The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address

[MaddieM]

(08-26-2012 09:26 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Idealogies cost thousands of people their lives, but what is the cost if we have no ideals?

If you have ever read the book of Judges, you read of a period of chaos and turmoil. The reason for this is summed up in the last passage of the book 21:25, "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit." The book tells what happens to a people when they loose direction, purpose, ideals, and reject the source of their moral direction (God).

Yes, but I feel personally that such ideals should not come at so great a cost in lives. The pushing of one person's ideals can be the subjugation of another. History has shown us this. What one holds dear, another experiences as something completely different. Surely the common ideal is life and love and do as you would be done by. Sadly, our world is far from ideal and never will be until we become more spiritual within ourselves as individuals, not as a collective dictated to by dogma.

Just my thoughts.