The real war front is at home - moral weakness/relativism
gabriel
is not inadequate attention to our moral pillars, but to those
for whom they don't exist."
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their
sin, and will heal their land.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=832024
by Star Parker
Christmas 2009 and our nation is still at war.
Afghanistan? Iraq?
Yes, of course, brave young Americans are in those far off lands
defending our country. God bless them.
But the war's front is here at home. The war we are having with
ourselves.
After the horrendous attacks on September 11, 2001, a few
Christian pastors stepped up to say that the unprecedented
violation of America's homeland was a sign of weakness within our
nation.
They weren't talking about how we gather intelligence or how we
check travelers at the airport.
The management bestseller from the 1960s, The Peter Principle,
points out that one sign of an organization or an individual at
their "level of incompetence" is thinking that re-organizing
alone solves problems. Drawing new organization charts or moving
around furniture is a lot easier than getting to the heart of
understanding what is causing failure.
The weakness which led to our vulnerability on that infamous
September day, said those pastors, was moral, not technical. For
this, they were widely denounced.
President George W. Bush rallied the nation and talked about good
and evil. But the evil he talked about was overseas. We deployed
our troops and tried to understand what was wrong with "them" and
how we could fix it. But little soul searching or introspection
was done at home. What might be wrong with us?
As we talked about advancing freedom in other societies, we
bloated our own government and violated and abused the principles
of freedom -- private property and personal responsibility -- on
which our own society was founded and built.
As we advanced into the first decade of the 21st century, we
chalked up military victories abroad and collapsed at home.
We may speak with thanks and a sense of accomplishment that there
has been no repeat of 9/11. But we might also wonder why those
who seek our destruction need to bother when we do their work for
them ourselves.
Now we have turned leadership over to those for whom the issue is
not inadequate attention to our moral pillars, but to those for
whom they don't exist.
After 9/11, we still knew what a terrorist was and we understood
that we blew it regarding identifying the ones operating in our
own country.
Today, after allowing a terrorist to operate within the ranks of
our own military, and, after he did his devastating work at Fort
Hood, we refuse to identify him as a terrorist.
We view the maniacs running Iran as negotiating partners while we
ignore the Iranian youth who struggle and long to be free.
We sit with silent acceptance as the Israelis, once viewed as
friends and allies, are given a choice by Hamas to release 1,000
prisoners, many convicted terrorists, in exchange for one Israeli
soldier held hostage.
But most inscrutable is that as we end the decade, a decade spent
fighting for freedom, our own nation is decidedly less free and
as result, weaker. And we have consciously chosen this outcome.
With imminent passage of multi-trillion dollar healthcare
"reform" that is pure socialism, we relinquish our personal
autonomy and freedom to a point where the task to redeem them
will be unprecedented.
Family and traditional values of personal behavior -- once the
moral glue holding us together -- are now mere lifestyle options.
We should ponder who has emerged out of this decade the victor
and who the vanquished. And the likelihood that those terrorists
who attacked that 9/11 understood what the Christian pastors who
admonished us after the attack did.
Fortunately, tens upon tens of millions of Americans still know
who we are.
And as the proverb says, "The hope of the righteous will be
gladness, but the expectation of the wicked will perish."