By Bruce
Walker
Barack
Obama won the presidency based upon the theme of change. We already live
in a world of constant change, and we assume too easily that change is good.
Politicians, professors, pundits, self-proclaimed champions of the oppressed -
those with vested interests in change - repeat the lie that change makes things
better. But these cheerleaders of constant change are unhappy people, by and
large. Certainly there are some areas of human life in which change is good -
who would want to go back to the medicine or dentistry of fifty years ago? –
but, surely, if there is one idea which should have been debunked in the last
century it would be the idea of beneficent progress. The First World War was
dramatic and catastrophic progress. The Bolshevik junta in 1917 was progress in
the direct of omnipresent police state and slave labor camps. The Second World
War was progress along the road to genocidal madness and global war.
Ghastly diseases and debilitating physical conditions are “progressive,” and
that means change which is bad.
Obama: Selling Capitalists the Hope
By Selwyn Duke
Man's propensity for rationalization is truly amazing. I know of a couple of men of faith who, even shortly before the election when an Obama victory was a given, were in denial and predicting a McCain win. And these are true believers -- not in the faux messiah-in-chief but in the real God -- people to whom Truth is paramount. Sometimes it's hard to stare reality right in the face.
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