Right as defined by use of an exclamation is used to indicate one’s agreement with a suggestion or to acknowledge a statement or order.

When did this become the common use definition of right? “If I agree then you are right.”

As an adjective right means morally good, justified, acceptable; true or correct as a fact.

The problem the world has with the adjective definition is that it demands a moral absolute and that takes away the individuals authority to define what is good, just and acceptable.

The moral absolute releases the right to be right to a higher authority. If you are unwilling to surrender right to a higher authority then your righteousness is nothing more than an exclamation, it carries no weight without an audience of agreement. If you cannot surrender to a higher authority right becomes a screaming match.

“But I do not believe in a higher power!”

That doesn’t make you right.

Righteousness is a noun meaning the quality of being morally right or justifiable. These two qualities both throw us back into the arena of right and submission to a higher authority. We have added another interesting word into the mix, justifiable. It means defensible which is a legal term. Now we have moved “right” into the legal arena.

This is where those refusing to surrender to a higher power have their strongest objection.

“Who are you to judge me?”

I don’t, but it begs me to ask those people how they plan on dealing with a cruel and violent world that opposes your opinion of right with a gun, a bomb and a sword? Obviously they have a different opinion of right and are willing to kill you if you do not surrender to them. Isn’t that surrendering to a higher power?

So my opinion is that I would rather surrender to the high power who says “I love you” than to the one that says “I kill you”!

Conclusions were drawn by a dictionary, not a bible.