August 23, 2012 – Job 12

Verse 2.  “No doubt you are the intelligent folk and with you wisdom shall die”.  I think this sometimes when you hear the way people talk about our “era”.  We think that this is the greatest thing that the world has ever seen.  We think we know the most about medicine, physics, technology, sociology and the list goes on.  Granted, we have discovered a lot of things and technology seems to take new steps every instant, but do we really believe we are the smartest humans ever on the Earth.  Do we believe that wisdom will die with our generation.  I think there are some that would say yes.  Some are so arrogant that they think there has never been anyone as smart before and will never be anyone as smart again.  We see this when people ignore things like nuclear families.  Those have been unchanged for thousands of years and been the source of stability.  We now think that it is all bubcus, that a child can be normally raised in a single parent home, home with two dads, two moms, or any other combination.  The new show “The New Normal” is a homosexual male couple, the mom, grandma, and another kid.  The title reflects the attitude towards traditional families and that we don’t believe we need them anymore.  We are smarter than the countless generations before us that relied on the nuclear family to develop the world we know today.  But don’t tell any of this to people that “are the intelligent folk”.  You will be called old fashioned, out of touch, a bigot, a hater or women, or countless other names.  I may be the first one, I always thought I was born a generation or two late, but I don’t feel I am the others.  I am a believer in a traditional family, that this holds the most stability, raises the most stable children and provides the firmest foundation for our communities. 

(It is funny where these post go when you are just typing off the cuff.  Had no idea that Job was going to lead into family values.)