RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
These closing lines of President Roosevelt’s Prayer Of The Nation represent forlorn hope that will beget furious enmity, e.g., Alinsky’s diabolical radicals:
Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace — a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Peace is a condition of the mind earned by an individual through spiritual exercise. It is not a condition of any society, nation, family or civilization, whose condition of conflict is a prius of their existence and thus unending.
Therefore no unity can obtain between nations, much less cessation of conflict. Peace among nations is an eschatological symbol pointing above and beyond history, not a condition or practicum in or of history.
Even peace of the mind is vulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men, whose presence never ends, by the way. Far more vulnerable to those men’s schemings are society, nation, family and civilization, who never have and never can have peace.
For societies, nations, families and civilizations, freedom is obtained by successful conflict — victory — not by peace, which ever is unavailable to societies, nations, families and civilizations. The words society, nation, family and civilization are synonyms for constant conflict.
War is the father of all things and love is their mother. You want anything at all? You want to do anything at all? You gotta go to war with and love all equally. Try it, you’ll like it.
Freedom itself is the just reward of honest toil. There is no other. And peace, which is never a condition of societies, nations, families and civilizations, cannot therefore be a condition in which men reap the just rewards of their honest toil. Successful — victorious — conflict is.
Roosevelt’s Prayer Of The Nation is proper in what it asks in the way of war-fighting spirit and outcome and improper in what it assumes in the way of life’s condition and asks in the way of life’s result.
Follow-on results of the Prayer’s closing lines are known: dashed hope, bitterness, blame, alienation, anger, lashing out, furious enmity, vast destruction of individuals, societies, nations, families and civilizations. A most predictable consequence of forlorn hope pronounced over and absorbed by a large population. Enmity atoned.
This is why theologians profess that knowledge matters to individuals and groups and that evil permeates the world.
God listened to President Roosevelt’s Prayer and granted success to all supplications up until the Prayer’s closing lines, when He said to himself, “That delusional old man, time to come home.”
Update I: Richard Fernandez improvises upon the theme of God’s response to President Roosevelt’s closing lines.
Update II: Belfast Pastor Faces Prison For Grossly Offending Islam.
AMDG – VICTORY
