Moveable Fixed Points

When all is equally agitated, nothing appears to be agitated, as in a ship. When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. He who stops draws attention to the excess of others, like a fixed point.—Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 382

Fading away. Moving away. That is what is happening to the behavior in the above quote. In an age of postmodernism (your truth is your truth; my truth is my truth) where absolute truth no longer reigns, in an age of "if it feels good, then do it" where anything goes, in an age of constantly changing ethics and morals where each becomes the arbiter of right and wrong...we have--for the most part--forgotten where we came from.

But this is what happens in a secular society. WE make laws to govern OURSELVES. That inherently means that at some point we decide what is right and wrong--for others and ourselves. Evolutionism coming on the scene has further blurred our objective reasoning of morality. If there is no God, then there really and honestly is NO SUCH THING AS MORALITY. That being said, we can then "remake" right and wrong into our perception. Which means ethical morality is left to a simple majority vote on the floors of Congress.

What is this all about? Gay marriage mostly. It's a hot topic and it really shouldn't be. Let me say at the outset that I'm for gay rights. For two reasons: 1) God has given us all free choice to live how we want (though that means consequences), and 2) the government shouldn't tell its citizens how to live their lives. That being said, I'm also for gay marriage. As long as it's not marriage.  And here is where this blog becomes maybe a little pointed.

A good friend of mine once told me that if we just gave civil unions the exact same rights that marriages have, this would be a non-issue. You see, marriage itself is a "religious" institution. Most homosexuals (and some heteros too) want the title of "marriage" but not the spiritual component of it. Marriage is ordained by God in the Bible, and in that image of marriage it is a man and woman. That's it. No wiggle room. However, we live in a secular society now, not a theocracy like the Old Testament. Therefore, why are so many people who want to have their own version of truth trying to attain the title of an institution created by  One who is called Truth? “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.--John 14:6.

We live in an age of moveable fixed points. What gives us the right to take what Someone else has created and initiated and conform it to what we want it to represent? In our haste to make gay rights and other ideas of central concern, maybe we should think of the rights of God. After all...equal rights. Right?