I have to hand it to Ingrid because sometimes she surprises me. She wrote a great article on F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Her comments on the moral slide in America caught me off guard, because I’ve long thought the same thing. Here’s a quote:
In reality, a case could be made that America was in serious moral crisis even before it formally became a country. By all accounts the era of the American Revolution was one of moral decadence within cities, despite the Christian teachings of churches throughout the colonies.
I’ve gotten the feeling from organizations like Focus on the Family that in the 1950s, we were this great Christian nation. And yet we had all kinds of moral discrepancies, like racism. Sure, just about everyone went to church, but a whole lot of people ignored the Truth.
Thank you, Ingrid, for writing this article.
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A postive article on SOL with minimal projectiles.
Like finding a nickel in a spittoon.
Henry,
How old ARE you?
Thanks, Tim, for reminding me. Luckily, I remembered what Chuck Spurgeon once told me and I was encouraged.
So Rick did you leave the first comment or is someone using you as an alias?
No, I just messed up which seems to be my want in blog life. I deleted the first one.
chris – It’s hard enough to be me, who in their right mind would pretend to be me?!
sorry the very first comment with no link. Is that you?
Both links are Henry/Rick – With the new author account, he wanted an update of name & link from the old one… Same person, same wit
Henry, is it true you and Noah played water polo together in your younger years?
I wasn’t allowed to play with Noah, there were rumors of incest.
Oh snap!
The thing about the SOL article which confused me was, after reading all about how we haven’t exactly been a nation of Leave it to Beaver until recently…was the comments.
It’s as if some of the people didn’t even read the paragraph you excerpted. Some want to “unring the bell” and go back to our “innocence.” I wonder why there were those responses and if the regular commenters just assumed that’s what Ingrid was saying when I don’t think that was her point at all.
Sidenote: So I can just use Rick instead of Henry (Rick). Rather nice.
Thanks for posting – yes, it’s good to actually agree with Slice, and taking the time to point to “common ground” for whatever conversation might still be possible down the road.
Do I have to stop calling you Henry now?
Tim – Rick isn’t me. Rick Frueh, that’s me. Yes call me Rick.