Posted on 10/27/2015 3:38:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The end is near. Or not.
At various points in U.S. history, popular preaching has warned that history itself was about to culminate and cease. Many sermons of the revolutionary era (with more patriotic zeal than theological sophistication) identified King George III as the antichrist and associated the founding of the United States with the onset of the Millennium.
But there is a cost to using the apocalypse for emphasis.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The United States has a long list of social and economic challenges, disturbingly (and unjustly) concentrated in certain communities. But we are not slouching toward Gomorrah. Over the past few decades, divorce rates and abortion rates have both declined. Levels of violent crime have dropped dramatically. The U.S. economy, for all its problems, still attracts the world’s capital and the world’s best students. We have a wonderful country, thank you, flawed and free, carrying the highest political ideals of humanity, always capable of hope and healing.
Most of us here say: BRING IT!
These people have f***king lost it.
NOT so Free any more.
The horror... the horror...
Not the apocalypse but certainly we are at the point where America is transitioning to an authoritarian socialist country not able to defend itself in the world and without influence internationally. Freedom is a bust and equality is taking its place.
Only a complete lunatic would write something like this after 8 years of a terrorist coddling, race hate fomenting, anti American administration.
“It may be possible to convince a good portion of the Republican primary electorate that American institutions have gone to hell. If so, during the general election, the institution in crisis would be the Republican Party. “
LOL, yes on both points in my opinion.
PU article with quotes of writers that don’t document anything related to preachers calling george III the anti-christ. i think there are books of whitefield’s and edward’s sermons and i don’t recall those words in any of their sermons. maybe the politcal class used that rhetoric. made up crap. Not an historian or no better than a 5th grade sriter.
Holy Shnikes!
This article is epic - what happens when you strap a JATO rocket to groupthink.
Remember that Darwin dude?
Hey WashPoo:
Trump and Carson are pikers when it comes to ‘bring(ing) about America’s Apocalypse’. They are also 20 years too late! Your heroes, BJ Klintoon and Bathhouse Barry Hussein O’Bama have pretty much succeeded, over the last 20 years in bringing about an American Apocalypse!
1. Discredit Christians, and associate them with kooks;
2. Discredit the American Founding;
3. Discredit Trump and Carson by associating them with the foregoing.
Nothing but Alinsky politics from start to end.
Wow, Gerson! Hyperbole much? “Trump and Carson are nazis who hate America and little children and want to kill defenseless old people and Starbucks baristas who recite poetry, and they kick puppies, too!”
A little American Apocalypse might be a good thing.
IN!
YAh, we don’t remember anything but terrorist coddling, hate fomenting, and anti US Americanism. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Michael Gerson.
That worthless POS was a speechwriter for Dubya.
” Or to conduct a massive police action removing 11 million undocumented immigrants.”
Just like President Eisenhower did.
Ike even called it “Operation Wetback”, the mere mention of which would have Michael Gerson peeing down his leg in fear.
Michael, ol' buddy, ol' pal, there is nothing wrong with America.
But there is a helluva lot wrong with Washington D.C. And you, my friend, are very much a part of it.
Because a Michael Gerson piece is guaranteed to provide ample evidence that "Washington is out of touch". Especially, the so-called pundit class...
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