A Weapon for Good

This message is influenced by the greatest theologians of our times, Lucy and Linus of Peanuts fame. Linus is contentedly watching TV when Lucy walks in and orders the changing of the channel. She backs up this demand by showing him her ferocious fist. "What makes you think you can walk in here and take over?" asks an infuriated Linus.

"These five fingers," says Lucy. "Individually they're nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold."

"Which channel do you want?" asks Linus. Then he turns his back to Lucy and looks into his hand and at his fingers and quietly mutters, "Why can't you guys get together like that?"

Linus is a perfect illustration of Congress. Make no mistake, the United States of America might not look like much with Republicans in one corner of the ring and Democrats in the other. But we can come together, not by thinking alike or having the same political ideology, but rather by coming together in our differences and forming a single unit of government committed to the proposition that we must legislate. Just think about it, we could form a weapon for good that, in the eyes of our enemies, would be a terrible thing to behold.