Mock

...and do not make your heritage a mockery...

 - From Joel 2

The sample from Scripture, today, says it all. It's almost like nothing else is needed. 

But these blogs are a desired starting point for conversation. If something jumps out at me . . . a concept that people would usually just pass over . . . well, those are the ones I want to escalate.

When it gets around to a culture, or a nation, or a legacy . . . or a heritage . . . being mocked; well, that can't be good. 

I think of the system in which I grew up; a system in which, despite whatever happened between us and other peoples, we did not mock them. Our official practice was always to respect other cultures.

But when the other cultures begin to mock us.... Mockery is just not a good thing. It's never good. Mockery is so bad, that it even brings down the status of the mockers. 

Children mock. Hypocrites mock. People without a sound logical footing, mock.

Intelligent, wise, loving people do not mock.

Mockery is a very bad thing. In some ways, it's worse than being conquered. A conqueror can still treat the vanquished culture as having value. 

In America today, two bitter sides mock the other. 

One side, though, joins our adversaries in mocking our own culture. 

People mock their own culture, their nation, their flag, their community, their neighbors, their family . . . their flesh and blood.

And in so doing, they mock themselves. 

There's a song by The Imperials: Something's Wrong With the World.

Look at the way people mock each other, and how they mock the very idea of honor and freedom. 

Something's wrong, Exhibit A.