Jaimee my wife said, “Come here, there was a don’t cheat commercial on.” I said, “What?” Well thanks to the miracle that is DVR, I rewound live TV to watch. What I saw was this:
It surely was a welcome break from the usual commercials which sell their products by encouraging all sorts of licentiousness. And it was shockingly moral in comparison to the direct appeals to adultery offered by commercials run by AshleyMadison.com and others. But who spent the money on such an ad? I had my guesses. But I was way off. Who is running this commercial and others like it promoting what seems like fairly traditional morality?   I followed the link given: http://www.thewaytohappiness.org/. So who or what is behind this site? Dianetics founder L. Ron Hubbard’s book, “The Way to Happiness.” The book is described on the website this way:
The first moral code based wholly on common sense, originally published in 1981, its purpose is to help arrest the current moral decline in society and restore integrity and trust to Man. The Way to Happiness further holds a Guinness Record as the single most translated non-religious book in the world.
Written by L. Ron Hubbard, it fills the moral vacuum in an increasingly materialistic society, containing twenty-one basic principles that guide one to a better quality of life.
A common sense moral code meant to fill a moral vacuum. And what caused the suck? Why is there said moral vacuum? Well, the true God and his ways which bring life has been left behind by most. And the world is realizing something. A world without morality is awful. In fact, a society that anyone would care to live in cannot exist without a common morality. But rather than repenting and returning, the world instead looks to “common sense” and themselves for the answer.
It was not too long ago that L Ron Hubbard, Dianetics, and Scientology were laughing fodder for our world, the stuff of late night infomercials. But the world now so devoid of truth is beginning to embrace them.  These commercials will draw millions who know deep in there guts that there is right and wrong even though they try so hard not to believe it. They will rejoice in finding the morality (largely plagiarized from the bible) they know they need detached from the God they do not want.
We, the church, must speak. Morality alone saves no one.
