Lamar Howell's Weblog

I see such lack of civility in America today.

I don’t mean Antifa wearing masks and sporting baseball bats, or angry Black Lives Matter mobs, or women wearing pink Unmentionable hats marching on Washington.

I mean the failure of people to be courteous in public, neglecting to ask about your well-being and your family at gatherings, ignoring phone calls and text messages. If it is only the baristas at Starbucks saying “My pleasure” or only customer service representatives saying “Have a good day,” then, folks, we are lost.

Jesus said the whole law of God hangs on two things: loving God with all your heart, and loving your neighbor. Only when we have a sanctity-of-life ethic can we truly have a civility-of -life ethic. Civility is like a child hanging onto the hands of its mother and father. When the parents are gone – when sanctity is lost – then the child – civility – becomes a wandering beggar in the streets. Beggars are despised.

Have Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Me-Too gone away? No. They have been strengthened by our sanctioning or ignoring their actions, they have been fattened by a steady diet of our sympathy, and they have been tempered and hardened in the fires of hatred and rebellion against authority.

When they re-emerge, there will be a price on all our heads.