Politics is the opiate of the masses!

Richard John Neuhaus, author of "The Naked Public Square," calls himself a catholic and ecumenical Lutheran. He wrote a book in 1984 that expresses many of the ideas and attitudes towards politics that I have learned since being at Christ Church and so its very interesting to find a few of them in a book that was written long before Leithart wrote "Against Christianity," which is my favorite political treatise besides the New Testament itself. Here is one of those ideas that I hold dear--the idea that a Christian's life gets bigger, not smaller as he watches less of Fox News:

"Largeness of life has little to do with the size of the space engaged. The person watching the evening political news about budget battles in Washington and bloodier battles in Beirut is not necessarily living more largely. Large horizons on life's possibilities might more likely be disclosed by listening to a Mozart concerto or taking the dog for a walk around the neighborhood." Amen to that!