Today I received a forwarded email from a well-meaning friend. It pictured a tombstone with the epitaph of the United States and dates July 4, 1776 -- November 4, 2008. The article then listed several astounding facts concerning the election of 2008. While I am no friend of the current U.S. administration, I prefer to wield the sword of truth against error rather than spread lies. The other side is known for the lies; we should stand for the truth. The article which followed the tombstone was reportedly written by Joseph Olson of Hamline University. It is almost totally false. First of all the general body is taken directly from a fabricated article concerning the Presidential election of 2000. Joseph Olson denies any connection. Secondly, even the statistical information as reported is mostly false according to Snopes.
If you have already seen the email I am referencing and forwarded it to others, please send them this correction. I agree completely with the concept that USA will soon RIP if we don't wake up. We are a divided country with most of the supporters of the progressive Democratic agenda being in urban areas while the bulk of conservative support comes from smaller communities and rural areas. There is also a great deal of historical support for the idea that people who are dependent on government will vote for anything as long as it appears to promote their selfish interests.
If you have already seen the email I am referencing and forwarded it to others, please send them this correction. I agree completely with the concept that USA will soon RIP if we don't wake up. We are a divided country with most of the supporters of the progressive Democratic agenda being in urban areas while the bulk of conservative support comes from smaller communities and rural areas. There is also a great deal of historical support for the idea that people who are dependent on government will vote for anything as long as it appears to promote their selfish interests.
The post-modern philosophical atmosphere we live in today causes many people to disregard the need for truthfulness in all things. Many believe there is no basis for truth, no overriding moral structure from which we may judge the rightness of another person's actions. This notion is in direct contradiction to the beliefs that drove our founding fathers to create on this continent a new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights.
These rights demand a foundation in what is called "natural law," the idea that there is absolute right and wrong as established by a transcendent moral code. That code was thought to be best expressed in the Ten Commandments of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the teachings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. We must not fall prey to the notion that anything that advances our cause is acceptable. We must fight for the standards upon which our great United States were founded. To do any less will mean failure even in the midst of possible success.
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