Moloch

Beware Republicans and their devotion to that child-devouring idol, Moloch! I am reading First Things' R.R. Reno, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Glenn Beck, and other conservative luminaries recommend abandoning the elderly to the plague to preserve their American way of life. How much more blatantly can such soulless imperialism devour human flesh and frailty?

"A gun is the jaws of an idea." These words came to me as I was wrestling to develop my personal ethics about war. I was trying to connect a shooter's intention to a bullet hitting someone. It's rudimentary, but we work within our frameworks as we develop our maturing ideas. This idea about ideology and gun came to me during