A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

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June 6th, 2011 - 20:28

Jon A-

Thanks…I think?

If this is the first post in my series of how the bible lead me to my free market conservative beliefs, then I suggest you either start from the beginning or at least read a few of the other ones. You can find them by clicking on the “Bible & Economics” tab at the top of every page of my website. I am building a case by piecing together a mosaic of how I arrived at my conclusions. So you are absolutely right to say that my presuppositions…the things I assume to be true…are important to my article on Babel. I intend them to be. Go back and read some of the other ones (especially the first where I explain what my purpose in writing these posts at AEI’s Two Cents blog is).

I disagree that few other people will understand it. My audience is evangelical Christians who presumably believe in and care about the Bible and its teachings. Nothing I’ve said in any of my posts so far has been outside the purview of the average person under the age of 30 who has spent any time at all in the local church. I’m attempting to remind people of what they already know (or should know from even casual study of Scripture). More than anything else, I am attempting to share how I got where I am intellectually/spiritually/etc.

I appreciate your thoughts/comments, but I definitely disagree with your conclusions. We need claps of thunder, but if we sit around waiting for those without preparing our minds and hearts to be changed when they occur…it’ll never happen. And if it does, we won’t be ready to do anything about it. If the economic crisis of the last few years isn’t enough to count as a thunder clap and wake Believers up to the fact that we need to be better stewards and “cunning as serpents and loving as doves” in the culture around us…you and I are both wrong and it’s already over.

Don’t lose hope. The secular Left has changed the country for 40-50 years. It’s gonna take hard work for a number of years at the grass-roots, familial, local-church level to stem the tide.

God bless.

-RJM