It's a hard pill to swallow, but most people will do what they believe is in their own self-interest

Not what they know to be true and right

It's easy to sacrifice loyalty duty and principle for flattery comfort and success when someone thinks the latter offers more

fulfillment than the former.

This explains much of what's happened in Christian leadership, not to mention the

medical, media, and academic establishments.

Saraman thinks power lies with Sauron and not Gandolf.

Judas thinks money to be more desirable than Jesus.

The only part of man not pleased by compromise is his soul.

Yet the key to living an honorable life in this temporal world is living in the light of the life we are to have in eternity.

The intangibles are what make the tangibles meaningful.

Ordering allegiance according to natural affections and spiritual duties,

rather than market forces, in securities and fleshly desires is a much better way to sleep well with the clean conscience.

Peace only comes through submission to God's order.

There's no wonder our social institutions are fragmented into ever smaller pieces as

infighting and treachery lead us down to perdition. We lost

true north when we decided to follow our own star. When questions like how will

it benefit me override questions like what is my obligation the seeds of social destruction

are soed. The dragons men who still have chess opposed today are no different in

principle than the ancient dragons of Christ time but Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew

all men and he did not that any should testify of man for he knew what was in man. It's not

ultimately the wealthiest globalists, the ignorant masses, or the tyrant sitting at the local town hall who threatens our souls.

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