America As Job

Time Magazine of 1961 had its own, surprisingly spiritual commentary and conclusions to make about some hefty Old Testament offerings on Broadway: Archibald MacLeish’s J.B. and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gideon.

Two of the world’s greatest theater directors, Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Elia Kazan, seemed almost simultaneously drawn to the Bible in their own personal and/or artistic quests for some meaning to late 1950’s, early 1960’s Man.

Both productions were compared to one another in Time not in the Arts Section but the U.S. Section … hmmm … and with no name attached to it.

Therefore not merely a review but a Time Magazine pronouncement!

The anonymous editor had this to say in conclusion:

“This flawed ending (of Chayefsky’s Gideon) echoes the flawed conclusion in Broadway’s (and MacLeish’s) J.B. of three years ago; both Playwrights MacLeish and Chayefsky assume that man has somehow outgrown God and must evolve a higher morality. They deny that the end of man is to glorify God and seem to agree that man must express, sanction, and glorify himself.”

This, of course, sets a prophetically New World Order and decidedly Marxist tone for America’s future.

The great surprise for me comes in Time Magazine‘s own warning:

Paradoxically, the denial and doubt of God have led not to the affirmation of man but to his greater despair. For it is despair from which such questing morality plays as J.B. and Gideon seem to spring.

Hmmm … Man’s “greater despair” … prompted by his “denial and doubt of God”.

Well?!

Sounds possibly like the fruit of an oil rig disaster to me!

Setting the disputations of Theater’s and Literature’s greater lights aside, I find Time Magazine‘s very avuncular cautioning of America, its flashing red lights about “denial and doubt” … utterly unexpected.

Refreshing, actually.

But then again, that was Time almost fifty years ago.

After roughly 100 years of maneuverings by the Progressive Movement, drawing-board-strategies cooked up in Progressivism’s various and sundry fraternities around the world, its indisputable culmination in the radical “transformations of America” by the Obama Nation is now at hand!

And, by God and Henry Kissinger … and/or George Soros … the great divide is finally in our laps!

A virtual Red Sea parts the Enlightened Despots from the Tea Partiers.

Abortion defines the divide most profoundly … but faith in God, as even Time pointed out over forty years ago, is unquestionably the other troublesome matter at hand.

A few, vitally important leaders in the Progressive camp – the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi and Joseph Biden – have repeatedly trotted out their Christian and Catholic credentials.

Unfortunately for them, these declarations of faith grow as spiritually empty and ominous as President Obama’s reluctant estrangement from the likes of Rev. Wright and his legendary damnation of America.

Pro-abortion Catholics?!

Pro-abortion, Progressive Baptists and Presbyterians?!

It takes the patience of Job, indeed, to put up with such shamelessly brazen hypocrisy.

Nothing defies the Golden Rule more profanely than Roe v Wade and the legalization of abortion.

“Do unto gestating infants what you would not want done unto your own gestating infancy.”

That is why what is left of America, after the Progressive Thieves in the Broad Light of Day have virtually used the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for toilet paper – not only in the commodes of the Supreme Court but the Obama Nation’s Justice Department as well – our response to this Progressive Theft is basically the Tea Partiers … and most of Fox News.

Now we must call upon the patience of Job!

Remember the mocking “friends” of Job, rather like Bill Maher, urging our now very American Tea Party heroes and heroines to “curse God and die”?

In the end, of course, Job wins and the Devil loses.

It’s fun now … almost Biblically prescient … to keep a scorecard on Bill Maher.

His increasingly numerous appearances occasionally have a George Will at the table to embarrass the Devil’s barrister about certain realities, such as oil rigs off the shores of George Soros’ much beloved Brazil.

George Soros?!

More than the Devil’s Advocate, I tell you.

America as Job now, the Tea Partiers as Job’s best symbol … and Sarah Palin, I must say, as their Joan of Arc and Maggie Thatcher?

I don’t think the Progressive Movement’s Devils, not any of them, have a chance!

It’s all gone to their heads.

Rather like the Presidency has almost predictably deranged the President.

Reality has him now trying to read signs in the sand.

God abandoned the Progressives 37 years ago.

When the bipartisan Supreme Court passed Roe v. Wade.

Now all the Progressives seem able to do is to lead Bill Clinton back into temptation.

With the patience of Job, America will be delivered from the Obama Nation.

Not even Nero fiddled more deviously than our President doodling in the sand, while actually enjoying the fact that America’s economic future is burning away like an oil rig.