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Welcome to Varied Expressions of Worship

Welcome to Varied Expressions of Worship

This blog will be written from an orthodox Christian point of view. There may be some topic that is out of bounds, but at present I don't know what it will be. Politics is a part of life. Theology and philosophy are disciplines that we all participate in even if we don't think so. The Bible has a lot to say about economics. How about self defense? Is war ethical? Think of all the things that someone tells you we should not touch and let's give it a try. Everything that is a part of life should be an expression of worship.

Keep it courteous and be kind to those less blessed than you, but by all means don't worry about agreeing. We learn more when we get backed into a corner.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Opus 2018-252: Different Trigger, Same Gun

Some things never seem to change.  It is hard to believe.  I have found myself talking about how today’s Democrat party is different than it used to be.  There may be some truth to that but not as much as you think.  John Batchelor quotes an editorial from a newspaper called The Tribune back in 1896.  Read through it and ask yourself, “Does this sound familiar?”  The trigger issue in those days was silver as a base for the dollar instead of gold.  The trigger changes but the gun is the same.
    “Man and blind hatred of property, hatred of those who appear more fortunate and seem to have easier lives, notions that all men ought to be equal in income and expenditure and tastes and engagements, as well as legal rights with a passionate desire to tear down the existing state of things if it cannot be made to suit such a fanaticism - that is the desperate and dangerous force which only uses the silver issue as a means of striking at all property and all the prosperous.
    “Does anybody ask how such a brainless craze came to exist in this free country?
    “The Democratic party cultivated it laboriously and patently for twenty-five years, especially in all the Western and Southern States, as its only hope of defeating the Republican party.
    “Every day and every night it appealed persistently to the mean hatred of success by those who do not succeed, of property by those who have none, of employers by employed, of capital by labor, and contrived at last to create a communistic spirit in free American which is as ignorant, as stupid, as vindictive and madly destructive as that which lightened the torch and danced around the corpses in Paris.” pages 129-130
The title of the editorial was “American Silver Communists”.  It is interesting that even in 1896 the informed were aware of the danger of Communism.  Too bad so few are informed now.  The tactic of the Democrat party was to divide the country by class warfare.  It is still their goal.

Batchelor, John Calvin.  Ain’t You Glad You Joined the Republicans? 
     New York:  Henry Holt Company, 1996.

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