Thursday, July 24, 2008

No Whether ... But Which

Once again I have heard someone complain about Christians attempting to enforce morality on other people. Whenever I hear this, I think to myself, "well, duh! Of course we want to enforce our morality. Why would we want to enforce immorality?" You see, it really is just that simple. We either enforce morality as a culture or we enforce immorality. And since, generally speaking, we don't want to enforce immorality (leaving aside quibbles as to what actually constitutes immorality for a moment, which is no small matter in this debate), we pretty much agree that we have to enforce morality. Let's put it another way, either we enforce the idea that murdering people is wrong or that murdering people is right. There isn't a lot of gray in this. We enforce the idea that murdering people is wrong and we do this through law. The very idea of law is enforced morality. So it is not a question of whether we will enforce morality, but which morality we will enforce.

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