There Can Be No Such

The Words Of Jesus, Including Those Jefferson And The Jesus Seminar Have Blue-pencilled, Have A Unique Permanence. They Don't Merely Survive As Aphoristic Wisdom; They Have An Authority In Our Hearts, Even When We Try To Deny Them. They Command. We Can Obey Or Rebel. That Is Why Jesus Is Still Not Only Loved But Hated - And Why Those Who Hate Him Feel They Have To Profess To Love Him.

Some People Don't Mind A Little Constitutional Sophistry In A Good Cause; And For Liberals, Centralizing All Power In The Federal Government Is Always A Good Cause. Since Most Americans Don't Know Or Care What The Constitution Says, Let Alone What Their Ancestors Thought It Meant, The Great Liberal Snow Job Has Been Very Successful.

Liberalism Is Really Piecemeal Socialism, And Socialism Always Attacks Three Basic Social Institutions: Religion, The Family, And Private Property. Religion, Because It Offers A Rival Authority To The State; The Family, Because It Means A Rival Loyalty To The State; And Property, Because It Means Material Independence Of The State.

So When The Wolf Pounces On Your Lamb, Just Ignore The Pitiful Bleating And Remind Yourself That This Is A Democracy, Where Every Sheep Can Freely Express Its Preference For Which Kind Of Wolf It Wants To Be Eaten By. Many Sheep, Perhaps Understandably, Prefer A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing, Which Is After All The Basic Idea Of Democracy. So Far It Has Worked Pretty Well. The Wolves All Agree On That, And They Want To Spread Democracy Everywhere.

A Belief In Moral Absolutes Should Always Make Us More, Not Less, Critical Of Both Sides In Any Conflict. This Doesn't Mean That Both Sides Are Equally Wrong; It Means That Since We All Fall Short Of Moral Perfection, Even The Side Whose Cause Is Truly Righteous May Commit Terrible Acts Of Violence In Defense Of That Cause -- And, Worse, May Feel Quite Justified In Committing Them. That Is The Difference Between Being Righteous And Being Self-righteous. Moral Standards Are Absolute; But Human Fidelity To Them Is Always Relative.