America is a house divided, and the rest of the world knows it. From Raúl Ilargi Meijer at theautomaticearth.com:
In Matthew 12:22-28, Jesus tells the Pharisees:
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
In 1858, US Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln borrows the line:
On June 16, 1858 more than 1,000 delegates met in the Springfield, Illinois, statehouse for the Republican State Convention. At 5:00 p.m. they chose Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the U.S. Senate, running against Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. At 8:00 p.m. Lincoln delivered this address to his Republican colleagues in the Hall of Representatives. The title reflects part of the speech’s introduction, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” a concept familiar to Lincoln’s audience as a statement by Jesus recorded in all three synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke).
Even Lincoln’s friends regarded…
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