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There's an enduring american compulsion to be on the side of the angels. expediency alone has never been an adequate american reason for doing anything. when actions are judged, they go before the bar of god, where mom and the flag closely flank his presence.

-Jonathan Raban

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There's An Enduring American Compulsion To Be

Jonathan Raban

There's an enduring american compulsion to be on the side of the angels. expediency alone has never been an adequate american reason for doing anything. when actions are judged, they go before the bar of god, where mom and the flag closely flank his presence.

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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. however, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. the most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. no, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of god, and the will of god is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. if god told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of god.

Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at yorktown, the flag the united states marines raised on mount suribachi, the flag francis scott key saw by the dawn's early light. long may it wave.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

We (christians) are always in the presence of god. there is never a non-sacred moment! his presence never diminishes. our awareness of his presence may falter, but the reality of his presence never changes.

What is sin? it is the glory of god not honored. the holiness of god not reverenced. the greatness of god not admired. the power of god not praised. the truth of god not sought. the wisdom of god not esteemed. the beauty of god not treasured. the goodness of god not savored. the faithfulness of god not trusted. the commandments of god not obeyed. the justice of god not respected. the wrath of god not feared. the grace of god not cherished. the presence of god not prized. the person of god not loved. that is sin.

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