Nowadays, people tend to idolize many things, and then, we, the Christians and the other Conservatives , tend to reject or--more commonly--ignore it. Not because it's bad, but because it's been misconstrued, manipulated, and valued/idolized for the wrong reasons. The best example is Beauty; in Hollywood, there are hundreds of actors and musical-artists who are idolized and paid millions, not for their talent, like we used to pay them and value them for, but because they're pretty. Ever heard some of the 'musicians' play or 'singers' vocalize? Not a pretty sound...yet, still we give them fame and fortune, for virtually no reason. No, I have nothing against actors/singers, or more, I have nothing against actors/singers who can really act /sing. But, I hate it when they put a hot person on stage/screen for no reason other than that they look good; for goodness sake, I came to see a story represented realistically, which requires people who can act and represent things so that we can't help but believe them, so get Hilton off the screens and put someone up there who can actually act! And if she looks good, all the better; but that is not what we want to see. Now, I guess I need to say that I love pretty girls. But I want a day in age where Beauty is admired, where people think, "Oh wow, she looks pretty.," and are happy seeing something that looks good. It shouldn't be something sexual, and it shouldn't be something that makes people think that they're better or worse than everyone else. We need to revive the day in age when people who didn't appeal to the eye were just as valuable as those that didn't. A day in age where it makes no difference other thatn how long we look at the person, where it doesn't change how valuable we consider a person to be. But, unfortunately, we live in a day in age where beauty is represented as being a thing that everyone should want to have, that it makes a person better to be pretty, that the pretty people are more valuable than the normal and ugly people. But really, this shouldn't surprise us. Atheism reigns, which says that there is no Ultamite Moral Authority, no Creator, no One Who cared enough to make each and every individual person, and considers every single person to be specail and loved unconditionally by God; so, to them beautiful people really should be better than everyone else. But Jesus Christ loves everyone, every pretty person, every normal person, and every ugly person. I like to look at pretty people, I hope someday I have a pretty wife, but that is not what I value most. What I value most in the people I see is this:
3. A mind that works to its fullest capacity, no matter how smart or dumb that maximum capacity may be.
2. A heart that loves others and treats them kindly.
And most of all,
1. The will to act in a good and decent manner, and to do what's right, even when it seems to be the less desirable path.
Pretty is nice, and if you are beautiful or have a beautiful person in your life, appreciate that gift, but don't idolize it.
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