From Noah Webster (yes, of Webster's Dictionary fame), who lived in the late 18th-early 19th centuries:
"Education is useless without the Bible."
"God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct."
Government is to "discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties."
"Select passages of [Scripture]...may be read in schools, to great advantage. In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper...My wish is not to see the Bible excluded from schools but to see it used as a system of religion and morality."
Obviously, Mr. Webster's enlightened wish has been dispensed with in America.
On the face of it, one wonders why America would eliminate Bible reading and teaching from school curriculum. To teach people not to kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, covet, be greedy, selfish, or self-centered; to teach them to "love thy neighbor," be responsible, patient, kind, longsuffering, gentle, virtuous, trustworthy, peaceful, disciplined, etc. etc. would seem to be something that all people would recognize as a great benefit to societal order. The Bible provides the highest moral standard in the world. It uplifts and elevates man whenever it is faithfully followed. Certainly, teaching our youth these magnificent moral precepts would help them, not just in body and mind, but in spirit and morality, and would be an exceedingly wise thing to do.
Wouldn't it?
There are two reasons why the Bible has been booted out of our public school system, and neither of them have anything to do with the First Amendment to the Constitution or because Scripture has been proven to be of human origin. The first reason, as Jesus so perceptively noted, "Men love darkness rather than light...everyone practicing evil hates the light" (John 3:19-20). People who want to sin don't want the Bible being applied to their lives, of course. As America has becoming increasingly corrupt morally, with fornication, adultery, homosexuality, abortion, sloth, covetousness, greed, lying, etc. rampant and rising, the last thing such miscreants want is their wickedness exposed. Jesus Himself, of course, was killed because He wouldn't shut up about exposing men's sins. When faced with their own wickedness, humans have two options: they can either repent, or they can try to silence the preacher. Most people, down through history, have chosen the latter option, and that is exactly what is happening in America today.
The second reason relates to modern leftism. The last thing liberals want is for the masses to obey the Bible. Virtuous people take care of themselves and have only minimal need for government. Indeed, as James Madison said, if all men were angels, we wouldn't need government at all. Government is only necessary when evil people infringe on the rights of others; government exists to control that abuse. So, the less evil, the less need for government. Or, to put it another way, the more people who obey the Bible, the less government needed to control the wicked.
That, of course, is exactly opposite what modern liberalism wants. Their power comes from government. They are, in their own minds, the elite who know better than the rest of us how to run our own lives--they certainly want no challenge on that score from God--and if we refuse, voluntarily, to heed them, then they will use the force of government to try to control our behavior. And they, of course, get to define what "proper" behavior is (more on that in a moment). Any institution, like the church or family, or any book (especially the Bible) which teaches self-dependence and taking care of ones' own, is the greatest enemy of modern liberalism. It is essential to understand modern liberalism that it requires as much deviant, base, immoral behavior as possible, because that is what makes government necessary. If we don't need government, we don't need busy-body liberals, do we.
So they have kicked the Bible out of America's schools and replaced it, morally, with their own liberal philosophy. That is also a pivotal, crucial point--the modern liberal defines morality for the rest of us! They tell us what is "right" and "wrong," a morality, much of which, obviously, is vile, squalid, and Biblically condemned--thus, the necessity for more government! And anybody who doesn't measure up to that "morality," who doesn't conform to it, or who opposes it, is subject to frequent, often severe, intimidation, attack, slander, abuse, or other manner of personal destruction. That's in America. When these people were in power in Revolutionary France, the Soviet Union, Mao's China, etc., they simply killed massive numbers of people who refused to go along with their ideology. They make the rules, there is no god but themselves, they determine who lives and who dies. Now, in the United States, except for unborn babies, they haven't been able to kill people (yet); maybe we should thank the National Rifle Association for that. But ideologically, philosophically, the historical tradition that produced Joseph Stalin is the same historical tradition that produced Barack Obama; they have emerged from the identical leftist philosophic convention. And while the American left has not (again, YET) gone to the extremes of Stalin's USSR or Mao's China (except in their murder of the unborn), the sympathy that America's left has for the former Soviet Union, Mao, Castro, Ho Chin Minh, and the other left-wing butchers is well documented. Oh, our "noble" leftists might bemoan the "extreme measures" taken by "Uncle Joe" Stalin, et al. But Ronald Reagan was the enemy, not Mikhail Gorbachev. And Reagan was the enemy because he stood for traditional America, an America where people believed, along with Noah Webster and other great early men, "education is useless without the Bible."
But the left controls the education system in America today, and has for over a generation now. The results of that control are obvious. Detroit. Hollywood rot. "Gay" marriage. Abortion. 75% black children born out of wedlock. Growing welfare state. "Obamacare." Feminism. Bill Clinton. Barney Frank. Barack Obama....the cancer is deep and too widespread now. There are very few healthy places left in the American body politic any more. And it is because of one thing, and one thing only. We didn't pay attention to Noah Webster when he said...."education is useless without the Bible."
Folks, that is the battle going on in America today. It's much deeper than "how much money the government is going to spend and on what." It's a battle between two very different, divergent, yea, totally opposite visions of the world. One view exalts God and His wisdom as He so graciously gave us in His holy book. The other exalts humanity, and it's "wisdom," above that which has been divinely revealed. To compromise--from both perspectives--is to compromise with evil. There can only be compromise if there exists a basic agreement of philosophy. Tolerance is ok, and necessary--to a point. But a point is reached where tolerance becomes indistinguishable from connivance. To compromise truth is to surrender to evil. And good men will simply not do that.
And, as is increasingly clear in America today, evil men won't do it, either. Hence, the battle lines are drawn, and, if history is our guide here, those lines will probably, eventually, be drawn to the point of blood.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Let Them Be Heard Again--IV
It has been awhile since I have posted an article in this series, but I have not forgotten it, and will, from time to time, make relevant additions.
Edmund Burke was not one of America's Founding Fathers, but he could have been. He was an English philosopher/politician who lived during the era of our Founders, authoring several books, including a brilliant one entitled Reflections on the Revolution in France. In this 1790 book, written a year after the French Revolution broke out, Burke correctly predicted the course of that revolution. For example, he accurately forecast the assassination of the king, the brutal Reign of Terror, the rise of dictatorship, and other significant events of the French Revolution. Burke could make these accurate predictions because he knew history, he knew men, and he knew what men would do without God directing them, which is the course the French Revolution took.
But, in this essay, I want to provide a quote from Burke, also prophetic, regarding liberty and the necessary elements of it. I will quote Burke, then make some germane comments on his thoughts.
"What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
What Burke is saying, of course, is that freedom must have limitations. "Freedom" does not mean that people can do anything they want. Freedom ultimately comes from God; everything does, and thus, men, to have true liberty, must respect God and His eternal decrees. Otherwise, they will not only violate the freedoms of others, but also destroy themselves by not curbing their own passions and desires. Let's look a little more closely as some of the things Burke said.
"What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?..." Freedom without wisdom--which comes from God and a knowledge of history--and without a virtuous people....is what?
''...the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint." Again, freedom does not mean we can do anything we want to do. This should be self-evident; we cannot allow murderers and rapists to have the "freedom" to murder and rape; such would obviously violate the freedom of others. Thus, there must be some restrictions put on liberty. Otherwise, people will end up committing all kinds of foolishness ("folly"), wickedness ("vice"), and incomparable stupidity because they put no restraints on what they think, either ("madness"). There must be some boundaries to freedom somewhere! Now, the question is, who draws those boundaries? Are we going to let men do it? Given the violent, corrupt, vile, tyrannical history of humanity, who would be foolish enough to say that man has the wisdom and good judgment to inerrantly direct his own steps? Have we indeed learned nothing from history? For if the pages of the past teach us anything, it is that man, left to himself, will descend into cruelty, barbarity, and every imaginable villainy and treachery. No, since God is the Author of all, the Eternal Creator of man, it is essential, for true human freedom, that we let Him put the restraints on that liberty. For pure wisdom and pure virtue are taught from above. And, yea, when we look at America today, an America that has rejected its god-fearing foundations, a "freedom" without God--we see...what? "Folly, vice, and madness, without restraint."
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites..." Men can be "free" only if they restrain themselves. Because, "Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere." Too much "freedom" is anarchy, not civilization. If people are allowed to do anything they want, then obviously civilization ceases, and barbarism results. And, again, the crucial question is, from whence should come the limits upon freedom? Well, "the less of it there is within"--the less people restrain themselves--"the more there must be without"--if people don't restrain themselves, government will step in and do it for them. (Indeed, history abundantly teaches that government is more than happy to do so.) Because there must be order in society for civilization to exist, men can either do the right thing from within--virtue--or they will be forced to do it by government--tyranny. And, Burke was right--"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things"--a neat phrase for the eternal Will of God--"that men of intemperate minds (i.e., those who refuse to restrain themselves) cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Since they refuse to live virtuously on their own, then some outside entity--and it can only be government--will step in and force them to do it. And, when people are forced to do something they would not do of their voluntary will, that's not freedom. Freedom and individual virtue go hand-in-hand, they are indispensable partners. Edmund Burke, and America's Founding Fathers, understood that. Barack Obama, and the modern leftist elite, do, too. But, because these leftists love power and control in their own hands, true freedom, based upon God's will, is the last thing they want. They want as much immorality--ungodly behavior--as possible, because immorality will ultimately demand government control.
The truly sad thing is, when the heavy hand of government steps in, as it must when people refuse to control themselves, then that government tyrannizes the bad and the good. Those who do live virtuously, who don't need government to control them, are punished and tyrannized because of the actions of the decadent miscreants who refuse to submit to the dictates of virtue on their own. Crying out for "freedom", these immoral degenerates create oppression for all. People want the "freedom" to commit fornication; but then they have babies out of wedlock, get on welfare, and decent, virtuous people are forced, by government, to pay taxes to support these depraved activities. Homosexuals want the "freedom" to practice their lewd, shameful behavior, but they spread their horrible diseases, and taxpayers are required to pay for them. Businessmen who buy politicians--crony capitalism--usually produce inferior products at unreasonable prices, or, as in the case of Solyndra, goods that the people don't want in the first place. So, once again, it is the virtuous who are hurt by having higher taxes extracted from them or having inferior products shoved upon them by a virtually uncontrollable despotism. When God's Will is ignored, everybody suffers. And even when fornicators or homosexuals escape any immediate consequences of their immoral actions, they create in themselves a mindset of rebellion against God--and a seamless passion that will eventually "forge their fetters." There is no escape from God.
As I have written many times in my blogs, it is of no surprise to anyone who knows history and the revealed will of God (the Bible)--and that number is very, very small--that, the farther America has gotten away from God and His Word, the larger and more intrusive government has become. The less people have controlled themselves, the more the outside force has had to intervene and do it. It is exactly what Edmund Burke said over 200 years ago. It is exactly what we should expect, given "the eternal constitution of things"--the will of God--and the lessons of history that such wisdom teaches. And men today have no excuse for not knowing these lessons.
Edmund Burke was not one of America's Founding Fathers, but he could have been. He was an English philosopher/politician who lived during the era of our Founders, authoring several books, including a brilliant one entitled Reflections on the Revolution in France. In this 1790 book, written a year after the French Revolution broke out, Burke correctly predicted the course of that revolution. For example, he accurately forecast the assassination of the king, the brutal Reign of Terror, the rise of dictatorship, and other significant events of the French Revolution. Burke could make these accurate predictions because he knew history, he knew men, and he knew what men would do without God directing them, which is the course the French Revolution took.
But, in this essay, I want to provide a quote from Burke, also prophetic, regarding liberty and the necessary elements of it. I will quote Burke, then make some germane comments on his thoughts.
"What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
What Burke is saying, of course, is that freedom must have limitations. "Freedom" does not mean that people can do anything they want. Freedom ultimately comes from God; everything does, and thus, men, to have true liberty, must respect God and His eternal decrees. Otherwise, they will not only violate the freedoms of others, but also destroy themselves by not curbing their own passions and desires. Let's look a little more closely as some of the things Burke said.
"What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?..." Freedom without wisdom--which comes from God and a knowledge of history--and without a virtuous people....is what?
''...the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint." Again, freedom does not mean we can do anything we want to do. This should be self-evident; we cannot allow murderers and rapists to have the "freedom" to murder and rape; such would obviously violate the freedom of others. Thus, there must be some restrictions put on liberty. Otherwise, people will end up committing all kinds of foolishness ("folly"), wickedness ("vice"), and incomparable stupidity because they put no restraints on what they think, either ("madness"). There must be some boundaries to freedom somewhere! Now, the question is, who draws those boundaries? Are we going to let men do it? Given the violent, corrupt, vile, tyrannical history of humanity, who would be foolish enough to say that man has the wisdom and good judgment to inerrantly direct his own steps? Have we indeed learned nothing from history? For if the pages of the past teach us anything, it is that man, left to himself, will descend into cruelty, barbarity, and every imaginable villainy and treachery. No, since God is the Author of all, the Eternal Creator of man, it is essential, for true human freedom, that we let Him put the restraints on that liberty. For pure wisdom and pure virtue are taught from above. And, yea, when we look at America today, an America that has rejected its god-fearing foundations, a "freedom" without God--we see...what? "Folly, vice, and madness, without restraint."
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites..." Men can be "free" only if they restrain themselves. Because, "Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere." Too much "freedom" is anarchy, not civilization. If people are allowed to do anything they want, then obviously civilization ceases, and barbarism results. And, again, the crucial question is, from whence should come the limits upon freedom? Well, "the less of it there is within"--the less people restrain themselves--"the more there must be without"--if people don't restrain themselves, government will step in and do it for them. (Indeed, history abundantly teaches that government is more than happy to do so.) Because there must be order in society for civilization to exist, men can either do the right thing from within--virtue--or they will be forced to do it by government--tyranny. And, Burke was right--"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things"--a neat phrase for the eternal Will of God--"that men of intemperate minds (i.e., those who refuse to restrain themselves) cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Since they refuse to live virtuously on their own, then some outside entity--and it can only be government--will step in and force them to do it. And, when people are forced to do something they would not do of their voluntary will, that's not freedom. Freedom and individual virtue go hand-in-hand, they are indispensable partners. Edmund Burke, and America's Founding Fathers, understood that. Barack Obama, and the modern leftist elite, do, too. But, because these leftists love power and control in their own hands, true freedom, based upon God's will, is the last thing they want. They want as much immorality--ungodly behavior--as possible, because immorality will ultimately demand government control.
The truly sad thing is, when the heavy hand of government steps in, as it must when people refuse to control themselves, then that government tyrannizes the bad and the good. Those who do live virtuously, who don't need government to control them, are punished and tyrannized because of the actions of the decadent miscreants who refuse to submit to the dictates of virtue on their own. Crying out for "freedom", these immoral degenerates create oppression for all. People want the "freedom" to commit fornication; but then they have babies out of wedlock, get on welfare, and decent, virtuous people are forced, by government, to pay taxes to support these depraved activities. Homosexuals want the "freedom" to practice their lewd, shameful behavior, but they spread their horrible diseases, and taxpayers are required to pay for them. Businessmen who buy politicians--crony capitalism--usually produce inferior products at unreasonable prices, or, as in the case of Solyndra, goods that the people don't want in the first place. So, once again, it is the virtuous who are hurt by having higher taxes extracted from them or having inferior products shoved upon them by a virtually uncontrollable despotism. When God's Will is ignored, everybody suffers. And even when fornicators or homosexuals escape any immediate consequences of their immoral actions, they create in themselves a mindset of rebellion against God--and a seamless passion that will eventually "forge their fetters." There is no escape from God.
As I have written many times in my blogs, it is of no surprise to anyone who knows history and the revealed will of God (the Bible)--and that number is very, very small--that, the farther America has gotten away from God and His Word, the larger and more intrusive government has become. The less people have controlled themselves, the more the outside force has had to intervene and do it. It is exactly what Edmund Burke said over 200 years ago. It is exactly what we should expect, given "the eternal constitution of things"--the will of God--and the lessons of history that such wisdom teaches. And men today have no excuse for not knowing these lessons.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Brief Weather Report
In the last week, 1,122 locations in the United States either tied or set a record for the lowest temperature on that date. Chigaco saw its coldest weekend in decades (including record low temperatures) before this week's Al Gore Climate Training meeting. Haven't heard that reported in the "mainstream media", have you....
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July 29 saw the 7th Daily Record in 8 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent, 185,000 sq km higher than the previous record which occurred in 2010. And it was 870,000 sq km higher than the 30 year mean.
More evidence of global warming, of course.
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July 29 saw the 7th Daily Record in 8 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent, 185,000 sq km higher than the previous record which occurred in 2010. And it was 870,000 sq km higher than the 30 year mean.
More evidence of global warming, of course.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Why I Am Not, and Never Will Be, a Catholic
Recently, Pope Francis was in his home country of Brazil and had some startling things to say about homosexuals, startling from the perspective that he is supposed to be the leader of the Christian world, and the spokesman for God on earth. Here is what he said:
"We shouldn't marginalize people for this [homosexuality]. They must be integrated into society...If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"
Yea, Pope Francis, in one sense, you don't have to judge them, because God already has; He has made it easy for you, all you have to do is say what He said. Jehovah has made it very plain, in His Book, that homosexuality is "vile," "against nature," and "shameful" (Romans 1:26-27). Homosexuals and sodomites will not "inherit the kingdom of God" (I Corinthians 6:10-11). Jesus condemned fornication (Mark 7:21), which is a general term for any sexual sin committed outside of marriage. Indeed, marriage, "from the beginning" was between "male and female" (Matthew 19:4). If someone is "gay" and "searches for the Lord," that person will repent of that sin, if he/she wants to please God--and I certainly hope and pray every homosexual will do just that. With his statements, Francis has done at least two things--one, absolutely ignore the Word of the God he claims to represent, and two, open the door for homosexuals to continue in their abominable, unnatural, soul-damning practices. No Christian could ever support what the Pope said, or the Catholic Church in general for that matter, for no such institution exists anywhere in the pages of Holy Writ.
The major problem with the Catholic Church is, of course, its rejection of the Bible as the final, only, and authoritative word of God. Ever since it evolved into existence, the Catholic Church has made up its doctrine as it went along, accepting or rejecting the Bible on grounds of human expediency. The words of man have, to Catholics, become more authoritative than the words of God. That's very dangerous, and actually, is the identical doctrine of modern leftism. And, not surprisingly, when the Catholic Church had political power in Medieval Europe (and beyond), it used that power to kill masses of people who didn't agree with it--just like the left did in the 20th century. From a philosophic standpoint, there is no difference between the Catholic Church and modern leftism; they both exalt human "wisdom" above divine revelation, and history has proven that such an exaltation has, as noted, led to mass murders by whoever had the power to enforce that philosophy.
When you leave the foundation of the Word of God, which is the only true standard of righteousness and holiness, then there is no place to stop, nothing beyond human opinion. And one human's opinion is just as good any other's.
"We shouldn't marginalize people for this [homosexuality]. They must be integrated into society...If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"
Yea, Pope Francis, in one sense, you don't have to judge them, because God already has; He has made it easy for you, all you have to do is say what He said. Jehovah has made it very plain, in His Book, that homosexuality is "vile," "against nature," and "shameful" (Romans 1:26-27). Homosexuals and sodomites will not "inherit the kingdom of God" (I Corinthians 6:10-11). Jesus condemned fornication (Mark 7:21), which is a general term for any sexual sin committed outside of marriage. Indeed, marriage, "from the beginning" was between "male and female" (Matthew 19:4). If someone is "gay" and "searches for the Lord," that person will repent of that sin, if he/she wants to please God--and I certainly hope and pray every homosexual will do just that. With his statements, Francis has done at least two things--one, absolutely ignore the Word of the God he claims to represent, and two, open the door for homosexuals to continue in their abominable, unnatural, soul-damning practices. No Christian could ever support what the Pope said, or the Catholic Church in general for that matter, for no such institution exists anywhere in the pages of Holy Writ.
The major problem with the Catholic Church is, of course, its rejection of the Bible as the final, only, and authoritative word of God. Ever since it evolved into existence, the Catholic Church has made up its doctrine as it went along, accepting or rejecting the Bible on grounds of human expediency. The words of man have, to Catholics, become more authoritative than the words of God. That's very dangerous, and actually, is the identical doctrine of modern leftism. And, not surprisingly, when the Catholic Church had political power in Medieval Europe (and beyond), it used that power to kill masses of people who didn't agree with it--just like the left did in the 20th century. From a philosophic standpoint, there is no difference between the Catholic Church and modern leftism; they both exalt human "wisdom" above divine revelation, and history has proven that such an exaltation has, as noted, led to mass murders by whoever had the power to enforce that philosophy.
When you leave the foundation of the Word of God, which is the only true standard of righteousness and holiness, then there is no place to stop, nothing beyond human opinion. And one human's opinion is just as good any other's.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
A Great Tweet
Somebody posted this yesterday on Tweeter:
"If Obama had a city, it would look like Detroit."
Yeah. Detroit has suffered through decades of black, Democratic, liberal rule. It looks like a Third World African country because that is the leadership it has had. Cities like Detroit, Chicago, Newark, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and all of the state of California, are microcosms (or larger) of liberalism. And because liberalism controls the American education system, the products of that system are too ignorant and mal-educated to realize it. We've had over a generation of that sort of education now, and that's why someone so incompetent and unqualified as Barack Obama can get elected in the first place.
Detroit is Barack Obama's America. And that's where he, and liberals, want to take the rest of the country.
"If Obama had a city, it would look like Detroit."
Yeah. Detroit has suffered through decades of black, Democratic, liberal rule. It looks like a Third World African country because that is the leadership it has had. Cities like Detroit, Chicago, Newark, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and all of the state of California, are microcosms (or larger) of liberalism. And because liberalism controls the American education system, the products of that system are too ignorant and mal-educated to realize it. We've had over a generation of that sort of education now, and that's why someone so incompetent and unqualified as Barack Obama can get elected in the first place.
Detroit is Barack Obama's America. And that's where he, and liberals, want to take the rest of the country.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Maybe It's Time to Move to Kenya
William Ruto is the Deputy President of Kenya. He had a few choice words for Barack Obama, who has recently been in Africa, pushing his decadent American morality. Mr. Ruto did not appreciate Obama's debauched, licentious hedonism. He said that while Kenya was ready to work with other "sovereign and God-fearing" nations, "no one should have any worry about Kenya’s stand as a God-fearing nation. President Obama is a powerful man but we trust in God as it is written in the Bible that cursed is the man who puts trust in another man."
The President of Kenya lecturing the President of the United States on morality and decency. Sickening and saddening.
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I don't know who said this, but it's a good quote: "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a closer look at the American Indian."
The President of Kenya lecturing the President of the United States on morality and decency. Sickening and saddening.
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I don't know who said this, but it's a good quote: "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a closer look at the American Indian."
Thursday, June 27, 2013
My Only Surprise....
....is that the Supreme Court got the decision regarding the Voting Rights Act correct. It is the first correct thing the Court has done in a long time. I would have been utterly shocked if they had made the proper decision on "gay" marriage.
I have almost no interest, any more, in living in the United States. Why would I want to live in a country where the people, and especially, the leadership is so stupid that it no longer knows what marriage is? And further, why would I want to live in a country where the people and leadership are so wicked, immoral, and perverted that they would spit in God's face and glorify such putrid, disgusting behavior as homosexuality? I have had no confidence in American leadership for a long time; this most recent action only further confirms and solidifies that total lack of confidence. There is absolutely no concern in Washington, D.C., any more with doing the right thing, based upon the eternal truths of God's Word. And things aren't any better on the state level.
China's leadership, of course, is certainly far from perfect, being tyrannical and oppressive. But that is China's history and I can understand it. America has no excuse, because the United States was founded upon Christian principles, with its people, at least theoretically, accepting the Bible and Judeo-Christian morality as its guiding light. The majority of Americans--at least its leadership--has completely, deliberately, and willfully rejected that standard for a self-centered, responsibility-rejecting, pleasure-seeking, "anything (politically correct) goes" ethical base. It is certainly not new in history; almost 3500 years ago, in Israel, the morality was "every man did that which was right in his own eyes." It would be nice if people would learn from history, but they don't; as Hegel said, "history teaches us that men learn nothing from history," and destruction always results. Men have frequently called evil good, and good evil. I can't be surprised at it, but, at the same time, as someone who loves God and mankind, I can't help but be sad and frustrated. But there isn't a thing in the world I can do about it, either. Well, I can continue to try to teach the truth, but I've been doing that for 40 years and the downhill slide of America has continued on greased wheels. And, with Obama and the Democrats in full control of the throttle now, that degeneration is accelerating. Saving a few is all that's left.
And, indeed, "few there be who find it," Jesus said. How few is increasingly manifest. But the light is in our hands; it has been for 2,000 years now. We have no one to blame but ourselves for our own destruction.
I have almost no interest, any more, in living in the United States. Why would I want to live in a country where the people, and especially, the leadership is so stupid that it no longer knows what marriage is? And further, why would I want to live in a country where the people and leadership are so wicked, immoral, and perverted that they would spit in God's face and glorify such putrid, disgusting behavior as homosexuality? I have had no confidence in American leadership for a long time; this most recent action only further confirms and solidifies that total lack of confidence. There is absolutely no concern in Washington, D.C., any more with doing the right thing, based upon the eternal truths of God's Word. And things aren't any better on the state level.
China's leadership, of course, is certainly far from perfect, being tyrannical and oppressive. But that is China's history and I can understand it. America has no excuse, because the United States was founded upon Christian principles, with its people, at least theoretically, accepting the Bible and Judeo-Christian morality as its guiding light. The majority of Americans--at least its leadership--has completely, deliberately, and willfully rejected that standard for a self-centered, responsibility-rejecting, pleasure-seeking, "anything (politically correct) goes" ethical base. It is certainly not new in history; almost 3500 years ago, in Israel, the morality was "every man did that which was right in his own eyes." It would be nice if people would learn from history, but they don't; as Hegel said, "history teaches us that men learn nothing from history," and destruction always results. Men have frequently called evil good, and good evil. I can't be surprised at it, but, at the same time, as someone who loves God and mankind, I can't help but be sad and frustrated. But there isn't a thing in the world I can do about it, either. Well, I can continue to try to teach the truth, but I've been doing that for 40 years and the downhill slide of America has continued on greased wheels. And, with Obama and the Democrats in full control of the throttle now, that degeneration is accelerating. Saving a few is all that's left.
And, indeed, "few there be who find it," Jesus said. How few is increasingly manifest. But the light is in our hands; it has been for 2,000 years now. We have no one to blame but ourselves for our own destruction.
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