{"id":671,"date":"2024-07-14T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/14\/sunday-morning-sermon-stay-calm\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T03:31:11","slug":"sunday-morning-sermon-stay-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/14\/sunday-morning-sermon-stay-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning Sermon: Stay Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Stay calm. Take some deep breaths. Be careful what you say. Quietly prepare. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If you are a Democrat, ask yourself whether Joe Biden&#39;s open-border policy might have something to do with a breakdown in civil order, and who will profit from such a breakdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Rod Dreher&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/roddreher.substack.com\/p\/fight-fight-fight\">take<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Victor Davis Hanson on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VDHanson\/status\/1812434677312983429\">Assassination Porn<\/a> and the Sickness on the Left.&#0160; It is <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/06\/kathy-griffin-cultural-appropriator.html\">this sort of thing<\/a> that Hanson has in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Jonathan Turley <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/4770670-the-attempted-assassination-of-trump-is-not-nearly-as-surprising-as-it-should-be\/\">weighs in<\/a>, making&#0160; a point Dmitri made in the combox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02dad0c96b28200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump Defiant\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02dad0c96b28200d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02dad0c96b28200d-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Trump Defiant\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yiv6417426298gmail-LabelCaptionSource\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">This image by Evan Vucci of the AP is quickly becoming an iconic one.&#0160;&#0160; (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"yiv6417426298gmail-storyParagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Donald Trump, his face&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/352935\/donald-trump-i-was-shot-in-the-ear.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bloodied by a bullet<\/a>, raised a fist and said, &quot;Fight! fight! fight!&quot; on Saturday as Secret Service agents helped him from his rally stage. In doing so, he &quot;struck one of the iconic poses in US history,&quot; writes Nico Hines at the&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-just-created-one-of-the-most-iconic-photos-in-us-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Beast<\/a>. The sentiment is a common one:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">&quot;Make no mistake, the image of a bloodstained Trump standing with one arm aloft instantly takes its place alongside the greatest photos in American history,&quot; writes Hines, up there with Neil Armstrong on the moon and the Times Square kiss. In his view, the moment is historic in part because&#0160;<strong>it all but seals Trump&#39;s victory in November<\/strong>. [<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A naive prediction which shows a failure to grasp just how vicious and vile the cadre Left is. There will be further attempts to stop him, either by assassination or by some other means.&#0160; As a defender of the American republic, Trump stands in the way of the Left&#39;s relentless effort to &quot;fundamentally transform&quot; (Obama) our country. It&#39;s a war over the soul of America. If you don&#39;t see that, you are a fool, whence it follows that Milquetoast Mitt and the nattering nabobs of his ilk are fools living in the past &#8212; to put it charitably.&#0160; Time to ask yourself a serious question: Which side am I on? If you give the Right answer to that question, then you must ask yourself: what will I do to help insure that the Right side wins?<\/span>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay calm. Take some deep breaths. Be careful what you say. Quietly prepare. If you are a Democrat, ask yourself whether Joe Biden&#39;s open-border policy might have something to do with a breakdown in civil order, and who will profit from such a breakdown. Rod Dreher&#39;s take.&#0160; Victor Davis Hanson on Assassination Porn and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/14\/sunday-morning-sermon-stay-calm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Morning Sermon: Stay Calm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,29,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-political-ponerology","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}