June 12th, 2021: Moral Corrosion

 

I took this picture while walking through the flood-damaged area in 2014 in Bragg Creek. Trees were fallen due to soil corrosion. It was a beautiful walk by the Creek, but the impact of the flood is evident. It helps that I can listen to the relaxing and soothing sound of the water.


Water corrosion is much like a cultural one. It floods healthy living trees with an incredible force of water. It lifts their roots, and they start to stumble. Water can clear many trees in flooding. They are left lifeless and exposed. Many beautiful things in our culture have been affected by the wave of cultural and political correctness. It has obliterated the foundation of free speech. We are programmed to say things that we have no idea what they mean. We are exposed to the absurdity of our use of languages.


When we remove God from our consciousness, we cannot deal with sin. We condemn sinners as if we are perfect. We have no humility to look at ourselves and acknowledge that we are not free from what we accuse others of doing. We cannot correct what is wrong in hour history by simply removing statues. Our nation did not just go against God during the time of the Residential School policy. We are still doing it today. As we grieve for kids who died during the residential school era, what stops us from condemning the systemic elimination of unborn children? We propagate the lies that science has the final moral authority in deciding when a human life starts. That lie is not any less evil than the lie to believe that white people are superior to others. The same corrosion of morality is applied here.


The wave of hypocrisy has taken over the main stage. When we choose to overlook the practice of hypocrisy, we might also undermine the loss of social stability. People find it hard to trust anyone these days. Communication has become meaningless. No one seems to have moral authority over anything. It is evident that we are experiencing moral corrosion.


Psalm 55: 22

"Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved."

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