Indifference Is Irresponsible

I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. 

What I cannot understand, however, is the electorate’s seeming indifference to the global mess: an indifference that manifests itself in our national failure to demand that our wannabe leaders address the new world disorder seriously rather than through sound bites and snarky slogans (“endless wars,” “adventurism,” “global policeman,” etc.). This is irresponsible politically and, if I may say, morally. The Lord’s injunction in Luke 12:48—“Everyone to whom much has been given, of him much will be required”—is primarily addressed to us as individuals. But it is not stretching the biblical text beyond the breaking point to suggest that it also applies to the wealthiest, most powerful country on the planet.