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Date Posted: 12:08:20 10/05/04 Tue
Author: Sage
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Subject: Division in our country

O'Reilly, in his interview with President Bush, asked why our country is so divided. The answer to that question is fairly obvious. When one considers that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, the rise of the liberal left has caused an equal rise in the religious right. I am reminded of a discussion Ron Hobbs and I had a few years back when he said that it why we need moderates. Moderates keep extremism in rein.

Recently, Nancy Pelosi defended her choice to continue receiving Holy Communion. Correctly, she stated that she will be judged in the end by God. What she doesn't seem to understand is the fact that her actions smack of moral relativism, which have the effect of watering down Christianity. As the left dilutes Christianity, the right will rise up against the left. If the dilution is not halted, the left will devour the right.

Socialism is creeping across our country. There is no doubt about that. Eric Fromm, a socialist humanist, who often contradicted himself, got one thing right when he stated: "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane."

There are those who say that rather than create robots, socialism would give us greater liberty to pursue interests and desires. What interests? What desires? Socialism would remove the soul and spirit of the individual. It would remove man's need to want to be better than he is. Faulkner said that he believed man would not only endure, but that he would prevail...because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. Socialism would remove feelings of compassion, the desire to sacrifice, and there would be little to learn to endure, which would in turn destroy individual innovation and creativity.

I will end this with a quote from Phillips Brooks:

"Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely content with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant to do, because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God."

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