All of those screen devices being passed along to children at ever-younger ages? They have become the sexual predator’s primary means of gaining access to young people, and it’s primarily happening online.
Fifty years later, we have compounded the evils of racism, materialism and militarism with ignorance, intolerance and fear. Callousness, cruelty, meanness, immorality, ignorance, hatred, intolerance and injustice have become hallmarks of our modern age, magnified by an echo chamber of nasty tweets, government-sanctioned brutality, and "the politics of exclusion."
Enough is enough. That was the refrain chanted over and over by the thousands of demonstrators who gathered to protest gun violence in America. Why is no one taking aim at the U.S. government as the greatest purveyor of violence in American society and around the world?
Tolerance cuts both ways. This isn't an easy pill to swallow, I know, but that's the way free speech works, especially when it comes to tolerating speech that we hate.
Here's just a small sampling of what we suffered through in 2017.
How do you come together as a nation in thanksgiving when the powers-that-be continue to polarize and divide us into warring factions?
We are being ruled by a government of scoundrels, spies, thugs, thieves, gangsters, ruffians, rapists, extortionists, bounty hunters, battle-ready warriors and cold-blooded killers who communicate using a language of force and oppression.
What is it about America that makes violence our nation's calling card? Is it because America is a gun culture? Is it because guns are so readily available? Is it because entertainment violence is the hottest selling ticket at the box office?
If freedom means anything, it means that those exercising their right to protest are showing the greatest respect for the principles on which this nation was founded: the right to free speech and the right to dissent. One can be patriotic and love one's country while at the same time disagreeing with the government or protesting government misconduct.
As the gruesome torture and crucifixion of Jesus make clear, there is always a price to pay for standing up to one’s oppressors.