Amen, brother!

            Amen, brother!

The greatest performance of his career – Obama’s funeral eulogy to Rev. Pinckney in Charleston, So. Carolina.  Unfolded, unbelievable speech.  From this performance, we must admit now that we Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians and all ideological enemies  of the left– can never win. We can never pull off such moving and appealing contradiction and hypocrisy with an appeal to God’s grace.  Might as well admit that liberal falsehood becomes clear when you see that liberals’ efforts to help other people and do good in this world are based upon no belief in an afterlife. Therefore, it’s simple to validate Nannyism in this life.  Doing good and feeling good about it is what matters. Flip the coin, however, to see that liberals do not personally practice what they advocate and preach – just the opposite, a selfish life here and now is justified because no accounting will take place in the next.  Wow!  The exclamation point behind this realization is that right reason and abstract truth have no appeal for liberals because feelings of love are all that matter.  Congratulations Barack for a job well done.  Whoever can move people from truth to falsehood –is a genius. Watch the C-Span eulogy.  

Solution to our economic and moral woes

Solution to our economic and moral woes

“The business interests of the world are… recognizing…the benefit to themselves …with the opening of the world to Christianity.  When a heathen man becomes a child of God and is changed within, the wants his external life and surroundings to correspond; he wants the Christian dress and the Christian home and the Christian plow and all the other things which distinguish Christian civilization from the narrow and degraded life of the heathen.  The merchant knows how the business of the world has been increased by the progress already made by Christianity, and he knows that with the further spread of the Gospel, business will be largely increased.”  So said, Samuel Capen,  president of the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1910.  In 2015, what part of this message are we in America not getting?    

Who knew?

Who knew?

“... the most modest, the most disinterested, and the most honest man I ever knew, with a temper that nothing could disturb and a judgment that was judicial in its comprehensiveness and wisdom.  Not a great man, except morally, not an original or brilliant man, but sincere, thoughtful, deep and gifted with courage that never faltered.  When the time came to risk all, he went in like a simple-hearted, unaffected, unpretending hero, whom no ill omens could deject and no triumph unduly exalt.”  Charles Dana, as commissioner for the war department and former newspaperman at the New York Tribune, knew U.S. Grant and rendered that assessment. Who can dispute the existence of the ‘good ‘ole days’ when men were men?      

”Fighting and destruction are terrible

”Fighting and destruction are terrible, but are sometimes agencies of heavenly rather than hellish powers.  In the privation and sufferings endured as well as in the strenuous action of battle, some of the highest qualities of manhood are called forth – courage, self-command, sacrifice of self for the sake of something held higher – where we take it chivalry finds its value.” Who would have guts enough to write this?  Answer: an educated Professor, an oft wounded Civil War fighting officer,  Joshua Chamberlain who lived to 85, an example of a heroic warrior.