Taking a Stand

The readers of my blog know that I'm a libertarian minded fellow who likes to hold the Republicans feet to my pathetic little fire when they stray from the ideals of conservatism. Conservatism seems misconstrued. True, conservatism should not be a reactionary habit, but rather a progressive one. The government should not conserve tradition if tradition is a bad thing. Put another way, if things are running poorly in Washington—as almost everyone I am sure would agree—changes should be made to make them run more smoothly. Keeping the status quo is a stance for gutless cowards. It came as a surprise that I too was a gutless coward, by my own standard.

I still have no political clout. I have a vote, and may influence, however lightly, the votes of a few others, but I cannot as yet change the political clime. Without power, I thus have little responsibility. If I am not a hypocrite politically, what then could I be talking about?

I am a Catholic Christian. I don't often write concerning social considerations, but I think it is obvious that I am not socially liberal. In truth, I support my Church in all her majestic teaching. No, I do not have a lot of power on the religious front, I cannot yet defrock and excommunicate pedophile priests, but I can still shout loudly. This is my statement to a move to be more vocal on the religious front.

My reasons for this are twofold. First, if I am going to criticize the Republicans for being wimps, I cannot be one as well. If I am as adamant about my Catholic faith as I am about my dedication to conservatism, I must back it up.

The other reason is that religious considerations are infinitely more important and needed more desperately. If our leaders continue to reject the wisdom of the founders, we will either end up in a socialist mess, a corporate controlled fiasco, or an amalgamated cacophony of the two. This is clearly regrettable, and I am doing what
I can—however little that may be—to try to prevent that from happening. If this country continues its slide into moral decadence and complete relativism, the consequences will be much more dire. Believing as I do, in the existence of a hell, the squandering of our freedom by bureaucrats seems almost insignificant. It is my duty then, to preach what I believe.

I can almost hear the groaning now. I don't think I have gone off the deep end here. I shall continue to use reason and tact to make my points. It has been my experience that the American public has a terribly false view of Christian, and especially Catholic ideology. Falwell's heart may be in the right place—and again it may not be—but I am not sure where on earth his head is sometimes. I will try to fill what I see as a void in my limited scope in this, the blogosphere.