Tolerating Evil Is No Longer Tolerable

The Washington Dispatch ^ | 7/7/03 | Patrick Rooney

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Tolerating Evil Is No Longer Tolerable

Exclusive commentary by Patrick Rooney

July 7, 2003

I went to see a fireworks show on July fourth. No patriotic music or words, just twenty minutes of moderately interesting visual pyrotechnics. No one seemed to mind. Masses of people thought nothing of building their day around the fireworks, bringing barbeque, drink, and children, and enduring major traffic, crowds, and weary legs. For what, exactly?

I pondered fireworks, gutted of their symbolic meaning, as I went to bed. Course I didn’t get to sleep right away. There’s something about the periodic boom of nearby M-80s that has a way of well, waking you up. As I lay awake, I began to reflect on the perversion of July 4th. Fireworks, once meant to celebrate our freedom, are too often just another distraction for the bored, or worse, one more bludgeoning tool for the corrupt. I reflected further, and realized that just about everything good in America has been fashioned into a weapon to beat down our gates.

The law is a perfect example of this. Once it protected good and punished evil.

But in America today, according to the Supreme Court’s thirty-year-old ruling, you can legally kill an unborn child. In fact, you can “make a killing”—ching, ching—by killing children. If I were to defend this “right”, I’d be considered a hero, standing up for “women’s rights”. Now if I were to try to prevent such a killing by attempting to stop an abortion “doctor” or “patient” from killing a baby, I would go to jail. And needless to say, be written off as a right wing fascist.

In America today, according to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, there is now a right to sodomy. If I were to defend this right, I’d be considered a human rights advocate. And if I refused to hire a sodomite or rent an apartment to a “gay” couple, I could be in big legal trouble. And of course I’d be called a Nazi.

Somewhere along the line contemporary society got this notion that we are more compassionate, more loving than our narrow forefathers. After all, they allowed slavery, killed animals, and smoked cigarettes.

So we became lenient with the guilty. More “humane” with the worst among us. And necessarily we became more harsh with the innocent.

Today we have a Republican President. A Republican majority in the House and Senate. A supposedly “conservative” Supreme Court. A growing army of conservative talk show hosts, authors, and columnists. And we’re losing ground. The federal government continues to grow, and our culture continues to spin out of control. Why?

Because we are too embarrassed to assert our morality. We have removed our morality from the national equation, thinking that it would be the polite thing to do, and we expected the same of our adversaries. But we did not count on the fact that they would act in bad faith, laughing at us as we backpedaled our values, and they gleefully inserted their amorality into the vacuum we left for them.

Evil is not fair. Evil is not just. Evil is not interested in a Mexican standoff. It’s a struggle to the death, and it’s about time we understood the commitment it will take to win. Our president understands this principle in the war on terror. He needs to understand that his attitude must be the same on every front, particularly our domestic security front. The time for politicking is gone. Politicking gets people killed in today’s world.

There is really only one way out. To realize the foolishness of our ways. To recognize the wisdom of our forefathers, that our “compassion” is merely leniency for evil, resulting in the dishonoring and ultimate dismembering of good.

America is a Christian nation. We are tolerant, yes, of the existence of other religions or no religion at all, but we can never be tolerant of evil.

Reclaiming our nation means reasserting our morality in every area of life: legal, medical, political, entertainment, and education. Particularly education. We are losing our young to the corrupt, and until that reverses, we will continue to suffer.

Tolerance for evil is clearly something we can no longer afford to tolerate.

Patrick Rooney is the Director of Special Projects at BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man.”

For more information, please visit www.bondinfo.org , call 1-800-411-BOND (2663), or write to feedback@washingtondispatch.com.

[abigail2]

Good article Patrick, Big bump for this...why are we so embarrassed to call a spade a spade? What happened to us?

[abigail2]

Today we have a Republican President. A Republican majority in the House and Senate. A supposedly “conservative” Supreme Court. A growing army of conservative talk show hosts, authors, and columnists. And we’re losing ground. The federal government continues to grow, and our culture continues to spin out of control. Why?

[Support Free Republic]

Hi Mom!

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Evil is not fair. Evil is not just. Evil is not interested in a Mexican standoff. It’s a struggle to the death, and it’s about time we understood the commitment it will take to win. Our president understands this principle in the war on terror. He needs to understand that his attitude must be the same on every front, particularly our domestic security front. The time for politicking is gone. Politicking gets people killed in today’s world.

[abigail2]

Hi Son!!

[Roscoe]

In America today, according to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, there is now a right to sodomy. If I were to defend this right, I’d be considered a human rights advocate. And if I refused to hire a sodomite or rent an apartment to a “gay” couple, I could be in big legal trouble. And of course I’d be called a Nazi.

All too predictably.

[DoughtyOne]

Heh heh heh... because we've got to win one more election before we're positioned to activate the spine we installed three years ago.

We waited fifty years go be in the majority. We will wait fifty more years looking for a man who has a clue what to do with it.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

LOL

[Bob J]

Patrick writes well. I guess we need to sign him up to the Free Republic Columnists Corner.

[Constitutional Patriot]

Bump

[abigail2]

Hi Bob, Patrick is rebuildus, so let him know where to sign up!

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Somewhere along the line contemporary society got this notion that we are more compassionate, more loving than our narrow forefathers. After all, they allowed slavery, killed animals, and smoked cigarettes

[abigail2]

Hi D One..Meanwhile thugs are pouring in over our borders, laws are being put in place and removed that are truly shocking, children are being corrupted, degraded, dumbed down, murdered...

[autoresponder]

The tyranny of the minor ratty

[abigail2]

Thanks for the bump...

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minor ratty ...LOL! It took me a while to get that! Too early in the morning.

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Reclaiming our nation means reasserting our morality in every area of life: legal, medical, political, entertainment, and education. Particularly education. We are losing our young to the corrupt, and until that reverses, we will continue to suffer.

And don't forget business, I have been thinking how powerful business could be if it wanted...

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Hi Mrs _Yans, thanks for the LOL!

[SAMWolf]

Today we have a Republican President. A Republican majority in the House and Senate. A supposedly “conservative” Supreme Court. A growing army of conservative talk show hosts, authors, and columnists. And we’re losing ground. The federal government continues to grow, and our culture continues to spin out of control.

Great article. This paragraph is the one that irks me the most. I'm beginning to believe there is nothing we can do to change things anymore. The Libs are still getting their agenda passed even though they technically aren't in control anymore. Most of the Republicans won't stand up to them and keep caving into the minority.

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Yes, me too! How about here in Mexifornia, businessmen refuse to do business with anyone except in ENGLISH!