Article Contributed on: 7/3/2009 8:53:05 PM
I'm like anyone else. I don't want to be preached to. I don't want to know about a religion I have no interest in joining. I'm irreverant and I like to think about anything I want. I make mistakes and I don't want them to be judged as sins.
But listen. I have gotten to know some Muslims lately, and those people pray. When it's prayer time, they go in the side room and acknowledge Allah. They dress strictly. They won't touch a dog or a pork chop to save their lives.
Muslims are not our enemies but they believe strongly and are smart, and they will learn how to make our laws more to their liking. They're doing that in England, Canada and Michigan.
Here is our enemy: The mush we take for morality. "Whatever gets you through the day." that's our moral. "To each his own." I feel that many people have forgotten what "my own" is. If someone got in my face and said my nation was bad and it needed something better, I would be hard pressed to say, "No my nation is good. Here is why..."
Also, what's called our American morality,the Christian ethic,is slammed from all directions. Those who tout family values have sexual indiscretions. Those who don't live up to those standards nonetheless judge those who tout family values when those values are not upheld. But those without standards hold themselves to no standard. We are morally weak.
There are people in this country who proclaim non-moral things as immoral. For example, healthcare. They make that a moral issue and it isn't. A moral issue is one that deals with the state of your integrity. Not having the money to go to the doctor doesn't make you a child. Our healthcare problems are about money being misspent by those who run the place,passing onblame instead of owning it.
I don't think you have to be a Christian to live the Christian ethic. But you have to live it if you want to keep America strong. You have to own your mistakes. You have to work hard. You have to do what you do partially to make society work. You can't be looking for what you can get, or what you'll get is the answers from people who have different answers.
We need our own!