{"id":889,"date":"2016-02-08T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/02\/as-long-as-this-continues-to-be-true.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T11:03:00","slug":"as-long-as-this-continues-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/02\/as-long-as-this-continues-to-be-true.html","title":{"rendered":"As long as this continues to be true:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Bernie Sanders, or any radical revolutionary, will pick up steam<\/a>.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to hate Capitalism or the Free Market to admit that those economic approaches in the hands of a godless, hedonistic and narcissistic society will\u00a0end up no good.\u00a0 Of course, Democratic Socialism in the same godless, hedonistic and narcissistic society won\u2019t work either.\u00a0 That\u2019s the rub.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Christians, including Catholics, have long lost our moxie when it comes to stating that we have the Truth, and the Truth alone can set us free.\u00a0 Other cultures and societies can have parts of the Truth, or have decent enough attempts at goodness.\u00a0 But in the end, they will fall far short of the mark. <\/p>\n

In a fallen world, anything will fall short of the mark.\u00a0 That must be admitted.\u00a0 But the One, True Faith will do much better in that fallen world than other beliefs that are farther from the Truth.\u00a0 And yet, we can\u2019t admit that simple fact.\u00a0 Not today.\u00a0 Not in the face of the triumphant\u00a0Left and its heretical beliefs in multi-cultural revelation.\u00a0As a result, many Christians, Catholics included, see the problems with our American society.\u00a0 They see the stagnant wages, the inability to provide livings, the growing consolidation of wealth among radically non-religious, non-Christian advocates who take from the government everything they can get and\u00a0then snap their fingers to God, country and Americans.\u00a0 They see the problem.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, they then whitewash the issues because we long ago accepted that Christianity was just our meat, Islam is their meat, Buddhism<\/a> their meat, Atheism their meat, and if we can all just get along and teach the right things in our classrooms, all will be right with the world.\u00a0 So they imagine that it\u2019s the rascally Free Market or that vile Capitalism that has been the mischief.\u00a0 As such, perhaps given the grave difficulties so many are experiencing in our country, it might be time to go radical and think Socialist!\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong? I submit the same exact thing will go wrong, because in the end, I submit that the real problem isn\u2019t Capitalism or the Free Market, or even Socialism, but a godless and hedonistic and narcissistic society.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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In the television show The Middle<\/em>, Patricia Heaton plays the ultimate post-modern mom and wife.\u00a0 She\u2019s lazy.\u00a0 She has big dreams, but never bothers to work for them, and spends most of her time running around trying to fix the resulting problems.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very well written and funny show.<\/p>\n

In one episode, they look at their old, dilapidated home.\u00a0 They decide they will move to a new housing development; condominiums where others do the heavy lifting with repairs and yard work,\u00a0and they can just relax.\u00a0 Their kids are less than happy.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want to leave their friends.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want to relocate.\u00a0 When the family goes to look at the model homes, Frankie (Patricia\u2019s character) is swept away.\u00a0 It looks so wonderful.\u00a0 So perfect.\u00a0 But Axel, her smart mouthed, underachieving teenage son, hits the nail on the head.\u00a0 He points out that the model home looks good because they don\u2019t live there.\u00a0 Once they move their crappy furniture in and lay around and do nothing with their lives, it will end up being as crappy as their current home.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the problem.\u00a0 Taking any economic or political theory and applying it to the same godless, non-Christian (or anti-Christian) society isn\u2019t going to fix anything.\u00a0 We Christians lost the stomach for pointing out that Christianity is the exclusive Truth revealed by God through Jesus Christ.\u00a0 We can\u2019t bring ourselves to believe that even\u00a0though we can never make a perfect world, there are better chances with Christ to make a good world with good ethics, sacrifice, hard work and responsibility than in other systems based on other beliefs.\u00a0 Because of our inability to say this, we\u2019ve convinced ourselves that any belief is as good as our own.\u00a0 Any morals as good as ours.\u00a0\u00a0So it must be those pesky political and economic theories.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Sorry, our country long ago shed\u00a0its Christian roots.\u00a0 Did I mention we are a godless, hedonistic, narcissistic nation of grown up children who resent work and want everything handed to us on a silver platter without responsibility?\u00a0 Do we really think that ditching Capitalism and the Free Market for a Democratic Socialist model will change that?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 Who knows, if we first embrace our Christian roots and declare our Faith\u2019s exclusive contribution to humanity, even Democratic Socialism might work.\u00a0 But putting the cart before the horse, and pushing for the political theory over\u00a0the Divine Revelation?\u00a0 That will just take our crappy social furniture, and make the new economic home as crappy as it is now. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bernie Sanders, or any radical revolutionary, will pick up steam.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to hate Capitalism or the Free Market to admit that those economic approaches in the hands of a godless, hedonistic and narcissistic society will\u00a0end up no good.\u00a0 Of course, Democratic Socialism in the same godless, hedonistic and narcissistic society won\u2019t work either.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAs long as this continues to be true:<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bernie Sanders, or any radical revolutionary, will pick up steam.  You don't have to hate Capitalism or the Free Market to admit that those economic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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