So why can't we have a moral fabric guide our actions?
Yesterday, I stepped outside to take in some of the fresh air and
someone was burning plastic. We live in a semi-rural area where people's
actions can go unnoticed, some of the time, and there's a certain type of
low level individual, in all parts of the country, that burns wire to get
the plastic off in order to sell the copper. It's illegal and the scrap
buyers aren't supposed to deal in burnt copper wire but they do, and the
curmudgeons who burn it know they can get away with it.
America was founded with Christian ethics and morals. Ideally
we'd hoped to live in a society where everybody takes responsibility for
their actions and use the resources for the best of all. Yet capitalistic
greed took over and chopped off the tops of the Allegheny mountains,
poured caustic chemicals into our rivers and mowed down all of our trees.
So why can't we have a moral fabric that guides our actions rather than
pay exorbitant bureaucratic fees to run society for us. It looks like the
tax burden alone has destroyed our economy.
Imagine the financial freedom the resources of the continent
could have brought to the people if the rich and powerful hadn't grabbed
the wealth for themselves. I look at one old growth tree, the kind our
forefathers lived amongst, and see a width and girth that would provide
enough lumber to keep an individual occupied for a lifetime and still have
enough wood left over to build a house. Instead the greed and grab for
our resources has left over 90% of our water polluted.
Not that any of us could resist the siren of corporate wealth,
but the greed falls not only on the conglomerate's shoulders but the
consumer who wanted to work less and have more. We've built up a
bureaucracy to support this lifestyle that has pulled us into economic
collapse. I just read a verse, too, on that, Hosea 7:8b-9 "They rely on
the nations around them and do not realize this reliance on foreigners
has robbed them of their strength. Their days are numbered, but they
don't even know it." Look at that. History repeats itself. That
sounds like America today; our economy has been shipped overseas and we've
surrounded ourselves with a bureaucracy we don't understand and can't
afford.
