Anybody who has not been aware of the depths of depravity in Hollywood since forever has been in a coma, so stop with this “now that the curtain has been pulled back” bit. How about “Now that the curtain has been pulled back, and the depths of depravity revealed in Washington, will there be any consequences for all politicians? Aren’t political campaigns & endorsements forever tainted by the broken & abused who were forever scarred?” Right now, we have a Republican sexual predator campaigning for another Republican sexual predator (who preyed on minors), and “the base” is just fine, because “judges and all that, you know?”
Guess what?
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”
“Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit.”
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery mark their ways,
and the way of peace they do not know.”
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
(Romans 3:10–18)
We want to divide the world into us and them: Our group is the good guys; theirs is the bad. The Democrats are of Satan; Republicans are the party of God; Democrats are weak, don’t care about the unborn, want to give money to lazy people and welfare queens; Republicans are cruel, don’t give a damn about the “lucky to be born”, favor the wealthy, will allow the sick to die and the poor to starve…blah, blah, blah…
Vomit!
Not Nazi Germany; the Soviet Union Gulag
When he was rotting in the Gulag, the Soviet Union concentration camps, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came to know Jesus Christ. It was there that he realized something deeply profound:
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them…It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts…And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.**
* This excerpt is from “The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
**I have taken the liberty of combining two nearly identical quotes.
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