I hear a lot about writer’s block, and may have come close now and again but this week as I prepared to put my “think-to-ink” so to speak, I felt quite the contrary. It felt like information overload as I tried to stay on topic! Reality check told me what a tragically messed up world we live in. Every day is a new issue or tragedy in the headline news, but the question is whether the cause or root of the problem is ever dealt with, or simply swept under the rug. Until the root is dug out, the weed remains!

This past week, with the inexcusable deaths of 4 young RCMP officers, one has to wonder where this world is headed. The thought that the loss of 5 lives was the only answer for one sick individual is terrifying, to say the least! Maybe he is just another sad example of someone that fell between the cracks of our society, someone that needed help, but knew not how to get it. It seems pretty obvious that something is lacking and has drastically changed in our society! It is each of us that make up this society: our families, communities, churches, organizations, political offices, department heads and so on.

In one generation, there has been a shift from a society where homosexual acts were a crime under the then existing law to a society where homosexual acts have become government protected, while voicing criticisms publicly has become ‘hate propaganda’. We have been faced with abortion issues, same-sex marriage issues, euthanasia, polygamy, pedophilia, cloning, murder, unending wars, terrorism, increasing divorce rate, broken families and an ever-increasing rate of abuse. WOW! Add to this the recent controversy happening in the United States about the removal of the Ten Commandments monument! Just to brief you, over a year ago, Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court placed a stone monument of the Ten Commandments in a Montgomery courthouse, swearing to never remove it. Well, recently, a federal court judge ordered “Roy’s Rock” to be removed. Although Justice Moore is appealing, it seems inevitable this monument will be found a new home, maybe among some historical plots, or on a display truck traveling around the country!

Our country’s founding fathers were not all Christian, nor was our nation a Christian one but these leaders accepted the commandments as truth and so formed our nation. Quite obviously, the world has fallen away from this basic teaching passed down from Moses in the Old Testament. Is it because we are living in such a multi-culturally diverse nation where all 10 commandments are no longer fitting? No matter who we are, what our background is, where we call home or what our higher power is, there are 6 commandments which could be displayed anywhere, which focus on morality, love and good character, and would not challenge the Constitution; You shall not commit murder, not steal, not commit adultery, not bear false witness, honor your mother and father, love your neighbor as yourself.

This whole controversy is not only about church verses state but more so about Christian verses non-Christian, a debate that has been going on since the beginning of time. We all have the option to ‘take what we like and leave the rest’, whether it is the Ten Commandments written on stone, a newspaper, magazine or posters. If we are living in a ‘free’ country, why is it that we are not ‘feeling free’ to believe what we believe? How healthy is a society that does not accept each other for who we are and what we believe?

We cannot build a healthy society out of sick individuals, a just society out of unjust individuals, or a moral society out of immoral people. There is something out there for each of us to do in preventing the Meltdown of our society. We just have to be open and willing to step up to the plate. Maybe one day we will all look back to the present day and be thankful to have seen this as a last chance to reverse the tide!

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