Voices: Giving up absolutes

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November 17, 2009

Anonymous The Joplin Globe Tue Nov 17, 2009, 07:37 PM CST

It is no exaggeration to say that Barack Obama’s political invention is high religion incarnate. Obama’s intangible and formless health care proposals leave the door open for death squad discussion. To enchant us with his health care plan, we are told we can save it by saving, cutting costs. With the high cost of health care occurring in the last five years of a person’s life, the ultimate source of profit for health care is a shorter life span. Which brings us to sheer political necessity, “the shorter life span.” Powerful men with beautiful wives, men who have to give orders and be consulted, men who have done away with absolutes and governed by ear, will call this policy “quality of life issues.”

We have given up our absolutes to men who worship the personal pronoun just this side of idolatry. Men who are so in control, they only need use their index finger to tell masses how and what to do. They have us giving up absolutes for a sort of a beautiful harlot who proves herself spiritually seductive to idle men. The loss of absolutes destroys the ultimate value of human life. Love is defined as toleration and hate as being judgmental with absolutes.

Without absolutes, the Constitution becomes a relative rubber band rather than a dependable yardstick. Judges make it mean what they think the prevailing culture wants it to mean. Public policy becomes the law of the land and the media — the Supreme Court.

Dan Walters

Joplin

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