We'll Be All Right, and Then We Must Reckon with Communist China | Columns
"...There are few things in modern life that gnaw at me like a shuttered church.
There’s
something heartbreaking about a place built to exemplify faith that has failed and hollowed out.
...Right along with shuttered churches, shuttered businesses break the heart.
A failed business represents a failed dream, livelihoods lost, risks taken but not rewarded, the end to something that often did not lead to a new beginning, just bankruptcy.
Before the virus, out-of-control property taxes were killing businesses around here.
Now it's the virus.
We have hundreds of thousands of churches and businesses and schools across America that are closed now.
Many of them will not re-open.
They didn’t fail because of some flaw within them or because their model didn’t work.
They failed, or will fail, because of a tyrannical system beyond our shores that lied to the whole world.
America’s churches and businesses and schools are closed because, on the other side of the world, China’s amoral dictators failed to be a normal nation and do the right thing.
They lied out of their paranoid obsession with power.
...The free world
built up China’s economy in a naive attempt to free its people.
This faith that has truly failed.
This is one business we should no longer patronize, one school that has taught us its final lesson..."
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