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 Michael Medved

Will We Change the Times or Let the Times Change Us?

January 24, 2013 @ 11:47 am (Updated: 11:49 am - 1/24/13 )

Searching for catchy phrases among arid platitudes in Barack Obama's uninspired inaugural, his media admirers focused on one brief, pithy formulation.

"Times change ... and so must we."

That statement seemed to reflect the president's addiction to change as a goal in itself, rather than shaping current circumstances to reflect timeless values. Rabbi Daniel Lapin offers a much better slogan: "The more things change, the more we need those things that never change."

In fact, eight years ago George W. Bush echoed that view in his own under-appreciated second inaugural. President Bush declared: "Americans move forward in every generation by reaffirming all that is good and true that came before--ideals of justice and conduct that are the same yesterday, today, and forever."

It's a far worthier principle than the notion of changing with the times.

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  • Forrest wrote...
    "ideals of justice and conduct that are the same yesterday, today, and forever."
    January 27, 2013 11:53 am
    When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)

    You bet Medved.

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  • cigarfan wrote...
    The Left
    January 27, 2013 1:00 pm
    Anyone who studies Leftist politics is interested in Marx (& Lenin) -not Stalin (at least since Khrushchev's 1956 speech). BL's misunderstanding of the Left is well known. MARX is the key to understanding the left, not Stalin -ugh.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    what bl doesn't understand or seem to want to is that with every generation
    January 27, 2013 1:35 pm
    New political ideologies are born, transformed, evolved and/or discarded. Saying today's liberals are Marxists or Stalinists is just about the dumbest argument that gets made on this blog. The youngest generation (18, 19, early twenties) doesn't even understand what that means. Sure, if you strip it down to its very basic principles there are similarities with just about every political theory out there, but you don't have to be a Communist or a Socialist to believe in social justice. When my family was doing missionary work in El Salvador these corporations were dropping fertilizer on coffee fields without clearing the workers. When they complained because cancer rates started to rise the government bombed the village and called them all Communists and Marxist. Two girls about my age asked me what that meant. They weren't Marxists or communists, they were just poor, ignorant farmers who wanted nothing more than not to have fertilizer dropped on them. I realized then that those terms are nothing more than intellectual nonsense for people who've never known or seen what an d'd up government can really do. And I was 14 at the time. Some people on this blog should grow up.
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