I changed the header today on NCRenegade.com based on this post from Mike Shelby:
State collapse is inevitable when a society’s leaders are insulated from the negative consequences of their bad decisions.
This is the crux of the matter. In every aspect of our lives, any words or actions that have no consequences will take control of our future, erase our freedom and subvert the truth. Can you give me an example of an action that has no consequences and if good?
This statement has a corollary: when the truth is vilified and has negative consequences, we also have lost our civilized society. The best example would be selecting your bathroom in public based on how you “identify” your gender. What does that say about our civilized society when sexual perverts overrule the safety of your children?
David DeGerolamo
fwiw, thomas sowell said essentially the same thing decades ago.
We have been an uncivilized country when they took biblical morality out of schools. My kids went to Christian schools until middle school. Pandering to social norms vs biblical truth ocurred there as well. Its disheartening that my brainiac daughter became a leftist and my son who didn’t fit the GIGA mold in school and barely finished yet is like minded with his Father. My daughter stopped believing in God in college because of “…the evils committed by the church” – breaks my heart.
Wife and I had a similar experience with our oldest daughter. She turned her back on God as a teenager and went downhill fast. Even though she worked and tried to support herself, she was surrounded by demonic companions and took the wide road until finally, in her early 40’s, she surrendered her life to Jesus Christ. Constant prayer and leading by example were what turned her. Prayers for you and yours, Ricky Bobby.
Tolerance and go along to get along led to this mess. In order for it to begin righting itself, it must become the opposite of what it preached. It won’t happen in a weekend. The pendulum needs to swing hard in the opposite direction. IMHO
Our civilization lost its “civil-ness” when we started treating crime as a disease to be treated instead of something to be punished painfully and publicly.
C.S. Lewis, back in the 1950s, wrote an essay called The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment. It can be found online. I highly suggest reading and ruminating on what he had to say.