I’m not going to argue with that. I think you made a decen’t point there.
I guess what troubles me, is that we are walking away from the Judeo-Christian ethics our nation was founded on, which prevailed up through and beyond the middle of the 20th Century.
We have reached the point that just about anything goes.
When that’s the case, good can go as easily as anything else.
I think we’re watching good go. It’s being retired as a goal.
What is coming out of Washington, D.C. these days is evil.
We are supposed to operate as a nation of competing ideologies, seeking what’s best for our nation.
What we have now is one ideology that clearly wants to destroy our nation, and another ideology that doesn’t seem to have the slightest clue what is at stake.
We are entering (and it could be argued have already entered some time ago) a time when there is one party and that party is actively destroying our nation.
What we’re seeing is in my view not all that unique from a world history perspective. The Roman Empire was incredibly evil as have been many nations since that time. Allowing people to chose their leaders is not in any way a guarantee of virtuous governance. Rather, it just means that who and what is picked is reflective of the underlying culture. And there is the rub. If your culture is evil, you will have evil governance. While revisionist history is all the rage, this is the underlying problem that Germany had in the 1930s and 1940s.
Politics is downstream of culture (and religion and economics). Trying to fix the problems we face through politics is a doomed strategy as it doesn’t address the underlying problems with the culture. You might as well try to treat cancer with aspirin.
I don’t claim to be a Bible scholar and I’m certainly not a great Christian. But I think the New Testament implies strongly that politics is doomed to failure. In several places.
Fortunately, God does love us and left us his instruction book. His way is not sexy or dramatic and it certainly won’t get us flashy interviews on Foxnews. But it seems to work and I’m tired of failure.