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By Tom Rinkes
04/14/10
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The pen is mightier than the sword, unless you're an atheist, and then it's as mighty, but not eternal. By this I mean that many people throughout time have said things, and put them to pen and paper that have inspired blood-thirsty revolutions that were put down in the same manner. In my time the rise in communism, inspired by a godless man named Karl Marx, has taken the lives of countless millions world wide in the last century. But, where is his so-called Utopia now? And where is the peace-of-the-heart revolution that a Nazarene taught two thousand years ago? One must weigh the disaster of the first against the success of the latter.

To love your fellow brother and sister in our world community is the key to a real and long lasting Utopia, called by Hebrew and Christian scholars alike as “The World To Come”. While our Jesus didn't write down what He said and taught, others did, and remembered what He said verbatim. I firmly believe that Jesus was the greatest orator of all time, followed by the Apostle Paul. What they said did bring a sword, not to the body, but to the heart and soul.

Now consider our founding fathers (United States) and what they wrote down that inspired the nation that I was fortunate enough to be born in. If your intent is to motivate men and woman to risks their lives and fortunes in an attempt to secure freedom for everyone—and label it as noble—then your thoughts must be of noble character; to dip the quill in ink and leave it for your enemies to see takes conviction. And I know George and the boys were anything but virtuous in their personal lives, but their reasoning and logic on the matter was based on pure motives, and the rest is pure U.S. History.

Our Constitution has no fear of acknowledging the rights given to us by our Creator, and when these words were written they whet the appetites of men and woman who eventually fought for their God-given right to be free. This, was a mighty act. When the Apostle Paul wrote his letters to the up-starting churchs, he started a revolutionary movement in the religious circles of the day that continues to this day.

The course of many histories have been changed or re-arranged by the power of the written word. When Peter and all the other followers of Christ put what they were saying out loud to paper, they sealed their doom. I believe they knew this before hand, but did not care what documents were presented against them at their mock trials. To die for what one believes to be right and true inspires many; some to peace, some to maniacal ends. Yet, Jesus showed them the better way, and they heard and believed enough to author it and suffer the fate of their Divinely-inspired insolence.

The one person I credit for my yearning to read the Bible is non other than William Shakespeare. I've read many versions of the Good Book over my Christian lifespan, but no rendition of the Holy Scriptures moves me more than The King James. With its thee's and thou's, who begat whom and all the lineage of Israel aside, it was written in a manner that would make a spokesman for the Lord of someone with the voice range of Pee-Wee Herman sound authoritative.

And maybe, just maybe, the power of His written word was meant to quell the longest of battle swords, before they were even un-sheathed.

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