If you were to give a cursory glance over news headlines, and if you were to half-listen to the raving and screaming of neo-conservative pundits on talk radio, you might be very, very worried. Scared to death that the Democrats are finally going to carry through their evil plans; that war and terror are going to be unleashed now, and the end is near because a change in administration from a Republican president to a Democratic one *must* mean that the anti-christ is on the horizon. The earthquakes lately have been something awful, too — the most severe earthquakes in the history of the world! Or at least since we started measuring earthquakes on the Richter scale in the 1880s.
Umm, not exactly… read this, and think again. Obama’s approval ratings have dropped like a block of cement to the bottom of the ocean floor. He and his administration are just as dependent on garnering the support of the pro-war, pro-police state masses as Bush was during his administration. Even Nero feared the masses, and tried to secure their votes by giving them bread and circuses. And lately, the Senate and Congress have tied themselves into one messy knot of filibusters, resignations, and super-majorities, oh my!
Our problems with our economy, our education, and our politics at large, have not simply been caused by shifting political winds. That’s akin to saying “the devil made us do it.” Our political problems are moral and cultural; and at the heart of everything that a truly freedom-loving, paleo-conservative Christian hates is not one big, grinning face running the whole show… If you peek behind the curtain you’ll find millions upon millions of people who have unperturbedly, and willingly, sacrificed their time, children, education, and religion in order to have bread and circuses. And a majority of these people are Christians who have embraced more subtle forms of poison, such as charter schools, soft-style feminism, and military and state glorification.
So, let’s tear down the Federal Reserve, but don’t be surprised if it’s built back up in a generation because we also failed to tear down fallacious philosophies that are deep-rooted in our culture, our churches, and our daily lives.
I do think that our current political overlords will wreak much damage. But, my greatest fear and worry is that our culture will continue its degenerate, unprincipled free-fall all the way to the bottom. Yes, people do perish for a lack of knowledge.
Coram Deo~
This is why Patrick Henry College will continue to believe its own propaganda and why they won’t ever win the fight they’ve undertaken. They could easily adopt Obama’s catch-phrase, “Change we can believe in!” And it would be just as hollow.
Hmm, as *someone* pointed out, there is a scary correlation between today’s political ideologies and kiddie cartoons.