Thought for the Day: 24 March 2026
“When a man gives up his moral values, there is nothing left.” A line from the series, M*A*S*H, spoken by a character named Col. Sherman T. Potter. He was replying to a soldier who was speaking about how his morality was that any person any human should not have sex outside of marriage. Col. Potter was encouraging the soldier because the soldier had to defend his morals against nasty and bullying fellow soldiers who claimed “he does not like girls.” The issue was not whether he liked girls. The question was his belief in procreative sex and how strong a feeling that was for him.
Kind of explains me when I was growing up. I relate to that soldier with morals. However, I do not believe I should force my moral beliefs upon others, just as bullies should not be forcing their IMMORAL beliefs upon others. I can TEACH others my moral beliefs. I should not PREACH my moral beliefs and values to others, just as homophobic bastards in churches should not PREACH their homophobic beliefs to others or PREACH their beliefs about whether clergy can only be straight men and women and LGBT+ should not be clergy.
Along those lines, it is not right to preach and judge humans with regard to recreational sex. If humans are unable to produce children, perhaps due to different reasons, they should be able to choose recreational sex. Such recreational sex may go along with a same-sex relationship. There should be no judgments made by human beings. Such people who do such judgments are evil, influenced by demons who promote a lack of confidence, and are influenced by the evil one some call Lucifer or the devil or Satan or…
Jesus Christ said, “judge not lest you be judged” (Gospel book of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 1-2). PREACHERS do too much f***ing judging of others. Those who do the judging anyway and use the “sin book” (Romans) are mixed up cowards who lack confidence about living our human lives together in community and society and living in an environment with peace and justice. Peace cannot happen without justice.
Tioga Herald 
Moderation in All Things
I don’t like to quote the Bible. But since I have to deal with so many fundagelical puritanical people (puritan is saddened if there is someone, somewhere who is happy and having a good time).
Fundagelical puritans proclaim their form of Christianity as being the only and one way. BS (that is my college degree, right? Wrong. It is a BME). They will pick up the Bible and throw it at those of us who have a TRUE faith in GOD, his son, the Holy Spirit. HA! HA! I am thinking so big of myself, right? Well, what do the fundagelical puritans think? I have religious freedom in the USA, granted by the U.S. Constitution, so my belief and faith are just as important.
I mention these scriptures because of the word, “moderation.” Because of the word, “gentleness.” The fundagelical puritans are extremists and practice their faith, far from “moderation” or “gentleness.” They support the ideas of Hitler and that is far from being gentle, at all.
Moderation. All things in moderation. God helps those who help themselves. We pray, but don’t demand from God because we live up to his standards of love for neighbor. We don’t believe in “an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth” (vengeance like the vengeful attitudes of a sick man with the surname of Trump).
God says, “vengeance is mine, says the LORD” (Deuteronomy and/or Romans epistle). These folk who think they can have vengeance, like Putin and Trump, but they are not Christians just because they get support from fundagelical puritan dictators (or the Russian Orthodox Church).
Trump once spoke against the words of Christ who overturned the ideas of “eye for eye” and said to turn the other cheek. Forgiveness would be offered only to those who repent, not those who dig in their heals with vengeance.
Politically, moderation means “somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum” (paraphrase from Alfred North Lighthead). Fascist Republicans seeking a dictatorship in America proclaim those of us who are “moderate in thinking” as being extremist left wing. May their mouths be zippered shut with their lies and smearing of good Americans. 🤓🤓🤓🧐🧐🧐😎😎😎🤩🤩🤩
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