Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
The Lump 08/2018 — Blue Ridge Parkway, Wilkes County, North Carolina
When Trump was running for his first term of office, I lived in South Carolina and Lindsey Graham was stumping for Trump not far from my house. His most memorable line in that speech was, "I know he's a rascal and no Boy Scout, but at least he won't take our guns away."
His speech was not pro-Trump, but anti-Democrat.
Nothing changes over time.
This is the strategy that will get Trump elected for a third term, and a fourth... Assuming he doesn't just declare himself to be King of America before this term is finished.
The Extreme Right Propaganda Media Machine has been at work for a generation or longer laying the groundwork for "Anybody but a Democrat" mentality nationwide. The indoctrination has been effective and is complete. No Democrat can run against it and survive/win.
And when the country goes to hell, at least it wasn't Democratic.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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Right now I am reading Walter Wink’s book “The Powers that Be: Theology for a New Millennium.” His books deal with the development of The Domination System, the Powers and Principalities, the Myth of Redemptive Violence, the Patriarchal System and how they pervade the cultures of the world. Uncanny at a time when Trump ascends the power structure, a mythic system that undergirds our belief structure even though many profess to follow Christ.
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Right now I am reading Walter Wink’s book “The Powers that Be: Theology for a New Millennium.” His books deal with the development of The Domination System, the Powers and Principalities, the Myth of Redemptive Violence, the Patriarchal System and how they pervade the cultures of the world. Uncanny at a time when Trump ascends the power structure, a mythic system that undergirds our belief structure even though many profess to follow Christ.
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