MOCKING GOD

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In the last years, we’ve seen God under attack in the U.S. and we’ve seen the decline that has come with it in ethical standards, morals, and social mores. We have grown so accustomed to it that we too often expect corruption and greed and rudeness and a pervasive sense of entitlement where we once expected respect, honor, dignity and grace.

Some blame an inflated sense of, well, sensibilities that’s often couched in terms like “politically correct.” Some blame apathy. Some blame a decline in the family unit. For the first time, we are a nation of more single parent families than married couple families.

There’s probably truth in all of it. But there’s more. The few mockers have grown to many because mocking God has become a fevered ambition pursued with passion. Doubt it? When a political candidate can make a negative remark about God and be ignored, it’s proof. Remember that this is happening here, in a country where a short time ago a candidate not believing in God was unthinkable and one being Catholic (Kennedy) created serious flack. That says a lot about where we’ve gone on this.

Attacks have come from many sides. And a very recent one uses the guise of humor. Make a movie, make it “funny,” and as its central point, mock God.

That’s part and parcel of freedom of choice and freedom of religion.

Believers find it offensive but feel helpless to do anything about it. And yet there is something that can be done and it is effective. . .
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