Wednesday, February 15, 2012

True Believers in Liberty

True believers.  When reading those words, true believers, many individuals will experience a visceral reaction.  All individuals will experience a visceral reaction to the descriptive words true believers as defined at that link in the number one position, but not all individuals considering the descriptive true believers will experience the visceral reaction as defined in the number two and three positions.

AM, who just recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, considers the subject of true believers from the standpoint of Muslim true believers, and true believers in liberty, in a post titled True Believers, the effects of morality on unconventional warfare which is worth considering.

If America is to have “an Army of Davids” that is good.  If America is to have “A Nation of Riflemen” that is good.  But without a “Nation of True Believers” there is no chance at all for either Davids or Riflemen to stand against the forces of the endarkening and challenge them back…

Anyone who can sell the idea of Liberty to a non-believer and create a True Believer will do more for the cause of freedom than any marksmanship instructor or small group leader.  In our world where “relativism” makes Tyranny no better or worse than Liberty it is an extreme position to say that there IS a right and wrong, and that there IS a good and an evil, and that it is GOOD to fight against EVIL.  It isn’t a thousand or a million trained riflemen that make Tyrants fear the night.  It is the thought that there are True Believers who oppose, who will not “be reasonable” who will not “talk it out” who will not “compromise” who will not waiver in their faith and course.  Faith gives rise to action, it must, or it is not faith

Posted by John Venlet on 02/15 at 08:31 AM
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