On September 7, 2018
As citizens of free and democratic West – each of whose member nations, in its own way, is an aspirational Republic of Virtue – here are words we ought to take to heart. JA
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“When the government says something, you only have one question: ‘Is it true?’”
From the film “Shock and Awe” (USA, 2018)
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“[The] call of faithful presence gives priority to what is right in front of us – community, the neighborhood, and the city, and the people in which these are constituted…. It is here where we learn forgiveness and humility, practice kindness, hospitality, and charity, grow in patience and wisdom, and become clothed in compassion, gentleness, and joy. This is the crucible in which Christian holiness is forged.”
James Davison Hunter, quoted in “Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump” by John Fea (Eerdmans, 2018).
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“The aim of every political Constitution is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers, men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue the common good of society…”
James Madison in The Federalist Papers, quoted in “Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump” by John Fea (Eerdmans, 2018).
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“Republics rise and fall based on the virtue of the people and their leaders.”
From “Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump” by John Fea (Eerdmans, 2018).
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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
George Orwell
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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.”
Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States and one of the nation’s Founding Fathers.
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Donald Trump is “an intellectual midget and a moral homunculus.”
A panelist on CNN on August 15, 2018.