This Is the Way…
Red, Blue and God
by Robin Webber
It seems as if America is fixated on color schemes. The last four years have been defined with various color scenarios. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security came out with an array of colors to remind us of how secure or insecure we were on any given day. Orange alerts became a seemingly monthly event. For now, that has receded in the recesses of our mind.
On the flip side of the coin, the "red" states and "blue" states descriptions seem fairly locked into our everyday jargon as we live through what has come to be called the Culture War. This socio-moralistic battle pits what some consider traditional American values against the more progressive-liberal stream of the national psyche. Its battlefields range from schools to street corners to the airwaves and right into the courthouses of this land.
What colors my heart?
It's been said that modern America is divided almost right down the middle. Not by the Mississippi River, but by a very close statistical divide that shows a clear line of demarcation regarding the rights, freedoms and perceptions of liberty affecting America's future. Yes, all are Americans. Yes, all love their country, but both sides—both colors, if you will—see a different path in front of them.
But red states (conservative) and blue states (liberal) are somewhat misleading terms. Because whole regions within any colored state can be just the reverse color. Here in Riverside County, California, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, I live in a red area of a red county in a blue state in a nation that has a red president in a world that, if you believe the preelection poll samples, was hoping that America would elect a blue president (which makes it a blue world, right?). Are you lost yet?
Judged on our own merits
So the big question comes down to this: What colors my heart? You may have noticed that I didn't say "What color is my heart?" but "What colors my heart?" Because when it's all said and done, you and I must be judged on our own merits, not by some pop phrase used to simplify a complicated social fabric.
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- _When 'The Great Game' Is Over
- _A Short History of Walls
- _Searching for a Mideast Peace
- _Just for Youth: Making Peace
- _Win-Win: Who Says There Has to Be a Loser?
- _Are You Pulling Your Own Hair?
- _Real Peace Is More Than the Absence of War
- _Go Ahead, Rock the Boat
- _How Can We Find the Pathway to Peace?
- _Peace Kant Be Found
- _A Short History of Walls
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