"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion." Samuel JohnsonFashionable Opinions... Great speaker, Charismatic personality, Loyal following, Questionable religious practices, sound familiar? Yep, I'm talking about Mr. Adolph Hitler. A man of great notoriety, and demented activities. A man many have equated to THE anti-Christ. However, millions followed his every screamed, charismatic word, most to their detrimentand many to their death. Hitler was a fashionable opinion of the day gone seriously wrong (and I don't mean the mustache).
Name the name of today's most controversial topics, and you will very probably understand how society has changed over the course of the past 200+ years. Things that yesteryear seem abhorrent to all, today are on a ballot in several states seeking to change mankind's understanding of an age old sacrament.
Makes you wonder if mankind's collectively changed mind can alter the course of right and wrong...
Mark Twain made the following remark in his novel; Joan of Arc "opinions not based upon experience are like skin without the support of the skeleton" (paraphrased). Oh how true you speak Mr. Twain... How many of us blindly follow a "fashionable opinion" without a true understanding of the experience behind the opinion?
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Wow baby... you gooood. :) Scary that all those things describe Hitler. *shiver* and as far as the controversial topics, I about vomited when I heard Barbara Walters say to the twice pregnant "man" that we may have to re-define "what is a man?" "what is a woman?" YUCK. Seriously, I don't think that God was too terribly befuddled when he made Adam and fashioned Eve from the rib. What a sick world we live in indeed! Thank God for his mercy and grace in the midst of it all... sometimes I wonder why we haven't seen a repeat of soddam and gomorrah's destruction... all this has to make our Heavenly Father sick, don'tchya think?
A shallow argument goes against polygamy that goes for same-sex marriage. It truly is the end of Western/Christian culture when marriage is redefined. In our pluralistic society, we have a tough time holding on to what we value because the reason we value it isn't shared by those wishing to redefine it. America will be stripped of its identifying marks: individualism, independence, self-reliance, christian culture...
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