A New Ancient Standard for Determining Good or Evil Actions

If you live in the DFW area you have probably heard the news report about two adults who got into an argument over a stuffed animal at a “family friendly restaurant.” One of them pulled out a gun and started shooting – wounding a doctor who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I have no information about the crime other than what the media has reported, but things like this happen so often they have become the norm. Just in the DFW area over the past few weeks people have been shot because of road rage, teens getting into arguments, a man killing his girlfriend and her sister (and wounding an infant) on a college campus, etc. I am pretty sure that any of you can google “shootings” in your area and will find similar stories. Why are these things happening?

Without going into how things have changed in America since the end of World War II, I will simply tell you our conclusion.

The standards people use to govern their lives have changed!

Today the top standard for a growing number of individuals

places their personal appetites, desire and longings as their highest values.

Continue reading at –

https://mailchi.mp/03521686217c/a-new-ancient-standard-for-determining-good-or-evil-actions

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