March for Morals

It’s very difficult to talk about current events without upsetting somebody….but I’m going to give it a try.  I applaud any group of individuals that pursue a peaceful demonstration of their feelings and beliefs…key word here being peaceful.  How many people in our country would show up or show support for better education and an overall better learning environment for our children.  Regardless of the distraction, be it at school, home or among their peers our children are a result of the environment they have around them…and the lessons, morals and habits they absorb along the way.

In 1991 I wrote a paper for a school project called “Television Violence and the Child.”  It was at a time when this was a hot topic among leading experts.  The overall consensus was obvious that children exposed to violence were more desensitized to it and were prone to exhibit or glorify violence.  Fast forward 30 years and our youth has been exposed to an explosion of violence in television, movies, computer games, music and a decaying social environment.  Many of our children are being raised in a fantasy world that appreciates death and has little concern over its consequences.  Think about it, not just from an individual child’s perspective but from our society’s acceptance of right and wrong and how that has changed in the last 70 years, how our moral standards have lowered as a society.

We’ve all become a bit numb to the carnage our own school system, home environment and society has heaped on us.  If our kids are living an alternate reality that lacks morals and glorifies violence, than shouldn’t that be addressed first and foremost?

We all live in a bit of an alternate reality.  You could say our dreams, until reality, are an alternate reality.  You could also say that your vision of the perfect world is an alternate reality.  Religion, or the belief in a higher power, that demands some semblance of good behavior and teaches core living values can also be considered an alternate reality.  But it is a reality that grounds us as a society, establishes sound teaching in our schools, bonds families together and is what this country used to stand for.

You can have a belief in many different spiritually and morally guided disciplines.  The separation of church and state was primarily adopted to keep the state from telling us what religion, or beliefs, we could have and practice, which was happening in England at the time of our independence.  Over the years it has been twisted to remove any type of religious or other belief from our schools and anything else city, county, state or federal governments play a part in. Our own history has even been ignored.

I said I didn’t want to upset anybody and that is why I have said…religion or other belief.  But the fact is this country was built on a belief in God.  It is on our currency, in our declaration and countless other examples.  Whether you believe in God or feel it is an alternate reality is not the point….the point is the teachings in Christianity and other religions are based on peace and compassion for each other.  They stress a moral upbringing, a wholesome learning environment and respect for our fellow man.

To me we have no one to blame but ourselves for allowing forces and groups who would undermine our country for any number of reasons to prosper while our children and society suffers and decays into divisiveness.  We created this mess and we sure know how to fix it.  Bring moral teachings, family values and American beliefs back to our schools and homes and watch our society shine.  Let’s march peaceably shall we…& love will follow 🇺🇸✨🐝