Are Tea Parties Christian?

I’m not sure, here’s an article on it. It is interesting though, because the Tea Party tries to be Christian. They espouse Christian values, pray at the beginning of meetings, etc…and sometimes this makes me wonder. I feel like perhaps they are connecting Christianity with politics too much, like they are the new Israelites or something. On the contrary, at our Mises Circle meetings, I don’t try to make it “Christian only” or anything like that, but curiously, we’ve ended up with attendees who have very similar religious views. I don’t know if that has any significance, just an interesting thought.

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Truth Shall Fade and Freedom Fly

“Art shall fall and Learning die, Truth shall fade and Freedom fly, Hate shall rise, Wrong and Lies, Love shall leave him, so shall I.” This is from a poem by G.K. Chesterton entitled, “Fire, Famine and Slaughter.” I’m not sure about the original interpretation of it and what G.K. Chesterton meant by the poem, I wasn’t able to find anything conclusive. It reminds me, however, what happens to humanity when we are so overcome with the feeling of “winning the war” and conquering our enemy. This is what war does to us, sadly. War appeals to our  base instinct,…

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