Recent Resignations

The mayor of Toronto and the First Minister of Scotland both recently resigned from their positions.

The Mayor of Toronto resigned after admitting to an illicit relationship. Honestly I have mixed feelings about this. The relationship apparently did not involve the public trust, it was his own personal life. I have usually had a "To each his own, mind your own business" attitude toward how other people live their lives. I am not saying that it is right, just that they have to answer to God rather than to a fellow human like me.

If you shopped in a grocery store, and found out that the manager had an affair, would you continue shopping there?

Suppose that you call a company to place an order, and find out that the person taking your order has been arrested for drug possession, would you still place the order?

If you are to board a flight and find out that the flight crew engages in wild parties during stopovers, although not the pilots, would you still use the airline?

If you use an app, and find out that some of the people involved in producing the app are LGBTQ, would you still use the app?

The answer of most people to all of the above questions would be "yes". So why are politicians held to such different standards? A politician is just the manager of a political entity. If you think the character of a politician is especially important because they have a greater opportunity to cheat the public, that actually isn't true because everything that politicians do tends to be closely scrutinized.

We saw in "Journey To Faith" that we have somewhat fallen away from religion but still have the patterns of religion. So what ends up happening is that politicians are the new "religious leaders", and we apply the standards to them.

Here is a link to "Journey To Faith":

www.markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2020/01/journey-to-faith.html?m=0

The First Minister of Scotland, who was seeking to separate Scotland from Britain, has resigned.

There is no great desire for separation among the people of Scotland. A British court recently denied the First Minister's request to hold another referendum on independence. If there had been a widespread desire in Scotland for independence there would have been demonstrations in the streets. But the fact is that the court decision didn't elicit much of a reaction from the people of Scotland, as a whole.

Polls are not entirely reliable because people might say they want independence just to sound patriotic, or to make sure that London doesn't take their loyalty for granted. In the 2014 referendum the polls were much closer than the vote itself turned out to be. This shows that many people said they wanted independence, but then didn't actually vote for it.

I consider the King James Bible as a symbol of the bond between England and Scotland. Here is a link to "Hampton Court Palace And The King James Bible":

www.markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2016/07/hampton-court-palace-and-king-james.html?m=0