Double Minded With No True North
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Everett Piper Everett Piper's Blog - Updated Jan 11, 2011
No Truth North
Has it ever struck you as
odd that the same worldview that brings tens of thousands of rioters to the
streets in Lebanon and Pakistan is on the rise with Progressives protesting for
peace in London and Paris?
Doesn't it seem curious
that the ideology that subjugates women to second tier status in Saudi Arabia
and Sudan is held in high regard in San Francisco and Seattle?
Ever stopped to ask why
the same seculars who argue for the separation of Church and State now claim
that those who argue against Sharia Law are guilty of hate?
How odd is it that the
West - a culture that gave the world racial equality, human rights, women's
suffrage, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of expression - A
culture that arguably gave the world Freedom - How odd is it that this
culture's leaders now speak in egalitarian tones of countries that still openly
traffic in slaves, behead blasphemers (i.e. Christians), and stone "unfaithful"
women.
Or how about this - How
much sense does it make that NPR - the paragon of tolerance - fired Juan
Williams (a noted liberal) for exercising his liberties of speech and
ideological expression while FOX News - (labeled by some as too conservative)
retained Williams and let him continue to say whatever he wanted to say?
Does any of this bother
you? Does any of this make your head
spin as you watch our ideological compass whirl aimlessly? Does any of this make you suspect that the
laws of nature and nature's God are the only true "moral" north and that without
these self-evident truths we are like the double-minded men spoken of in James:
unstable in all our ways and cast about with every waive of public fancy and
political fad.
