My Thoughts
Late last year I wrote of my visit to New York City and trips to Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the 911 Memorial, and attending the Broadway musical Come from away. I wrote then of the unforgettable moments in Philadelphia, of the visits to the Liberty Bell, and the sites where the first Congress and Senate met. It seems so far away now though less than ten months have gone by. The New York City I experienced then bears little resemblance to New York City today.
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Something to really think about. Sixty-two years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote an essay for The Observer entitled “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” in which he began by writing, “Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.”
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Been thinking a lot—these pandemic days there is not much else to do—about church and state. The thought that keeps rising is “What would Jesus say—and do—if he were here and now?” Ran across something I wrote last year that reminded me of the answer.
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Willful ignorance is a too-common condition afflicting a vast majority of the American population; of their own will, they ignore facts, sound advice, accurate information and the truth. Any attempt to educate, to enlighten, to elucidate is generally met with utter contempt. Their mind is made up, closed to new ideas, thoughts, facts, information, and truth. Such discomfiting knowing would clearly mess with their simple made-up minds; it is your mind, with its delusions, fabrications and conspiracy theories, that is messed up, not theirs.
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Ever have one of those days—or nights—when something really creepy this way comes? Well, I have, the most recent was late last night just before I turned out the lights, and it was no ghost or bat in the belfry. I watched a terrifying video and it was no fantasy, no joke, but very real and unbelievably horrifying.
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Have you had that uncomfortable feeling lately that no matter what you think, or say, or do, it is wrong? Guilty, whether innocent or not; guilty by association, by ancestry, by mere existence? Damned if you do and damned if you don’t? Have you begun to doubt yourself, your sanity? Well, take heart, you are not alone, not by a long shot.
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There is something silent in the world these days. Whether suppressed or merely ignored or forgotten, I do not know. What I do know is we seldom hear the voice of reason; it has been silenced and the silence is deafening. One voice, a popular one at the time, seen and heard regularly on radio and television for a half-century was the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. He wrote many books but one, in particular, calls out for our attention: Communism and the Conscience of the West (1948). In it, he notes that the Devil will come in disguise, far different from the comic book mischaracterization most have of Satan.