Here we are mid-river and we can hear the rumble of
approaching rapids. The river drops fast as we skim over an occasional
sub-surface boulder. We know if we stay on this course, we’ll tumble over the
falls, but if we can veer to the right and take it down through the slough
we’ll be OK, but to do that we need every hand to paddle and paddle hard in
unison.
Let’s talk about how we do that – how do we discuss clearly,
quickly and powerfully the necessity of making that hard right? It can’t be
done by shouting or making wild accusations or by attacking people personally.
It has to be done with logic and with love.
Logic is God’s way of thinking, for He is not the author of
confusion. He is a rational God and if we are, as Paul tells us, to “take every
thought into captivity for Christ,” they have to be logical thoughts. And
here’s where our national problem lies – the thought patterns on the left, the
thought patterns that got us into this mess – are not logical, are not rational
and the approaching rapids are proof.
So is the anger and irrationality coming from the left.
Think Chris Matthews. I can’t imagine the pain of hearing that impending torrent
of doom and having to choose between saying, “You know, Marx was an idiot,” or
trying to convince yourself that plummeting to your death is what you always
wanted to do. That’s bound to make people testy and we’re starting to see some
folks in the public eye crumbling around the edges. We have to reach across the
rapids and grab as many as we can and pull them to safety. We’ll be better off
with their help paddling and they’ll have a chance of living and living well.
Let’s do a crash course in what is wrong with leftist
thinking: