Ellyn vonHuben of Oblique House
said:
………..and Oprah�s own cooperative venture, Oxygen.
Before I had a chance to hit the erase button, I was treated to the Sunday Night
Sex Show. How can Oprah play innocent on her show and tsk about how careful
parents need to be, while Oxygen has an amoral crone (who makes Dr. Ruth
Westheimer look and act like the Flying Nun!) spewing obscene sex advice in a
milieu specifically meant to be outside of the moral realm. full
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This seems to be a more prevalent theme in our society where all you have to
do is say something and as long as you are sincere that is all that matters. You
can scream about ozone holes while cranking up the air conditioning, complain
about the situation of the poor and contribute nothing to charity, talk against
politicians and not vote. And as Christians we complain about the lack of
family-friendly movies and don’t patronize them when they come out, complain
about dissent in the church while gulping down birth control pills, demanding
beautiful churches and free Catholic schooling while plucking down only a buck
on Sundays.
We will always have some level of hypocrisy in our lives as
long as our intellect and will don’t perfectly match our actions. The process of
sanctification results in us reducing that gap between will and action. First we
must inform our consciences and then will the good and act on it. St. Paul
recognized this when he said “I do not understand my own
actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”
–Romans 7:15 RSV
