Moral Failure

To be sure, we are not put here on this earth because we are perfect.

Each society, each culture, each civilization has had its failings and ultimate decay.

This is obvious when we look upon one another and so readily see the flaws.

In America, there is much pride in our country.  Yet our history books tell a tale of struggle for freedom and yet of a culture that enslaved another race.  So many confederate statues exist to glorify an ignoble war.  The truth is whitewashed by this false history. We don’t want to look upon this shameful past, but we are poised to repeat it.  The war may be over, the moral failure that led to the atrocity of one civilization enslaving another endures.

The Bible tells the same story, the paradox of a culture that struggles for freedom, and yet sees no wrong with making war to seize land, when it is blessed by God.  Isn’t that another form of whitewash?

Countless culture after culture has risen from principles and fallen to the corruption of human character.  We ignore the ugly truth of genocides, war-for-profit, and the death and suffering our selfishness and our greed and indifference imposed on others.  We hide our ignorance behind a veil of sanitized facts, so we can believe we are good.  This is how we face the world.

The people who communicate the unwelcome facts, such as the pollution of the earth, it’s waters it’s air, these are derided as troublemakers.  These are indeed inconvenient truths.

The problem with man is his mind.  He cannot be made to see the truth.  He may live in illusion for his entire life if that is his wish.

He sees what he believes.

This is why Christ has said:

‘Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.’

It is so easy to find fault with others.  You cannot change them.  You can only change the way you see them.

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