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A STORM OF MIXED VALUES
Donald
R. Fox
NATIONAL
SECURITY: Lately there
has been a mish-mash of articles and rhetoric from a variety of
peoples stating that we, the USA, cannot
violate our values.
This sprigs from the so-called torture of known terrorists who had
information, because we needed to protect the citizenship of our
nation. Personally, I believe the use of the word torture is over
stated. O yes, we need to obtain information from these terrorists
who would love to cut our throats or better yet set off an atomic
bomb in down-town Manhattan. The
greatest responsibility of government is to protect its citizens!
Some
critics are now condemning the USA for the way we conducted war
operations during WW2. What our government did during this era was
to end a terrible worldwide war. Our President, our Generals and
right down to the foot soldiers and sailors, did their job; they won
the war bringing peace. How dare some present-day Americans to
condemn our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers for what
they did during this Great War? Some sound off on subjects, they
know nothing about and say, “It’s
against our values."
This is pure nonsense! I am being judgmental now: some who make such
a type of statements don’t understand what true values or standards
are.
Now
to the point:
As citizens, we need to allow our armed forces, CIA and other type
National Security agencies to do their job. Period! The type of
loose-lip talking, we have today would not have been tolerated during
WW2. In
my opinion, the word treason needs to be brushed off and used again.
Many of these modern liberal critics are giving “aid
and comfort” to our enemies.
Mark that down!
ETHICAL
AND MORAL ISSUES:
There have always been “gay folks” and the like. In times past
they lived a quieter and reserved life-style. They did not push
themselves on the general public within
your face hate speech, demanding you accept his or her life style as
normal.
There are the militant demanding and acceptance of same-sex
marriage with
the ridicule of anyone who defends “traditional
marriage between a man and a woman."
Truly, a mixed value storm! Traditionally, marriage between one
man and one woman is a long established and accepted value system, is
it not?
THE
WORD OF GOD IS THE SOURCE OF ALL TRUE VALUES:
When God’s standards are applied; there are great stability and
peace in our society. The huge problem is that man has determined to
be his own judge as to values. Their wants, determines and decides
what is right or wrong. Not so! The
do your own thing crowd may spout their value system;
however, that does not make it right. We must not allow ourselves to
drift toward a wrong value system. As followers of Jesus Christ, we
must be very careful, “that
we hence forth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, and cunning
craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive" (Ephesians
4:14).
“A
false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his
delight.” (Proverbs 11:1) “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
(John 14:15)
“In
those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which
was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 17:6; 21:25)
“In
the midst of all this confusion and despite the seeming victory of
the forces of evil if we will keep our heads we will not be shaken
from our steadfastness or moved away from the hope of the gospel.”
“One
Ship drives East and another West,
While
the self same breezes blow;
‘Tis the set of the sail and not the gale
That determines the way they go
As the winds of the sea so ways of fate
As
we journey along through life,
’Tis
the set of the soul that decides the goal
And
not the calm or the strife.”
(Reference:
Page 162-163, Forty Years On The Firing Line, by G. C. Brewer,
Copyright, 1948 by Old Paths Book Club, Kansas City, Missouri)
NOTE: See essays titled “VALUES” and
“WISHY WASHY ETHICS” for additional study.