I’ve turned down a certain road at least seven times in the last two weeks to see cops pulling into the same street. You might say that this is a lot of cops, and I’ll tell you that I work right next to a police station. So there’s cruisers everywhere, all the time. The thing is, these cruisers never use their signal lights, or as some people like to say, their blinkers. It annoys me. They just scurry around at the speed of light on little industrial streets and ignore all the traffic laws that they feel like, and it makes me mad. I could get a freaking ticket if I did that sort of thing. Which I don’t.

But the police force, just like every other authoritative body, needs to lead by example first, and then force of law or force of authority second. This becomes more important the closer and more personal the authority structure becomes. I’m not saying this is right, but this is the way it is. Deal with it. The government, well, it doesn’t really matter a whole lot whether or not you respect it, because you have to pay your taxes or they’ll boot you to prison. However, people like fathers (with teenagers), elders, and bosses don’t have this option. It matters very much whether or not people respect you — not because the people so much know how to do this, but that you are respectable. If you are respectable, then no one has any excuse. Not even the tiny bit of understanding that can be given to kid who doesn’t respect his father when the old man’s a jerk.

Christian culture is really the only kind of culture worth having. The only one that really has the “elevation” of humanity in mind. No other culture that has developed has done that. And modern agnostic “culture” is laughable at best. I mean, come on. Agnostic culture? Riiiight.

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