The Need for a Moral Backbone

May 12, 2019 By Anthony J. DeBlasi

The sense of a vital connection to a divine Creator has apparently left many who, “wise in their own mind,” pretend to outwit their Creator. Hitler, Stalin, Mao and other monsters of history were stalwarts of that persuasion, proving how deadly “reason” can be when disconnected from morality.
God hates (and we must hate) what is evil and He loves (and we must love) what is good. It’s our choice since we are not puppets but agents of His will. The Creator’s will is spelled out in the Bible, a transmission of moral wisdom that has been corrupted but never been improved upon.

People have known the importance of recognizing evil and responding to it with a moral backbone, not with the brain or with the emotions. Classic literature provides ample illustration of the need to resist evil. Dante unmasks evil dramatically in his Inferno, where those who love what is evil and hate what is good -- whether by choice or weakness -- exact their own destruction and that of those they take down with them. This is the heart of Christian morality, lost to the modern mind.

in God is of course an everlasting subject of contention. Pascal, a mathematician who gave us the adding machine and developed the modern theory of probability, placed his on God. Few graduates of higher learning know that a majority of history’s mental giants believed in God.........

Our country is in the grip of mentally and morally empty men and women, in the service of “elites” whose unconcern for fellow human beings disqualifies them from being leaders. Yet they steer the nation toward outcomes that their powers of reasoning do not tell them are inhumane, simply because they are unnatural, unrealistic, and out of sync with justice.

Some officiate at world conferences on sociopolitical strategy, acting for governments in fatuous efforts to “save the world” -- from their own mistakes. Some, calling themselves journalists, go to bed at night thinking they are “making a difference,” while unreported criminal activity soars, schoolchildren get their minds warped by political correctness, and millions of babies are killed before and after...........Read more