values and norms

Is the GoedBericht site now also going along with the fashionable chatter, such as we hear daily through the media?
Indeed—but only to report that the use of this expression is by now worn down to the bone.

Where a population has, for the most part, completely lost the awareness of God, values and norms are little more than an empty shell.
The ‘official’ doctrine in our part of the world is that our existence is accidental and unintended, and THEREFORE meaningless.
After all, aren’t we nothing more than the remnants of an explosion from an ancient age (Big Bang)?

Sure, people may protest against senseless violence, but what can one say?
Existence itself is senseless, isn’t it?
If humans are merely refined (well…) animals, then what’s wrong with living like animals?
And what’s wrong with treating others like animals?

The Theo van Gogh who was murdered last week was one of the few willing to face the consequences of this abject way of thinking.
He liked to call himself “pastor of the nihilistic congregation.”
Talking about norms was not for him.
Van Gogh gladly portrayed himself as a godless man pur sang.
He propagated absolute lawlessness.

Many ‘decent’ people shrink back from that, without realizing they are being inconsistent.
They fail to see that their talk of values and norms is a rudimentary remnant from the time when people still assumed the existence of a God who stood at the beginning and end of all things.

But where God disappears, existence is meaningless, and norms are unfounded—and therefore arbitrary.
“No God, no Master”—such was one of the mottos of the French Revolution.

As a society, we are increasingly beginning to reap the bitter fruits of a way of thinking that is, both literally and figuratively, disconnected from God.
And we are only at the beginning.
We will, as a society, come to learn through experience that an existence without GOD is, quite literally, devoid of values (see Romans 1).

Finally: no one should inflict upon themselves the torment of, like a Lot, vexing his or her righteous soul daily “in the gates of the city” (read: in politics).
There is nothing to improve in ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’, and those who believe they can or must do so, only provoke ridicule.
Trying to fit values and norms into a God-less world is like attempting to erect a building on a ruined foundation.

“When the foundations are destroyed, what does the righteous one do?”
Psalm 11:3

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