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Comment on Mark Sanford:
âThere are no second acts in American lives.â âF. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was wrong. Mark Sanford shows that the distinction between the party of Absolute Standards of Morality and the party of Relativists is not very big.
That old question asked when we were young, whether religion was necessary for a person to have morality has been answered: Look at the behavior of believers and look at the behavior of non-believers. Do you see much difference?
Conclusions? Certain patterns of moral behavior are organic in humans. Could it be that organized religion is a explanatory scaffolding erected around those innate behaviors? Often, that scaffolding fails to prevent wayward behaviors even by believers. All people have a capacity to veer from the moral track under the right circumstances.
So even politicians have second acts.
However, hypocrisy will remain ever present in the party of Morality.
