Fun is usually another man's pain

Nov 6 2008 West Lothian Courier

CHRISTIANS are often accused of moralising and being kill-joys when someone is just wanting to 'have a bit of fun'.

However, someone's fun is so often another man's pain and we have seen that so clearly in the case of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross with their public humiliation of Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter.

Now I have no doubt that readers will have differing views on the rights and wrongs of last week's big story which must surely lead us to question, on what basis do we judge right from wrong? According to self or majority opinion?

I find both unsatisfactory because we can surely see how morals have changed over the years and so going by self or the majority are we not just left in uncharted waters with a wildly wavering compass?

I am glad I am a Christian for a number of reasons, one of them being that I now have a fixed moral compass, not to batter or bash others with but, hopefully, to help some avoid making hurtful and damaging mistakes.

Then there is also the hope of them wanting to find the source of that fixed morality I claim to follow and seek to demonstrate. (What a responsibility and whoever said Christianity was a crutch for weaklings?)

Bob Gehrke

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