What would you do....

with liberty?

No, really. I'm personally an advocate of liberal arts education, especially as detailed in Dorothy Sayers' "The Lost Tools of Learning." I believe that teaching logic, rhetoric, and grammar fairly well would revolutionize the thinking of all of us. I take seriously C.S. Lewis' "The Abolition of Man" and the possibility of becoming a "trousered ape."

But let's assume that we get this education--these habits of thinking, really. What do we do with them when we get 'em? We'll be free, right?

Free of taxes? Nope. Free not to work? Nope. Free of disease? Nope.

And we can look at the "free" men of Rome, medieval Europe, and even the United States at times. All too often, freedom for them meant grievous sins, including the enslavement of others. No, thank you.

So I come to the conclusion that unless we couple our thinking with the fruits of the Spirit spoken of by Paul in Galatians, we're not free at all. That said, if we master love, joy, peace, self-control, and such, we'll end up freeing ourselves of all kinds of entanglements.