Thursday, February 23, 2012
Just a quote I came up with and my random thoughts for today
My quote. Written on 2-21-12.
When man has killed GOD, he basically has taken all reasoning away, so he can act unjust, immoral and without concsience.
I came up with the above quote the other day mainly beacuase I was thinking about how religion has really come under fire lately. It seems anytime someone of noteworhy expresses their religious belief it comes under fire by the main stream media and so called left wing people. Seems funny the ones that state that we should respect every ones opinon is critizing someones belief in religion. I always thought that this is what made our country great that we have the right to believe in our own releigion without persecution. I feel anymore that this country is killing off God. Stop and think about this for a minute. If you say you don't beleive in god and releigion per say, does this make you guilt free. Then you can act in anyway you want without any persecution as long as you don't break a mans so called law. By killing off God we can drink, take drugs and eat to excess and not worry about it. We can pretty much do what we want. We don't have to care about other peoples feelings because now I can just care about me. HMMM. Maybe this is how the ME generation came to be. I have no problem with looking out for number one as long as it does not infringe on my beliefs or hurts me. But it seems to me that most people these days don't give a crap about anybody else. Let me see what I can get out of everyone or the government. Is this the current generations fault. I don't belive so. I believe it is the fault of my generation and the generation before me. We did not take care of the generations after us. We all were too concerned with partying, getting ahead and thinking about us that we did not raise the current generations coming up to respect others and explain what this great country is all about. The family unit has pretty much fell to the way side. I am guilty of it just as much as anyone else. My kids grew up without their Father around that much becuase I was divorced from my first wife when they were at a young age. We failed in raising our kids in the way that they should have been. Education begins at home and kids should be taught to recoginze this world is not just our house or home or just our beliefs. The thing is even if you do not believe in a God, the laws are pretty much a great guide for the way to act as a human being. If we practised what is in the bible, at least the ten commandments, this world would be such a better place. But we as a whole have thrown that to the wayside. I am not saying I have never been bad, heck I was the poster boy for partying at one time. It seems as soon as I gave up the alchohol I started seeing things in a clearer light. As much as I can. Am I a great example of a christian, probably not, but at least I try every day and I try to treat everyone with respect. Maybe the new generation will show us the way and despite ourselves rise above everything they have not learned. We can only hope for the new generation to raise the bar and set the standards higher. But I see a lot of younger people who do not believe in anything other then what can they get out of everyone around them. I can only pray and hope that they will rise above everything that has been in the past and show us the path we should take in the future.
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Great thoughts Jim. I too believe we were raised differently than we are raising our children nowadays. I had this very same conversation with my best friend who is my age tonight. We had the fear put in us at a very young age...we got whipped by whatever means our moms had, be it a shoe, a switch or a wooden spoon. We had that "fear" of authority. And I feel we grew into responsible adults from that. I do feel my generation once we reached our teens, rebelled a lot, but still had that "fear" instilled in us. I would push it to the limits, but not so far as to REALLY get in BAD trouble! And as far as religion, we didn't go to church when I was a kid, for whatever reason, but I am a believer in Christ. I think it came from the friend I just spoke of, and I am thankful. I don't down anyone for their beliefs, but hate it when I'm banned or stopped or ridiculed from doing anything that would show I believe in God. I can't imagine that kids can't say the Pledge of Allegiance anymore or a prayer before a game....no wonder the world is the way it is. It's shameful, but most of us turn a blind eye to it all and shake our heads, fearing for the generations to come. I for one do.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mel. Yeah if it wasn't for my Dad I probably would have ended up in jail instead of working law enforcement my whole life. No matter what I did I always had in the back of my mind that fear of what my Dad would think. I grew up in the Catholic Church, but turned my back on it for a little while. Organized religion is another subject but I finally put my feelings aside on that and went back to church. Some day I might put down my feelings on patriotism, among other things but do believe that we do turn a blind eye to a lot of what is going on in our country and communities.
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