You
love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you
above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy. (Psalm 45:7)
Sometimes,
I think an official website might be useful. I’m not sure who would be
responsible for it, but it would contain the official lists:
- All that is considered good
- All that was good within the last six months but is now considered either unhealthy or sick
- All that was good within the past year but is now considered nearly wicked
- All that is considered wicked
- All that was wicked within the last six months but is now considered either sick or unhealthy
- All that was wicked within the last year but is now considered alternative
- All that has within the past week become good.
- All that must be tolerated
- All that must no longer be tolerated
These lists should be updated daily and those
that are likely to move from one list to another flagged, because that’s how
quickly things change when people get to make those rules. I might be
exaggerating a little, but not much. Things I have predicted in this regard,
and been told adamantly that they would “never happen” have happened and are
happening.
If inclusivity is
the goal, if we must make the world into a place where everyone feels safe and
welcome, there are only two choices. One is depicted in Kurt Vonnegut’s story
Harrison Bergeron, people were artificially or mechanically reduced to
equality. Anyone who was better than the standard was shackled, blinkered, or
subjected to stimuli that made it impossible to perform above that standard. That
required that the standard be so low that no one could fail. The other is a
form of something like depicted in Matrix. In that story, people lived virtual
lives. In such a life, what would be the problem with allowing serial killers
to murder unimpeded, or to be given the challenge of someone who could never
quite stop them? Pick your form of evil, if it’s only happening in your
imagination, what’s to stop you? You aren’t actually doing evil. You would have no real victims no matter how many times
or how badly you harmed them.
Fortunately, those
are the sorts of universes described in the Bible. There, the universe was
designed and created by a loving God, who set physical and moral laws for the
benefit of the created beings. When people violate those physical and moral
laws, they are considered wicked. Of course, I’m not referring to things like
people flying, because people who fly are obeying laws of physics, otherwise
they wouldn’t fly. But for a society to throw away standards that naturally and
physically allow it to exist in favor of standards that do not naturally or
physically allow it to exist is suicide. That’s why murder can only be American’s
national sport in fiction and why relying on people’s beneficence with regard
to procreation is dangerous, as is accepting a culture in which children are considered
props and extras for the parent’s starring role in the drama in which the
parent is the star.
Loving
righteousness and hating wickedness, while praised in Scripture, only has value
when what is righteous and what is wickedness doesn’t work like fashion trends.
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