Good piece below.
We are in an existential struggle but we must use the right tools.
https://americanmind.org/features/a-new-conservatism-must-emerge/
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Good piece below.
We are in an existential struggle but we must use the right tools.
https://americanmind.org/features/a-new-conservatism-must-emerge/
5 replies on “Learning to Fight”
Great news – thanks for posting the link. Though it is implied in the piece, I would amend the statement “[the restored Right] must ground its efforts firmly in America’s central principle: equal protection under the law, without exception…” to read “equal protection OF OUR INDIVIDUAL, UNALIENABLE RIGHTS AND LIBERTY under the law, without exception.” All the issues they mention are merely tactics employed by a faction bent on destroying our fundamental, unalienable rights. Defining the unbridgeable divide at its clearest and foundational level cannot be stressed enough.
About that “The Right must be morally unflinching in refuting the Left’s ideologies,” for the first time in my life I have undertaken a systematic reading of the entire Bible using the English Standard Version Study Bible as my guide. It is proving to be a life-changing, life-enriching experience. Even to non-believers, I highly recommend it; one doesn’t have to accept the divine inspiration to appreciate its value. Like all great literature, what it reveals about human nature is fascinating. While I’m reading, I’m often reminded of the announcement you sometimes hear at the beginning of a play: “Tonight, the role of X will be played by Y.” Because humans share various characteristics with those who preceded us, we tend to repeat their various behaviors. For example, I challenge everyone to acquaint him or herself with Haman in the book of Esther. I’m not saying there’s a direct resemblance to anyone alive today, but I am saying you may find yourself easily drawing parallels to current events.
Love your comment about reading the Bible. As a Roman Catholic, most of the Bible we get is edited for us with our Mass. Like you, I undertook the project of reading it cover-to-cover about two years ago. What an eye-opening experience! I enjoyed it so much, I am starting the process over with Lent.
That’s great news! I started on Inauguration* Day. On the recommendation of Mark Tapscott at Hillfaith.blog, I’m using D.A. Carson’s “For the Love of God” as my daily reading plan. One of my readings today was Luke 4: “5 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him, ‘To you I will give all this authority and the glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I will give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.'” Maybe it’s just me, but this false claim and bargain from the “father of lies” struck me as eerily relevant – could’ve just as plausibly been ripped from the pages of today’s New York Times.
Well put. Sadly, many of our overlords have taken that bet…part of the reason we are in the shape we are in!
Curiously, I find the Bible’s record of our overlords (as well as the underlings) repeatedly taking that bet surprisingly comforting. Nehemiah 9 from 9 – 31 is a whole recitation of: God gave man something great, man screws it up, man suffers the consequences, then in his love and mercy, God forgives man. Lather, rinse, repeat. I guess it makes me feel better about the horrible mess we’re making of our unimaginable bounty. It’s the tragedy of our nature that we humans can’t simply stop at step A.