The Encarta online dictionary defines virtual reality as “a technique by which a computer simulates a three-dimensional physical environment using visual and auditory stimuli with which people can interact to affect what happens in the simulation.”
It appears that a large segment of society embraces the notion that virtual reality can be whatever one chooses.
Buying into this notion allows people to create a personal value system based on how they feel or what they want.
According to Stuart Briscoe, people choose one of three assumptions on which to base a personal belief system: (1) self determines all decisions and truth, (2) today’s society determines personal choices, or (3) the sovereign Lord directs and governs thoughts and decisions (Stuart Briscoe, “Virtual Truths to Shape Your Life,” Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, IL, 2002, p. 28).
Whether your choice is conscious or not, this decision guides every thought you have and everything you do. It is your moral compass.
I am asking you to evaluate where your value system comes from because so much is happening in the public arena.
I believe the American Civil Liberties Union represents groups and individuals who bring and threaten lawsuits that are harmful to states and families.
These are but a few of the items on the ACLU’s agenda:
– Filing suit against school districts who dare offer a balanced scientific view of the origin of life.
– Pressuring South Carolina’s attorney general to issue guidelines concerning prayer at city or county council meetings.
– Nationwide action aimed at combating what it considers “dangerous abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula” in the states.
I urge you to be aware of your choices be involved in public political decisions. I just hope that one day soon we will emulate the church in the chorus of the Ray Stevens’ song “Mississippi Squirrel.” The lyrics say, “It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival!”
Let that revival begin now.