MORAL BEHAVIORS

MORAL BEHAVIORS ARE NEEDED Evidencing one's morality, ethical character, separates civilized man from barbaric man. Morality, ethical character, consists of love, justice, fairness, cleanliness, faithfulness, balance, and orderliness. These attributes are personal, universal. Ethical character is not intellectual. Learned men have been unethical . Ethical character is not physical. Athletes have been unethical also. Ethical character is not financial. Rich men have been unethical. Ethical character is not political. Politicians have been unethical. Ethical character is not religious. Religious men have been unethical. Ethical character is not being legal. Legal men have been unethical. Ethical character is not being social. Social men have been unethical. Ethical character is above, beyond, all of man's earthly attainments, being divine. Ethical character, morality, is derived from God, as exhibited in nature, as embedded in the spirit of mankind. Mankind embodies all else being exemplary. But living without morality, without ethical character in mankind is worst than wild beasts or microbes who, at least, are guided by innate instincts. Their innate instincts are stronger than are men's instincts; deficits in mankind are satisfied by ethics, morality, personal character. Like the intellectual, the physical, the financial, the political, the religious , the legal, the social, the ethical, the moral development of character requires concerted effort in men, personally and collectively. It must flood continuously, forever. Righteousness upon earth must be systematized, ritualized, socialized to the same degree that evil now is. The whole of mankind's civilization springs from morality: intellectual , physical, financial, political, legal, religious, social . All "civilization" is in miniature is each life that lives, as each drop of water, each clod of dirt, each element, each photon, atom, tree ring, cloud, rock is endowed with the character of the divine creator in miniature, in microcosm, in geometric relation. It is incumbent of each of us to be moral, ethical, in thought, word, deed, whether we are alone or are together. As children can be taught anything from savagery to divinity, young children become what they sense in you, day to day; so, your example is primary in developing them into ethical, moral characters. Morality can defeat hypocrisy and has done so in the past. While it is true that wickedness and evil now hold sway on the earth , the whole ethical, moral literature of mankind shows that this barbaric condition is merely transient, only temporary, passing through. Goodness may and can reign again upon the earth over immorality or depravity, when each man recognizes their divine duty to be, teach, moral behaviors.