Charlie Daniels: Another Inconvenient Truth

cnsnews.com ^ | 3/12/2018 | charlie daniels

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s a checkered view. Some will ask what’s good about progressive and the answer first requires another question: progressing towards what, and in what way? For we have long been wallowing in rhetorical legerdemain, where liberal means illiberal and conservative means issue bigotry and thus forth. While the ultimate answer — God — is being danced around and avoided by all.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Until conservatives can see why even today’s liberals have a point, though approaching a good thing (social harmony) in a wrong way (government nannydom) we probably cannot agree on Christian faith either. At the very least old grudges must be cast in the dustbin.

[Lazamataz]

Until conservatives can see why even today’s liberals have a point, though approaching a good thing (social harmony) in a wrong way (government nannydom)

I respectfully reject your hypothesis.

C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

[rktman]

Good quote by C.S. Lewis there Laz.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Nay, I think you misread it.

Illiberal “liberals” want social harmony. That’s an admirable end. But they also want Lewis’ “tyranny” to do it. That’s an abominable means, a cure worse than the disease. And so the result is a crying oxymoron.

What we really hunger for is for God to be back.

[Lazamataz]

What we really hunger for is for God to be back.

Agreed. At least He's back in *my* life. I guess that will have to do.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well He wants us to at least put our hearts into knocking on the doors of other hearts. That might require as little as a frank mention of gospel operation in your life. It doesn’t always have to be a full on Billy Graham pitch.

[Retain Mike]

So this guy never heard of the G.I. Bill? If you went back to a menial life that was your choice. People like Fredrick Douglass and Booker T. Washington were the heros to look to look to to find a way out.

[Steve Schulin]

Bttt - I've been a Freeper since before our "March for Justice" on the Mall in DC during the Bill Clinton administration, and I've read many a fine article. This article by Charlie Daniels is amongst the best I've seen. And if you agree with his emphasis on what I've come to call America's Principles, you certainly CAN help change the way politics is done. I urge you to evaluate candidates well before the primaries, and see if any meet your minimum standard of acceptability. For example, do you see abortion as depriving a person of their unalienable right to life? Do any of the existing candidates talk about abortion in this way? If not, you can raise up someone as a candidate who does meet your minimum standard. And if you can't find someone else to run, how about doing it yourself? To see what I support as a minimum standard, check out the platform at SelfGovernment.us