I stole this right off Trevin Wax's blog, so he get's full credit. It's too good not to repost...
Documenting the bizarre beliefs and
inconsistencies that surface in contemporary discourse…
1. We worry about the shallowness
and superficiality of online relationships, so we go to FaceBook and Twitter to
register our concerns.
2. We are so focused on the newest
and latest things that we leave behind the oldest and most foundational things.
3. We’ve turned the virtue of
prudence into the vice of prudishness and the vice of impropriety into the
virtue of authenticity.
4. We ban soda from schools but
make condoms widely available… because corn syrup is a more serious matter for
youngsters than sex.
5. We decry the exploitation of
women, but cry “censorship” when someone wants decency standards against
objectifying women on television.
6. We chide a pregnant mother for
smoking because of the harm it does to her child, but we applaud her choice to
walk into a clinic and have her baby torn limb by limb and extracted from her
uterus.
7. It’s arrogant to buck the
current push to redefine marriage, but not arrogant to buck the consensus of
virtually every society before us.
8. Citizens who would like to keep
the money they earn are “greedy.” Politicians who would take their wealth and
give it away are “generous.”
9. We believe in tolerance:
everyone can believe whatever they want (as long as they don’t really
believe it).
10. We believe every religion
should be open and inclusive, but not open and inclusive enough for a Jesus who
claims to be Lord of all.
~~~ Frustrated with our failure to live up to our
ideals, we do away with them altogether. And then we feel better for being
worse. ~~~
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