Catholic and Enjoying It!
You know, when you read “Bulletproof clothing designer launches new line of children’s vests, backpacks…” and “OBAMA SIGNS RENEWAL OF WARRANTLESS WIRETAP LAW — BEHIND CLOSED DOORS… and Activists voice dismay as Senate renews government surveillance measure… it is rather hard to disagree when you also read Oliver Stone: ‘USA has become an Orwellian state’…
The funny thing is watching the Right and Left twist themselves into logic pretzels both affirming and denying all this depending on whether the mission is to diss Obama, affirm the Bush (or Obama) police state, leap to the defense of the NRA (or condemn it) affirm, or deny, that Oliver Stone might have something on the ball in that observation. What very few, on either side, are interested in is dealing with truth or the common good. What really drives the conversation is the complex dance of tribal loyalties and making sure that the correct personalities win or lose. Chesterton observed that when we get rid of the Big Laws we don’t get freedom or anarchy, we get the small laws. When we get rid of the small laws, we simply get personalities and tribal allegiances. We are, increasingly, a nation of men, not even of small laws. And we are, above all, more and more a nation of slaves. That is the natural state of pagan man.
It is Christ alone who says, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” The devil’s lies enslave.
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