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"I'm a good person"
By: Bonnie Alba | Submitted on: 02/29/08EDITORIAL - As Lauren Cleri found out on the Fox reality show, “Moment of Truth,” she said one short sentence and lost a possible $200,000 plus winnings. Hooked up to a polygraph before the show and asked a list of personal questions, the host asked these personal questions on the program.
Confessing infidelity and a desire to be married to her x-boyfriend instead of her present husband, she then claimed as the saying goes, after everything is said and done, “I’m a good person.”
The polygraph had earlier scratched the seismic scribble: “false.” In other words, like so many human beings the world over, she believes on the surface that she’s a good person. But in her heart where the higher awareness lives, she knows she’s not a good person.
They say confession is good for the soul, but millions of people now know that this marriage is in trouble and likely will dissolve. The only thing shocking about this confession is the public airing of it. Not only this, but if these two have family, I can only imagine the parents’ sadness, much less shame, that their children chose to air their marriage relationship’s failure for the sake of money and fame.
Our culture has steadily degenerated towards an “anything goes” society where promiscuousness, shacking up and infidelity are accepted as the norm. It’s called debauchery, lack of virtue and morals, perverseness or any other disparaging word you might claim.
The reality is that we live in a culture where virtues, morals, good character are no longer the standards. I’m sure that half the viewers probably identified with this couple as no marriage is perfect, and most marriages deal with some stresses and strains over time. A couple may grow closer by the trials and woes that bring stress to their relationship. But when vows and commitment are not taken seriously, the marriage relationship is no longer what it was meant to be.
This goes for every area of our society and government. Politics is one area where we are faced with such claims by candidates as to stretch credibility to the breaking point. Politicians running for election are notorious for making promises they can’t possibly keep. When a candidate flips from one belief to the opposite, and continually repeats it, the people start believing that the candidate is telling the truth.
Take Sen. McCain for instance. The man was eager to provide amnesty to millions of aliens, eager to leave the border open for more aliens to come. Now, we’re supposed to believe he wants to close the border and...well, that’s debatable. What makes us think that he won’t flip-flop back?
Like the unknown citizens making claim to their moment of fame and money on reality shows, politicians have the same yearning including power with a dash of do-gooder intentions. Sadly they become addicted to it, the more power that comes their way, the more they want.
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, and other candidates are drinking in the attention. But any one of them would claim they are the best one to lead the country because they believe they are good and can do more for our nation (or themselves) than any other.
Citizens follow right along. When an Elvis or an Obama appears on the scene, millions react from emotion as opposed to clear thinking.
The mistake that this young woman has made is in believing that she knows herself. Somewhere in her soul, she knows that truth but denys it. She just expressed what the liberal branch of politics and churches want to believe, “everyone is basically good.”
We are wired to the moral laws of God and they rest in our psyche and soul. We deny that wiring, and go our own way. Though we like the niceness of saying “he or she is a good person,” we know deep within that no human is good.
That is not to say that a person can’t do good or practice virtues and morality that are good. Yet no human being can claim to be perfectly good, inside and out. Some just come closer to the reflection of godly perfection than others.
We shouldn’t judge this young couple for their foolishness. Instead we should ask ourselves: Does what we say we believe square with what resides in our hearts?
Hopefully this couple, together or not, have learned a valuable lesson and will seek a better way to live their lives.
The Apostle Paul expressed it well in Romans 3:10, “No one is good, not one.” And in Mark 10:18, Jesus said, “No one is good---except God alone.”
Confessing infidelity and a desire to be married to her x-boyfriend instead of her present husband, she then claimed as the saying goes, after everything is said and done, “I’m a good person.”
The polygraph had earlier scratched the seismic scribble: “false.” In other words, like so many human beings the world over, she believes on the surface that she’s a good person. But in her heart where the higher awareness lives, she knows she’s not a good person.
They say confession is good for the soul, but millions of people now know that this marriage is in trouble and likely will dissolve. The only thing shocking about this confession is the public airing of it. Not only this, but if these two have family, I can only imagine the parents’ sadness, much less shame, that their children chose to air their marriage relationship’s failure for the sake of money and fame.
Our culture has steadily degenerated towards an “anything goes” society where promiscuousness, shacking up and infidelity are accepted as the norm. It’s called debauchery, lack of virtue and morals, perverseness or any other disparaging word you might claim.
The reality is that we live in a culture where virtues, morals, good character are no longer the standards. I’m sure that half the viewers probably identified with this couple as no marriage is perfect, and most marriages deal with some stresses and strains over time. A couple may grow closer by the trials and woes that bring stress to their relationship. But when vows and commitment are not taken seriously, the marriage relationship is no longer what it was meant to be.
This goes for every area of our society and government. Politics is one area where we are faced with such claims by candidates as to stretch credibility to the breaking point. Politicians running for election are notorious for making promises they can’t possibly keep. When a candidate flips from one belief to the opposite, and continually repeats it, the people start believing that the candidate is telling the truth.
Take Sen. McCain for instance. The man was eager to provide amnesty to millions of aliens, eager to leave the border open for more aliens to come. Now, we’re supposed to believe he wants to close the border and...well, that’s debatable. What makes us think that he won’t flip-flop back?
Like the unknown citizens making claim to their moment of fame and money on reality shows, politicians have the same yearning including power with a dash of do-gooder intentions. Sadly they become addicted to it, the more power that comes their way, the more they want.
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, and other candidates are drinking in the attention. But any one of them would claim they are the best one to lead the country because they believe they are good and can do more for our nation (or themselves) than any other.
Citizens follow right along. When an Elvis or an Obama appears on the scene, millions react from emotion as opposed to clear thinking.
The mistake that this young woman has made is in believing that she knows herself. Somewhere in her soul, she knows that truth but denys it. She just expressed what the liberal branch of politics and churches want to believe, “everyone is basically good.”
We are wired to the moral laws of God and they rest in our psyche and soul. We deny that wiring, and go our own way. Though we like the niceness of saying “he or she is a good person,” we know deep within that no human is good.
That is not to say that a person can’t do good or practice virtues and morality that are good. Yet no human being can claim to be perfectly good, inside and out. Some just come closer to the reflection of godly perfection than others.
We shouldn’t judge this young couple for their foolishness. Instead we should ask ourselves: Does what we say we believe square with what resides in our hearts?
Hopefully this couple, together or not, have learned a valuable lesson and will seek a better way to live their lives.
The Apostle Paul expressed it well in Romans 3:10, “No one is good, not one.” And in Mark 10:18, Jesus said, “No one is good---except God alone.”
