R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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Is this how a civilization dies?
Remember T. S. Eliot’s lines: “This is how the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Listen carefully and you’ll hear a chilling phrase from Jonathan Turley, “without a whimper.”
It’s almost too obvious to quote Edmund Burke, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
It sounds like the state of things in Rome before Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
In the same vein… A good opinion article today in the Wall Street Journal by Bradley A. Smith – “Connecting The Dots in the IRS Scandal”
http://tinyurl.com/k5fc3lw
This, from a liberal law professor who policy-wise actually agrees with the Obama admin. on many issues and spoke out about what concerned him in the Bush admin. We need more men and women of integrity like Turley if the tide is to be turned…