Tempered Thoughts

Pastor, thank you for your seasoned thoughts, insights. Again, pardons please for not replying sooner. Here are some thoughts on your thoughts. Most will overlap.


One, Christians built America, and there is no reason why we should give it up, surrender it. In fact, there is every reason for us to hold fast to our heritage. If we lose it, our country will sink into an abyss, if it is not already there.

The world will pay a price also for the loss of the "beacon on a hill" to borrow Reagan who cited the Puritans.


Two, I agree. We need folks at the helm who are seasoned, know "where the bodies are buried," and grasp our place in history. Gingrich, as you likely know, has a Ph.D. in history. This helps him to put issues into perspective. However, I remain a political "atheist." I no longer put my trust in men. I pray for God's will and listen for Him.


Three, from a secular viewpoint, we are facing a crisis of an overly centralized system. Think centralized factory model. The new model is decentralized, the logic of the Internet. We have come full circle. Why should Washington and Wall Street impact how we live in Horicon, Crystal River, Mt. Horeb, etc.? Local control again.


Benjamin Disraeli, British PM, is one of my heroes. Here is why. A man once asked him, "Sir, what is your policy?" Disraeli's answer, "England, all of it, is my policy." Where is the leader who says, "America, all of it, is my policy?" I will gladly follow such a person. America is worth having, the America in which we reached manhood.


Toward the end of his life, a biographer asked John Adams, second President of the Republic, sadly an empire now, why Adams backed parting from England. The answer Adams gave was one word: "Township." When London abolished township government, local control, in North America, which we invented, it was the last straw. This writer stands with Adams. Local control, the opposite of Industrial Age centralism, is our heritage. Restore it.


There, you have it. Disraeli and Adams. They are my guiding stars. I hope we are not at the point that Rome reached, when its Republic collapsed into Empire. I read Cicero in Latin at Concordia. But I do not want his fate.


I am pondering teaching people how to lobby, how to fight back. Perhaps there is a way we can synerigize here. I think giving people a toolbox now beats electoral politics as an investment of time, talent. It is one way to go.


The key is God's will. If we seek and follow it, we cannot go wrong. I am telling you nothing you do not know.


Those are my thoughts on your thoughts. It is bedtime now for your old friend. Paul

Paul Rux, Ph.D.
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