March 10, 2013 – 1 Kings 22 – 22:28

We see the “sheep without a shepherd that Jesus quotes when He looks upon the crowd.

We also see a very important lesson, and one that I am learning all too clearly. People want to hear what they want to hear. They don’t care if it is the truth as long as it is what they want to hear. You can understand right away that this is bad in many different ways, but still, people refuse to listen to news that they don’t want. Running for a political office has shown me that people will settle for only saying what others want to hear and I imagine those politicians that have been doing this for many years have gotten so good at it, they may not truly know what is right or wrong any more. Whatever you want to hear is what I want to say. It is a form of political relativism.

I have tried to say what I thought, pointed out things that were wrong, things that need to change and people don’t want to hear it. People like to believe in the fairy tale, like to think we are invincible, like to think things are going the right way. If you tell them that things might not be as peachy as they seem, they tell you to be quiet, stop raising a fuse, or you just don’t know what you are talking about. We are dealing with the issue of changing the definition of marriage and there are many that do not want to hear any disagreement about it. Any notion that this isn’t the perfect thing to do is met by sometimes very hostile attacks. A person can try to point out the damage done to families, the detraction to growth, the tendency towards building communities based on feelings and sexual orientation instead of commitment and procreation, you are a bigot and hateful and intolerant. I have been watching on facebook and the news many stand up and give their views on this issue and be slammed down. Some of the leaders in the Republican party are following what they feel is the popular trend and coming out in favor of gay marriage. Whether they truly feel that way or are trying to be the prophets who tell Ahab just what he wants to hear, we won’t know what is in their hearts. It has the stink of pandering. Time will tell where we head with this as a country. And time will tell who the tolerant ones truly are.