1296 Parado-crits

I wonder sometimes about the erosion of morals in our culture. Far too many gray areas these days. Maybe it’s partly because we trivialize things that used to be a big deal.
Like recently, when they executed two-time murderer Ronnie Gardner in Utah. They did it by firing squad. Regardless of how you feel about capital punishment, it was still a little weird that the Utah Attorney General announced the execution of the execution on his twitter account.
There just seems to be something really really wrong with “tweeting” a human being’s death. We need to come up with a serious name for short announcements of grave import. Twitter and tweet don’t cut it.
I was in a parade on the 4th of July and witnessed more erosion. The 4th was on a Sunday, but there were five different churches in the parade. The parade itself was after regular church time but the line-up and setup time was right in the meat of sermon city.
I thought, shouldn’t you be in church actually worshipping instead of setting up for a public show in a parade? I can see them proselytizing on a Saturday or a Monday parade but “Remembering the Lord’s Day and Keeping it Holy” doesn’t sound like an admonition to hoot and holler behind the high schools and horses.
And what was even weirder? The parade rules expressly forbid anyone to give anything out from the parade. But two different church groups I saw were going along the sidelines giving out popcorn and water bottles. They weren’t actually “in” the parade so they were sort of only bending the rules.
Situational morality, from churches for gosh sakes. The pure white dove’s looking a little gray.
That’s something to tweet about.
America, ya gotta love it.