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Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Longer I live, the more I comprehend this.
People keep asking, What is happening to our country? It’s like the end of the world as we knew it.
Perhaps the world is “ending” as we’ve known it, but if you apply Solomon’s point, what we’re now experiencing is nothing new.
Yes, we’re becoming a more pagan culture. But Job, the Israelites, the Apostles during the Roman Empire, Augustine and the Early Church, the Reformers during the Dark Ages, all lived in pagan societies.
So the paganizing culture emerging in America is more a norm of history than an exception. Why is this good, or can be?
—Under duress, Christian faith is more sharply delineated.
—God uses adversity to grow, strengthen, bless, and encourage the Church.
—Light shines brighter in darkness.
This is our moment. “Let us not become weary in doing good.”
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How Public Figures Apologize
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How public figures “apologize”:
1 - “Mistakes were made” - Yes, you made them.
2 - “Mistakes were made” - Perhaps, but what you said/did was your choice, not an accident beyond your control.
3 - “This is not me” - Well, who was that person using your name?
4 - “I didn’t mean it” - OK, why did you say/do it?
5 - “It was their fault” - Adam tried this excuse: “The woman you put here with me, she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” but we’re all individually accountable.
6 - “I don’t remember” - Umm, others do, and these days, cell phone cameras are ubiquitous.
7 - “My office takes full responsibility” - Your office didn’t misstep; you did.
8 - “I’m sorry if people were offended” - Great, are you sorry you said/did it?
9 - “I’m fighting my demons” - More likely, you like the rest of us are wrestling our own hearts.
…Or just claim you’re a victim of (_______).
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Our culture says:
-a baby is not a baby if the mother does not want it,
-there’s your truth and my truth but not objective truth,
-debt is inconsequential,
-a girl can be a boy, or a boy can be a girl,
-race determines all things,
-religious conviction is just an excuse for irrational bigotry,
-education is not about independence but indoctrination,
-patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels,
-equity-sameness of results-supersedes equality of opportunity,
-criminal felons are “justice-involved persons,"
-parolees are “persons under supervision,”
-pedophiles are “minor-attracted persons,”
-fear is the new normal of forever pandemics,
-ideologies should replace religion,
-we're a nation not of individuals but groups, oppressors vs. victims.
But hey, I don’t believe any of this.
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I’m sometimes asked if I’m concerned about the future of our country. Yes.
The question implies the barbarians are at the gate. But therein is the problem.
The barbarians are already inside, influencing culture: education, media, entertainment, sports, business, medicine, law, politics.
Abortion continues, not as “safe, legal, and rare,” but as abortion on demand.
The new gender ideology, brooking no disagreement, is now propagated at all levels of education. Children are encouraged to question their biological sex.
“Diversity, inclusion, and equity” is now the measure of all things, meaning everything is racialized—National Anthem, missing persons cases, everything.
Group identity is more determining than individual choice.
Politics is an exercise in toxicity, anything to stay in power.
Elected officials declare they either will not enforce the law or will violate it to achieve their political ends.
Proponents of this new radicalism aren’t debating different ways to enhance American ideals. They are rejecting them.
They think they can discard foundational ideals, e.g., natural law, individual responsibility, “male and female created he them,” objective truth, which made free Western civilization possible, and still have a free society.
But what you get is not freedom but barbarians and decline.
So what do we do? "Stand firm. Let nothing move you."
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These kinds of disclaimers in articles have interested me for years. Here are two from the same piece today:
“A senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to brief the media.”
“A foreign diplomat, likewise speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to brief the media.”
In other words, people blab who are actually not permitted to do so. Yet they spill the beans.
I realize these may not be just loose lips that could sink ships—sure, maybe this person is a maverick, but then again they may in reality be staff who were indeed “authorized” by org superiors to speak, just not as official spokesmen.
Why would an org do this? To test the waters. To gauge reactions. To preserve org plausible deniability. To distance superiors from any backlash. To plant narratives. That said, please note I am sharing this insight on condition of anonymity because I am not authorized to speak by anyone, at least no one in the Biden Admin.
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I’m not a fan of presidential impeachment.
1868: Andrew Johnson - 1999: Bill Clinton - 2019, 2021: Donald Trump.
1974, in the wake of Watergate, facing impeachment and near-certain conviction, Richard M Nixon announced his resignation. VP Gerald R Ford was sworn in.
If anyone deserved impeachment and a vote removing him from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” it was Nixon. But a month later, Ford famously pardoned Nixon. Ford was hammered for this and it likely cost him reelection. But I agreed with him and most others, much later, did as well.
Now in 2021, people are saying Joe Biden should be impeached because the Afghanistan withdrawal was not the “extraordinary success” he called it but an embarrassing, deadly, unnecessary debacle, and still an ongoing threat to American security.
I understand the anger and frustration. But impeachment isn’t the answer, nor is impeachment du jour good for the country.
Impeachments are partisan circuses and conviction is difficult. Just look at history. No impeached pres has been removed from office. More prescient than others, Ford knew a trial, even after Nixon departed, would simply divide the nation.
Impeachment would do that now, resulting in more harm than healing.
If you think Biden did the best he could, then impeachment is an unwarranted distraction. If you think Biden did badly, even immorally, then impeachment is still a deal with the Devil; do you really want VP Kamala Harris as Pres?
Politicians can be held accountable in many ways. Best one, even with debates about voting integrity, is called an election.
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