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To: ransomnote
When we consider the ongoing color revolution, where one of the steps is demoralization (think about it; everything got more and more crazy all through the last couple of years, starting with the NFL and NBA kneeling against the flag, to the Antifa rioters being released while ordinary Americans were lied about and called 'terrorists' and even banks refusing to do business with Donald Trump)... I am reminded to two things:

First the scripture passage, “See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken —that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain”--( Hebrews 12:25-27 )

Secondly this quote from a G.K. Chesterton novel:

"GABRIEL SYME was not merely a detective who pretended to be a poet; he was really a poet who had become a detective. Nor was his hatred of anarchy hypocritical. He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists. He had not attained it by any tame tradition. His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion. He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike. The more his mother preached a more than Puritan abstinence the more did his father expand into a more than pagan latitude; and by the time the former had come to enforcing vegetarianism, the latter had pretty well reached the point of defending cannibalism.

"Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left—sanity."

449 posted on 01/24/2021 12:29:33 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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450 posted on 01/24/2021 12:37:49 PM PST by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind )
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