Some Saturday thoughts about the good, the bad, and the ugly.
The Good:
We’re still the world’s most powerful military, by far, and our ability to project that power around the globe is unrivaled.
Our productive capacity is also unrivaled, despite the endless efforts of liberals and swampies in government to destroy it.
We’re sitting on a bed of precious minerals, and floating on a sea of petrochemicals, to power us for many lifetimes.
The Bad:
A bunch of unserious pseudo-academics and “economists” are walking us into an apocalyptically bad debt and inflation cycle that will be difficult to escape.
The left’s culture war is turning on them but the damage has been done. A generation of our youth have been corrupted and we’ve lost many of the leaders of tomorrow.
The Ugly:
The democrat party has been entirely hijacked by a posse of anti-American lunatics who won’t stop until they burn this place to the ground.
The useful idiot class is growing and the social media ecosystem is exacerbating the problem in the new “attention economy.”
Spiritual Drift - The Colossian Heresy
Colossians 2:6-7
"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."
Paul wrote this letter from prison (likely in Rome around AD 60–61) to a church he’d never visited personally. Paul had only heard of the church in Colossae, he'd never been there or met these people he wrote to. It sort of organically evolved out of the witness of the gospel that was spreading throughout southern Asia Minor.
The city was part of the Roman and Byzantine province of Phrygia, along the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western Aegean Region. In antiquity it was notable for its healing springs and its veneration of the Archangel Michael.
It seems that lies and heresies were spreading throughout that region, to which Paul was addressing. And it seems that people have a penchant for heresy. Almost a hereditary ...
