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One of the challenges that guys like me have in the current world is to communicate the importance of ethics and morality without sounding prudish, self-righteous, or condemning.<\/p>\nOne of the challenges that guys like me have in the current world is to communicate the importance of ethics and morality without sounding prudish, self-righteous, or condemning.<\/p>\n
We live in a time I can best describe as the March of the Morally Moronic.\u00a0 Now I know that sounds like a put-down, but it really isn\u2019t.\u00a0 It seems there are enough people heading this direction that you can call it a march.\u00a0 It is always about morality.\u00a0 Every choice is a moral choice based on an ethical foundation <\/strong>or the lack thereof.\u00a0 And it is indeed moronic.<\/p>\n Maybe that\u2019s the problem you\u2019ll have with this little rant.\u00a0 Why do we want to call anything moronic?\u00a0 Well, moronic is a word used to describe behavior that is not based on intelligence, reality, the information, scientific investigation, or observation.<\/p>\n The reason it\u2019s so difficult in a society of shifting and drifting values to teach morality without coming off sounding like a cartoon, is that the big moral decisions have consequences that are not immediate. But if you have sex with a person you\u2019re not married to, the feeling is, \u201cWho does it harm?\u201d And we\u2019ve satisfied an urge that we both have.\u00a0 Again, morality, particularly the big rock of morality, the big issues have consequences but don\u2019t show up until much, much, much later.<\/strong><\/p>\n The standard of ethics has been revealed to us in the Scripture, at least that\u2019s my conviction.\u00a0 If that\u2019s not yours, I can understand why this discussion is not as convincing as I hoped it would be.\u00a0 But if you do start with that foundation, that the ethics of our lives have been revealed, the rightness of the way life is and should be lived has been given to us by God, then the application of those ethics is what we call our morals.\u00a0 And the Scriptures tell us very clearly about how our moral behavior not only says something about our relationship with God<\/strong> and our willingness or defiance to submit to His wisdom, but it also says a lot about what we\u2019re capable or able to do if indeed we do obey God\u2019s ethical teachings and our moral behavior, or disobey.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a quick example.\u00a0 To smoke a cigarette is a moral decision based on a certain set of ethics.\u00a0 You may like them or you may not.\u00a0 You may agree with them or you may not.\u00a0 But it is a moral choice.\u00a0 But what we\u2019re told about smoking cigarettes is if you smoke a cigarette it will kill you.\u00a0 So a person smokes a cigarette and nothing happens; a pack of cigarettes and nothing happens; a pack a day for a week and nothing happens; a pack a day for a year and nothing happens; a pack a day over two or three or four years and something begins to happen.\u00a0 Much longer, and all of a sudden the consequences of your moral choice back years and years ago now come due. <\/strong> And the price is heavy.\u00a0 The same thing is true with our moral behavior when it comes to sex or relationships, money, honesty and a thousand other small choices.<\/p>\n The question I have is this: Are you in the march of the morally moronic; those who just simply stick their finger up into the air and follow the crowd?\u00a0 Or are you willing to stand, sometimes alone, viewed as odd or maybe even prudish, and say, \u201cThe ethics given to me by God will define the values and the morality that I practice every day.\u201d <\/strong> The consequence, or the pay-off of my choice may not be immediate or obvious, but it is indeed, nonetheless sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the challenges that guys like me have in the current world is to communicate the importance of ethics and morality without sounding prudish, self-righteous, or condemning. 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\nIf you, for example veer out of your lane which is a moral choice, and hit someone else, the damage, the price, the mayhem is immediate.<\/p>\n