Friday, May 08, 2009
Clarity
A nice sharp article by Keith Pavlischek, unraveling some of the confusion around the question of "torture".
I'd mention one more layer of confusion, maybe the worst of all. The moral hand-wringers are confusing personal morality with national morality, which is clearly an improper mix. The New Testament provides guidance for the individual, and the hand-wringers are correctly following those rules. But the New Testament also states that the government and the individual are different entities with different purposes. If you think the main goal of a nation is to provide a moral exemplar, you're missing Christ's point and you're also destroying the nation's real purpose.
A country isn't supposed to determine the morality of the entire world. It's supposed to protect the lives and property of its own citizens so that they can practice their own versions of morality within its borders. The hand-wringers, who seem to include nearly all leftists and many 'conservatives', believe that the entire country should operate under their own personal exquisite sensitivity, even if it means allowing the enemy to destroy all of us.
Got news for you: if the entire country is destroyed or overtaken by an enemy force, it sure as hell won't be showing your version of sensitivity toward anyone. Not to enemies, not to women, not to Christians, not to you. ¶ 2:53 PM
I'd mention one more layer of confusion, maybe the worst of all. The moral hand-wringers are confusing personal morality with national morality, which is clearly an improper mix. The New Testament provides guidance for the individual, and the hand-wringers are correctly following those rules. But the New Testament also states that the government and the individual are different entities with different purposes. If you think the main goal of a nation is to provide a moral exemplar, you're missing Christ's point and you're also destroying the nation's real purpose.
A country isn't supposed to determine the morality of the entire world. It's supposed to protect the lives and property of its own citizens so that they can practice their own versions of morality within its borders. The hand-wringers, who seem to include nearly all leftists and many 'conservatives', believe that the entire country should operate under their own personal exquisite sensitivity, even if it means allowing the enemy to destroy all of us.
Got news for you: if the entire country is destroyed or overtaken by an enemy force, it sure as hell won't be showing your version of sensitivity toward anyone. Not to enemies, not to women, not to Christians, not to you. ¶ 2:53 PM
