Friday, July 31, 2015

God Bless America


"It’s fine if you are opposed to what Palmer did, but that doesn’t excuse you from the duty to be sane and rational. It’s a lion, after all. An animal. If you want to be really agitated by a doctor who kills living things, you should probably be less focused on this dentist and a little more focused on abortionists like LeRoy Carhart, who murder actual people. Carhart has killed bothunborn and born humans, and likes to do the former byripping the child apart while it’s still alive. Maybe the media should be camping out in front of his houseinstead of Palmer’s. Maybe we should be asking why doctors are allowed to execute babies, not why dentists are allowed to hunt African game." -Matt Walsh

I hesitated to post this at all, mostly because I try to avoid conflict and I know many of my friends do not share my own political views, but this one hits home and heavies my heart. How could we as a nation be so devastated  by the death of another animal, yet be so unaffected by the thousands of children taken from us without of voice of their own?  Christians are being beheaded daily across the world, women are suppressed, and children are starving, but those stories rarely make headlines and surface a passion within us. Our country needs a retreat. The kind where you sit in silence for long times, interact act only in prayer with others, and reflect on yourself and your own moral being. I say this often, but this week I say it with a plea "God Bless America"