Freedom!!!!!!!

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I was reading a few things recently and came to understand something from a new perspective.

In the current situation sometimes I will hear someone say or imply that people wanting their freedoms are just being selfish. They are just fighting for their own freedoms. But I don’t think this is actually true.

I believe that when someone fights for freedom, whether they know it or not, they are actually fighting for freedom for everyone.

In Ethan’s post “Lessons from the Gulags” there is a very interesting quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

From that point of view our torturers have been punished most horribly of all: they are turning into swine, they are departing downward from humanity.

You can usually see the impact of the loss of freedom on the oppressed person quite easily. But what’s easy to miss is the impact this has on the oppressor. As Solzhenitsyn states, when you look at the soul, they receive punishment most of all.

In the Guest Post “Vaccine Mandates – A Small Business Perspective” there is a closing quote from Rosa Parks:

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks fought for freedom for herself. She also fought for freedom for black Americans.

But what did she, and others, actually gain?… Freedom for the whole of America.

Rosa may not have intended to include those who oppressed her in the group of “others” she was wanting to be free. But in regard to the “soul” of America, that is exactly what she helped to achieve.

2 thoughts on “Freedom!!!!!!!”

  2. Rob Berger

    I’m not fighting for ‘freedom.’ ‘Freedom’ is too close to ‘Liberty’ especially when mated to memes of Oprah Winfrey and William Wallace. Like its fellows ‘Equality’ and ‘Fraternity’, these humanistic corruptions of the Truth offered by Jesus Christ lead only to violence and bloodshed. How much of the evil we are presently experiencing is in the name of ‘Freedom’ ‘Equality’ and ‘Brotherhood’?

    Jesus was not a rabble rouser. He did not raise an insurrection. He refused to wield any kind of civil authority prematurely, not even willing to judge an inheritance between brothers. He awaited His Father’s timing and pleasure, and I seek to be like Him.

    In these days, as in the past, as in Satan’s temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, we are being asked to prematurely take matters into our own hands. Check what spirit you are of…if James and John could be fooled, so can we. Timing is everything.

    Calvin was just as capable of burning people at the stake as Rome, and this ought not be by those who name Jesus’ Name. Judge nothing before the time.

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