LOCKING CONSERVATIVES UP

I want to propose an experiment: Let's lock up notable political conservatives Wait a minute. Give me an opportunity to explain the reason. Here we go:

Let's lock up Ben Shapiro, George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson (he and I graduated from the same high school), John Stossel, Clint Fargeau, Robert Jeffress, and Anne Colter. (You may have a different list; it makes no difference.) In the experiment, we're locking each one in a separate cell and we're giving each one a typewriter and reams of paper, all the paper they'll need for what we want them to do for our experiment.

The next thing we do is that we go into each cell with these instructions: "We want you to produce an essay titled, 'My Political Philosophy.' Let us know when you're finished. Have a nice day."

What do you suppose we'd find when they're all finished? We'd find fundamental disagreements on both political and ethical issues all across the board.

As we read the political treatise of each one, we'd note that Kevin Williamson wrote an article about Donald Trump titled, "Witless Ape Rides Escalator. " Jonah Goldberg wrote an article with the headline, "Our Nation is Paying for Trump's Refusal to be Presidential."

However, Fargeau wrote an article in which he said, "The president has proven himself in spades, demonstrating the courage to stand up to Democrat intimidation and frame-ups again and again." In the article, Fargeau called Kevin Williamson a "fool," citing Proverbs 18:2.

Ann Coulter wrote about a national emergency, "The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot.” But conservative pastor Robert Jeffress "defends President Donald Trump,  . . . he doesn't simply defend Trump—he defends him with one carefully crafted Bible-wrapped barb after another, and with more passion, more preparation, more devotion than anyone else in television interviews."

What about John Stossel's viewpoint? "When John Stossel, who interviewed Trump . . . for ABC News accused Trump of bullying, Trump retorted, off-camera, “Nobody talks to me that way!”

"But “someone should,” Stossel answered."

Stossel opposes laws against pornography, marijuana, recreational drugs, gambling, prostitution, polygamy, assisted suicide, and believes that most abortions should be legal. One could bet that Jeffress would beg to differ. 

What's the point? Those aforementioned conservatives are contemporaneous. They have ample opportunities to discuss issues with each other and reflect on each other's viewpoint yet they contradict one another across the board, even if you let them consult with one another, the disagreements in the finished work would be ever-abounding.

Forty different authors wrote the Bible without consulting with each other while living in different places and most of them in different times, coming from different occupations which ran the gamut from a tax collector to a king, to fishermen, to being a former Pharisee and their finished product was complete, connected, and without contradiction. And to top it all off, their collected works were about the most controversial subject of them all: God. Yet, their final product was without error.

What if we asked the above contemporary conservative authors to write about God? What an unmitigated mess that would be!

Enough said!