What's worth dying for? Literally...
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What's worth dying for? Literally? Reports in the newspapers present a rather bizarre list which can answer that question. In some schools, children are now required to adhere to strict dress codes. Why? Because some children have murdered or badly injured others all for the sake of taking a new leather coat or a piece of expensive jewelry.
Frustration has reached the flashpot in one area of northern California. There a once chaotically-managed school district has been forced to hire bodyguards for a new board of conservators as they attempt to reorganize. Death threats have been received from angered and upset parents.
More hidden but equally destructive racial groups, or "armies" terrorize other innocent individuals throughout the United States with cross-burnings and hate rallies. These groups vow to actually fight and die for what they perceive to be threats to their racial and economic well-being by other innocent groups of people.
What is worth dying for?
Who dies for the laws of God today? Who perishes believing that the principals of faith are worth such sacrifice?
There are clues that some still do. These clues are found in the annals and records of Amnesty International, in the lives of such individuals as Bishop Oscar Romero, in the expulsion of those from church groups whose behavior and beliefs do not represent the norm.
The dying-to-self happens daily, slowly, painfully, in the lives of all who face each dawn knowing that to live is to die for God in circumstances which are filled with terror -- and Presence.
Frustration has reached the flashpot in one area of northern California. There a once chaotically-managed school district has been forced to hire bodyguards for a new board of conservators as they attempt to reorganize. Death threats have been received from angered and upset parents.
More hidden but equally destructive racial groups, or "armies" terrorize other innocent individuals throughout the United States with cross-burnings and hate rallies. These groups vow to actually fight and die for what they perceive to be threats to their racial and economic well-being by other innocent groups of people.
What is worth dying for?
Who dies for the laws of God today? Who perishes believing that the principals of faith are worth such sacrifice?
There are clues that some still do. These clues are found in the annals and records of Amnesty International, in the lives of such individuals as Bishop Oscar Romero, in the expulsion of those from church groups whose behavior and beliefs do not represent the norm.
The dying-to-self happens daily, slowly, painfully, in the lives of all who face each dawn knowing that to live is to die for God in circumstances which are filled with terror -- and Presence.
