Stand Up and Take It Like an American (Sometimes you pay a price for your beliefs) PEGGY NOONAN

Stand Up and Take It Like an American In a free society, sometimes you pay a price for your beliefs.

1. The continuance of the new patriotism which is marked not by a tinny boastfulness but by an intellectually and emotionally experienced fidelity to and respect for the founding ideas, documents and assumptions which have guided us since we declared our independence from the mother country 226 years ago.

...It is the paternalistic, elitist, libertine philosphies of the large cities which grow Liberals like toxic mold in a petri dish....

the question of whether or not one might still come up with that 'toxic liberal thought' in one generation within a heartland fatherless family on welfare.

Sure, but it is a bit less likely. Why? Because in urban areas there are two things that are promote the (above) maladies): "Anonymity" and "unaccountabilty".

Man's propensity to sin is usually encouraged by the personal anonymity and lack of moral accountability to others - whether a church or close-knit community, particularly if unencumbered by spiritual renewal (born-again experience and a relationsip with the Lord) which often can provide the inward brakes.

People usually seek the free-wheeling personal immorality of the crowd to cover their sin proclivities. But, such proclivities are also practiced readily by the more bold in a rural environment. What is in the heart will eventually come out. Although people in the city are freer to practice it, those in the country can find more subtle ways. But generally not as readily or without the personal secrecy urban society permits.

Unfortunately, the fatherless family on welfare is often the result of sexual immorality, and the remaining family (and society) lives with the results of these mutual sins for years. It is caustic for all involved.

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