gray

Now, if there's something wrong with the fundamentalist view in practice, what does the culture around us say? Everything is gray. There is no ultimate wrong or right. It's all relative. Every individual can (and must) construct his or her own worldview as long as you don't impose it on anyone else.

Sort of like the nation of Israel as described in Judges 17:6: In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit. Moral relativism then, moral relativism now. Oh, it definitely has an attractive feel! And to fit in this world, gray is the way to go. This is a world that acknowledges no king, no sovereign, no absolute that arches over all.

Yet, ultimately, it's not really that attractive. For it does not propose a worldview based on love. Rather it sets forth a worldview of being satisfied with mere tolerance. Bland tolerance. Foggy gray tolerance.

So what am I to do? My experience tells me that there are a lot of things that I can't really judge. My faith tells me that there are absolute rights and wrongs. Perhaps instead, life can be illustrated as a gradiant from black to white. We do have black and we do have white but we also have many areas of uncertainty, levels of gray.

Or, is this all merely another attempt to straddle two opposing viewpoints and wind up standing nowhere? Perhaps even more wishy washy than Gray! Yet again, something is out of whack here. There must be a better way.