Doctor Sowell turned ninety yesterday, and he is still batting them out of the ballpark.
Thought For the Day
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Thomas Sowell is a Black life that matters very much and needs celebrating. But if a statue of him were erected BLM would want it torn down because he is deemed guilty of ‘White thinking’.
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed in a lot of reading of history, it’s that the holding of historical grievances against each other was the norm for much of it – and we see how well that worked out for the rest of the world.
Jesus’ message of forgiveness helped not just ourselves, but society as a whole to advance and reach new heights – we even went to the moon! Now we abandon Him and everything begins sliding back into the darkness.
At least we can have a laugh at the irony of people demanding an end to history, even as they cling to historical wrongs.
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed in a lot of reading of history, it’s that the holding of historical grievances against each other was the norm for much of it – and we see how well that worked out for the rest of the world.
I can’t remember what it was that had me look it up– but one of the radical things that God did with the Hebrews was order them not to hold a son guilty for the sins of the father. Yeah, the father’s sins still hurt the son, because of damage done, but God doesn’t punish him for what the father did, so neither can the Israelites.
Ezekiel 18, looks like.
http://www.usccb.org/bible/ezekiel/18/
I just remembered what it was, I was looking to see what the Bible said about corruption of blood. I was pretty sure it wasn’t licit.