Posted on 04/16/2013 6:29:07 AM PDT by shortstop
It is not one world.
There is the world of civilization, and there is the world of savagery.
The difference is usually demarked by the Judeo-Christian heritage. Those who have been taught to love their neighbor as themselves, and to treat others as they themselves would want to be treated, tend to be civilized.
Those who haven’t, don’t.
That is true of individuals and societies.
This tends to create incompatible and mutually incomprehensible world views. They don’t get us, and we don’t get them.
The difference is, we tolerate them.
But they don’t tolerate us.
They usually want to kill us.
They usually want to defile and destroy us.
That is because we are good and they are evil. And while good tries to avoid evil, evil tries to annihilate good.
It happens by ones and twos, and it happens by nations and peoples. It is a sad and recurring element of human history.
Sometimes, in our abundance of hope, we believe that the world has changed, that past is not prologue, that the fundamental historic themes of conquest and barbarism have been vanquished by enlightenment.
Our naiveté may facilitate our destruction.
It turns out that the key is somewhat more complex than simply understanding our enemy and becoming sensitive to his culture and priorities. It turns out that blaming ourselves for the other fellow’s evil and bigotry is foolish and wrong.
It’s not what we did to him, it’s what he wants to do to us.
As we saw yesterday in Boston.
On a beautiful spring day, on a day of patriotism and pride, at the most benign and innocuous major event in our nation. Some few thousand people setting out across town on a 26-mile jaunt.
A marathon.
Where determined people in shorts try to beat the course and the clock in a personal demonstration of fitness and grit.
Where loved ones gather to photograph and cheer. To peek over the heads of the people in front of you to cheer for your particular runner.
It is an environment of camaraderie and joy.
And the Sox won.
And on Patriot Day 2013, through the morning and midday, people made their dreams come true. Some ran their first marathon, others cheered on a friend or loved one.
Each runner was a story of determination and persistence, and the event was a highlight of Boston’s year, a time of regional and national pride.
And that demarcation evidenced itself.
The one between savagery and civilization.
And from the cesspool of moral bankruptcy, a stench arose on the springtime wind. A person bereft of any personal conscience, someone truly unfamiliar with the Biblical injunction, “Thou shalt not kill.”
One bang and then another and perhaps later something here or there that didn’t go off. In the bleachers, in the crowds, at the time and place of glory and personal achievement.
But the uncivilized have no regard for any such thing. They despise anything of decency or liberty. They do not live as good people, they live in opposition to good people.
Marathons are events of peace and growth. The cheering crowds do not root for opposing teams, they cheer for all. It is a sport of universal good, not faction and rivalry.
And that is where evil chose to strike.
Because evil always attacks good.
But good always wins. Faith and experience teach us that, and so does the metaphor of the marathon.
It is a run of conquest, in its history and in its execution. The first man to run 26.2 miles fell dead from the exertion, but whispered “Victory” as he did so. Similarly, those who run 26.2 miles today must win victory over self, and they must overcome the trials of the trail, the adversities and pains of the path.
And they must not quit.
They must push on.
They must persist and prevail.
They must endure.
And that application to life is not lost on the American people, who have endured this pain before.
Evil attacked us on Patriot Day, and at a marathon, and expects to claim some sort of win.
It has not and it will not.
It has shown its true colors, and now we will show ours.
Not in hidden bombs and hateful loners, but in the hundreds who ran to help, and the millions who looked on and prayed. The myriad who went online or picked up a phone or stared glued to the local news.
That is who we are. We care, we love, we help. We are God’s children. We value the life he gave us.
And we will win. No matter how many of them there are, no matter where they have hidden in the world of the civilized, no matter what lengths they go to advance their evil.
They are the cockroaches of humankind.
And we will smash them.
And next year at the Boston Marathon, there will be more runners and more spectators – probably record numbers of both – and we will go on.
While the evil will go to hell.
THE EVIL WILL GO (back) TO HELL
They are Amalek.
We know what God said about Amalek.
This will most likely end the gun control debate.
And they have a surplus of enablers and even outright allies among our ruling class, media and entertainment industries.
Nicely written by Bob. This lovely treatise demonstrates the moral bankruptcy of liberal extremists who want to blame patriots for these diaboilical acts of cowardice. The amazingly outrageous accusation that such acts must have been perpetrated by conservative zealots demonstrates the abysmal ignorance of liberal extremism. Those asinine fools who have given up on traditional morality are no longer capable of discerning good from evil.
If it can be proven conclusively that Muslim terrorists caused the bombings they will struggle to find a rationale for this evil. they will blame the runners for daring to focus on personal prowess, as though that were somehow a moral weakness.
In their insanity they will blame the moral decline of the west - a decline they applaud in other circumstances - and celebrate the righteous indignation of Muslims driven by the need to cleanse the earth of immorality.
Liberal extremist idiocy is rampant. It must be exterminated by strong doses of truth administered by no nonsense doctors of tradition. The voices of stupidity do not deserve a hearing. Shut them down and all their dissonant choirsters.
AMEN!
Only on that OTHER planet...
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