
Mike S. | 05 April 1998
In life the hardest choices are not between good and clear cut evil, this is easy. Its between sort a good and BEST. You need to decide what you believe in and reconcile the crap you see, or find your own excellence by remaining true to the word via your own fellowship.
America is more at risk from collapsing into social anarchy than into any kind of Christian theocracy. This is the central problem.
In math, we call it the Lowest Common Denominator (LCD). What is the LCD for morality in the U.S.? It used to be a Judaeo-Christian values system that inside held automatically the freedom to be atheist etc if you choose. Over the years this has been replaced with a secular, hedonistic social opinion-driving the Supreme Court form of morality that slips every year. A society has to have some LCD "moral fabric" or it will rip apart. Americans are "fat and happy" now by a healthy economy and this hides mucho discontent. When and if prosperity falters, where will the character be to cooperate and not riot in the streets?
Is it o.k. to be homosexual? Mercy kill? DNA testing? etc. etc. Or will everything that we imagine to do be ok to do?
We need to come up with some kind of LCD consensus not just for the morality this country will on a voluntary basis adopt, but what on earth are we here for? To consume and make money? What is America's mission? 270 million people and no direction?
I'll get to the point. In my humble opinion Americas should;
To do these things we have to stop our individual ego trips and collectively as a nation start doing things other than getting our "first million". We are talking LEADership to get people by choice to follow not DICTATORship.
As I see the world, there is a supreme being, God who has a distinct personality, and there are fallen spirit beings "demons" who are here on earth out to drag every last human they can with them to hell. The chief way they do it is through FALSE RELIGIONS. I'm telling you this for your own good and reflection. This is not asking you to join anything, but to AVOID being deceived and destroyed.
1st Lt. Mike S. is a U.S. Army Reserve Airborne veteran, and a former enlisted Non-Commissioned Officer in the USMC. He is a military writer, analyst and equipment inventor. Mike is a co-author of the book Air Mech Strike. He is also a graduate of Liberty University.