So there's been a recent uproar regarding high profile sport celebrities and their alleged participating in sponsoring dog fights.
Generally I believe that good people are kind to their animals, but I'm a bit disturbed at the media circus being generated by the allegations. On the scale of human evil, I'm not sure dog fighting scores very well. Even on the scale of celebrity (or even sports figure) evils, dog fighting?
How about worrying about sports figures who, I don't know, commit violent actions against other people or are convicted felons? Or perhaps the child slave traders or pornography produces could use some well directed outrage? Or women-abusers?
Here's a thought: Dog fighting is bizarrely yet fascinatingly cruel. Outrage is an excuse for interest in something new and different. "Sports figure beats woman" isn't new news: We have plenty of people beating others up. But we're short on celebrities who dog fight - and none of our friends sponsor dog fights - so it's news.
A pastor once commented to me that what really saddened him was the amount of verbal violence he saw in Christian homes: Parents who wouldn't let their children see movies or TV would sit at the dinner table and destroy each other with their words.
I wonder if we're not genuinely concerned with finding great evil and eliminating, or finding evil near us and destroying it. We're certainly not concerned with identifying and ridding ourselves of our own evil. But dog fighting - that certainly should be banned.
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