Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Jul 10 2009
Is society thinking we can manipulate God?
I read the headline: Questions swirl around Ensign family payments. I noted one particular quote from the article.
"When you have an affair with someone in your office who is married to someone else in your office and then you fire them both -- and then on top of it you have your rich parents come in and pay them off, I think it's hard to imagine a situation that is more embarrassing."
Just that one statement shows how destruction spreads when this sort of thing happens in even one family. And lately, there's been one story after another for politicians straying from their vows. Even as major politicians spoke of family values, society as a whole seemed to stray more and more from the idea of family values. And unfortunately, some of those major politicians seem to be leading the pack right down the wrong path.
People complain that society has pushed God out of government, but from where I sit, the more we try to push God into government, the bigger and more numerous society's problems become and the more glaring the hypocrisy becomes. Do we really think God pops in and out of our government? Are we looking at God as some spiritual spigot we can turn on and off to wash down our human laws in the hope of making the whole of society worthy of His blessings?
posted at: 12:02 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
I read the headline: Questions swirl around Ensign family payments. I noted one particular quote from the article.
"When you have an affair with someone in your office who is married to someone else in your office and then you fire them both -- and then on top of it you have your rich parents come in and pay them off, I think it's hard to imagine a situation that is more embarrassing."
Just that one statement shows how destruction spreads when this sort of thing happens in even one family. And lately, there's been one story after another for politicians straying from their vows. Even as major politicians spoke of family values, society as a whole seemed to stray more and more from the idea of family values. And unfortunately, some of those major politicians seem to be leading the pack right down the wrong path.
People complain that society has pushed God out of government, but from where I sit, the more we try to push God into government, the bigger and more numerous society's problems become and the more glaring the hypocrisy becomes. Do we really think God pops in and out of our government? Are we looking at God as some spiritual spigot we can turn on and off to wash down our human laws in the hope of making the whole of society worthy of His blessings?
posted at: 12:02 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
