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| Wednesday, 16 January 2008 07:35 | |
I don’t think there is a coincidence in the fact that most people that watch Big Brother don’t know the works of George Orwell in the first place… From Zen Habits - with guest blogger Daniel Scocco This made me laugh this morning! It is so true I am sure! I only read 1984 last year and enjoyed it, regardless of the frightening parallels with our own world. But back to the blog post itself. Purity is not something the world often struggles with. Usually it is something that is trampled upon. While it's not exactly what the readers of Zen Habits have said in the discussion ensuing in the comments area, they are right when they say that without an absolute standard of purity, you can never make a judgement about what anyone else views (or produces). The Bible disagrees with this, however, and provides some really practical guidelines for dealing with this exact issue: Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things. Without God's absolute standard of right and wrong, there is only grey areas and personal judgements. People are fallible. We get things wrong all the time. Many Nazis believed the holocaust was a good thing; something that is abhorrent. Pornography is accepted by the world at large, but it cheapens "becoming one flesh" into mechanical sex. It degrades the people who are in it and the people who view it. It then degrades their view of others, women in particular, so that the people around them become objects for their own pleasure. Something so damaging can never be pure, regardless of your personal views. Discussion on purity and absolute standards is always welcome, but until people are willing to acknowledge the presence of absolute standards and (ultimately) a creator and a saviour, the conversation will go around in circles. That's my $0.02 |
