LABELS
I noticed a warning label on my wife’s hair dryer. The label read, “Do not use in the bath tub.” My question is, has that been a big problem? The label on an electric drill reads, “This equipment not intended to be used as a dentist drill.” Well, if the dentist didn’t charge so much I wouldn’t have to.” After reading a list of silly labels that evidently are meant to be dead serious, it makes me wonder if someone somewhere doesn’t think we are a society of absolute morons. Are we so ignorant that we have to have instructions spelled out in detail?

One would assume that anything labeled rat poison should not be messed with. Yet, some advertising copy writer felt it necessary to issue a warning informing people that the product has been known to cause cancer in rats. All I have to say about that is “Well duh!” A friend of mine use to talk about people who could read a sign board and still take the wrong road home. There are people like that and you just have to speak to them in a language they understand. Now that I think about it, there are times when I may be like that. I hope it’s not too often.

I think, and this is my opinion, the world has grown soft when it comes to talking about sin. To gloss over the fact that we have this problem, society has adopted the practice of calling sin by what it feels are less archaic names. Some says they make bad choices or moral misjudgments. Others say human beings have defective genes. Others excuse themselves by referring to their mistakes. Shakespeare said, “a rose by another other name would smell as sweet.” I say, a skunk by any other name would still stink. Call it what you want to call it, but sin by any other name is still sin.

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