If We Don’t Do Anything
When did you decide to hold back from holding back chaos and destructive forces?
When did you decide to hold back from holding back chaos and destructive forces?
Marvelous evocative things. People around Jesus saw and heard marvelous things and were overcome with astonishment. They saw and heard evocative things but were not overcome with understanding. Their failure or unwillingness to grasp what was happening had me wonder why as I memorized the first seven chapters of Mark’s gospel account.
History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. The same holds true when empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal – anything can be rationalized.
In the past six months I’ve come across two pastoral letters imploring Christians to think kindly toward the millions of foreign invaders that crossed our borders illegally.
Those enchanted by a dystopian existence are apparently OK with living in a pathological environment, one that has “almost no qualities of a sane, wise, productive, creative environment that we would wish for ourselves” (Iain McGilchrist).
It’s no secret. Progressives love to dress up and show the world they care.
“The fox knows many truths, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
“The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.”