On Doug Fabrizio's Radio West journalist, Scott Carrier, commented after listening to the Cliven Bundy interview. He said that the country is divided about 50-50. One half who's decisions, philosophies, and political positions are based strictly upon their religious convictions. The other half who's positions are based upon scientific reasoning. He said the two sides are not talking to each other and that this could be a problem. Both view the other side as preposterous. He also commented on how the religious view the Constitution in dogmatic ways that brook no viewpoint contrary to their own.
Mr. Carrier gained his insight on this matter while producing an audio documentary that posed the question, "do you think that the world is coming to an end?" to those he interviewed. He said that both sides of this divide think that it is for different reasons and champion different remedies.
I asked my mentor, Herb Cowan-- large vegetable farmer and erstwhile rancher, and contemporary with Cliven Bundy, if he thought the world was doomed and what he thought about the self-proclaimed "Prophets" of the Constitution in their view that only the dead founding fathers, being inspired by God, knew what to do.
"It's a damn poor God that can only inspire a small handful of beer drinking, tricorn hatted colonialists and no others since then," he responded. "If things are going to hell, we'll all be to blame. And when they do, talking will break out all along the great divide when we're all forced to huddle hungry and scared on a quickly vanishing plot of common ground."
So why wait for that to happen?
I've never met anyone, including some very despicable and off the charts criminal defendants, who could not teach me something. I promise you there are good people on every side of a conflict. Reach out to them. We can stand on common ground today or be forced to when all hell breaks out and there's nothing left but some polluted tiny speck of common ground.
Loren M. Lambert
© August 9, 2014
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Loren M. Lambert: http://radiowest.kuer.org/.../cliven-bundys-spiritual-battle. August 9, 2014 at 12:31pm
Terry Stone Good listen. August 10, 2014 at 3:21pm
Mr. Carrier gained his insight on this matter while producing an audio documentary that posed the question, "do you think that the world is coming to an end?" to those he interviewed. He said that both sides of this divide think that it is for different reasons and champion different remedies.
I asked my mentor, Herb Cowan-- large vegetable farmer and erstwhile rancher, and contemporary with Cliven Bundy, if he thought the world was doomed and what he thought about the self-proclaimed "Prophets" of the Constitution in their view that only the dead founding fathers, being inspired by God, knew what to do.
"It's a damn poor God that can only inspire a small handful of beer drinking, tricorn hatted colonialists and no others since then," he responded. "If things are going to hell, we'll all be to blame. And when they do, talking will break out all along the great divide when we're all forced to huddle hungry and scared on a quickly vanishing plot of common ground."
So why wait for that to happen?
I've never met anyone, including some very despicable and off the charts criminal defendants, who could not teach me something. I promise you there are good people on every side of a conflict. Reach out to them. We can stand on common ground today or be forced to when all hell breaks out and there's nothing left but some polluted tiny speck of common ground.
Loren M. Lambert
© August 9, 2014
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Loren M. Lambert: http://radiowest.kuer.org/.../cliven-bundys-spiritual-battle. August 9, 2014 at 12:31pm
Terry Stone Good listen. August 10, 2014 at 3:21pm
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