But the Religious Left, including the Lutheran prelates, attach messianic
importance and powers to the state. Perhaps Caesar is Lord after
all? How likely would the Apostles, or Luther, have viewed modern America’s
lower income people, most of whom are armed with air conditioned homes,
automobiles, cable television and high tech gadgetry, along with modern health
care, record life spans and food stuffs from a global market, as desperately
poor? Poverty is often a relative term. And by the standards of history, or most
of today’s world, few in America are genuinely impoverished. Avoiding poverty in America mostly entails finishing high school, shunning drug
and alcohol addictions, not having illegitimate children, and avoiding
divorce. But the Religious Left, contrary to its own religious traditions,
is not interested in shaping personal choices. It prefers the compulsion
of state regulation and taxation. |
My Dad must be rolling in his grave right now. And I can't even imagine what my Aunt Louise would be thinking now of what has become of the Lutheran Church she knew.
As for me, I will be prayerfully reconsidering my personal choices.
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