The Areopagus Update – Summer 2022
This past week we witnessed quite a spectacle as the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee held hearings on Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson – perhaps the most radical and least qualified person to ever be considered for the high court (with the possible exception of Sonia Sotomayor). Jackson’s vacuous and disingenuous responses to questions related to abortion, critical race theory, gender and transgender issues (she could not even define what a “woman” is), the unconscionable and inexcusably light sentences she has handed down in cases involving child pornographers, and her inability to articulate a coherent judicial philosophy should have disqualified her on the spot and promptly ended the proceedings.
But the hearings did not end, and in all probability she will be confirmed with the support of all Senate Democrats and perhaps a few “moderate” Republicans who are prone to wilt under pressure from the Leftists who dominate Big Tech, the media, academia, the legal profession, and America’s race industry.
We realize, of course, that Jackson is only a pawn in the radical Left’s chess match to subvert and pervert every value, principle, tradition and institution that made America such a unique nation in human history. After all, consider who nominated her. Several weeks ago, as soon as Justice Stephen Breyer announced his decision to retire, President Biden announced that he would only consider nominating an African American woman to fill the vacant seat. What he did not say, of course, was that he would only consider a radical left-wing African American woman – one who would advance the George Soros-funded neoMarxist agenda in all its manifestations so as to fundamentally transform our legal justice system. One might think that Biden should have learned his lesson with Kamala Harris, but no one over the course of his long political career has ever accused Joe Biden of being a wise man.
In reality, Joe Biden has already proven himself to be the most incompetent president in our nation’s history. By every rational standard of measurement – from its refusal to protect American territorial sovereignty on our Southern border to its crippling energy policy, irresponsible spending, runaway inflation and mismanagement of the economy to its refusal to uphold the Constitutional rule-of-law – this administration is an unmitigated disaster. Lest we forget, Biden is also the man whom former secretary of state Robert Gates described in his book, Duty, as having been consistently “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” If we needed any further proof, consider how Biden and his minions so thoroughly mismanaged the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. Joe Biden is undeniably consistent, but obviously this is not the kind of consistency that either we or the world needs from the President of the United States.
But that’s really not the worst of it. Biden is also a corrupt career politician whose family has profiteered off influence-peddling for decades. [See Peter Schweizer, Profiles in Corruption and Miranda Devine, Latop from Hell.] The fact that such a man would nominate someone like Ketanji Brown Jackson for lifetime tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court is not surprising.
So who is to blame for electing such a corrupt and incompetent fool as president? There are of course plenty of defendants, beginning with the entire Democratic establishment and its political base. But responsibility also rests with the “Never-Trumpers” who refused to support the former president. No doubt, Trump alienated millions of Americans, including many Christians and other conservatives, due to his problematic personality – his immature and narcissistic mannerisms and his often reckless rhetoric. But policies, programs and priorities are what really matter – not the politician’s personality. Rarely do we have the opportunity to vote for an ideal candidate, so the number one principle of politics should always be this: Politics is mostly about damage-control – i.e., keeping the very worst people with the very worst agendas out of office.
Perhaps most egregious has been the lack of wisdom on the part of many Christian leaders who were either too too ignorant or too cowardly to take a stand during the last election. Many of us understood exactly what was at stake, and there is absolutely nothing “spiritual” about being politically uninformed, naive or indifferent. Leaders need to lead. To do otherwise is irresponsible and indefensible.
As Christians we are called to be a source light and truth in this world and to love others as we love ourselves. But how can we possibly love our family, our friends or people in general if we don’t care about the kinds of laws that govern their lives or the kind of society and culture in which they live?
Elections have consequences, and Scripture reminds us that we reap what we have sown – both individually and collectively as a nation.
Kyrie eleison!
