Relocating To Elfland

As if any of us needs further education on what a sham our current Congress is, this is a great piece of reporting from the Wall Street Journal.

As Mother State continues her firm efforts to make us all lifelong sucklings at her breasts, I offer this humble word of analysis:

American public discourse is plagued by an increasing inability to distinguish between the questions (a) whether there is a problem deserving of thoughtful and compassionate response and (b) who should solve it. To pause over the latter is now perceived as giving a negative answer to the former.

“Even a freedom that cannot be obtained and enjoyed aside from the danger of licentiousness and caprice is still always to be preferred over a tyranny that suppresses liberty. In the creation of humanity, God himself chose this way of freedom, which carried with it the danger and actually the fact of sin as well, in preference to forced subjection. Even now, in ruling the world and governing the church, God still follows this royal road of liberty. It is precisely his honor that through freedom he nevertheless reaches his goal, creating order out of disorder, light from darkness, a cosmos out of chaos.” (Bavinck, p. 1.479)