Earth

Earth is the “footstool of God, the home of His redeeming pilgrimage.”

This is how a self-described philosopher, agnostic, socialist, Pantheist writer, Will Durant, defined his fulfilling existence on earth. Granted his contradiction between language and living, we know that this author of a wonderful metaphor and penetrating observation could only have been a liberal, because contradiction (hypocrisy) defines a liberal’s essence.

Whatever happens tomorrow with the vote for socialized medicine, the essence of progressives will not, cannot change. But politics should not excite us too much. Politics according to Will Durant, is not life anyway, but only a graft upon life. Under its vulgar melodrama the traditional order of society quietly persists, in the family, in the school, in the thousand devious influences that change our native lawlessness into some measure of cooperation and goodwill. Earth will continue to be the footstool of God where we rest and refresh ourselves for the walk ahead and where we will continue to reap the rewards of His saving grace.