Some questions
TO THE EDITOR:
I readily admit to my own limitations as a 68-year-old “dinosaur” in a fast changing world. And here are some questions to which those limitation have brought me. I don’t know why it is wrong to put murderers to death for their crime, but not wrong to put innocent children to death in their mother’s womb. I don’t understand why it is wrong to sexually exploit women in the workplace, but not wrong in the movies? I don’t know why we think it OK to practice violence in video games, but expect no one to act out in our schools and churches?
I don’t know when suppressive discrimination in government stopped being scary? I don’t understand why freedom of speech is protected in the Constitution, but freely abridged in American universities?
I don’t understand why or how God becomes the “bad guy,” when people do dirty deeds? I don’t know why we put people on trial if it’s the guns which kill.
I don’t know when racial hatred became an approved aspiration instead of a character flaw. I don’t know when truth turned to rubber. I don’t know when morality became defined by the momentary expedient.
I don’t know when parental discipline stopped securing our classrooms. I don’t know when Lady Justice became such a political harlot. I don’t know when the press was bought out by Mad Magazine.
I don’t know when Soccer started doing more for the character of our children than does church. I don’t know how Congress can have a baseball game when they obviously don’t know the first thing about “playing ball.”
I don’t know why tweeting is thought unacceptable for the one man on the planet who’s thoughts matter most. I don’t understand why we still entertain the illusion that votes are heavier than dollars.
And finally, I don’t know when the “mirror, mirror on the wall” started laughing at our political parties for even asking the question.
Obviously, there is a lot that I don’t know. But, even dinosaurs know this. Ultimately, God and reality only bless wisdom—never folly.
Larry Burnett Texarkana, Ark.