The Harry Potter series may have been written for children, but much of the heart of the books ring true to adults today.

…I say to you all, once again – in the light of Lord Voldemort’s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.  Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great.  We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.  Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

It is my belief – and never have I so hoped that I am mistaken – that we are all facing dark and difficult times…Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort…

Professor Dumbledore,  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4), JK Rowling, pgs.  723-724

If Glenn Beck were to use this speech at his “8/28 Restoring Honor Rally” on Saturday, it might go something like this:

..I say to you all, once again – in the light of Socialism’s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.  This administration’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great.  We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.  Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

It is my belief – and never have I so hoped that I am mistaken – that we are all facing dark and difficult times…Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what can happen to a country – a country that was good, and kind, and brave – when we stray from the Constitution and allow ourselves to become envious of those who have more than we have.

Dumbledore’s words ring true to those of us who love America, who desire to see her back on track with the Constitution.  What happens in Hogwarts School in Book 5 (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)) is prophetic – on a smaller scale, obviously – of what we are potentially facing as a country if the current leaders are allowed to continue to take us on the path they’ve set forth upon.

Our current leaders crave a crisis.  They crave dissonance.  They want us to be battling over a mosque that doesn’t even have enough funding to begin building next year because it takes the focus off of what they are doing to our country.  Our current leaders want us to find reasons to be distrustful of one another because that forces us to trust them or to become oblivious to what they are doing, and the essence of what the leaders are doing is spreading evil.

The evil that is being encouraged and exploited by our leaders is the evil of ENVY.  Envy is the worst of the Seven Deadly Sins for a reason:  all of the other sins originate with ENVY.  Lucifer’s fall hinged upon his desire to be like GOD – he was envious of God’s power and wanted it.  He was cast out of heaven for that sin.  Our current administration plays upon this deadly sin by trying to limit how much people can earn; by trying to “spread the wealth”; by stealing from hard-working people to give their wealth to those who don’t work as hard.  Why?  Because they are playing the politics of envy.

When we are envious of what others have, we are coveting their belongings and breaking one of the Ten Commandments; simultaneously, we are also playing directly into the hands of the administration who tell us that we don’t have to work as hard as someone else, that the government will take care of us, if only we let them.  We are allowing our envy, our desires, our coveting to override our freedoms.  By breaking God’s commandments, we are allowing ourselves to be punished and that punishment comes in the form of the blessing of FREEDOM being removed, bit-by-bit, from our lives.  While we are distracted by what we don’t have but what we want to have, we allow our government to continue to play upon the basest nature of mankind.  We are so busy hating those who have, that we don’t see what precious things are being taken away from us.

We need to heed Dumbledore’s advice.  We need to listen to Glenn Beck.  We need to come together as AMERICANS – not as Republicans or Tea Partiers or Democrats – and fight the insidious evil that is spreading across our land.  We need to teach our children to be self-sufficient; to do for themselves – that urge that takes over every two-year-old child to say “ME DO IT!” when they refuse to let you dress them – we need to raise our children to see what they want and think “Me do it!” – that they can work for what they want instead of coveting what others have and allowing the government to take care of them.

Listen to Dumbledore.  We are coming upon dark and dangerous times.  What choice will you make?  Will you choose what is right or what is easy?