Not Government's Job

      If you have read any of my blogs, you will see a pattern of my slight contempt for the idea that we human beings need the government to establish our morals and ethics. In a resent conversation with those who do not have a like mind, I have come to realize why.

       I am very willing to accept people as they are. I don't much care what your sin of choice is, or who you like or don't like. It doesn't matter to me who you love, who you marry, or what you marry. I equally don't care how many of them you marry. The simple truth, in my mind, is that it really is none of my business what you do, and it certainly is not my business to try to force you not to do it. You see, I do not have to force people to live according to my opinion of how they should live.

Yes, I do all I can to get Christians to follow CHRIST. I do not like humanism in the church. I believe JESUS gave us a perfect plan and modeled for us a perfect plan. I like that plan. I think it works. So, I try to persuade my Christian brothers and sisters to put their trust in that plan.

       I also try to get them to embrace unconditional acceptance. I would like to say “unconditional love", But, I don't think that is possible. It is towards a chosen few. Not for all. Unconditional acceptance simply means that you acknowledge you are not perfect and you accept other people who are not perfect. It seems simple to me, and “there in lies the rub”, as I am want to say.

Because I can do this. I can accept homosexuals and racists and haters and people who discriminate. In fact, I would defend to the death your right to be that type of person. I think that is really what America should be.

         So, for me, it is easy to see a nation that reflects the very best of the Star Trek universe. Where all the different people, and all the different cultures and mating rituals, live together on one planet in tenuous tolerance and acceptance. But, in my most recent conversation on the subject, I came to realize that those who want the government to force their morals and ethics an others, do so out of a need to be right and an inability to accept that other people do things differently and see things differently. They have a singular mindset that says they need to force people to capitulate.

Some of this is out of pride. They think they know it all and no one can tell them anything. If you do not live and do as they say, you are wrong. Because they are always right and you need to accept that and straighten up.

       Others do it out of fear. If we have a society where people are allowed to embrace a different life style, then people will be influenced to a life style they do not agree with. So, they fight against those in that lifestyle for fear their children, or even themselves, will fall victim to the temptations of something new and different. So they battle hard against it.

         In the end, every one of the people screaming for government to protect their rights, while wanting to infringe on the rights of others, do so because they cannot see themselves as embracing the people they disagree with.

        It is sad to think my Christian brothers and sisters are so afraid that the power of sin will have greater sway then the power of GOD. It is sad to think that this mindset has resulted in so many people no longer holding the church in any type of esteem. Still, here is the fact:

        If you completely take GOD out of the equation, which many Christians and all of the atheists have, you come down to a very real truth that we humans need to learn to accept each other. To coexist. You see, the government cannot do this. The government cannot fix racism, homophobia, or any of the haters in the nation. Forcing people to accept something only causes resentment and frustration. I believe that is why racism is so powerful today. Because people were forced to accept instead of learning to accept.

       This nation cannot be healed by legislation. It can only be healed by education. Mostly, it has to be the people. There is no greater asset then a people who come face to face with their need to change their attitude. When you know you are a sinner, then you can handle being around other sinners.