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Which is the higher morality for the United States: to get out of Iraq now, or stay until civil order is restored?
The question is being asked all over the world: in government, in houses of worship, in military think tanks and individual households.
The problem is, I find it hard to see the morality in either choice.
When I was a teenager and attending church camp, a creative Methodist minister preached on this very question. He said to picture a lovely garden where everything is perfect. The flowers are all beautiful, the deer are running through the woods, people are spread out on the lawn have a really fun picnic. The children are all playing on the swings and laughing. The birds are singing. Everything is in just right. For that minister, that was “heaven.”
Then he said, picture that entire beautiful pastoral environment enclosed in a giant glass bubble. Now, picture people outside the giant glass bubble lying on top and looking in. That’s hell. That image has always stuck with me.
It should come as no surprise that the news media focuses on sex at a national church meeting.
Now don’t get me wrong. Sex is important. Without it none of us would be here. It is part of God’s creative plan and it is a marvelous gift the creator has bestowed on us to cherish and celebrate.
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