Posted on 09/18/2015 8:50:20 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
IN 2006, the television comedy “The Office” aired an episode in which one of the characters, Dwight Schrute, nervously faces the prospect of delivering a speech after winning the title of top salesman of the year for his company, Dunder Mifflin. As a prank, his co-worker preps him for his moment by cribbing a speech from a dictator, coaching him to deliver it by pounding the lectern and waving his arms wildly. Dwight does it, and the audience gives a standing ovation to a manic tirade.
Watching a cartoonish TV character deliver authoritarian lines with no principles, just audacity, was hilarious back then, but that was before we saw it happening before our eyes in the race for the United States presidency.
Donald J. Trump stands astride the polls in the Republican presidential race, beating all comers in virtually every demographic of the primary electorate. Most illogical is his support from evangelicals and other social conservatives. To back Mr. Trump, these voters must repudiate everything they believe.
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Non-Christians take great pleasure in throwing Christians’ Christianity in their faces at the slightest opportunity. They pretend to know the hearts, as God knows them, and as no human ever can.
John Wisdom showed once and forever that it is logically impossible to know what is in another’s mind.
Mass suicides.
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