I read a book some time ago that said every worldview, if it is to be coherent, must answer at least (4) questions:

• Who am I? (Or, what is the nature, task and purpose of human beings?)
• Where am I? (Or, what is the nature of the world and universe I live in?)
• What’s wrong? (Or, what is the basic problem or obstacle that keeps me from attaining fulfillment? In other words, how do I understand evil?
• What is the remedy? (Or, how is it possible to overcome the hindrance to my fulfillment? In other words, how do I find salvation?)

*Two books I have found super-helpful are James Sire’s Naming the Elephant: Worldview As a Concept and Walsh and Middleton’s The Transforming Vision.

Worldviews Being Played Out via Concertina Wire, Illegals, Fentanyl, & the Will to Power:

I do not watch TV, but I do read the news in order to see what is being done to my country and to the world. If you want to see worldviews in conflict, you do not have to look long. Here’s a simple graph:

National sovereignty	vs.	Borderlessness
States’ rights	vs.	Federal fiat
Law & order	vs.	Melee/lawlessness/no prosecution of crime
Protection of life & property	vs.	Abortion/infanticide/eradication of private property rights
Traditional Western biblical family values	vs.	Secularism/nihilism/postmodernism/identity politics/victim status ‘group think’

“You will be made to care” is a cliche that is nonetheless true. To use another cliche, “ideas have consequences.” Folks can say that we don’t need borders until the thugs show up on your property and the savagery ensues. When a replay of Genesis 19 happens to your family, suddenly it’s not just sunshine and rainbows anymore. Suddenly all the bromides about everybody just getting along fine, and “It’ll not affect me” thinking dissipates with a quickness. Funny how those who live lives surrounded by bodyguards, walls, fences, security cameras, bulletproof barricades, and protective armor like to lecture the little people about their intolerance.

I do not want violence; I so don’t want it. Because it tends to escalate quickly, and can, if rendered by the morally unrestrained, stagger the mind. But we are witnessing America’s military being divided against itself via federal bureaucrats. And I am fearful for my country. Texas is symptomatic of a macrocosm. And that macrocosm is a question of worldviews. Which will we live by? One leads to life; the other leads to destruction and death. May the Lord have mercy upon us.