I Wanted to Speak To A Child….

I saw a young boy ride up to the local war memorial on his bike, jump off and sprint to the several plaques arranged along this area of the riverfront. What was he looking for? What name did he think he would find? It was so unusual a sight, come to think of it, when most youth today are lethargic and detached. They slouch along with resentful bored faces, removed and unwelcoming. But this kid was animated and acted with purpose as he went from memorial to memorial looking for a name. And I was quite tempted to ask him who he hoped to find. But this is 2010, on the eve of 2011 and the world has become such, that when an adult stranger is seen talking to a child, the worse thoughts are put forth, the ugliest suspicions aroused. Worse, a kid these days can cast the most vile accusations and an adult can do little about it.

And it ought not be that way. Sexual deviancy used to be the rarity.  Society would not tolerate it and the law quickly punished transgressors. Men and women were not saturated with sexual imagery from childhood on nor were they encouraged to indulge their animal appetites as if it were their right.

The unthinkable has, however, become not only thinkable, but somehow normalized. It is not the pervert who is ostracized today, but the person crying for a return of the moral values that once ejected such freaks to the outskirts of society, if not into a prison cell or grave. So now, somehow, we who have no twisted sexual appetites must limit our actions, monitor our behavior, lest we be mistaken for the increasingly common sexual predator.  Similarly, air travelers must be groped because we have become a society that “tolerates” the evil of a twisted islamic ideology, much like we have become one who tolerates the pedophile and sexual deviancy of all manner and expression.. I can think of no more apt description of such a people as we have become than one given in scripture;

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Isaiah 5:20

And I could go on, but I just wanted to express the sadness I feel when the occasion arises to speak to a child, it is marred by the caution that to do so in today’s twisted world is a risk.

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