[lightman]

But let’s say we win the battle of the political trenches and awaken to a renewed moment of freedom. Are we in it for the money and prosperity? The material gain? The ability to watch our big screens? What’s the long-term spiritual and moral benefit of that?

Precisely why God gave the 10 Commandments after bringing His people into freedom from bondage in Egypt!

[firebrand]

"People who, like us, live in a dying civilization, have three choices: We can attempt to avert the decline as a child builds a sand-castle on the edge of the advancing tide. We can ignore the death of beauty, of scholarship, of art, of intellectual integrity, finding solace in our own consolations. And that is what for some years I have tried to do. Thirdly, we can join the barbarians and take our share of the spoils. That is the popular choice and in the end it was mine."

--murderer in Death in Holy Orders, by P. D. James

[firebrand]

By the way, only twenty percent of the Hebrews followed Moses out of Egypt.