This Flannery O'Connor quote throws into relief the current state of our culture, "We live now in an age which doubts both fact and value, which is swept this way and that by momentary convictions." When political correctness and "cancel culture" dictates what people should think and how they should feel, then we lack a culture made up of men and women who do not have the backbone to say anything definitively.
But before we start developing a political opinion, we should make sure that we are standing on a firm foundation:
"Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish." - Psalm 1, ESV.
If we aren't standing firm on the most fundamental part of who we are, then how can we expect to hold our ground when it comes to cultural warfare?
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