We Have Met the Enemy....And He is US!

In Pogo veritas est. What is art for if not to illuminate the plank residing within our optic organ. Today Tom Delay was sentenced to three years for money laundering. While it is true that there is much wrong with what the Democrats have been doing in the federal government for the last two years, it is to be expected that they will act the way they have. If we will follow our own moral code, the world will be far better off than if we spend our time screaming bloody murder when democrats in Washington spend like democrats (Drunken sailors, it has been pointed out, stop spending when they run out of money), when people in Hollywood make pornographic films, and when atheists write books that use atheistic logic.

If Republicans cut off pork barrel spending and ended Christmas tree bills just from their own party, that would have more effect on the deficit than any amount of yelling at Democrats. I am not equating Christianity with Republicanism, far from it. I am merely trying to point out that both Christians and Republicans have a tendency to spend too much time pointing fingers when there is plenty of work to be done in their own garden.

Beyond the obvious effect of making a number of almost clean gardens clean, fixing our own lives is part of being above reproach. Our calls for morality fall somewhat flat when people see how Christians behave toward each other. Machiavelli and the Medici could take a few tips from church politics today; I mean whatever happened to 'they shall know you by your love for one another'? Republicans have screamed and yelled about excess spending and immoral democrat practices and yet this past year multiple Republicans and Christians faced charges relating to improper use of money and improper sexual relations, charges that were not unfounded.

If we take care of ourselves, and exercise dominion over the resources that God has given to us, we will do more good for the world than any amount of finger wagging will do. People, strangely enough, are more effected by deeds than by words, yet it is words that most of us employ instead of actions.