Generosity and compassion are often intertwined with a nation’s cultural, social, and moral fabric. When these values are consistently reinforced through various channels and when individuals see the benefits of practicing them in their daily lives, they become intrinsic to a nation’s culture and identity. There is, however, no culture that does not need forgiveness, or has no criminality to punish and sins to confess, so it is fair to say that righteousness is everywhere tainted with illegality.

Intrinsic values routinely voided by emergency

Day by day, religious beliefs are used to rob citizens of their humanity, and consequently, humanity loses its precision as a definition of individuals and communities. When election debates and government policies prioritize economic interests over ethical demands people often end up holding the smelly bag. If a religious establishment’s priorities are loyalty and finances the chances are high that a smelly bag is going to be held by the people.

When good men are scarce

The world has been scraping by with a few good men who just happen to be violent and patriotic. Everyone who utters a slogan of allegiance to family, town, or country is a good man. As long as people are denied freedom in any country the globe is a prison with the power and money brokers as its wardens. The idealization of good laws and the proliferation of lawyers should not deceive anyone. The stories of gun-toting still darken the doorways of human progress. Some people want to deny that their great grandfather was a racist imperialist just because they have found religion. Apparently the nation builders and lawmakers are incapable of working together for the good of all people. They love crushing citizens with edicts and executions. Sudden destruction will befall them just when they announce their achievement of peace and safety. The strongest leaders of the nations are brats and champions of brutality.

I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Ezekiel 22:30, NASB