Culture

 ... and Christianity? 

When I think about the ways people try to bring Christianity into culture, I often think that I would probably lay the foundation from which to lead, teach, explain, example, for sure, before I would talk too much about culture.

The way I was raised, was quite different from some other families that I grew up with. My Dad had his own way of thinking and implementing a lifestyle, which some might call our culture, into the day to day living of the family. 

We were encouraged to 'get a job,' earn some money, start saving for our lives once we moved out of the family home.

We all followed this dictum and, before we moved out of the safety of the nest, we all followed the rules.

So, let's talk about only one thing today that differentiated our family from another family we knew. 

Paychecks.

There was a strange and, we haven't quite figured out if it was a 'cultish' thing or a 'communist' thing or a 'wow, are you confused thing...,' but there was one very dictatorial, and I would have said, almost evil man, who took, forcefully, his childrens' paychecks. Woah, we could not understand this insanity.

So, when we found a 'job' or 'work that paid,' we got the family living rules and we either followed the rules, argued with my dad about them until we thought his rules had some sanity and equity in them... example... "How can you possibly imagine that I am going to pay you as much as someone who earns twice as much?" 

Dad, of course, being a man of reason, was always willing to listen to the 'what's fair' debate that I would have with him.

So, if ever you run into strange men and women, of a very odd culture who, somehow, believe they have the right to steal a relatively large portion of what actually belongs to another family member... I would bring up the topic of 'human rights' and how a culture that respects each other is likely to have a much more peaceable existence than one that is founded upon warring principles that create animosity and a fight for survival. 

If people knew what was going on, in certain families or companies, (almost unthinkable in Canada, a civilized country), thinking, intelligent people would never support such a diametrically opposed 'culture' of 'theft- based' unjust gain... even if someone is doing this in a family... because this behaviour is only a forcible insanity that will bring about violence and clashes of familial feuding or, company feuding.

When I raised my children, I never took their paychecks. I would have thought that to be 'criminal.' 

So, if you want to be a reasonable, respected, and legacy based 

family, organization, company, 

culture, 

do unto others as you would like them to do unto you. This tends to get the most peaceable results.