March 31, 2009
See how Barack Obama’s church, the United Church of Christ (of WHO??) is now going to be handing out condoms to kids at church. To save lives, they say. What a sad commentary on how watered down faith becomes. “What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world [his mortal life?] and lose his soul?” The whole idea that commandments matter, that our behavior matters, that there are certain standards of eternal law that must be obeyed if happiness is our design, is passé.
There are some natural consequences which God has built in to violation of certain commandments; one of them being the sexually transmitted diseases that are rife today. But the attitude “du jour” seems to be, we can mock God, “cheat” so to speak – remove the consequences, redefine “sin”, so kids (people) can sin and still remain physically “clean” – forget the moral aspect of cleanliness. That obviously isn’t selling anymore, so let’s just take it off the shelves. We’re living in a material world, after all. The Material is our new god. Amazing to me the effrontery people have – how little faith in God it truly shows they have – or how little their “god” truly is. If their god is so ineffectual, and impotent, that they can change the definition of commandments or expecations of behavior or right and wrong to suit their own predilections, what kind of God is that? A changeable, ephemeral, wishy-washy god indeed. And that is the faith and the power that is theirs.
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