Aug 3, 2011

Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread

Common Sense Commentary: This quote, from Alexander Pope, carries a heavy weight of wisdom. Many poems and song lyrics have been written  around Pope's comment.  But, exactly what is a fool?
Noah Webster's first definition is, "A person lacking in wisdom or prudence."  That is precisely true ... but why do fools rush in, wearing cow lot shoes,  upon holy ground, where even angels fear to tread ?
As with every other subject of importance, God's Word has the answers. Here are four of about 250 references to "fools" and "foolishness" in the Bible:

"The fool hath said in his heart, THERE IS NO GOD.   They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." Psm.14:1. Repeated in 51:3.

"....Neither does the fool understand this."  Psm.92:6.

"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes....." Proverbs 12:15.

"A fool's mouth is his destruction ...." Proverbs 18:7

Obviously, many a fool rushed in to the Wiemar Republic to embrace Adolph Hitler and recommend him to their friends and family as, "the last best hope for Germany, "to save us from inflation and National ruin".  They soon learned that they had chosen a hate filled, WAR devil to lead them to even worse destruction with his National Socialist Party (NAZI).   Equally mistaken were the masses of Russians who "rushed in" to join Vladimir Lenin's brand of  Socialism, which added a second heresy, Atheism and called it "COMMUNISM".  The man they thought could save them from poverty and the czar, led them into "Free everything but Freedom" but  they lost more of everything and their Freedom too as well as millions of their neighbors murdered by the system they thought was a good "change".
Before Communism (Atheistic Socialism) was finished, it had taken over all of Eastern Europe, most of Asia and other nations around the globe.   After 80 years they were all flat broke even after having stolen the wealth of all those nations and people, spent it all but never produced what they promised.  They are all just now beginning to recuperate from the hell on earth they bought into.  Hitler, Lenin, Mussolini, Castro and Kim Il Sung came to power swearing "Change and Hope" for the masses and gave them slavery plus worse poverty than they had before.  Socialism has a history of "changing" nations with a few wealthy, and many medium well off and poor.... into a Communist Paradise of "All Poor" except their Political Masters who made the promises and gave them Hope of something better.  Poor fools put them in power but got poorer still and lost the blessing of Freedom.

Strangly, after defeating Hitler's "National Socialists", Mussolini's "Faciasist Socialists", outspending Lenin's "Communist Socialists" and outwaited Castro's "Cuban Socialists", America's leadership "rushed" us all into that fetid swamp of  "Liberal Socialism" and like all those other brands of Socialism, they have bankrupted our prosperous nation.  During that time of prosperty, there was no excuse for not taking care of yourself except too young, too old or a handicap.   Drunkeness, Drug abuse and Lazy do not qualify.  Now we can all be "equally" poor... together.  How many times have you read or heard of some brave, intelligent American who dived out of his boat to rescue a poor, drowning person who swam out too far....  only to drown himself and fail to save the other as well.  America is drowning trying to save the whole world.  We can't even save ourselves.

 This quote came from the Czech Republic from a man who lived most of his life under Communism
and recognizes the fallacy of trusting the promises of "change" made by power craving charlatans to the fools who will believe it even from  disreputable liars.
 "The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.  The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the Prince of the Fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

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