You’ve likely seen the articles:
“The white supremacist origins of exercise!”
“The white supremacist origins of the nuclear family!”
Et bloody cetera.
These fools point out cases where white supremacists endorsed those things, therefore they’re bad.
Uh huh.
I hope no one points out to them that writing social commentary articles is much closer to what the KKK does than, say, getting married.
Editorial journalism about racial issues?
Yeah, the Neo-Nazis eat that manure up. They write articles like that more than they attend rallies, that’s for sure.
It’s an obvious fallacy. The worst person in the world probably still likes to feel the sun on their face and fresh air in their lungs. That doesn’t make those things bad.
After all, most bad things are a corruption of Good things. If they weren’t, they’d have no power whatsoever.
The Good news with that is it means evil is weak. It can’t create anything formidable on its own.
The bad news is that anything you think is Good might, in fact, be evil. Or if not evil, then the way you pursue it might tip you over into villainy.
That’s yet another benefit of Christianity: clear, unambiguous lines you never cross.
So to speak.
While secular morality reinvents itself every few moments – chasing “progress”, of course, by which they mean tolerating new and stranger evils – Christians know what is Beautiful, Good and True.
Where we struggle is in doing what we know we should.
I can’t solve that problem for you.
That’s between you and God.
All I know is something like this can only help: