Thoughts from a dear friend: Two Dictums and 30 years later

This is from a very close friend. He is wise in so many ways that I am not. What Steven has to share here is too good not to share with the rest of you. In light of what has happened in the last few weeks within the Obamination administration, this is very worth your time.

Two Dictums and 30 years later
By Steven Davis

Please allow me to share these thoughts with you. I apologize if they seem to be the rantings of a self-styled prophet. I only read the news and asked God for clarification. This is what He said.

In the 1980’s we began to see the emergence of two lines of thought that while apparently separate were actually related and ultimately connected. The first said, “As long as you are sincere, it does not matter what you believe.” The second said, “There is no such thing as absolute good or evil; truth or falsity. Those things are merely value judgments on the part of a participant who has the most to gain or lose from the situation. Value judgments of good, evil, truth, lies are all context dependent and contingent upon the perception of the person doing the judging.

Thirty years later we have the fruit of those two dictums. As for the first, who else is more sincere in their faith than a muslim. The muslim so sincerely believe all that is said in the Qur’an that the believer is willing to commit suicide while simultaneously killing others in the name of Allah. The muslim sincerely believes that it is only by works and continued holiness above all others that salvation is attained from a god that is unknowable. The god the muslim serves demands the blood of his enemies as a sacrificial oblation. Is sincerity a sufficient justification of a belief system that espouses violent enforcement of ritual legalism that declares death to all who reject its tenets? Maybe, if god alone is good and this is your god.

The past thirty years have been witness to some of the most unethical business and government conduct in the recorded annals of history. The unrecorded annals are probably much worse but we don’t know that. Now that Truth is no longer absolute and ethical morality a matter of jurisprudence, who is to say that one nation’s laws are superior to another’s. If ability grants prerogative, then the strongest nation or people group should be able to declare what is right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable as part of the victor’s spoils of war and conquest upon whatever battlefield the conflict may be fought. The nuclear bomb may have moved the battlefield from the war room to the boardroom. Who is to say that China cannot substitute chalk and melamine for whey protein. After all, profit is good and losses are bad, and who is the FDA anyway?

Revelation speaks of a time when the great sea of humanity will roar and froth as if Hurricane Mitch was returning for an encore. If there is no God, nor absolute Truth, nor font for Moral and Ethical constraint what is left but the anarchy of the strongest? If sincerity is the sole measure of the efficacy of a belief system, should it surprise us that the great and terrible fourth beast who will rule the last days world with blasphemous insults wears a turban? Could it be that those seemingly innocuous platitudes of love and tolerance from the 1980’s are now coming back to haunt us and will be the very means by which we are judged for our blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? The ultimate irony is that to all appearances, this was all foretold by God Himself in the message he gave His Son to share with us so that we would have a firm anchor for our faith in the eternal hope that is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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