struggle for rights is …
now a point of pride for all …
must never go back!
There is sin and evil in the world, and we’re enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might.
Our nation, too, has a legacy of evil with which it must deal.
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past.
For example, the long struggle of minority citizens … for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war is now a point of pride for all Americans.
We must never go back.
There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.
This speech became famous as President Reagan called out the USSR as the ‘Evil Empire’.
As Edmund Morris wrote in the book, “Dutch”, Reagan used the speech to note that the United States had PURGED ITSELF of racism and class prejudice.
President Reagan, I think, really thought that.
So did I.
President Reagan warned, “We must never go back.”
I would have agreed.
Not it seems, we never really left those things behind.
Someone had to come along and rip off the band aid and tear off the scab to show it was all still there.
God does indeed have a purpose for everyone in his great plan.
The President would go on and quote CS Lewis saying:
It was C.S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable “Screwtape Letters,” wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now…in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint.
It is…not even done in concentration camps and labor camps.
In those we see its final result, but it is conceived and ordered; moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”
Evil is but it is conceived and ordered;
moved,
seconded,
carried
and minuted
in clear,
carpeted,
warmed,
and well-lighted offices,
by quiet men with white collars
and cut fingernails
and smooth-shaven cheeks
who do not need to raise their voice.
Don’t know about you but that Lewis quote hit me hard.
How in the world did we get here?
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