{"id":4233,"date":"2018-09-15T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/a-letter-from-ronald-reagan-to-his-dying-father-in-law\/"},"modified":"2018-09-15T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:05:58","slug":"a-letter-from-ronald-reagan-to-his-dying-father-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/a-letter-from-ronald-reagan-to-his-dying-father-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter from Ronald Reagan to his Dying Father-in-Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Loyal Davis, Reagan\u2019s father-in-law and a pioneering neurosurgeon, was just days away from death<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Something else worried Reagan: The dying man was, by most definitions of the word, an atheist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have never been able to subscribe to the divinity of Jesus Christ nor his virgin birth. I don\u2019t believe in his resurrection, or a heaven or hell as places,\u201d Davis once wrote. \u201cIf we are remembered and discussed with pleasure and happiness after death, this is our heavenly reward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Reagan, on the other hand, believed everyone would face a day of judgment, and that Davis\u2019s was near. So the most powerful man in the world put everything else aside, took pen in hand and set out on an urgent mission \u2014 to rescue one soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This provides further insight into why the Left so hated Reagan: he was a man of faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can't help but point out that what Loyal Davis says about "our heavenly reward" is disgusting nonsense. Why disgusting? Because it twists words to mean what they can't mean.  There is nothing heavenly or rewarding about being the merely intentional object of a few flickering and intermittent memories of a few mortals soon to bite the dust themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Memo to atheists: if you are a hard-assed naturalist, hoe the row to the bitter end and issue no claptrap about a heavenly reward. Man up, accept the consequences of your doctrine, and show some respect for the English language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: Loyal Davis, Reagan\u2019s father-in-law and a pioneering neurosurgeon, was just days away from death. Something else worried Reagan: The dying man was, by most definitions of the word, an atheist. \u201cI have never been able to subscribe to the divinity of Jesus Christ nor his virgin birth. I don\u2019t believe in his resurrection, or a … Continue reading “A Letter from Ronald Reagan to his Dying Father-in-Law”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}