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DLW
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Date Joined Apr 2003
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Posted 8/2/2003 9:08 AM (GMT -6)

Here is a link to yesterday's Newshour with Mark Shields and David Brooks. They start of by describing the level of acrimony that the legislature has sunk to. I don't think it is right for tensions to get so bad among our nation's leaders. I don't think it's good for our country.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec03/sb_8-1.html

How can we prevent this from happening? We need to learn to love our enemies, politically-speaking, because there will always be loads of conflicts in politics and so there will always be many enemies.

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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