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MORE QUESTIONS THAN OPINIONS Published LDR 02.28.15

My column this weekend. "More Questions Than Opinions" I usually use this column to express my opinions. This week I have nothing but questions. Why isn’t there more of an outcry and an outspoken sense of anger about what is happening to America? Many of us are outraged but why don’t our neighbors and family members sense the urgency or see the danger approaching? During my years as a pastor, I often used the story of the Titanic as an illustration in sermons and I read every book I could find about that tragedy - a tragedy that should never have happened. Why did the passengers and crew ignore the many warnings on that fateful night of April 15, 1912? Why were the people so complacent in believing that the captain and crew were doing their job and watching out for them? Why were they neglectful about having lifeboats at the ready and crew members trained to use them? Sometimes I feel like I’m standing on the deck of the American Titanic and that we are quickly go