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"The Kiss That Blistered"
The
Dennis Praeger video below's message is that we have failed to
pass on to our children the Big Idea. The values that formed this
nation, and unarguably made us the greatest nation in this cycle of
human history. I don't proselytize here, but some things are so
much a
part of who I am that they cannot be ignored in the context of today's
turmoil.
As a kid (I apologize to those who've heard this) in Catholic school
(Chicago), we were literally compelled to watch Bishop Sheen's "Life is Worth Living" on Monday evening. It cannot have been for religious
indoctrination since we were immersed in it anyway. It was more than that. The nuns
would
quiz us the next morning to weed out miscreants who had succumbed to
Milton Berle (who joked "He uses old
material too.").
Anyway, the reason Sheen's show was an Emmy winner was due in no small
part to his delivery and stage presence. He began every show with a humorous
anecdote
that segued into his message. That message was seldom religious, but would lay a foundation for one that often was. At
any
rate, he reflected the values of a nation, and was part of our
character formation.
Start this video at the 1:07 mark and watch until his point
about Communism is
made (ahem), and he moves into Judas's betrayal of Jesus parallel (to avoid
the religious part).
I think that most people here will agree that
these ideas were part and
parcel of their own experience and belief, and why the hair
raises on our necks when Government Speaks.
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