We’ve Been Warned

An ancient writing records the words of a man called Peter speaking prophetically almost 2000 years ago:

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:1-7 ^NIV

Does this sound like our current political climate or what?

Peter's words suggest what our response to such people should be: “Have nothing to do with them.” The evidence of a number of recently convicted political figures serves to prove that we need to clean house (actually the House of Representatives and the Senate) of such dilatants as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Hillary Clinton to cite a few, pour encourager les autres (to encourage the others) as a means of bringing a cautionary note to those inclined to follow their base desires.

We must speak up to our so-called representatives to let them know that we will not tolerate the continuance of their proclivity to listen to the entreaties of lobbyists serving special interests.

Important Thoughts of or Attributed to Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (1729-01-12–1797-07-09) was an Irish political philosopher, Whig politician, and statesman; he is regarded by many as the "father" of modern conservatism.

• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
  
• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
  
• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
  
• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
  
• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
  
• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
  
• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
  
• It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
  
• All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
  
• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
  
• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
  
• A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it, but a good patriot and a true politician always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
  
• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
  
• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
  
• We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
  
• By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
  

The above are worthy of reflection by thinking people! They each apply to our present political conflict.