GREAT post!
This is one of the best essays I’ve ever read - ever.
“Sheep in sheep’s clothing” is a great phrase, because it addresses the calculated evil behind the apparent cowardice. In Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” there’s a scene far more horrifying and evil than the D-Day beach scene. Its a knife fight in a room between an American and Nazi soldier. When the Nazi manages to get on top of the American, he starts whispering and shushing baby talk and sleep talk, and it weakens the American’s ability to fight, and so the knife slowly sinks down and kills him. To emphasize the effect, coming out of the room the Nazi passes another American soldier who’s too afraid to fight him - or rescue his fellow soldier.
Of course, being a Leftist, that was Spielberg enjoying spitting into the face of the courage of the American soldier. But he also used the scene to show the conceptual power of the “sheep in sheep’s clothing” - the whispering of baby talk and sleep to invoke surrender, even to sure death. This is EXACTLY what DEFINES a liberal, and there are millions of them around us now in this country.
In fact, the only thing that gets a liberal fired up is hatred for those who refuse to accept their method of slow, inevitable suicide. Non-liberals act as mirrors to liberals, making them see the ugliness of their own cowardly souls, and that terrifies them because they are forced to gaze upon their own rape and violation of the sacredness of their own lives. And from trying to avoid that terror comes their brittle, shrieking, mindless rage against those who refuse them.
“Thus speaks the sheep in sheeps clothing. Thus speak men without chests. They are in our legislatures, and universities and corporate headquarters and sometimes sadly in our churches, for offensive to the Good Shepherd is a sheepish shepherd who has no chest on which to hang his pectoral cross.” -Fr. George W. Rutler
Thanks for the great post.