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50 years ago today, Sarah Lee Stone, now known as Good Wife, and I had our first date at The Carpenters concert, University of Dayton Arena. Sarah wore pink, but I have no idea what Karen Carpenter wore.
We were 19-yr-old sophomores who’d met a year before at a huge bonfire by the lake during freshman orientation at Cedarville University. Though we dated others that year we began talking on the phone late at night soon after, sometimes for hours. So we had probably bonded without knowing it by the time we had that first date.
The girl I had dated a couple times opted out of the concert. Fantastic. I didn’t have money, athletic prowess, or high-rent looks, but hey, I had leverage, a car thanks to Dad and two tickets, so I gave it a shot, asking the girl-dating-someone-else who I wanted to ask in the first place. Hence Sarah's and my first date.
So, we met our freshman year, started dating our sophomore year, broke up our junior year, and got engaged our senior year, like a lot of others who arrived on campus as singles but by the time they left walked around two-by-two like Noah’s Ark. Summer before senior year I proposed while we stood barefoot in a creek rushing down the side of a mountain.
Since that night 50 years ago my life has been enriched in every way, thanks to the divine gift of a girl who grew up in WV, about 2.5 hours south of me in OH. God is good.
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Our culture long since discarded the idea of objective truth, i.e., something is true or false no matter our feelings about it. I’ve understood this for a long time.
What did not occur to me until recently is that loss of truth brings with it loss of trust. If there is no knowable truth, just uncertainty, truth claims, lies and falsehoods, then what or who can you trust?
This introduces another level of dysfunction. You carry Who can I trust? into every interaction: Is this news fake, Is this business dishonest, Are these election results valid, Is this health info correct? Then we get litigiousness, lawlessness, even an inability to engage in bona fide relationships because, well, no one is trustworthy.
At best, we muddle through.
At worst, some fall into anxiety, disillusion, alienation, anomie, hopelessness. It’s why there’s so much talk today about mental health, even among gifted, wealthy young athletes, and especially among youth. Kids are committing suicide because their lives have lost meaning.
Truth and trust are not just philosopher topics. Their loss affects us every day.
But there is a remedy. Read your pennies: “In God We Trust.”
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For a lot of kids like me in the 50s, Superman, on black and white TV, was a fav hero.
“Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” He fought “a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way."
Now it appears Superman is becoming Superwoke. DC Comics announced Superman will henceforth be bisexual, and he’ll now fight for the decidedly bland “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow.”
Aside from a serious discussion about what morality DC Comics is promoting, this is a bit like celebrities who have some talent but not a lot, so the only way they can make news is to declare some new sexual proclivity. Happens every week.
And rather than find new ways to improve upon the American way, to be PC relevant Superman must ignore nationality and patriotism.
Star Trek’s tweak, “To boldly go where no one (not “man”) has gone before” enriched the franchise.
This Superman nonsense fundamentally alters the character. And it sadly may happen, Get woke Go broke.
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Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Longer I live, the more I comprehend this.
People keep asking, What is happening to our country? It’s like the end of the world as we knew it.
Perhaps the world is “ending” as we’ve known it, but if you apply Solomon’s point, what we’re now experiencing is nothing new.
Yes, we’re becoming a more pagan culture. But Job, the Israelites, the Apostles during the Roman Empire, Augustine and the Early Church, the Reformers during the Dark Ages, all lived in pagan societies.
So the paganizing culture emerging in America is more a norm of history than an exception. Why is this good, or can be?
—Under duress, Christian faith is more sharply delineated.
—God uses adversity to grow, strengthen, bless, and encourage the Church.
—Light shines brighter in darkness.
This is our moment. “Let us not become weary in doing good.”
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How public figures “apologize”:
1 - “Mistakes were made” - Yes, you made them.
2 - “Mistakes were made” - Perhaps, but what you said/did was your choice, not an accident beyond your control.
3 - “This is not me” - Well, who was that person using your name?
4 - “I didn’t mean it” - OK, why did you say/do it?
5 - “It was their fault” - Adam tried this excuse: “The woman you put here with me, she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” but we’re all individually accountable.
6 - “I don’t remember” - Umm, others do, and these days, cell phone cameras are ubiquitous.
7 - “My office takes full responsibility” - Your office didn’t misstep; you did.
8 - “I’m sorry if people were offended” - Great, are you sorry you said/did it?
9 - “I’m fighting my demons” - More likely, you like the rest of us are wrestling our own hearts.
…Or just claim you’re a victim of (_______).
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Our culture says:
-a baby is not a baby if the mother does not want it,
-there’s your truth and my truth but not objective truth,
-debt is inconsequential,
-a girl can be a boy, or a boy can be a girl,
-race determines all things,
-religious conviction is just an excuse for irrational bigotry,
-education is not about independence but indoctrination,
-patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels,
-equity-sameness of results-supersedes equality of opportunity,
-criminal felons are “justice-involved persons,"
-parolees are “persons under supervision,”
-pedophiles are “minor-attracted persons,”
-fear is the new normal of forever pandemics,
-ideologies should replace religion,
-we're a nation not of individuals but groups, oppressors vs. victims.
But hey, I don’t believe any of this.
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