Has anyone beside me wondered about all the immorality that is invading our lives? Now I don’t mean the behavior found in the Bible that has traditionally ruled the day, which now the self appointed arbiters of political correctness have ruled wrong, divisive, insensitive, and hateful, but the new list of things that is to control our lives.

The list is long so here are a few of the immoral offerings of the enlightened (There is no attempt to use exact wording or quotes since there are too many of the less than meaty pronouncements.): It is positively without question and immoral that the richest nation in the world can’t provide health care for every one of its citizens. The tax cuts for the rich are immoral and must be rescinded in the interest of fairness. It is immoral to make cuts in programs that help the most vulnerable of society. It was immoral to spend 40 million on the President’s Inaugural when there is an immoral war going on in Iraq and there are millions who are hungry and without health insurance or a place to sleep. It is immoral to give those contracts to all his rich oil friends. You can see that we live in a wicked and immoral world say they.

John Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Mr. Adams made a profound statement but according to the ones who see immorality running roughshod over the disadvantaged, you would think he didn’t have a clue about the subject. The difference is that the immorality that Adams was speaking to isn’t the same immoral conduct that the enlightened are complaining about and there is a vast difference.

The difference depends on two different sets of beliefs: one is based on the standards of God and the other is based on the supposed role of the government. Whichever one is chosen will determine the definition of immorality and the subsequent behavior. First, God speaks to the ungodly conduct of individuals who won’t follow his way for a good life with not one word about anything the government does being immoral, though the personal conduct of government officials can be so termed immoral all too often. John Adams statement reaches the heart of the elected and bureaucratic government levels. Since the people are to be moral then those in areas of responsibility at all levels are to be moral too. It was expected that personal morality would be carried over into public service. And without that personal sense of God’s morality the whole system of a constitutional republic will break down and become tyrannical.

Second, if the pronouncements listed above are immoral, then John Adams was mistaken about his ideas of morality which were and are an integral part of our system of government. Those other pronouncements do at least two things. One, they promote a system of government known as socialism and two, they produce the notion that government should behave according to the dictates of those who have no idea of the definition of immoral conduct.

Yet there is more to the pronouncements than meets the eye at first glance. Those complaining may not believe in the existence of immorality, but yet they use the word to describe things they don’t like that the government does or doesn’t do to suit them. They preach separation of church and state but want the government to provide for the machinations of their “church of the unbelieving” and to enact their doctrine of immorality without a thought to the real immoral acts of abortion, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, murder, and all the other immoral behavior of mankind called sin for those who understand true immorality. But now forgive me for I have gone from meddling to preaching by comparing the immoral pronouncements and ways of the enlightened with the truth and moral behavior that is found in the Bible.  

© 02-28-2005 DEC