Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
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John 7:24:
'Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.'
(NIV)
Be honest in your judgment and do not decide at a glance (superficially and by appearances); but judge fairly and righteously.
(AMP)
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
(KJV)
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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