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The Speech: Why Didn’t They Call Rewrite?

September 1, 2010 - 7:48 am - by Roger Kimball
KevinB
2010-09-02 18:51:56

” *For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft*, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:23.

(I read the Bible from cover to cover this year. Even though a lot of people, especially atheists (go figure) claim they have read it it is probably more rare than is claimed – that is my thinking from the experience. It’s difficult to not give up when trying to read the prophets.)

I definitely mean the Civil War, but maybe think of it as the alternate-universe second American Civil War. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong about it though, as that seems like a stretch when I write it out. You have to look at the important symbols and the Wanting, not exact parallels. One side wanted to keep their cheap labor: we have Barack as president who is a false negative of Abraham Lincoln, wanting to effect society in a large way: the country is dividing along ideological and religious lines. It’s sort of like a Dark Civil War – perhaps, even with no old-school violence but only that which is in our hearts – with a Dark Union where the leader Barack is amassing his army of racists and statists to quash the sovereignty of the Limited Government “South”. I came to this thinking when Barack stood with Mexico’s president in condemning Arizona’s law as racist (which stirred the public), but his DoJ sued based on pre-emption of federal law instead. It does feel like America has entered into some kind of alternate universe since Barack’s swearing in was botched, to me. The original swearing in was junked, and the second (to ensure it all) took place behind closed doors with apparently no Bible. With so many bad omens I’m just trying to see what might fit.

I thought I would throw it out there, this idea, but maybe it is just standard encroachment of government.