4/14/2020: A BELATED HAPPY EASTER AMERICA: I've been absent for the last week because nature decided to bounce a tornado through my neighborhood last Wednesday night at 11:00. The good news is that no one was hurt, in part, because the only legitimate function of government to defend the people worked, as the early warning system alerted all in time to take shelter. But I'm sure in larger part it was because of the grace of God. I'm sure it comes as no surprise that the citizens rose to the challenge in the finest fashion of Christian Americans. We did so without benefit of a single reporter, politician, government 'expert' or bureaucrat to 'guide' us, 'direct' us, impose upon us and generally get in our way. In the finest tradition of American decency, born of Christian ethics, neighbor helping neighbor with the aid of private enterprise dealt with the problem, and by the evening of Easter Eve we had restored our neighborhood to a state of relative stability and normalcy. Finally, today, my internet cable was reattached to the pole and I'm once again able to connect with you. My first impression in the aftermath of the storm Wednesday night was that we can not hide from nature, and it will randomly determine the time of our demise, not doctors, government 'experts' or politicians. Then, at one point on Thursday, as I took pause to observe all that was happening around me, it struck me that it was so refreshing to deal with a real crisis, with real Americans, as opposed to a manufactured crisis of emotion with all of it's speculating 'experts' and agenda driven political partisans. It all comes down to this, the Christian ethic does not rely upon government to solve the problems of the sovereign individual. The Christian ethic relies upon the sovereign individual cooperating with fellow sovereign individuals in a free exchange of effort. There is no force, there is no coercion, there is no tyranny! There is only advancement of the human condition brought about by the decency of Christian souls. Rejoice in the resurrection of Christ and, again, A BELATED HAPPY EASTER AMERICA! TheFourthBranch.biz
