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The Questions of Our Day

February 16, 2010

Winston ChurchillPosted by Wallace+

As I imagine you have heard or read about by now, last week the Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill outlawing the forcible implantation of microchips in people's bodies. The bill's sponsor explained to the Washington Post that the chips might well be the "mark of the beast" spoken of in the book of Revelation, which in turn would be used by the Antichrist at the end of days. When I told a good friend of mine (not a Virginia resident) about this, he said, "How dumb do they think the Antichrist is?!"

As they say, you can't make this stuff up. (I have laughed out loud several times this week thinking about my friend's remark, which, needless to say, he meant tongue-in-cheek.)

Meanwhile the NRA is winning the day (yet another day) on Capitol Square, and we slide further away from responsible gun policy (see last week's post re the senate committee hearing I attended).

Yet we must not despair, as despair gets us nowhere. And, while indeed government often disappoints, on the other hand, as Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried."

So then, let us pray for our elected leaders, for good sense and for courage. And let us pray, as well, for guidance as to what part we ourselves have to play in the questions of our day.

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