“A Republic … if you can keep it. ” Those were the famous words of Ben Franklin in response to the question posed to him at the end of the quite closed 1787 Constitutional Convention … called – as everyone knew quite well – to construct a political system designed to …
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There is a tragic tendency of Christians to pick and choose portions of Scripture that support political-social-moral positions they strongly identify with personally … and to reject other parts of Scripture that challenge those same positions. However … it is very important to note that Scripture is a single recitation …
The Vets’ fear of authoritarianism shapes deeply the development of the Boomer generation Given the high level of anti-Communist hysteria found among a World-War-Two Veterean generation (the “Vets”) that had fought the authoritarianism of German and Japanese Fascism in the 1940s and now found themselves facing that same authoritarian threat …
The post-war fear of a rising Communism At the end of World War Two in 1945, Old Europe was devastated … with Stalin’s Soviet Russia in military occupation of the eastern half of Europe – and most unwilling to go home. Russia had been constantly assaulted from the West … …
