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Published Sunday, November 09, 2008 in Opinion
The change we really need
Who was not moved by the bright expectancy shining in the adoring faces of Obama's faithful Tuesday night? In a brilliant, spellbinding speech, Obama promised for the umpteenth time a brave new world of hope and change.
I'm sorry for Obama's idolaters: For when their bubble bursts and they realize they have elected a flawed, compromising politician, like other politicians, there'll be no limit to their grief and rage. History suggests, though, that they'll vent their frustration on everyone but Obama and themselves. What Obama's worshippers and detractors alike can expect is not the salvation of America and (according to Charles Rangel) the whole world, but four or eight years of turbulent, gut-wrenching change. They can expect an avalanche of unwelcome unintended consequences of well-meant, but wrongheaded policies. They can expect to lose more of their freedom, their wealth, and yes, their hope.
Unless they hope in the Lord. A wholesome maxim I try to follow is: "Do the right thing and leave the results to God." It's a maxim wholly opposite of politics, which says, "Do the thing necessary to get into power. Think of the good you can do." Politics is a messy game, the very nature of which involves compromise, half-truths, fudging and finagling for the greater good.
For power's sake, Christians on the left substitute Marx for the Bible, and many Christians on the right substitute political activism for strict righteousness and unwavering hope in God. They have politicked, connived, compromised, voted time and again for the lesser of two evils. They imagine they can engage the world on its own terms and not be soiled. They put their hope in human government rather than in God's unseen, providential rule over all things. A revival of righteousness, not political victory, is the change we need.
Richard Kirby
Newnan
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