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Entry: The Gospel of Hope Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_gospel_of_hope#10655 Post contents: "very few of them give a damn about REAL, TRADITIONAL patriotism which is based on love of the LAND!" Mr. Ball is one of my favorite contributors to the Top Drawer Blog. His coments are too intelligent to be excluded by the presence of less subtle minds who see almost everthing in terms of black and white. But Tradition includes the household gods and is in fact more related to the permanent or perrenial truths than the single reference to love of ones own land or "country" as was known before the Civil War. The supernatural is present in this mystery and simply because we have lost that aspect of Traditition is no reason to ignore its "real" presence. Wonder brings us closer to the kingdom of heaven than the good earth, although love of one inspires the other. Robert Frost is more of a Lukacs poet, and therefore America's poet, than Walt Whitman will ever b. One sees the real presence of the supernatural , while the other simply apes God by imagining a paradise (not discovering one)image making a heaven out of hell, and a hell of heaven. Tradition is of the supernatural where not only mercy and justice meet, but also body and spirit --- home and country. Sent at: 2008 07 04