Why Be Surprised

As we deal with the Corona Virus we see so much unnecessary behavior from all areas of the country. People are buying huge portions of necessities as if we're already in a socialist country.  The media is reporting fiction and distortion about the virus and our leaders in seemingly deliberate fashion. I speak with many people on an almost daily basis, and while the majority will acknowledge the potential dangers of this virus, the same majority consider the response we are seeing as largely overblown.  Yes, we should be careful as we live from day to day, and there are people who are at a greater risk for serious illness or perhaps death from this. But the same people are at the same risk from any other type of flu.  But our overreaction is not the point of my writing today.

My point today is just a thought that occurred to me this morning after I saw some video of Millennials getting together at beaches and clubs and other places in very large crowds. This is of course driving the media insane, to think that there are people who actually ignore them, and care nothing about their pontificating from on high in their ivory, elitist towers. But I ask today, Why Be Surprised?

These young people are the product of the philosophy and indoctrination that many in the media subscribe to. Basically atheist, these media types hold to the worldview that is taught and bolstered by much of our institutions of higher learning. I use the term learning generously, because much of it is not learning, but indoctrination. Young people in colleges and most of the public school system from K through 12 are trained, {not taught}, that there is no God. Faith or religion evolved as mankind evolved. It was a simplistic way of viewing the world, before science and the theory of evolution, but is no longer needed in our educated and scientific era. If you want to be religious that's fine. It's your personal view, keep it to yourself and in your church or home.  But an enlightened person knows better.  The result is that if there is no God, there is no morality, no right and wrong, only what we define for ourselves as right and wrong. Usually that means that which causes us the least pain, or gives us the most pleasure.

If there is no God we have no real purpose or worth. We're the product of random forces of chance with no destiny, just live, do our best, die and it's  over. There's no valid or authenticating point to life at all. I, the individual, and My personal happiness and My truth is at the center of My world.

This is the worldview that the majority of Millennials have grown up with and have been trained to believe as real. It is the same view most of the media condemning them for their "self absorbed" behavior in these trying times embrace, at least intellectually. 

If Millennials are acting self centered and careless about others during this time, it is only the logical result of the world view they have been victimized by. The academy, the government, the entertainment industry, and the media, all embrace that worldview and have subjected the entire generation to that which denies God and the responsibility of acknowledging Him and caring about others. So if their behavior offends the selective morality of progressive media and others, Why Be Surprised? They're only living out the mindset and result of their training and behaviorism.