For Memorial Day, do yourself a favor and take three minutes of your time to listen to this Civil War letter from Maj. Sullivan Ballou to his wife.
I just started re-watching the Ken Burns series, which debuted in 1990 to a record-breaking audience of 40 million, for the first time since it originally aired.
While I had forgotten all of the specifics of the show over the years, I NEVER forgot this letter or this moment, which closed the first episode.
Burns kept a copy of the letter in his wallet for 25 years.
We don’t want strong, independent people who can take care of themselves. We want a society so full of empathy that it destroys itself through open borders, endless welfare, wealth redistribution, and total dependence on The Party.
This is how we win. The more empathy we push, the more power we gain.
The 5 year plan is perfect. ☭
Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?
In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.
He calls the result “men without chests.”
People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.
Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.
Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.
Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.
Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.
Pastor @ErikReed boldly putting an end to the "both sides" arguments we've seen from many Christians over the last few weeks and calling out the Democrats for being at war with "creational reality."
"We are living in a world where there are two different visions for what kind of society we want to live in.
And if Christ is not in the foundations of what we're doing with our vision for the future, if the Christian foundation and worldview that made our country great to begin with is not there, and everybody's just doing what's right in their own eyes, you can guarantee chaos will ensue.
We are choosing between two distinct futures. They are not the same. Our two political parties in our country are not morally equivalent to each other...
I am not baptizing the Republican Party. They did not come from Mount Sinai on high from God to say 'Thus saith the Lord.'
But the current state of the Democratic Party, as they are...they are a party at war with creational realities every day. Creational realities.
They are at war about what it means to be a man or a woman, about marriage, about sexuality, about who has the right to live in a womb. They are at war with life and prosperity.
There is one side in particular with a progressive ideology that not only tried to suppress the story of the young woman in Charlotte, but who celebrated, both in the media and with college professors and many others, the death of a man whose beliefs they did not hold...
And if you're more concerned with what I've just said in the last two or three minutes, about sounding partisan, than you are concerned about the reality of what's actually happening in our society right now, you have lost the plot."
They feared his intellect.
They feared his logic.
They feared his peaceful conversations.
They feared his love of God.
They feared his love of family.
They feared his love of America.
But mostly they feared that young minds were listening.
They should now fear that millions have heard and now America has millions of Charlie Kirks…
@BasedMikeLee Take every comment of defamation and marring of character to the nth degree and hold him accountable. Sue HIS estate. The Kirk kids will use his money to BENEFIT society instead of fill it with evil like @Stephen King
@seanfeucht John 12:24
Let Charlie Kirk be the grain of wheat that falls into the ground and dies and bears much much fruit. May a million Charlie Kirk's rise up to take his place.
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