I commend “Two and a Half Men” star Angus T. Jones for calling the show “filth” and urging people not to watch it. It is time we stop confusing smut with art and entertainment as is clearly evident in our run-of-the-mill, anti-religious and over sexed music videos, movies, TV shows and video games.
Dazzled by the glitter of worldliness, people have become confused about ethics once commonly held. This has led to moral relativism and an ambiguous conception of freedom, which instead of being liberating ends up binding man to idols.
The world is not a shapeless magma, as our secular leaders would have us believe, but in fact exudes a truly creative intelligence. We have to rediscover this authentic light which can only be achieved by avoiding the world’s finite distractions that prevent us from taking a deep look within ourselves where the infinite pushes us towards that Someone who can satisfy our every true thirst.
Faith is a dimly lit path for many people. They view it as a limited aspect of life, if not a form of illusion, escapism... or sentimentality. But, in reality, faith concerns the truth about mankind and our eternal destinies. More than a mere system of beliefs and morals, Christianity is God’s self-revelation in history brought about so that he could have a loving relationship with his creatures.
2000 years ago a lone soldier with his metaphorical armor shining beneath the moon, galloped through the land. Where hooves thunder, the ground became alive with sprouts and tendrils, and bare trees started to bud, and grasses to blossom, the power of nature exploding into life. This soldier was able to rally the people to rediscover what is best in men. Today we need that soldier once more to inspire the masses to defend what was, and the dream of what could be once more.
Paul Kokoski
