As you’ve all probably noticed, it’s been quite a while since my last post. For the past several months I have certainly been extremely busy with the job, with my personal research, and a little bit of play thrown in for good measure. But the real reason for my long layoff from posting has been my complete dismay at the direction of the country. It’s well known that I am not a fan of Mitt Romney. When it became evident that he was the Republican nominee, and the only thing standing between America
I am frustrated that no one seems to listen to reason. I grow tired of making valid points that few will acknowledge. I grow tired of winning arguments while failing to change hearts and minds. I grow tired of helplessly observing as America
Our president has denied the bedrock truths of history and openly trampled on our most sacred, time-tested traditions. While smiling and joking, he shamelessly unravels the moral and ethical fibers that bind together what little there is left of our country’s timeless founding principles. Reason is continually turned on its head, as his propaganda ministers gleefully convince us that night is day and day is night. Religious freedom is now conditional upon his tyrannical and socialistic whims. We’ve heard all the arguments and all the economic and social statistics that undergird them; many laid out elsewhere in these pages. We’ve heard them all, ad infinitum. With the election just about a month away, what is there really left to say at this point? Whose fault is it that the country is in an economic, social and spiritual freefall? It is clearly not “Bush’s fault,” nor is it the fault of obstructionist congressional Republicans, nor is it the result of natural disasters, nor is it the result of the acts of foreign governments. It’s got nothing to do with the New World Order, nor an unfavorable alignment of planetary bodies, nor “man-caused disasters,” nor is much of it the fault of “birthers” or “truthers.”
We can no longer afford to mince words; we can no longer afford to compromise or retreat. The application of God-given reason allows us to distinguish right from wrong. Although not every case will be clear-cut, moral absolutes do exist, and we must have the courage to point them out when we see them. Compromise is sometimes necessary, but in our secular/socialist-leaning culture, the art of compromise has wrongly been elevated to the height of sophistication. Compromising with someone who is wrong is equivalent to surrendering your principles, and surrendering truth. If we first have to engage in an ongoing debate to define truth and reason, then let’s get on with it. But good Christians should never agree to sacrifice their principles on the secular altar of “compromise.”
