A state trooper pulled over a car on Interstate 35 South of Des Moines for traveling well below the minimum speed. The driver, and three passengers, were all nuns.

Trooper: “Do you know you were driving below the minimum speed of 45 MPH?”

Driver: “But the sign says 35”

Trooper: “Sister, that is the number of the highway, not the speed limit. In this area the speed limit is 70, but the minimum speed is 45.”

Driver: “Sorry officer, I’ll speed it up.”

At this point the trooper looked at the passengers and saw that all three where very pale and sweating, two were trembling and all were constantly crossing themselves.

Trooper: “Sister, what is wrong with the other sisters? Are they ill?”

Driver: “I don’t know officer, they were fine when we left the convent. They’ve been like this ever since we were on Highway 141.”

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.