Posted in My thoughts and opinions

This following opinion column appeared in our largest national newspaper this morning. As far as I know this man is not a christian, but from what he says there have been other columnists writing recentlyon the same thing.

I'm sure that this is not unique to New Zealand only, and I was pleased to read it. This article almost made me think I was reading the book of Revelation about the lawlessness that abides during the last days. Does anyone else see that parallel?

I'm not sure if I can post the article in it's entire length - I tried and all the photos came up as well, so just to err on the side of caution, I've extracted a few excerpts and if you want to read the entrie article, you can go here:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10518356

(If someone can please tell me how to link properly I would be ever so grateful).

Garth George: Love can save us from this moral vacuum

"Things must be getting really grim when two newspaper commentators - Wellington veteran Rosemary McLeod and former Listener editor Finlay Macdonald - on the same day opine that the increasingly parlous state of our society is the result of the collapse of traditional morality rather than social dysfunction.

McLeod, writing last Sunday, suggested we have lost our moral compass. Not quite right. What we have done is take a secular humanist hammer to it and, over the past 30 years or so, smashed it bit by bit into smithereens.

For centuries our morality, and to a large extent our law, was based firmly on the Ten Commandments. But since the 1960s the precepts of the commandments have been corrupted, altered and even nullified by the liberal propensities of the state, which has assumed the right to decide what is morally acceptable........"

.............." "You shall not covet."

But we live in a society in which covetousness is rampant. We want more money, bigger houses, flasher cars, label clothing, sumptuous food, overseas holidays ... Instead of loving people and using things, we love things and use people.

So we have finance company collapses, a huge increase in mortgagee sales, repossessions, billions spent on gambling, voracious profiteering and increasing poverty - and scores of thousands of Kiwis living empty lives of quiet desperation.............."