To Question or not to Question? That's the... Question?

Please excuse the grammar on this, we're going mobile. Just a quick observation today in my American History Foundations class: hypocrisy has risen.

As usual, I was looking forward to my class this morning, but was met with something strange. As we dove into the understandings of natural law, my professor decided to share an opinion and a rather strongly-felt opinion at that. As we began he said something along the lines of "Don't blog or debate. This is truth." Odd? I thought one of the greatest weapons our Founding Fathers had was the ability to think for themselves and never take anything at face value. Now I'm not debating natural law; what I'm questioning is that our professor listed several slides of a presentation with what the founding fathers meant by saying a doing things. I felt that yes, certain things are set in stone, but there is only so far you can stretch an action to fit your desired result.

Our professor went on to make this "no debating" point several times. Though I wouldn't normally think too much of this, I do recall a lecture last week when our professor praised Thomas Jefferson for always thinking and never settling for what someone else told him was truth.

We discussed God's influence on the founding generation and again, the point of no debating. I understand that you won't get anywhere if you constantly question everything, but, taking a quote from even the Book of Mormon, it states, "Act, do not be acted upon." Modern day translation, think for yourselves. Decide what you feel in your hearts of hearts is truth. I believe that God is our Saviour and He died to give us life. However, I don't take everything from the Bible as literal truth because that is the way I see it. I will not force someone else to see it my way nor will I let someone else force me to believe certain things. I will see their point and tell them it's a wonderful idea. I will not say it's wrong and I will decide for myself if it is my personal truth.

I never set out to tell anyone that what they believe is wrong. We should all get a chance to look at things and make our own choices and decisions for ourselves.