Monday, November 07, 2005

Vices have become virtues

It does not need to be restated for the umpteenth time that something is desperately wrong with our society. But should we expect anything different? We glorify every vice imaginable and ridicule every virtue. Vices have become virtues and vice versa. “Entertainers” who name themselves after spare change and “roll with a unit” named after the seventh letter of the alphabet are glorified. Sin is flowing like a river because all manner of evil masquerades under the guise of high-sounding empty words (“political correctness”). We should soberly remember the judgement pronounced for this type of behaviour – “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20). We shouldn’t bow down because we are afraid we will be consumed by the flames of popular opinion. If the majority of people do or believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.