Something Wicked This Way Comes

In act 4 of Macbeth, the witches conjure a spell where they tell Hectre it is a "deed without name". The second witch in her spell says "the prick of a thumb, something wicked this way comes, open locks, whoever knocks". I wonder sometimes if someone has cast a spell over our country, over the very people. I wonder if some witch somewhere has pricked her thumb and dropped blood into a black cauldron, proclaiming these very words. That at the proclamation of these words, someone knocked and certain doors opened.

I think of Johnathan Edwards' sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, where he describes sin as a slippery slope, and cannot help but think that we are at the brink as a nation. One foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. The enlightenment was no help to us at all. The French Revolution's cry of "there is no God but man" has so permeated western culture since the revolution began. Can you imagine what the world would be like if every man was his own ultimate authority and everyone did what was right in his/her own eyes? Sadly, I think we are getting a taste of it, and it doesn't taste good. See, we need to be careful what kind of sandwiches we make, because eventually we are going to have to take a bite.

So, that slippery slope thing... We are on it. On the edge of a precipice, dangling by a thread. The women's liberation movement of the 60's has given way to a rampant, hate filled feminism, where some will claim rape if a man even looks at them, and then pine over the fact that no one is interested in them. Add to that the dark side of the civil rights movement, and the inception of groups like the Black Panthers and their current reincarnation in the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement. A cry of we are equal, yet they disrupt towns and traffic and some are killing cops and some are crying for war with whites. A far cry from the peace movement of Martin Luther King.

Then there is the doctrines of socialism and acceptance. Socialism isn't something for free, or all things shared equally. It is the sharing of all things or else, and someone's gotta pay for that free stuff. And acceptance of everyone and everything? It might be the biggest farce of all. The doctrine of tolerance is a false doctrine from the pit of hell. We, as a people do not have to accept everyone and everything just because someone says so. The truth is, the person that stands for everything, stands for nothing. The truth is, some people aren't worth tolerating (do not answer a fool according to his folly), and some beliefs are downright dangerous to our very way of life (Islam anyone? Socialism?).

Here's the thing... We have opened the doors to these things, believing that they are for our betterment, but in reality it is a peppermint flavored glass of Drano. All that glitters is not gold, and the poison we have been force-fed for the last few decades is taking its toll. Believe me when I say if we do not get rid of it, that something wicked this way will surely come. In fact, I hear it knocking, knocking at our door, waiting for us to invite it in and fully embrace it. Like a seductress, it woos us, it calls to us, it whispers in our ear the sweet words of acceptance, but pull back her veil and you will see the rotting corpse of political and social liberalism. You will smell the death and decay of the rotting body of belief that sits underneath. My friends, we need to stand now, more than ever for what is right, we need to step outside the 3-ring circus of the media and look at what's going on around us. I hope you will stand with me. Our country, as wounded and hurt and sick as it is, is still greater than any other place on earth, but it won't be for long if we remain silent. Time to speak out and take back the country we love.