Snow & ice DID come & school is, yay!, cancelled. I replied, but it was eaten. I love all kinds of books: great literature, biographies, Jacqueline Suzanne (sp?) Lawrence Sanders (He was an amazing writer, a great writer.)& I enjoyed all 50 Shades books. They are certainly not Shakespeare, but the point of the trilogy is all about true love, commitment and redemption. If it is not your cup of tea, don’t read them.
I do get very nervous when grown people want or feel the need to keep other grown people away from anything. It is called censorship. As a liberal who now has many conservative views on certain issues I just do NOT understand any “conservative” who would justify censorship or want to keep someone from finding out on their own if something appeals to them or not. We are grown ups. End of story. (if for some reason my other post shows up, I apologize for the duplicate.)
The weather kept me from replying before now. First thing, you mention that you used to be liberal but now have some conservative leanings. Those by themselves are stricly political terms. What about on beliefs about the universe and our place in it, especially in relationship to God? Do you believe in Him? And what about the claims of Christianity? Do you believe in them, so that you are a Christian?
Without knowing those answers, I will say that Christians are obligated to speak out on sin, to tell the world what God says about right and wrong and to teach about what is true and what isn’t. So, what that includes is that we are not our own, to do what seems good to us and to live as we want and see fit and just follow ourselves and our proclivities to wherever they lead us. We have been given power as individuals temporarily, to be able to do things, for this life only, by God Himself, and at some point this life, and that power, will both come to an end, after which our ability to do anything will be taken away from us and we’ll have to give an account to God for everything we did here, and that will include if we were willing to listen to Him or not.
Since God is God, He creates the standards, and His are good and perfect. And we are warned not to trust our own. By not obeying God but using what seemed good to her, Eve chose to listen to Satan rather than God. And the Bible warns us not to do that, to follow what is “good in our own eyes,” or “what seems right to a man.”