A blow from a whip raises a welt, but a blow from the tongue smashes bones; Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many as by the tongue.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Sirach\u00a028:17-18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Indeed the question we often face is whether to support those who bring death by the sword or those who merely call the evil wrought by others just and good.\u00a0 Having said this, there should be some great forthcoming wisdom.\u00a0 It won\u2019t.\u00a0 All that will happen is the grand experiment of democracy will continue.\u00a0 The great relativizing force will continue to push people into the moderate choice of hell.\u00a0 By forcing a\u00a0decision, democracy ensures that we don\u2019t get everything that we desire, but democracy most certainly ensures we get what we don\u2019t desire.<\/p>\n
Those who would have us choose Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton would have\u00a0us choose candidates that even just recently spat over who was the greater protector of the right to kill life in the womb.\u00a0 One camp had authorized phone calls to homes claiming that a candidate was \u2018soft\u2019 on choice.\u00a0 Facing such an outrageous action, the candidate outrageously rebuts that he indeed harbors no sympathy for those who would deny the joy and beauty of abortion.\u00a0 With Republicans we have candidates sparring over who would justify the most human rights abuses Israel could conduct in order to protect and preserve the Jewish race they have priveleged over the Palestinian Christian and Muslim natives.\u00a0 One candidate even gleefully proposed expelling the Palestinians to Egypt.\u00a0 We have another candidate making foreign policy based on how well the policy would fit\u00a0into an alternative version of a Beach Boys\u2019s song, i.e. \u201cBomb Bomb Bomb\/Bomb Bomb Iran.\u201d\u00a0 How many platitudes to gross injustice must one tolerate from a candidate before one says a candidate is beyond the pale?\u00a0 Can one at least temper their enthusiasm in the presence of such grossly offensive platitudes?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A blow from a whip raises a welt, but a blow from the tongue smashes bones; Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many as by the tongue.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Sirach\u00a028:17-18 Indeed the question we often face is whether to support those who bring death by the sword or those who merely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-mz"],"yoast_head":"\n
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