Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward
Today, you are either starting New Year’s resolutions, or your Christmas exercise equipment is already an extension of your closet complete with clothes, hangers, and accessories.
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Checking the Boxes
It seems like a fairy tale, doesn’t it?
A God who created all that there is including you and me looks down upon our lack of moral character and decides the only hope is to inject himself into humanity to save it from itself.
The cost of this effort? His son. Because moral failing is an anathema to all that is good, and we are objectively not good by nature.
God’s son’s death is the sentence for our high crimes and misdemeanors writ large.
And like us, Jesus, God’s son, comes as a child—a newborn with all the necessities for care and provision.
What’s the Harm?
So, Texas is taking a stab at reintroducing biblical teachings and concepts into classrooms beginning next year according to The Associated Press.
At issue is whether basic Judeo/Christian doctrines should be taught from a historical perspective and whether the bleed from history to proselytization is a slippery slope.
Unless one is adamant that such moral and ethical underpinnings were not a part of our nation’s history, a view that most rational people would dismiss, the fact is, we, at a minimum, were once more Christianized and Judaized.
Being thankful is something we tend to do in hindsight
We thank people for helping us, encouraging us, defending us, and so on.
A Word of Thanks
November is the month we as a nation set aside time to reflect upon and show gratitude for the people in our lives that mean the most to us.
Just To Be Fair
Let me tell you a story.
When I was a kid, my family was generally irreligious. We never went to church on Sundays, never attended Christmas or Easter services, and never spoke about God in any meaningful way.
To be fair, my mother had some history with the church, but it focused more on meeting humanitarian needs rather than the questions of sin and salvation. She served as a treasurer’s assistant and kept minutes of board meetings, too, but attendance was never her interest.
