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I look at things and just shake my head.\u00a0 The generation that took great glee in tearing down the icons of old \u2013 Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson (except his whole banish religion stuff), Religion, Jesus, Moses, God, you name it \u2013 is now watching the godlike icons it tried to thrust upon us come under the same cynicism and love of scandal it wielded to do its dirty work.\u00a0 Live by the cynicism and die by the cynicism.<\/p>\n

Now, had it been a Billy Graham, or a Reagan, or a Nixon who was found to have said such a thing about King, you can bet your bottom dollar that there would be horror and outrage and your usual \u2018told you those religious conservative types are a bunch of racists!\u2019\u00a0 But now, it\u2019s Kennedy.\u00a0 Even though most younger folks seem to see him as more hype than substance as a president, and one around whom scandal flew like crows, the old Boomers still look to him as the real King Arthur of Camelot.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

What will be the reaction?\u00a0 What will be the controversy?\u00a0 What will be the conclusion?\u00a0 I\u2019ll bet nothing that has to do with liberals, Democrats, or any post-Christian ideals.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"