Ideology Versus Morality

Ideology Versus Morality?

The more I research, the more I wonder if the problem in this country is less about different ideologies and more about how we see morality.

I know morality is one of those trigger words for some.

As soon as you read it, you think of a bunch of Christians or religious people.

The definition of morality is literally “principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.”

BINGO

To those of us who believe in good and evil forces, evil’s trick is to water down the distinction between right and wrong.

What is wrong becomes okay or right, and vice versa.

The example that comes to mind is the whole hubub about whether Trump should be assigning National Guard troops in DC.

We know crime is bad.

We know murder is wrong.

We know somewhere deep behind the moral fabric that makes a safe society, that crime is bad.

But the ideology battles against that inner voice of truth, and we get the division of right and wrong.

Some rationalize the numbers, fight over figures, and make excuses because their ideology is against law & order.

People know cleaning up crime is good, but they hate Trump so much, they allow wrong to be right.

People get uncomfortable when we bring these things to light.

They don’t want to talk about it, so they call this type of content “divisive.”

They want compromise, they want us to get along, they want a settlement.

Division is uncomfortable, but right and wrong are not interchangeable.

There will always be a division between good and bad. 

I think we can work together in the future.

We’ve done it before, we can do it again.

But the cultural monster awakened the sleeping lion during COVID.

Evil showed itself too strongly, and people woke up.

Right and wrong can’t coexist in a healthy culture.

You need boundaries and rules.

So if “working together” means erasing those lines, the hope of “coming together” is not all that good.

Go back to the definition of Morality and focus on this part.

“Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong.”

Our world has two very different takes on morality.

It’s not a religious thing, it’s not a Christian thing, it’s a principle difference.