“We Follow Orders, Or People Die.” – August 12th, 2014 1:55 pm

“We follow orders, or people die.”

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A quote from Col. Nathan R. Jessup from “A Few Good Men”?

Or maybe, just maybe, these are words best directed to Christian folk who could give two shits about the job they are mandated to perform. And when we speak of “job”, we’re not talking about the one behind the McDonald’s counter, or the one that involves pushing paper in the industrial area office, or the one where you’re donned in Armani, sunk into a leather recliner, perched on the top floor of a business high-rise, on the horn with your assistant, setting up Tuesday’s tee-time with George.

I’m talking about *that* job… the one involving souls.

And when we speak of “mandate”, that’s not by accident. We are commissioned to put our hands to the plough by an Authority way more fearful than the boss peering out his window at you, galloping to the door at 9:23 am.

From ISIS, to Robin Williams, to a pope preaching the “solemn nonsense” of proselytism, we have lived life too soft for too long.

Peace does exist. But get it through your thick skull; it ain’t here in the temporal realm.

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