But while we still have a little bit of room to breathe here in America, what do we hope for?

What do we pray for?

What are we working for?

Do we actually want a firm-handed monarch? Is that what we're aiming for? Or are we just saying that if we're not

careful, our French Revolution here could end up creating another Napoleon? I completely agree with the latter description. Introduction. Well, a very happy 4th of July to you and yours.

I trust you are grilling something tasty,

gathering with your friends and family

and shooting off fireworks, hopefully at least a few

that are a tad bit illegal. In honor of the holiday I want to interact with a clip I saw

floating around of my friends Joel Webbin and Stephen Wolf talking about the fact

that a constitutional republic really only works for people who know how to govern themselves.

As Benjamin Franklin said, it's a republic if you can keep it.

The verdict is in, says Joel, and clearly we haven't kept it and when you don't have a

virtuous people governed by the Holy Spirit you will get the iron fist of stronger

governments and laws.

Descriptive or prescriptive.

The question I have is whether the point here is descriptive or prescriptive.

It's certainly true that a morally enslaved people will become a politically enslaved people,

sort of like that one bumper sticker, gravity.

It's the law.

You cannot have political liberty apart from spiritual liberty, and sometimes when your nation is sliding into enslavement, the only choice you have is between an Ahab and a Jahoram.

And if Jahoram is a little less evil than his father and would suppress bail worship just a little bit,

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