Wayne Northey: In the article highlighted below, we are told — again by this author — that America has a wisdom problem. I have no doubt that he is right.
What must be asserted however much more so is that America has an Evil Empire problem? When an Empire models brutality, greed, fear etc., to the wider world, something that has been inter-generational since its founding, and elects in 2016 one of the most vile and divisive of all previous Presidents, such evil invariably is acted out in its people. (What the author of the highlighted article says of Trump and his stalwart followers, in particular by implication of his fellow white Evangelicals, is right on; and likewise, his long citation of a passage from Ronald Rolheiser’s Sacred Fire, is so important for all of us!)
The woman in the photo above is America to every people worldwide it dominates to extract maximum wealth. Such evil is unsustainable. Such evil is contrary to the “arc of justice” the universe is bent towards — and away from America’s being “the most violent nation on earth” (both quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.) — and ultimately will experience in Kingdom Come.
Maranatha! Even so come, Lord Jesus!
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