Is there room for "Moral Outrage" in America today?
Bill Shuler has an opinion today on the FOX News Opinion page.
Rev. Shuler lists ten powerful reasons to justify "Moral Outrage" in our culture in this day and time.
Read the list.
If there is not room for rage then the consequence is complacency... which I don't believe thinking people can live with...
FOX Opinion
10 Reasons for Moral Outrage
Moral outrage is the intersection of morality and deep seated convictions. As Americans our decision to speak out or remain silent, act with conviction or step back, will create the world our children will inherit.
Were it not for moral outrage America would be under British rule and the Emancipation Proclamation would never have been penned. Moral outrage, by its very definition, is the intersection of morality and deep seated convictions. The following are 10 reasons for moral outrage:1. Our forefathers acknowledged our creator God in the Declaration of Independence, but we are forbidden to acknowledge him in our public schools.
2.Our entertainment industry glamorizes sexuality yet is held unaccountable despite the rising rate of out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancies.
3. Moral relativism continues to reign in our public schools even though a nation reaps the results of such relativism with unprecedented greed on Wall Street.
4. 39.8 million people live below the poverty line in America -- over 14.1 million of them are children -- yet close to 100 billion pounds of food is wasted each year.
5. There have been over 50 million abortions since Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land with the vast majority being for no other reason than simple birth control.
6. Darwinism is taught as fact while Creationism is excluded from the American classroom.
7. More Christians were killed for their faith in the 20th century than in the entire history of Christianity.
8. A cross erected in 1934, at a WWI memorial site in the Mojave Desert, is currently at the center of a debate over whether or not its presence violates the Constitution.
9. The Ten Commandments have been taken from our court houses.
10. The community of faith is, in large measure, quiet and complacent.
It has been said that all that is needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. Ultimately we will be judged not by our titles or bank accounts but by something far more sacred. Future generations hang in the balance. Whether we speak out or remain silent, act or step back will create the inheritance we bequeath.
Rev. Bill Shuler is pastor at Capitol Life Church in Arlington, Virginia.
Consider and ponder.
xtnyoda, shalomed
Labels: culture of corruption
posted by XtnYoda at 10:50 PM
2 Comments:
Very well written and articulated. The man is absolutely correct.
America is in dire straights and unless patriots rise to reclaim her, we as a nation of the free are soon to be lost.
When considering the writing by the Rev. Shuler, here is the term that should be applied and considered when contemplating it: Priestcraft, as an evangelical minister. Where does his authority come from to represent God? Especially before the masses? Can he claim some laying on of hands by those with the proper authority? Or is it a dream or sudden inspiration from on high? His thoughts are ok but in the veign that they are expressed I wonder whom they are expressed for? For the masses or for his personal gain and to "recruit" more members to his "business", i.e. church? We are to avoid priestcraft, which is that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of all but they do it for their own personal gain.
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