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- The thought processes characteristic of an individual or group.It’s interesting to think about how we make our decisions. How the environment we live in, the people we allow to pour into us make up so much of who we think we are and what the world is and should be. I believe because of this normality is purely a thought and should only be considered fantasy.I was having a political conversation with a man at the gym today. He began to share with me his feelings about socialized medicine and about how much it has failed in the countries that it has been implemented in. My response was based purely on my own experiences and conversations with friends that I have living in socialized governments. I responded by saying how much my friends enjoyed socialized medicine and how the care he gets is just as good as here. His response back to me was when a bear in the zoo grows up in a cage and is than let out after many years of living in that cage it returns back to the captivity because thats all it knows. I responded by saying could you not think the same about us, that the cage we are bound to has given us the perceptions that we hold today and upon being let out and having freedom we simply return to our cages? Is this the Ethos of America? The ending of his thought was that he simply didn’t want to pay to have socialized medicine. This got me thinking again about how we raise such a stink about having to help people yet we are willing to spend close to 3 trillion dollars on a war that is flat out wrong. We don’t even bat an eye at the fact that our taxes are funding something that is getting innocent men woman and children killed. Yes there are terrorists, but Jesus also said if we are to live by the sword than we die by the sword. Is this the Ethos of America?I want to have an ethos that reflects the heart and passion of Christ. I want to dwell with a people that are more concerned about the effects of sin on a generation than whether or not we should put a fence up at the boarder, or allow gay’s in at church. I want to live in a country that is about bettering peoples lives rather than making up more programs and institutions for financial gain. I want to be apart of an ethos that is relevant to the ministry of Jesus Christ. A no strings attached ethos, a pure ethos, a new ethos.
