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Creative Cartography

Hang in there…the midterm elections are next week, and with the elections, comes a momentary break from endless political commercials.   I can’t wait..

 

Unfortunately since we now live in a 24/7, 365 news cycle, it’s near impossible to completely escape the constant name calling and nerve racking talking heads dominating the airwaves.  

 

Some politicians on both sides of the aisle are now even practicing what could be called “creative cartography”. Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps.  So these creative politicians have taken to drawing voting districts that benefit their party. It’s a process called “gerrymandering”. Every 10 years states redraw their congressional and legislative district lines. When the political party in power controls this process, they often use computer software and demographic data to draw lines that protect their own candidates or weaken the opposition.  It’s been going on for decades, but seems to be getting more brazen all the time. Type in “outrageous examples of gerrymandering” and see what you get.

 

But I’m more concerned with what I’ll call “religious gerrymandering”; choosing what one thinks benefits them religiously without regard to what the Good Book says about a religious subject.  The apostle Paul spoke of this in his own life when he said in Acts 26.9  “I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.” Paul had a change of heart when showed a more excellent way. He realized that his way, if not in concert with God's way, was trying to gerrymander his own way!  

 

So let’s be careful to follow God’s way.  It might seem uncomfortable sometimes, but in the end, it makes the most sense.~jme

 

THOUGHT  OF THE DAY:🤔 He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.~George Bernard Shaw