A Spiritual perspective makes life better now and there is the hope of then.
James V. Ferguson, MD, FACP
Here we go again. The fools are marching and proclaiming “No Kings.” These rubes apparently don’t realize that the last king we had was 250 years ago; or was it Obama who proclaimed, “Get my healthcare…or pay a fine”? No, that’s not right, it was Biden who threatened, “Get my vaccine… or lose your job.” Leftist losers love it when their authoritarians demand we bend a knee to their ideological deities. Does any rational person believe that if we had a king or a mullah in charge, protests would be allowed?
I had to laugh as I watched news clippings of the attendees. I laugh because no one takes them seriously. I mean, how could you? Prancing frogs, ancient hippies wheezing protest songs and old geezers advocating open borders, abolishment of ICE, reparations for stolen land and for traumatizing illegals, while waving Communist flags. Bernie the communist Sanders may rail at billionaires, but billionaires are the bozos who fund these faux “spontaneous” marches. What really riles Democrats is that President Trump found a way to relieve the logjams at airports with ICE and pay TSA agents despite our do-nothing Congress, which left on a two-week Easter holiday.
Last week was Holy Week, when a third of the world’s population remembered and celebrated Jesus’ martyrdom and resurrection.
When I was a Methodist, I loved singing the old hymns of faith. I still “Love to Tell the Old, Old Story of Jesus and His Love” ♪ (Katherine Hankey). Even atheists know the story of Jesus’ life and his martyrdom by religious and secular authorities two millennia ago. But it was The King’s resurrection that changed the world.
Lee Strobel was a courtroom reporter and an atheist who decided to investigate and debunk the resurrection story. He ended up a Christian when he was unable to discredit the considerable ancient evidence which he distilled into 5 Es: Christ Existed, he was Executed, there was an Empty tomb, there were more than 500 Eye witnesses who saw Christ after his execution and there was Early adoption of the Christian story and ethos, whereas myths take generations to take hold.
C. S. Lewis was another atheist who researched the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Lewis was likewise converted by The Greatest Story Ever Told. Lewis concluded in his trilemma that Jesus was either a liar, lunatic or Lord. And since there was no evidence of either of the first two, Lewis bent his knee to the Way, the Truth and the Life and became the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century.
The ancient Greek Aristotle held that something does not come from nothing. We moderns call that perspective causality. I’m here because of my parents and they existed because of their parents going all the way back to what we conceptually refer to as the Big Bang. For me, it makes infinitely more sense to believe there was a Creator who imparted energy into “the void” and created this reality, than to imagine the Universe just “popped” into reality 13.8 billion years ago like some bubble of soap rising up in the bathtub. I side with evidence, logic and probability over fanciful speculation.
Last week, I asked the question if it would be better to accept your mistakes and change or continue to deny reality and double down on your errors. Obstinate Democrats have chosen the illogic of the latter and are causing all of us to suffer.
Recently, I read that King Charles may be coming to the United States, but who cares? Being a “colonial,” I have little use for the British monarchy. I did have high regard for Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, but not the current bunch of royals. I’ve come to understand that in a parliamentary form of government, kings and presidents are titular figureheads. Perhaps it is wrong to blame King Charles for the feckless British government that refuses to support the US, its NATO partner, against the Iranian terrorist regime. Remember, we did support them in their Falkland War with Argentina.
Perhaps it is best that we discover how useless NATO has become. We should leave the pseudo-alliance and let the Euros deal with Ukraine and Putin. And after we defang the Iranian lion, let the Euros get their own oil. We don’t need it.
In my travels, I’m glad that I experienced Europe before it was lost. There are exceptions like Poland and Hungary, which remember what it was like to live under the communist boot. Additionally, Portugal deserves consideration, but the socialist Spain seems intent on a reverse Reconquista. So be it!
I’ve often wondered how people survive without a sense of the sacred. Some “luminaries” claim “intellectual honesty” for their obstinacy. Unfortunately, some smart people are made stupid by their hubris. (Physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson comes to mind.) I don’t purport to know everything. I agree with Socrates and Jesus, who said only God was wise. Watch out for stupid smart people because they are dangerous to themselves and others. And a lot of them are in Congress.
Dems can’t win on their policies of open borders, defending illegals, and I Hate Trump. Senator Sparticus, Cory Booker, said they are against Trump and any Republican policy. They hate MAGA and Trump and call that a platform. Since they have nothing to run on, they must lie and cheat to win. That’s why the SAVE Act must be passed to reestablish trust in the election process. Florida just passed their own SAVE Act.
President Trump is no king. He is the duly elected president of our country after winning a majority of the popular vote, all the swing states and an overwhelming majority in the electoral college. On the other hand, Democrats have the belief that they are entitled to rule us because they perceive themselves as feeling so deeply. However, feelings, virtue signaling yard signs and protests do not trump other opinions and the majority of Americans.
Kings issue decrees to their subjects. President Trump went before the American people last week and logically explained the necessity of the Iran war because elected presidents are subject to the will of the people through public opinion and the vote. Only fools think otherwise.
