lincoln at gettysburg the words that remade america

We perhaps need a little revolution, but it needs to have a primary focus on the individual heart. Tea Party member or card-carrying communist, Christ calls us to help the oppressed, economically or otherwise, out of a grateful heart, not because some human institution demanded it. At the same time we praise the Samaritan because he willingly gave to aid another rather than being forced to do so. I would say that the priest and Levite were no less thieves than the original robbers because they saw a need and refused to help. It expresses three economic viewpoints: the thieves - what is yours is mine and I will take it the priest and Levite - what is mine is mine and I will keep it and the Samaritan - what is mine is yours and you can have it. Those closing comments on an economic civil war brought to mind the parable of Jesus, The Good Samaritan. Your comments touched on a wide diversity of subjects each needing serious consideration. Perhaps that recent Lincoln vampire movie was on to something! Delete However, slavery has been largely absent from America for 150 years.

Perhaps it was the first flowering of that original sin. It has been said that slavery is America's original sin.

There is a painfully straight line from Reverend Criswell through the Southern Baptist Convention to today's Republican Party. In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nations history. Indeed, as I read how one of the Dallas hate leaders, Reverend Criswell, hated Kennedy for his support of integration, I realized how direct a connection there is between the hate of 1963's Dallas and today's far right wing. Talk is cheap, and the Fox speculators may well not really expect a civil war, yet, looking at how the hate-filled atmosphere of 1963's Dallas helped set the stage for the assassination, future generations may look back at Fox News and wonder how much it might have helped trigger such a war.

See this link for recent article on that subject: To consider the prospect of a second American civil war, one might take a look at a second anniversary coming up, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

Lincoln at gettysburg the words that remade america