O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

While it is a particularly uneventful day in history, let us opine these words:

The students are beyond control and their behavior is disgraceful. They come blustering into the lecture-rooms like a troop of maniacs and upset the orderly arrangements which the master has made in the interest of his pupils. Their recklessness is unbelievable and they often commit outrages which ought to be punishable by law, were it not that custom protects them.”

People concerned about the pace of change in human affairs can find solace in knowing that these familiar sentiments were expressed about sixteen centuries ago by St. Augustine, who was born on November 13, 354 AD.

Like many other theological luminaries, Augustine began life as a debauched young man who sought his pleasures in wine, women, and song. Augustine admitted in his autobiography Confessions, that as a boy he “told lies to my tutors, my masters and my parents all for the love of games and the craving for stage shows.” Eventually he became old and cranky and declared his youth wasted.

All of the things that occurred during the drunken orgies of his youth recounted in his Confessions do not hold a candle to the crap coming out of Marjorie Taylor Greene office.

And so it goes

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