Wouldn’t it be great if voters passed a law allowing you to shoot your noisy neighbor, or your mean boss? Why not? Is that any worse than passing a law that allows a woman to kill her baby? And what about a school board that votes to give sex education and condoms to school children? Does their vote make it right? In the last decade, Board members of many private companies have voted to give the same health benefits to their unmarried (gay or straight) employees' partners as to those who are legally married. Does their vote legitimize what we once called "living in sin?"
And every day, TV viewers vote for gratuitous violence, lying, cheating, steeling, pornography, fornication, adultery, gay marriage, and a host of topics and behaviors that were formerly banned by the FCC. How do they vote? With their eyes—as proven by the high ratings! Unfortunately, even Christians watch these shows, thereby, albeit unknowingly, voting their approval!
The question is: How do we Bible-believing citizens cast our vote? Answer: with our 'feet' and our 'mouth' - walking away from evil and speaking against it: "Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them...speaking the truth in love" (Eph. 5:11-12; 4:15).
Greg,
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing up the absurdity of "morality by consensus." But I also thank you for showing what it looks like when the individual Christian "endorses by passivity." You are continuing to hold our feet to the fire, Greg. And this time I am grown up enough not to dismiss your point. I will refuse to endorse by my vacant stare at the immoral shows that I often frequent because they are entertaining. Take that, self.
Stan