This just has me sick and angry beyond my power to express. It is like a distillation of all that's wrong with our nation -- our drift from the Constitution, to say nothing of the Bible which so influenced the thought and worldview of the Framers.
Wait, did I say "drift"? "Drift" praises by faint damn. It hasn't been a drift. It's been sedition, it's been rebellion, it's been a suicidal and deliberate plunge.
What enrages me is the innocent who suffer. I'm sorry Hunter Thompson's worldview led him to kill himself; but he suffered directly for his own sin. I'm sorry on one level or another for everyone who ruins his own life by his own sins.
But this woman, Terri Schiavo, is being slowly tortured -- TORTURED -- to death, in this land of unprecedent plenty, and of unprecedented access to God's Word. And this is being done to her in full view of everyone and, if the polls are to be believed, with the fatuous approval of the majority.
Dear God in Heaven, we kid ourselves about how we're #1 because of our superior military, and we feel so damnably invulnerable -- incidents like this just make me feel that the "timer" of God's ripely overdue judgment is about to ring.
To employ an overused cliche, I fear for my children. They didn't do this; but they are likely to suffer for the sinning idiocy of their elders, many of whom post regularly on FR in defense of our godless culture. And when the hammer falls, so long delayed by Romans 2:4's mercy, not a soul in the universe will be able to gainsay God's verdict. There will be a lot of weeping and howling, yes; but a lot of nodding, too.
We have been so blessed as a nation for no apparent reason other than God's grace. God's grace has shone upon this nation for over 200 years and while we have been tested in the past, we have invariably risen to the test and God has continued to bless us. But this may be the last test before the hammer drops. We have become too complacent in our attitude towards the sovereignty of the creator. We have evicted him from our schools and we are seeking to evict him from every avenue of public life. We have aborted our posterity and now we have undertaken the murder of the infirm.
This is a test of our character as a nation. We are failing that test miserably as we watch the government that we have been entrusted with torture and murder a woman who, because of no fault of her own, is unable to speak out. We are not watching a woman die a natural death. God has seen fit not to allow her to die a natural death. He has placed her life in the hands of those we (as a free people) have placed in power and those we have placed there have chosen to torture and kill her in our name and under the color of our authority.
If God is just, then I truly fear for our nation.
If Terri dies, we can be sure that the judges have won, for if impeachable offenses have not been committed, then there are no impeachable offenses.
If Jeb Bush does not go to Terri's rescue, then his political aspirations will be as lifeless as Terri.
GWB and conservatives will suffer. I don't need to explain why.
The merciless starvation of a useless eater moves us to a position of having one more thing in common with a universally hated regime, a comparison which the liberals have anticipated and started denying a decade ago.