Monday, July 20, 2015

Condemn

  The headlines are filled with the word condemn today. Trump condemns McCain, the GOP condemns Trump, Hillary condemns Trump, Texans condemn Muslim cemetery, Cruz will not condemn Trump, the GOP condemns marriage equality.

  There's just a whole boatload of condemnation going on out there today. Is this condemnation week?

  Google tells us that condemn means:
-express complete disapproval of, typically in public; censure. "fair-minded people declined to condemn her on mere suspicion"
-sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death. "the rebels had been condemned to death"

  In my opinion, there's no utter external condemnation. We are morally retrievable. People may forsake us, but internally we can rise above our miserable acts. Some people of course, won't do this in their lifetime. They will have forsaken themselves. The latter is condemnation, internal condemnation, the only condemnation that ultimately matters.

2 comments:

Ed said...

I lived in a condemned house in Rensselaer for a while. Had to move.

Jim Sande said...

"I was born under a bad sign, I been down since I began to crawl,
and if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all."