Wearing Flip-Flops While Racing Against A Ferrari

I don’t know a decent man or women, Christian or not, who is not disturbed, even distressed, by events that are reported on a daily basis. A major arms dealer is traded for a prisoner in Russia. And the primary justification that prisoner in Russia was chosen for freedom was melanin and lifestyle choice. A Marine was left behind, seemingly because he voted for the wrong candidate in national elections, plus he was melanin-deficient and his lifestyle was not one of the protected lifestyles. It is difficult not to be irate at this act.

A major medical association openly espouses the strange position that children should not receive a tattoo without parental agreement; yet those same children can receive puberty blockers without parental knowledge. Truly, the world has gone insane. Is it possible to hear such unjust, irrational positions without being angered?

If history is any indication, the nations of the west, and more particularly for us today, the United States and Canada, have started down a path that can only lead to moral disaster and societal dissolution. I suspect that I am on solid ground when I say, “We ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” I seriously doubt that we have witnessed the nadir of our moral collapse as a society. I suppose I could take the view that it won’t make much difference to me since I am an old man and I don’t have much time left on this earth. However, I am a father and a grandfather, and I must be deeply concerned for what my children and my grandchildren will face. Moreover, events appear to be moving at a pace that outstrips any speed I could imagine.

Recently, a Canadian armed forces veteran suffering from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury approached Veterans Affairs Canada seeking help to install a wheelchair lift. Instead of assisting her with the lift, the government functionary suggested that she might prefer help in dying. Christine Gauthier, a fifty-two-year-old retired corporal testified, “I have a letter saying that if you’re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying). Veteran Affairs Canada clearly thought that it was better to offer euthanasia than it was to address the problem in a way that would allow this veteran to cope with life. [3]

Canadian fashion company La Maison Simons recently released an ad promoting the “beauty” in voluntary euthanasia. The ad was intended to “help people to reconnect to each other and to this hope and optimism,” which “is going to be needed if we’re going to build the sort of communities and spaces where we want to live and that are enjoyable to live in.” The ad campaign ended just as the company was entering their annual holiday sprint. [4]

Soon after the Constitution of the United States had been adopted, President John Adams wrote, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” [5]