How Touchy We Are!

Have you given any thoughts to how touchy many people are? Our culture in promoting tolerance seems to have encouraged the opposite effect. Every word is parsed, every tone misinterpreted, every facial expression or non-expression is judged. Yet, we are not to condemn certain behaviors, refer to God (at least the Christian God), mention traditionalism, life issues, and so on.

Almost 450 years ago the English and Welsh martyrs gave up their lives in gruesome fashion because they would not negotiate nor dilute their beliefs.

Election Year

"Anyone that [sic] wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." -David Broder

"War is a racket. It always has been...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives...Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." -General Smedley Darlington Butler (about 75 years ago).