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On Making Judgments
The screensaver on my home personal computer is in rolling text. It reads "Be Judgmental." If that fact got out, there is no doubt I would never be confirmed by any U.S. Senate committee for any high government post, because even thinking one should be judgmental would be more than enough to disqualify any prospective appointee. Such a nominee would be considered divisive and not sufficiently in tune with diversity. I hate thinking about such nonsense when I should be relaxing and enjoying the splendor of nature that is the Atlantic Ocean, but some days it can’t be helped.
The other day, the infamous ninth circuit court of appeals in California ruled the ban, in California, against “same sex marriage” unconstitutional. By now, one would have thought the ninth circuit court of appeals would have been ruled unconstitutional. Jean Paul Sartre once said that all of French Existentialism is to be found in the contention that if there is no God everything is permitted, but being alone in a kayak far out in the ocean makes it impossible to believe there is no God. How else could such grandeur come to be if not from a loving God? But God made rules: they’re called the Ten Commandments if you’re a Christian. They’re called other things by other religions, but all people who believe in God believe in rules. We Christians believe God created man and woman to fulfill different roles in His overall plan. It still takes (and will always take) one man and one woman to make one new human being.
I’m surprised that political correctness has not yet mandated the expunction of the definition of the word “perversion” from the dictionary. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, it means: a sexual practice or act considered abnormal or deviant.
As Dr. John Patrick told us in his famous lecture, entitled “What Hippocrates Knew and We have Forgotten,” and here I paraphrase: one does not tolerate truth, beauty, goodness, or love; one tolerates something that could be described as the exact opposites of those virtues. Some of us believe it is not being unfair, bigoted, or intolerant when someone chooses to judge good over evil, so how in the world did those who favor evil succeed in painting us judgmental people as intolerant?
It probably should be pointed out clearly that our judgment is being exercised about the evil actions not the actors. We love the actors; we hate the actions.
(On such things does one ruminate while paddling a one-person kayak miles out in the ocean - closer to God.
