N is for No Good Without Evil
How do you explain to her why “good” exists?
While discussing ancient history and modern civics with my children a while back, I tried to explain to them why some people do such evil with seemingly no guilt on their part. Why do they seem to have no moral compass?
Then it came to me.
It really is evil that offers the alternative of good. Without good, all that is left is evil.
Lately I have recognized that true evil is often done by those who do not have faith. That act of faith is a recognition that you are not the framer of good and bad; there is something bigger than you.
You can never know what is good without recognizing evil. That is where your personal moral compass comes in.
Many of the truly horrific acts, and the petty wrong ones, were done by those without faith in something bigger than themselves. Throughout history, those without faith – including those people I grew up around – are invariably the ones without a moral compass. It seems that for some reason, often those without faith end up with a strong desire to push their world view on you, without a care for what you think. And in that act, they lose their moral compass and with it, a part of their humanity.
Throughout my life this has been a constant question tugging at the back of my brain: why do so many in the world recognize bad and good?
The real answer, I think, is that not everyone does.
We live in a great country. A country formed as a covenant and built upon Christian values and practices. In spite of what you might fear if you read the papers these days, the majority in our country has a strong moral compass afforded to them by their faith. If we lose that faith as a people, I fear that we will lose an ability to recognize evil, differentiate good, and eventually we will lose ourselves along with our moral compass.
But for many of us, that is exactly why we homeschool. It is why we rise early each morning and diligently teach our children about faith and the world and our place in it.
Each morning when the sun rises, you can think of all those countless other moms who are, like you, preparing another day of raising up their children at home, where they belong.
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