Ordinarily, I don’t care what actors think about politics. But I do care about actors who espouse popular conservative views on popular conservative forums. Especially when those actors endorse relatively successful politicians who promise us faith-based politics.
Townhall.com has published at least a couple of Chuck Norris’s articles praising Mike Huckabee. Here is one segment from Norris’s recent piece about murder in our society:
We teach our children they are nothing more than glorified apes, yet we don’t expect them to act like monkeys. We place our value in things, yet expect our children to value people. We disrespect one another, but expect our children to respect others. We terminate children in the womb, but are surprised when children outside the womb terminate other children. We push God to the side, but expect our children to be godly. We’ve abandoned moral absolutes, yet expect our children to obey the universal commandment: “Thou shall not murder.”
Once we weed out the platitudes, we are left with the following substantive claims: the teaching of evolution as science, abortion, irreligion, and moral non-absolutism are responsible for murder.
In other words, Norris believes that those who reject mythological explanations of the creation of the world and of life, those who find a distinction between a fertilized egg and a person, and those who decline to subordinate their lives to an invented supernatural being, all promote murder. And let’s not look at the history of what those who believe the opposite tend to do.
Norris also wishes us to believe that the foundation of moral absolutism is mythology and supernaturalism. Perhaps it requires the sensibilities of one trained in the art of make-believe to see beyond the distinction between rigorously imposed religious rules and objective moral absolutes.
But Norris delivers the knock-out blow in his closing paragraph: “If Psalm 33:12 says, ‘Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,’ then what will be the state of blessedness for the nation that abandons God and his moral code of conduct?” Who can argue with logic like that?