A “No” uttered from the deepest
conviction is better than a ‘Yes’
merely uttered to please, or worse,
to avoid trouble.” Mahatma Gandhi
Today I received an email from a young adult I respect completely misrepresenting an exchange of letters (not emails) between her and another respected member of the community. I simply responded with quotes from the two letters which I had in my possession. Last week I got an email from another young adult who was making all kinds of excuses and accusations instead of just admitting he could not do what he said he would do. Now these are very good young adults who, instead of just admitting the truth are looking for ways around it.
Whatever happened to honesty is the best policy? These are minor examples of what I see is a bigger issue facing our society where everything is personal opinion and there is no right or wrong and anything goes as long as do hurt someone, and if you do hurt people make it indirect.
This mentality of ‘everything goes’, the ‘end justifies the means’ makes it possible, I believe, for the President of the United States to approve a “kill list” for killer drone attacks on a country that USA is not at war with, knowing it will mean the death of innocent people and children and we keep silent about it.
This way of thinking means the Catholic Church can condemn woman priest, contraception and same sex marriage while being silent on senseless killings, teaching war on a Catholic campus and ignoring greed of the wealthy.
None of us live out exactly our morals and ethics but we used to think guilty about not being honest or doing the right thing not justifies it.
Jesus said “I am the Way, Truth and the Light.” Now everyone has their own ‘way’, truth is relative and we wonder why we live in the dark. Is honesty and ‘doing the right thing’ gone the way of truth.
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