Posted on 05/15/2004 9:17:44 AM PDT by kritikos
Some amazing things have caught my attention lately.
One thing that really amazes me is the storm of so-called "indignance" blowing about the media after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
Teach your children that God is irrelevant. That people are the products of chance. That morality is self-defined and relative. And that America (read Americans) should be ashamed of their (re-written) national history of arrogance, self-righteousness, and imperialism.
And then, when a few of those kids grow up and act in accordance with ALL the things they WERE taught... and when they exhibit a DIMINISHED valuing of human dignity that makes obvious ALL of the things they WERE NOT taught... the "indignant ones" cry out in shock and amazement at the lack of "nobility" and "humanity" in these youth.
What amazes me is not the inhumanity of those few young men and women.
What amazes me is the selective moral blindness of the so-called "indignants" in media and politics (and the blindness of the rest of the people who have eyes, yet who cannot see the truth).
And yet there is another, even more amazing thing.
Apart from the ten or so soldiers who committed such acts of abuse consider the other 149,990 young men and women who are daily risking their lives in that uncivil and barbaric environment (with too many dying daily). Consider that these young people, in that environment, have both the power and the opportunity act the barbarian. Yet look how they comport themselves... with such nobility and a valuing of human dignity.
THESE noble and courageous young people are the amazing ones, in a very, very good sort of way.
Thank you God for creating us in Your image! And thank you young people, for your great and precious sacrifice!
--Jim Roper
Chill, dude.
It's just sex.
< /sarc >
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
In times past, this would be clearly sedition, The First amendment is not a suicide pact, but in effect it gives the enemy an almost unsurmountable edge.
Too many have lost sight of the fact that the Constitution and the rules of morality are not an end in themselves, but simply a guideline for cultural survival. They are useless if we allow the enemy to use them as their most powerful weapons against us. They can and will defeat us with our own arrogant "higher moral ground".
EXCELLENT
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