All the political pundits will cover the SOTU with razor sharp scrutiny. They won’t miss the yelling, the obfuscation, the blatant lies, the endless exclamations of what he “wants to do” – or the absence of all the things he never did.
Joe Biden’s rhetoric and his record are a stark contradiction.
No American, who is not at this moment under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or sleeping, can miss this fact.
The “don’t worry, be happy” Christian sites don’t much care for serious rebuke, and good political punditry hardly needs a boost these days.
Twenty years of online publishing have taught me one thing, most readers stop reading before they get to the heart of an article, based on the estimated time to read any particular piece.
With that in mind, let’s get to the point.
Those who love power – often love nothing else
When Christ was just about to enter history, the sleazy power-hungry King Herod knew the time was near, and he feared the loss of his own power. Like most all the Jews in his day he could not see the great parenthetical age between Christ’s first coming and his eventual return. He expected Christ to take his throne and give him the boot.
Herod did what many worshippers of power have done throughout history – he killed all threats by killing all the people who were real, or only perceived threats. It was in indiscriminate clean sweep.
We all know the story – he had about 200 babies murdered in the area of Bethlehem. That was every newborn baby at that time.
It brought a dark tsunami of sorrow and lamentation. To wit:
“In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.” (Mt 2:18)