone Tree

Lone Tree

I have often been told that you should never discuss religion or politics in public, because it might start a fight.

I believe the reason those two subjects start fights so easily is because they are so important. Your own personal religious beliefs and political ideologies determine a great deal of who you are. Even if you have no particular belief, that determines much of your approach to life. Furthermore, the prevailing religious and political ideas of the country you live in and of the world as a whole are fundamental to determining the conditions of the country and the world as a whole.

I conclude that people with any real interest in the world or its future have to discuss religion and politics. Even if it starts a fight.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Regarding the US Supreme Court's Decision to Make Same-Sex Marriage the Law of the Land

When a society decides to change something that has been the very heart of what has made whatever goodness it possesses even exist...when a society decides to fundamentally transform the primary building block its culture, a building block that has been at the center of every human culture since the beginning of human life on the planet that society invites destruction. A society that thinks it is a good idea to knock out of place its own foundation is full of pure, unadulterated hubris and childish arrogance, not unlike a teenager telling his elders he doesn't know beans about life. And this won't end as well as most teenagers' rebellions against their parents. 

No society in the history of the world, not even the ancient Greeks, has ever thought same-sex marriage was a good idea. To change a thing like this that is so foundational to the very core of what it means to be a family, a people, and a nation, individually and collectively in relationship with others and with God with so little thought and examination of the consequences is to invite horrendous disaster.

This issue should have been carefully and thoughtfully studied, the examination should have been more strenuous than the process the FDA uses to approve new drugs. This decision has been based on nothing more than the mood of the age, the pressure of certain groups on public opinion and the indoctrination of a people to adopt a mindset based on nothing more than an advertizing campaign. There has been no examination of the potential for destruction. The consequences of getting this wrong will have bad repercussions through generations. Getting this wrong has the potential to shred American society to the point where it collapses. 

That's what happens when you dismantle the building block of a culture.

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