Hello Fellow Americans,
Have you ever longed for the good old days like I have?
It was a time when right and wrong existed, not just the situational ethics so common today.
This is my first blog, and sort of an introduction of the views of a man pushing fifty.
So I will try and make it short and sweet by simply contrasting what I was taught growing up, as opposed to what the U.S. Army taught me as an equal opportunity representative (E.O.R.) at Ft. Bragg.
I try to look at things from a Christian perspective, but am open to others views although pluralism opposes any philosophy of absolutes, and is therefore continually challenged.
So this is my take on the culture war for our Country today...
First off, I am not ashamed to say that I am a Christian and basically my world view is traditional. I do have many intellectual and liberal friends however.
The reason we are friends is because of respect for each other, and we exhibit a willingness to listen with an open mind to each others thoughts, and we do not have a political agenda.
I have witnessed many in this country who are not so “liberal” in there acceptance of others (that do not hold there same views). This type of posturing has always held true, all the way back since before the Roman Empire. Yet many well educated people exhibit this same trait of intolerance.
I am particularly concerned about the attack by many secularists on the “faith” of others. This type of so called “scientific” venom is nothing new, most recently it was practiced allot during the 1930’s both in this country and overseas, (don't make me use the word as it pushes too many buttons). This type of behavior only proves that human nature never really changes, just the labels we use.
First comes marginalization of a people, then comes separating them, then comes persecuting them... wanting them out of a country for example (for the better good of all), and then genocide has even occurred.
Yep, if you’re honest with yourself you can still see it today.
The strength of the United States has always come from its moral unity, and ability to tap into its diverse population when fighting an enemy, not the other way around.
The Army knows better than anyone, "first hand" the results of this kind of divisiveness!
Unfortunately, this is a result of many “well educated” humanistic scholars teaching in this country since the end of the Second World War.
In stead of producing so called, “tolerant liberal minds” that were predominant in the 1960’s, it has actually produced the divisiveness that we see today in the Culture War. Never before has the country been so divided amongst its population. This is very dangerous when one group of people use the Government (political party) in destroying the social rights of others.
This is why people are so divided in every aspect of “cultural collision of values”.
It was General Douglas MacArthur that said “pluralism is the enemy, the longer you allow it to exist, the bigger and bloodier the wars become”.
Sounds contradictory to what I just said, doesn’t it? It really is not, you see Pluralism creates intolerance of others, when we share no common values, or what I call core values. This is why the Army Equal Opportunity system works and others do not: Core Values. If you have no core values as in Pluralism, no one can agree on anything resulting in some type of war, cultural or otherwise.
It was Abraham Lincoln that stated in his Gettysburg Address, “That a House Divided Can not Stand.” By the way, Lincoln was quoting Jesus Christ.
We must put our venom aside for our fellow countrymen, and work together to conquer any type war if we are to remain a United States.