I talked about the 1992 phenomenon of Ross Perot going from saying on the Larry King show that he would be willing to be drafted as president to a majority in the polls before his crazy withdrawal from the race.
I talked about the fact that the churches that that do exactly what everybody says they should not do are skyrocketing in membership while the get-along-go-along mainline Protestant churches have been steadily dying away.
Now I will tie them together with this, the point that is that is important to US.
As I said, what is important to us about the growth of evangelicals is the POLITICAL lesson there.
The lesson of the sudden collapse of the entire Soviet Empire almost overnight, when everybody suddenly said, “This is SILLY!” has been completely ignored while we whimper and sob.
What is important about Perot is not Perot. It has nothing to do with his big ears or the fact that he is a nut or even his political message.
From our point of view, the ONLY important thing here is the smoldering rebellion that is obvious in all of this.
We are always weeping and wailing about how passive everybody is.
Centuries-old churches are falling in America. In Europe they’re already GONE.
Both of our all-powerful political parties were terrified by a little nut from Arkansas.
Every Sovietologist in 1980 agreed that the Soviet Empire was there to stay and by 1990 they all agreed it was bound to go.
And we are still besieged by Wise, Practical Men who tell us, “Everybody is happy with things the way they are!”
“OH, WOE!”
I find it hard to believe that all those whiners and criers are holding forth while I seem to be the only one noticing that Mount Vesuvius is boiling up all around us.
In Iceland, alll their energy needs are satisfied by harnessing the live volcanoes that made the island and are still going strong. But they didn’t do that by waiting for the volcanoes to produce lots of heat for their houses.
Get off of talking about Perot’s ears. Get off of worrying about the theology of evangelicals.
The volcano is going, and it is slightly less subtle than an A-Bomb.
You have to stick your fingers in your ears to hear yourself scream “All if lost!”
Get your fingers out of your ears. We must HARNESS the volcano.
And before you can harness the thing, you have to, for God’s sake, NOTICE that it is there.
#1 by kane on 04/24/2006 - 4:39 pm
Well Gorbachev allowed free speech and Democratic elections for Republics within USSR, I’m sure people thought it was silly under under Stalin but he’d shoot you if you didn’t follow his way. That was a stupid move from a point of holding power, but a very richeous one on Gorbachev’s part. The only way Communism can work is if you shoot people and use punishments as a means to drive people since rewards are taking out of the picture, Gorbachev stopped the repression, so it fell.
#2 by Mark on 04/24/2006 - 5:42 pm
“Get your fingers out of your ears. We must HARNESS the volcano.”
Ok Bob, I might be simplistic in my thinking, but HOW do we harness the volcano? Do we organize marches, do we start yet another 3rd. political party, do we go knocking on doors inviting neighbors to boycott select businesses, do we create a massive mail campaign to our congressman???
What exactly do we do?