We live in a wild world. Changes have accelerated over the past several years -- sides have been polarized between and among major religions; and positions have also been polarized within major religions. The issues are startlingly clear: the rights of women and children; women's rights to their own bodies; the rights of the unborn; the idea and fact of gender dominance; religious war and/or "fatwah's" for nearly any/every reason; inequality between peoples, tribes, generations, economic castes, sexes, and every other significant dividing factor you can name.
Hell has broken loose -- our entertainment on television, on You Tube, and in films reflects those same intransigent divisions back in our faces! It seems we cannot escape conflict in any phase of our lives: in what we have faith in, in our families, in the values held by our country, in our own values.
Even the US Supreme Court litters the landscape of truth with the exaggerated political mottoes of closely-held views. Statesmanship, honor, and mutual respect seem to have fallen away.
The world no longer honors honesty, or idealism, or compassion. It instead roots itself only in economic perfectibility built by capitalism --- the "bottom line" is now the only line you will ever hear expressed. God bless America!
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