My heart breaks as I watch the chasm between ideologies irreparably broaden, finding myself wondering if, even hoping, I may be wrong in my assessment.
I'm distinguishing how Jonah must have felt when he was told to speak to the Assyrians.
My self-talk asks whether anything I have to say is of such importance, of such relevance, that it would make a difference, even if some would accept it as true.
I choose to take the chance!
America is an idea; a state of mind, a collective of people, e pluribus unum, whose thoughts hold the idea e.g. One Nation under God, indivisible . . .
But that rudimentary idea has been so clouded by misunderstanding, obfuscated by controversy, marred by religious institutional dogma, compromised and polluted by corrupt and disingenuous leaders, polluted, it is no longer distinguishable than other than the vain rant of mentally disconnected automatons.
America is an idea founded on and established within spiritual principles-maxims: Truth.
What Truths? What is missing?
"We Hold these Truths to be Self-Evident . . . "
What Truths?
That we even have to ask is tragic.
We are lost, and don't even know that we are, let alone where we are going.
Even worse, we don't even know who we are, and are unable to distinguish who our enemy is.
I'd say we are in rebellion, but that would be generous because at least rebellion implies intent. Can we be unintentionally in rebellion to that which we owe allegiance?
Can a People, a Sovereign Body Politic, be in rebellion to a principal when they are so deceived they don't even know they owe allegiance?
Can a People, a purported "Nation under God," greatly deceived, be held accountable to Truth?
It's not that simple. It’s not a matter of accountability.
It's a matter of just plain ignorance to the natural law of Cause and Effect.
Truth is impersonal, a double-edged sword. It is no respecter of persons--not even a sovereign collective. Judgment, therefore, is not a matter of accountability, its a matter of the natural order, of natural justice.
For every cause, there is an effect, for every effect, there is a cause.
America is falling, not because she is accountable, but because she is ignorant of the knowledge the natural law of Cause and Effect, failing to realize that what she is experiencing is an effect, a circumstance, a result of the preceding causes.
"My people perish for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children." Hosea 4.6
Remedy won't be found in more legislation, more executive rules, regulations and orders, more judicial actions, more demonstrations, activism, opposition, hanging traitors or the like, or anything else opposing the present unfolding circumstances.
Remedy will only be had in moving backward along the causal chain of cause and effect to discover the primary causes resulting in the untenable circumstances, and by changing that primary cause, which is likely nothing more than a flawed premise.
A fortiori, if you find yourself faced with a dilemma, a conundrum, the flaw is in the premises causing the circumstances. Error in premises can't be escaped in the resulting circumstances.
We're living in a time of so many branches stemming from as many flawed premises, that cognitive dissonance has so stalled the intellectual capacity of most that their hearts are about to fail them out of fear of what is coming on America.
If you knew the primary cause, and you could change it, would you?
