The freedom to ignore and disobey your conscience is the false freedom to self-destruct. That’s the freedom that is being promoted and embraced by our contemporary culture. It’s no surprise that the sadness of self-destruction surrounds us.

Here’s true freedom: Instead of passively letting your desires define and dominate you, you have the ability to define and dominate your desires.

The freedom to put individual subjectivity (feelings, desires, and compulsions) ahead of obvious physiology and to demand or bully people into public agreement, is a false freedom that leads a society into confusion and mental duress. True freedom allows people to openly make these observations: Abortion ends a human life. A person’s body declares his or her gender.

The freedom to insult and belittle people is another false freedom. It leads society into anger and bitterness. True freedom is the freedom to share our perspective with kindness and to respect other people’s right to disagree with us. People who think they know what they don’t know frequently get mad at and/or insult those who disagree with them. They are far from freedom. (The idea that you can make America great by continually insulting the Americans you disagree with is terribly misguided concept of freedom.)

If nothing produced everything it would mean that everything (including you and the entire human race) is nothing but a meaningless accident. It would mean that people are merely mechanism–machines that operate without free will. It would mean that freedom is only a myth. Fortunately, nothing has ever been shown to produce anything, so it’s impossible that nothing could have produced everything and made it all fit together and work together with intricate detail and precision. Someone has done an amazing job of designing your body and your mind!

Some racial insults
Are spoken with hate,
Some with ignorance,
Either way they won’t
Make America great.

Life is short.
Breathless bodies
Buried beneath
The dirt
Becoming dust
Bring to mind
My mortality
And make me grateful
For the blessing
Of every breath
And for the awareness
Of Christ in me.