First They Came for the Confederates...

    

     In a recent article for the Orlando Sentinel, journalist David Whitley cautioned his readers against the current furor of sterilizing our culture of anything offensive (funny this doesn't apply things offensive to Christians, Conservatives, Libertarians, Patriots, the Military, or reasonable people in general). He makes a legitimate case that about anything and anyone can and will be seen as offensive by someone. After all, many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves, JFK, MLK were adulterers (as is Bill Clinton), Ulysses S. Grant owned slaves and later oversaw the extermination of countless Native Americans, G.W. Bush and B.H. Obama did drugs (and yes, they both inhaled), Babe Ruth was a philanderer, and Ronald Reagan was an actor. Even Abe Lincoln, Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela had serious issues.

     My point is this: Nobody is perfect. No one is blameless, thus everyone is a target. That includes you and me.

     In the midst of this self-righteous ruckus, as activists oppose a failed rebellion that ended 150 years ago (we could go for days on the what and why of this) and a decry a vile institution that was also stamped out before their great grandparents were born, none of them can be bothered to take up a cause that can actually do some good.

Instead, we:

1. ignore the slavery still going on many parts of the world today even though its fruits often turn up in our closets and on our dinner plates, calling it the price of doing business.

2. trade with counties like China who continue to commit unspeakable atrocities against citizens deemed 'undesirables' and enemies of the state while leaving unwanted baby girls to die because of a strict one-child policy, calling it diplomacy.

3. negotiate timetables which enable the terrorist state of Iran to build its own nuclear weapons, calling it peacekeeping.

4. refuse to recognize the threat of radical Islam and turn a blind eye to the genocide of Christians in the Middle East and elsewhere, calling it freedom of religion.

5. cheer the murder of millions of unborn children in their mothers' wombs every year, calling it freedom of choice.

6. encourage the flood of violent criminals pouring across our southern border, calling it diversity.

     I could go on.

     Nobody is stopping to consider how future generations will judge our own. I wonder if this age will be judged as harshly over our tolerance of abortion as the last is over its tolerance of slavery…Maybe worse. At least a slave was considered three fifths of a person. We won't even grant that partial status to our own children.

     Instead, we, as a culture, attack those who cannot harm us and eviscerate those who dare disagree with us.

     I find it ironic that the people who are so adamant to remove the Confederate flag because of the evil of slavery are the same ones trying to force the rest of use to bow in forced submission to the rainbow flag.

     If this offends you, I an truly sorry....No. That's not true. I actually couldn't care less.