Tuesday, October 23, 2007

an apology

Ideologues are weak and often they are hypocrites. But, please, consider first that the ideologue may be all too familiar with this fact. Ideology is of the brain—love is of the heart. The heart is weak, wicked, and unresponsive to Truth. The brain is damned but the ideologue controls it. Most of the time. So he reads, converses, and inquires (all the while constructing the ideology). He cannot say that he has built an edifice as great as the OTHER'S or indeed another's, but he built his own; he knows it. And in the moments when the passions rage and the conscience is silenced—it is the beacons of those mind towers that shine, that argue with the breathy or mocking voices of the Moment. The ideologue’s heart is small and weak and has been so since he was a boy, scarred from the injury of a Stronger. Do not blame him for adapting in the only way available to him.

Yea, there is hope. For congenital goodness remains and the SPIRIT is not away. Ideology is a bandage. In the construction of the towers there is a change—of spires more humble than ever conceived on blueprints. Glimpses of heaven are caught and the drawing table returned to. And when he is ready, he walks away from it all into the open ARMS.

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