Eric
Scheie makes the excellent point that the MSM (mainstream media) has picked
Sunday as the preferred moment in which to preach and moralize “to non-churchgoers with unacknowledged spiritual needs.”
Since moralizing about the
simple pleasures of life like sex without commitment and a life characterized
by a weekly or daily high point consisting in a trip to the bar or a gambling party
is left to those who occupy traditional pulpits, what do MSM preachers rail
about? Things like commuting and using cell-phones, says Eric. Which just goes to show: there is no bottom to the human ability to be morally shallow.
As for the kind of
moralizing we find in the Bible, you know, harping on things like a lack of
justice and how one uses one’s money, God, we can’t have that, can we? Such
moralizing would a bit incongruent between all the Lexus commercials (the
commercials, of course, say something about the demographic of Sunday morning
talk shows).
הִגִּיד לְךָ אָדָם
מַה־טּוֹב וּמָה־יְהוָה
דּוֹרֵשׁ מִמְּךָ
כִּי אִם־עֲשׂוֹת מִשְׁפָּט
וְאַהֲבַת חֶסֶד
וְהַצְנֵעַ לֶכֶת עִם־אֱלֹהֶיךָ
He has told
you, each of you,
what is
good, and what the Lord
requires of
you:
simply to
do justice
and love
kindness
and walk
humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
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