I Thought I’d Heard it All…
Sometimes I think I’ve heard it all. But then I run into a guy at Colorado State who tells me he doesn’t need some silly book with a list of rules to be a moral person. So I quiz him about his morality and why he thinks he’s such a good person.
“I recycle,” he proudly declares.
“OK, I do too. Anything else make you a good person?”
“I rode my bike for 23 years so I wouldn’t pollute with fossil fuels,” he said.
“How about sexually?” I asked. “Do you have a girlfriend?”
“I’m married,” he said.
“Wonderful. Are you faithful to her?”
“Yes.”
“Since you didn’t mention it as part of your morality, I’m curious: on a moral basis, do you think it is more important for you to recycle or to be faithful to your wife?”
Without hesitating and on three separate occasions just to make it clear, he emphatically declared his moral priority: “To RECYCLE!”
Wow! No kidding! And he was dumb-founded that my morality — based on a “silly book” — that it it was more important for me to faithfully love my wife than to drop my Mt Dew can in the recycling bin. In his mind, our duty to the “global community” superseded our moral duty to our own family.
Personally, I’d hate to be married to someone who constructed their own morality without reference to God. They might come up with bizarre ideas like this fellow. I doubt his wife feels very secure knowing she rates somewhere below plastic and aluminum on her husbands scale of values. But when we cut ourselves loose from God’s standards of right and wrong, no telling what we will come up with. “Professing to be use, they became fools.”
(Note: To be fair, this fellow returned to me a couple of hours later wanting to assure me that he wouldn’t cheat on his wife. Unfortunately, he still couldn’t tell me why nor could he assure me that his family is to be more important than the “global community.” Personally, I shudder to think than any man could believe the “global community” is more important than his wife. I sure hope this guy never gets involved with politics / government and tries to run our lives.)
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