Today I saw a very well made informative documentary called "Why We Fight". As you could imagine it is adressing the state of our nation's history in war. Why we fight? A question that has no uniform ansswer across our nation especially pertaining to the most recent war in Iraq. The film takes a rather obvious anti-war bias but the rhetoric in which the film communicates is clear and fair. The film ends with an opinion of a retired defense secretary. She was asked, "Why do we fight?". The answer: "Because no one has stood up and asked that same question in congress".
This update is not an attempt to reflect my views upon our recent war as it is evident that our government hides so much from us and I don't know how it is possible for anyone like me to make any conviction. Rather, I would like to point out a devastating lack of use of the divine right to ask "Why?". None of our elected officials honestly asked "why?" to war. They may have shown some type of disapproval but no honest effort of questioning was sutained by any member of congress...or anything known to the civilian world. When we don't ask why we are failing to a) learn the truth and most importantly b) understand the truth. Our inability to ask "why?" ,however, isnt always a product of or passiveness...rather, it often occurs from our inability to deal with being subject to rediculing, embarassment, inconvenience...etc.
In my fields of music and athletics i often come across people who are not willing to consider aspects of performance in great detail...thus delaying their understanding of ...anything. Maybe their ignorance is truely...bliss. But I cannto live with that...I have to know WHY....to anything. WHY should I do this? WHY shouydl I do that? Not trying to be a pest here...im tryign to UNDERSTAND. It's sad how the world we live is has turned away from gainign true understanding and now aims towards molding to a group ideal as they internally sustain confusion. How can anything be true without proper understanding?
This is something that I feel the christian sector lacks quite a bit...it is improving however. But there are many unanswered questions....what reply do most of us get to them? Usually something that tells us not to question...something that tells us to rely on faith...just to let it not be questioned.
I am a believer in God...I am a child of God...one who is seeking (or awaiting) answeres from God to help me understand him. Again, there is no true undestanding without questioning...without knowing. This is one thing I think christians must adress as they spread the Gospel. There has to be an effort to help peopel UNDERSTAND God...and WHY God... before we can try to help them any more. I see so many people accept Jesus into their hearts and where do they end up in a few years down the line? Peopel have to pursue anything with understanding...
Its late and im kind of getting spacey with my writing as you can very well see...but the message here from me... ask WHY... WHY? So that we can understand... so that we can research...study...find out what justifies what we have been told...only then can you truely love.
-JL
