1/16/08

A Broken Moral Compass...

Why is it that we as a society seem to turn a blind eye to wrong doing? It's as if our complacency for evil has been exercised to the degree where only the most grievous wrong doings spur us into action...an effort to only temporarily appease our volatile socially capacity of which we subscribe. You can see this in every social setting if you were to peer through the looking glass to only a few decades earlier, but children, being the future bearers and some would argue the catalysts of such a social movement, are prime specimen for a dissection of society. If you examined schools, you would see teachers turn a blind eye to misconduct because their hands are proverbially tied anyways. If you examined the nuclear family, you would see parents, as counter-intuitive as it is, hesitant to punish their own children in fear that their child would rebel and become child to a family that accepts them as they are - society. If you examined the general public, you would see what were at once social travesties (abortion, gay marriage, etc) becoming commonplace due to a complacency by those having to focus on their own children so as to prevent them from being indoctrinated into this new age of social reform. Viscious cycle much?

Since when did tolerating evil become a virtue strived for by an innately moral people? When did morality become trite to social aptitude? Not surprisingly, this social reform has corrupted how many people view the morality of God. People have become so callous to their tolerance, that they feel God shares in our own complacency. We tragically forget that God is good, and by the very nature of His character cannot ascribe to our way of thinking. God will judge sin and who are we to ask for clemency when we have been so indoctrinated by society that we have lost our sense of morality. How can we ask for grace when we fail to resolve that we have sinned? But if we could somehow come to the conclusion that God's retribution based on our own ignorance is unjust, it would stand to reason that you now have found morality on which you argued did not exist. Logically it can only be two ways: either we stand content in our ignorance or we realize our own depravity and need of a savior. We will soon learn the truth of the latter.