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CALENDAR OF
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Events of
2005
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NOTE
While we focus on a number of events that have
great significance, we must of necessity become somewhat
selective because of time restraints. Indeed, most events do
need to be set into proper perspective and we feel tension
when by necessity we must pass over some of them, but
appreciate your understanding and forbearance. We do continue to
examine our predicament and will strive to improve with time.
We wish to add also that we continue to be open to your
suggestions as a valuable
resource.
January
13, 2006
The
Delaying Game
Judge Samuel
A. Alito, Jr., certainly faces an indignant, obstinate and
perhaps even sadistic core of pompous opponents who do not
easily concede to reason, light or intelligence. Even though this core
has been unsuccessful at sabotaging the efforts to move toward
an up or down vote in the full Senate, they have resorted to
the most rigorous of schemes involving every conceivable
underhanded tactic to make Judge Alito appear to be unfit and
tainted with questionable judicial tendencies.
However, since this
hard core cannot turn up any real dirt in the history of this
respected judge, these vultures swarm to grab at a straw, that
of fighting to delay the final outcome in a desperate hope
that some hidden character flaw may lie behind some obscure
closet door.
Perhaps this
little fictitious skit
may shed a bit of
light on the nature and character of the Senate process with
respect to the nominating procedures.
January
9, 2006
The
Year Ahead
Here we must pick up the pieces and
wage a heavy warfare.
The enemies of truth, decency, morality, ethical
concerns, Christian principles, etc. have truly initiated an
all-out offensive such that an excessively hostile environment
for Christians and family values underpins the judicial
decisions on many fronts. Much of the courts’
political and philosophical perspectives targets the values we
hold dear.
Interestingly, some of us have
heard a roaring protest among certain Christian groups to draw
into our shells and leave the political processes alone. The cry goes something
like this: “Don’t
mix religion and
politics!”
Some people are naïve and/or
ignorant.
Appeasement has never historically achieved anything
less than repression and persecution. The same thing applies
to the silence of the Church during a day we should be as a
roaring lion, demanding that our nation revert to the decent
constitutional government upon which our nation was
founded. God has
provided us who belong to Him a talent, an opportunity through
the exercise of voice and vote to change the course of history
toward the better.
To refuse to use that talent or to bury it leaves us
altogether vulnerable.
We
need to exercise our God-given rights to establish our nation
to the glory and honor of God. This means that we
should be concerned for the appointment of constructionist
judges, those who uphold the Constitution of the
United
States.
May
we encourage our Congress to provide a simple up or down vote
on these judicial nominees as they come before Congress. Judge
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. deserves at least that. The nomination should
never have the veto of the minority to rule out a vote on a
nomination.
May we all take
heed.
December
25, 2005
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
We wish all our visitors and their families and
friends a very Merry Christmas
indeed!
May the coming year of 2006 be
filled with the genuine Christmas spirit, such that our nation
will become a nation driven by the mighty force of God’s love,
rather than an onslaught against Christianity, moral and
ethical principles and family values in general. It’s high time
that we as Christians take a stand, draw a line in the sand
and declare in no uncertain terms, “No further will we
compromise, but rather, we will stand for what is
right!”
December
22, 2005
Year
in Review
Here we are at Christmas time, the
year almost gone.
We may well ask, “Where is the peace the
Prince of peace sought to bring to earth some two thousand
years ago?”
As we review the year of 2005, we
can scarcely escape the shock that the breach between the
forces of light and darkness has been
fiercely expanding during the year. Christianity dwells in
a land of growing hostilities, though yet compared to some
other areas of the world still has more opportunities to cry
out against injustice and moral and spiritual decadence. While right has
prevailed in certain areas of our judicial, legislative and
executive dispositions, we yet have great challenges demanding
our resolve.
Two
distinct offenses determine the battle strategies toward
undermining Christian and family values in our beloved
society. First,
the credibility gap leaves us on shaky ground with
respect to determining the course of response. Political
correctness and elitist courts’ legislative
decisions have all but banned any hope to find avenues to
appeal. The
Pennsylvania
appeals judge declared that a school district could not even
mention the possibility that students could explore other
theories of origins beyond the theory of evolution, including
intelligent design. From this elitist
judge came the mandate that we all must resign thinking for
ourselves and look to the elitists to tell us what to think
and what to believe.
Research must be out of the
question.
Then, some go so
far as to promote a philosophy with a grossly distorted
perspective that religion must not bear any influence or
declaration except within the privacy of meetings or
homes. Such a
perversion through what is erroneously called
separation of church and state prevails
among the anti-Christian forces, such as some of the courts
and groups like the ACLU,
True, we have won some and lost
some, but our losses should never become a signal to throw in
the towel.
Our nation is worth fighting for, is it
not?
December
11, 2005
Where
Have We Been?
First, we apologize for our absence
on the web. We
have been in a transitional period during which time we had to
secure another web address. In addition, we had to
set up the site and allow enough time to make sure that all
aspects had been prepared and successfully dealt
with.
Now that we have accomplished
that, we will be using this site to post updates in news,
etc.
We appreciate your patience
with us during this time.
November
14, 2005
What’s
Wrong with this Picture?
The news media pounced perniciously
upon the revelation from the records turning up with respect
to Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito’s argument that “the
Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.” Beg tell
just what is wrong with this
picture?
Can any judicial activists turn up one shred of
evidence from the Constitution itself
that outright torture and murder of innocent, unborn children
must reside as a right for the mothers to decide? Just wherein does the
Constitution pose the notion that the rights of one
group of people can trump the rights of another group
of people? If our
practices resemble precisely the death house procedures, the
execution of men, women and children of an identified group
(or ethnic background) of Adolph Hitler’s Germany during the
inception of World War II, then how dare we become so
excessively hypocritical as to condemn and judge those who
engineered and executed those atrocities! A mindless, arrogant
declaration that one set of atrocities can be justified and
the other set of atrocities must be condemned demands outright
contempt.
November
13, 2005
Signs
of the Times
A grim and ominous foreshadowing
has gripped our awareness during this moment of
reversals. Our
high hopes that our nation was beginning to show a glimmer of
breaking away from the sinister, evil grips of the movement to
wrest our nation from its heritage and supplant our democracy
with judicial tyranny has suffered a serious setback.
California
voters have narrowly defeated attempts to keep parents in
control of their children and awarded school children to state
control during school hours. It’s a very
dangerous trend that can lead to abusive brainwashing and
promotion of an anti-Christian, anti-parental and
anti-American mindset.
Furthermore, parental notification for teen abortions
also fell by the wayside. Can this
be a sign that California
has already fallen from the ranks of
America
through hostile rejection of unique and distinct American
values? Such voters have
given new impetus to the California
courts.
Added elsewhere in our nation to
this catastrophe in California, the ousting of all the
educational board members in this certain school district who
supported an honest acknowledgement that evolution
provided only one theory to account for the origin of all
living matter and that Intelligent Design
theory, which, in many respects, finds a basis in
reality with feasible support, could be mentioned as another
theory that students could research on their own, if so
inclined.
Obviously, these board members proved far too honest to
receive the support of bigoted and biased
voters!
Yet, this demonic tarnish will
never cause us to throw in the towel. We intend to promote
the truth and allow the truth to be our
defense.
October
27, 2005
New
Revelations Concerning the
Military
Most Christian chaplains within military service have
been restricted from free exercise of their firmly held
religious convictions, a ruthless censorship of religious
liberty. This
practice has been around for some number of years but has been
brought to the forefront by those of us deeply concerned for
the direction of this evil cloud threatening the very
existence of Christian liberties. These Chaplains can not even
end a prayer in the name of Jesus! (See
ACLJ as one of several good
source for further details)
September
29, 2005
New
Chief Justice, John Roberts
We joyfully congratulate Chief
Justice, John Roberts.
We feel that he will certainly vindicate our confidence
and trust in him through the execution of responsibilities in
his new role.
September
25, 2005
Rita’s
Aftermath
Hurricane Rita could scarcely be
ignored or dismissed simply because it did not unleash quite
the devastation of hurricane Katrina. Measured by some other
scales, hurricane Rita caused widespread damage through wind
and flooding, though it did not measure up to the excesses of
hurricane Katrina.
Yet, hurricane Rita proved to be a very dangerous and
risky monster. It
seems that its landfall location had much to do with
minimizing loss, though it nevertheless inflicted some
widespread damage.
We must express our sympathy to
those who indeed suffered heavy personal losses, many having
no homes to which to return and others burdened heavily with
prospects of costly repairs. While the loss of even one human life can never be
replaced, we can receive some consolation in the loss of far
fewer lives from hurricane Rita than with hurricane
Katrina.
September
17, 2005
Another
So-called Establishment
Clause Ruling
We’re
scarcely overcome with shock, unfortunately! But we can still be
overcome with anger anyway. It cannot be a
surprise coming from California’s excessively liberal
quagmire that the court has ruled the pledge of
allegiance to be unconstitutional. Yet, most of us would
delight for these scorpion judges to yawn in error and render
a decent decision now and then. Nevertheless, any hint
of falling back upon the Judeo-Christian tradition of our
forefathers can never cross the minds of renegade judges bent
toward such brutal anti-Christian hostilities.
The
very fact that a reference to God should receive censorship
based on a flimsy, petty claim that anything even suggesting
endorsement of a religious sect could be applied to the
mention of deity borders on total insanity. Now, a case could
certainly gain teeth if such wording held one nation, under
the Baptists or one nation under the Catholics,
etc. became a part of the pledge of allegiance.
Yet,
the pledge of allegiance has never been made mandatory
within the schools or elsewhere. That should certainly
be the case, but that within and of itself alone has not
satisfied the bigoted judges who obviously delight in any
means possible at their sordid command to slap Christianity in
the face.
Christianity has never been the enemy of
democracy, but those who are surreptitiously enemies of
democracy would delight in destroying Christianity through any
and all means possible.
As an old professor used to say, “Now put that in
your pipes and smoke it!”
See Reasonable
Response
September
3, 2005
The
Haughty and Smug Assault
God’s mercy never
ceases to amaze many of us. He allows the most
vicious and vile onslaught from the deepest darkness,
deception and rampage created by the forces of evil that
stagger the most comprehensive imagination
possible.
Take for
example the branding of truth
and light
as the extreme
right.
But, we suppose, it
all depends on perspective. If a person lives in
the circumference of a filthy, slimy garbage dump and measures
all life by filth and slime, that which is decent, vibrant,
true and good introduce elements of intolerance into his
environment. He
reels in raging rebellion. He calls these
elements extreme and unacceptable.
The truth of the
matter spills forth in the deceptive selection of code
words which cleverly conceal the audacious and malicious
intent to deceive.
Take for example the code word privacy. Of course, these
certain organizations determined to disqualify John Roberts
for consideration as a justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States no longer depend on resorting to the terms abortion or gay rights or any
sensitive term which might turn people off, but link these
dastard undercover tactics to the code word privacy. Of course, the right of privacy never
once appears in the Declaration of
Independence
or the
Constitution of the United
States. Such reference
originated in the Supreme Court as a convenient invention to
forge such atrocities against humanity as abortion on
demand.
Privacy
must indeed be considered a practice deemed to
protect legitimate rights, such that no organization or
persons intrude without just cause into the practice of any
citizen to enjoy entitled rights of property, speech, personal
choices and peace within the rightful domain of his own home
and affairs. But
if any of us considers privacy
to include murder of innocent, unborn babies,
then we by the same principle can justify other murders, bank
robberies, etc., to be protected under privacy!
The playing
field must be level that every person and cause be equally
engaged. Let us
all see through the darkness to the real issues and
practices.
September
1, 2005
The
Mighty Winds Stir up the Greatest Physical
Challenges
The
ravages of hurricane Katrina
have come and gone, but the shock left
in the wake tells a never-ending story. Thousands succumb to
the dreaded aftermath, many dying with a painful, lonely and
heartbreaking conclusion, never even having the satisfaction
of knowing loved ones and friends would make it to
safety. Others
wonder whether this ordeal will find any end at all.
But out of
the darkness, like some spark of radiant hope, comes the
encouraging presence of those who have discovered an inner
peace and purpose which cannot be blurred by any adverse
circumstances.
These people will never surrender, as with a lady
quietly and confidently proclaiming that her God provided
surety and abiding hope.
Still others moved like peaceful reminders that some
found fulfillment in providing whatever comfort and
encouragement to others that opportunity would
allow.
On
and on the stories go.
But we shall remain in prayer, for the total tragedy
will never completely fade from our hearts and never be
forgotten in history.
August
31, 2005
The
Catastrophe Across the
Gulf
Coast
Hurricane
Katrina turned out to be more than a feisty little
kitten. People
who survived along a stretch of the Gulf Coast including New
Orleans, which suffered, among other things, flooding of 80%
of the city itself, can testify to the devastation and loss,
not only property, but much worse. Many people
perished. The
exact numbers may never be known, but the sense of the tragedy
can never be eradicated!
Our prayers
and support go out to those who suffered great loss. We add our expressions
of care and remember those who suffered through several
hurricanes. Any
tragedy, no matter how many or how few lives have been
scarred, calls us to reflect on the fragility and uncertainty
of life here, but God does care. He expressed that care
in the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
God bless
every one who suffers such tragedy. May such experiences
become an opportunity for each one to look to the One who
really cares to receive comfort and
hope.
August
25, 2005
To
be Credible, Must the People’s Voice Reflect People
for the American
Way’s
Views?
No
matter how the rest of us feel (about fifty percent of
Americans oppose abortion on demand, close to eighty
percent of Americans oppose partial birth abortion,
etc.), an incredible distortion by People for the American
Way flagrantly declares that main stream America
can not include these so-called radical Americans
who oppose abortion on demand and partial birth abortion (who,
because of their belief, in reality are main
stream)! Precisely because of this skewed claim by People
for the American Way, it appears to many of us that they
dare suggest omnipotence for themselves! Must all of us be
forced to bow and worship these egotistical, aloof, arrogant,
hostile and duplicitous anti-Christian, anti-democratic,
anti-social and malicious advocates? Come on. Give us a
break.
Furthermore, this group
has sought to debunk John Roberts from qualifying for the High
Court position because of his own stand which his records show
to be far more in keeping with much of what genuine
America
stands for!
Granted,
People for the American
Way reserves the right to voice their views, no matter how
inflammatory, askew and anti-constitutional such unrealistic
views may be.
They even have a right, as do the Communists, the
Fascists, the radical Islamic group or terrorists, to slam our
history with disdain, our belief in a true representative
government, our religious commitment, etc., but do
they reserve for themselves a right to slander others and
misrepresent them and deliberately seek to deceive many with
respect to their malicious intent? Do they have a right
to seek restrictions against Christians and decent political
figures and bar them from any political influence within the
course of our history just because they refuse to embrace this
organization?
We really think not. Why should they be the
only ones to speak with authority to purge our nation of any
group or persons who hold values and views that they
detest? It can be
no less than transparent that they recoil from truth and could
never sustain a credible interaction with all cards on the
table.
Granted,
too, they remain entitled to propagate their hatred of
truth just as long as they restrain themselves from weapons of
lies and misrepresentations of other groups which destroy a
level playing field to allow everyone an equal and fair
opportunity.
We challenge all groups to allow
John Roberts a fair and decent opportunity to present himself
to the American people before the
Senate.
August
16, 2005
The People’s Reflections on the
Gasoline Prices
Outrageous! Those imports are
ridiculous. Why
don’t we use our vast resources—like in
Alaska? We don’t have to be
held hostage to the oil producing enemies—or should I call
them allies? With
friends like those nations, who needs
enemies?
Oh, they use the hikes as
weapons against us.
They make us support their terrorism from their
enormous profits!
I really don’t know what to
say. I guess gas
prices go up like a lot of other things. We’ll just tighten our
belts and make it some way or
another.
Please DON’T MENTION GAS PRICES
TO ME! My
dandruff is already up and I don’t want to use bad
language. Let’s
just say that I hope those greedy savages all find a way to
destroy themselves without dragging anyone else into the pit
of hell with them.
Note: Realizing that tempers
can push some of us off the deep end, we nevertheless can find
a cord of understanding and sympathy with the concern many
people have. We
are indeed living in an unstable world in which the forces of
darkness continue to wage warfare. We need to pray for
our enemies, that the darkness which surrounds them will
dissipate.
August
13, 2005
The Credibility Gap
Onslaught
If we dare become a bit
introspective as a nation, we meet head-on with the credibility gap
trauma with respect to the unfounded accusations promoted by
certain pro-choice advocates in media ads. Judge John Roberts,
the target of this smear campaign, obviously has no hidden
pits of slime to be dug up, but has fallen victim to
unscrupulous attempts to debunk him through deception and
misleading statements.
This unconscionable effort has begun to backfire and
rightly so.
Now isn’t it far past due to start calling a
spade, a spade?
July
21, 2005
The
Main Stream America
Fable
If we scrutinize the notion that
President Bush’s selection of Judge John Roberts to fill the
vacancy on the United States Supreme Court does not tally with
main stream America, we are left with questions
concerning the application of a litmus test.
First,
who determines exactly what the main stream
America
is? There definitely
appears to be fairly broad interpretations among politically
minded legislators as to what exactly constitutes
main stream
America. And even if such
determination could gain a wide consensus, must we be required
to surrender the constitutional principles and distinctive
characteristics which give our nation uniqueness among nations
of the world even if the main stream
America
repudiates
the heritage and rootage of our nation and its
constitution? It
seems to us that our forefathers foresaw the possibility that
certain changes to the Constitution of the
United
States
could of necessity be made, but never apart from an
amendment to that constitution. Changes should never
be made by a feigned interpretation of the Constitution of the
United
States effectively
to rewrite that Constitution apart from an
amendment.
Second, is not a Justice of the Supreme Court
compelled by integrity and allegiance to the Constitution and
the sovereignty of our nation to uphold our constitutional
form of democracy rather than considering the main
stream America, or anything else (even his own
agenda), for that matter? Should he not always
uphold the laws that are constitutionally sound and strike
down those that are not?
Can it be that our judicial system needs
Justices who have the integrity and courage to reestablish
constitutionality to our government?
We would urge the Senate to be guided by these
important and crucial questions in approving or rejecting
every nominee.
July 14,
2005
The
London
Revelation
This
past week London
has been seeking to recover from a grave disaster. Not
a disaster of natural origins but of evil, calculated
and sadistic outgrowth of demonic possession. A sordid, conceited,
lustful and reckless hatred of all light and virtue and
decency.
Not
unlike the ravaging assaults boiling in
Iraq.
Is this not absolute evidence that a nation or
society can scarcely afford to ignore what is happening in
remote areas of our world through pampering the idea that
we take care of our own business attitude and let
them take care of their own business disposition? It just will NOT
work that way!
Demonic forces will never rest until all who do
not think, reflect, and yield to every iota of their own
godhood concept is annihilated completely from the face of the
earth. Theirs can
be no less than a cult of total hatred, vengeance and
deceit.
Truly
every American should be able to relate to what the people in
England
contend with. Our
prayers and hurt are with you! Take courage and let
not this satanic enemy get to your
resolve.
July 7,
2005
Reflection
on this Week of the Fourth of July
This
week in review certainly underscores the urgency to define
ourselves as a nation of people. Shall we
drop to the level of our terrorist bigots whose whole
philosophical determination can find no room in our world for
other heritage and religious inhabitants beyond their own
radical religion?
They have certainly left a trail of death
and destruction, as obviously shocking the world by their
brazen assault on London, indiscriminately slaughtering women
and children, as well as others along with demolishing
property.
To
many of us certain Senators fall into this philosophical niche
just as blatantly bigoted in their rejection of any hint of
moral or spiritual tenants to be found in any appointee to the
Supreme Court of the
United
States. Oh, they do not use
the same tools of indiscriminant slaughter of everyone,
including women and children, but the end product would be
just as effective, that of demolishing any vestige of moral
and spiritual fiber within our nation. The courts become
their weapon for destroying our democratic, constitutional
form of government.
Is
this not definitely clear to all of
us? If
not, how blind can we allow ourselves to
become?
July
4, 2005
Reflection on this fourth of
July
Perhaps the fourth of July this year sounds a frightfully
pathetic echo.
Oh, we’ve heard the fanfare embellished by
impressive fire works.
We’ve had our ears sensitive to speeches honoring those
who risk their lives and even die for the cause of
liberty. We’ve
seen all the trimmings, but something very much is missing.
Indeed,
allow us to reflect upon our history. Our nation started out
with people of daring backbones, those whose words resounded
with conviction and purpose, those dedicated to more than the
empty cry for individual rights, so called
rights to express contempt for family and religious values and
rights to denounce God, faith, religion, biblical revelation
and the Christian religion, rights to torture and murder
innocent, unborn children and legalize such savagery under the
sordid euphemism of the sickening abortion
rights misnomer!
Absolutely, our nation inspired
the highest allegiance through undying, uncompromising
acknowledgement and reverence for the God Who made our country
great and inviting to those who sought religious freedom.
Now, sadly, the Senate finds itself
engaged in a battle waged through an inconceivably
wicked few, a segment of Senators resorting to
hatred, unmitigated disdain for family and Christian values
reflected through assault against the nation of our
forefathers, an assault by certain Senators against the
possibility of any constitutionally sound appointees who would
uphold the Constitution of the United States in the tradition
of our founding fathers.
These opponents to genuine constitutional
government seek to keep judges and justices who have an agenda
against family and Christian values, an agenda by which these
judicial roles would embrace legislative enactments through
judicial tyranny!
Moreover,
what amazes many of us no end comes in the audacity and brazen
charges against decent, caring candidates who exhibit
impeccable records and receive high marks and recommendations
from the bar. If
we do not dance the dance of darkness, does that make every
American who denounces such mockery by the politically elite
advocates of the politically correct philosophy
unfit peons whose mouths should be silenced? Is not that
something to think about?
June
28, 2005
Reflection on the High Court
Decisions
Of course, by this
time most of us have better judgment than to look to the
courts to endorse Christian values whole-heartedly. The records show that
the courts by and large in recent decades have sought to
quarantine religion (and especially
Christianity) from any substantive interactions which
could conceivably influence political outcome. This disposition
exposes a transparent bias cultivating hostility toward
religious values, but most especially toward
Christians and Christianity.
Ironically, the courts have invited a
dangerous disenchantment with the reason and nature for
the founding of our nation. The invention of the
myth of separation of church and
state has begun to evaporate the unique and defining
character of our nation which our forefathers established as
the distinct proclamation of American values. The United States
Supreme Court has definitely slammed the door to our history
and embarked on a path toward the dark side. True, they have sent a
mixed message, but the fact cannot be ignored that the courts
often exhibit a tendency to distort our history and to create
irrelevance to the place of our forefathers within the
framework of our nation’s origin. Most of our
forefathers relied on their devout faith to establish a nation
founded upon (not just any religious
values) but decidedly and emphatically upon the
Christian principles and values moving them to conceive
genuine liberty to be under God.
We fail not to commend the Supreme
Court for the ruling that the Ten Commandments may be
displayed in conjunction with other historical
representations, but to disavow the spirit of our forefathers
and the direction of the historical United States to the
extreme degree to disallow the display in the Christian/Judeo
tradition smacks of hostility toward the values our founding
fathers espoused.
Such displays do not endorse a specific
religious sect or denomination. That decision alone
distorts and repudiates the values of our nation’s
origin.
We applaud those of the minority on
the court who had the backbone and the decency to stand
against the five justices who sold our values through
detachment from the true
America
in an effort to create a cauldron of hostility against
Christianity and Christian values. They claimed
neutrality for the government, but in our world, the only sure
way to create absolute neutrality comes through complete and
absolute annihilation of all living matter everywhere!
This is to say in
essence that atheism,
according to many of the courts’ rulings, becomes the default religion
of our nation.
At the very least, the courts have strong indicators
that relativism
supplants the Christian tradition of our forefathers to become
the official governmental disposition against Christian
heritage within the constitutional expression coming into
focus in the first amendment.
Please note that
according to the first amendment to the Constitution of the
United
States Congress
must legislate
nothing to restrict religious expressions or the free exercise
of religious rights.
Yet, in the
distorted, ominous and defiant court decisions, it boils down
to a 180 degree turn from the first amendment such that religion shall not
interfere with government!
Does not this
distortion call us to the quote, “Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty?”
But with the courts out of control with agendas
completely alien to our democratic form of government, not
even vigilance has a crack in the door, especially within the
scope of the short-term future. Yet, obviously, we
must never throw in the towel; we must fight to regain lost
ground; we must pray and work even if such efforts cost us
dearly. The
alternative is quite unacceptable—even
unthinkable!
May
28, 2005
Reflection on this Eventful
Week
This past week may historically become the pivotal turn
toward a course of no return!
Seven
United
States Senators advanced a
policy through compromise involving dangerous concessions that
could conceivably result in blocking future well-qualified
appointees of Constitutional and moral values to the Supreme
Court.
Certainly, some legislators who detest
true constitutional
values and seek to maintain liberal, activist judges on
all possible court benches, judges who insist on legislating
laws rather than giving any authentic constitutional
interpretation, would move heaven and earth to impose their
minority rule over the American people, thus sealing our
nation into an inescapable rule of terror by the courts!
Where do we go from here?
Who knows? But before the church
decides to resign to this rule of terror and considers the
certain direction that may force all true Believers to go
underground, let the church be moved to
earnest prayer and be willing to let the nation hear the clear
voice of the church in divine protest! In this
fashion, we will be connected to our forefathers in the
genuine concern that our nation protects its distinction of one nation under
God.
May
20, 2005
Reflection on
Motivations
Motivations are not always transparent, not
easily traced.
However, the out of context publication (as with
Saddam
Hussein’s inappropriate pictures released to a hostile publisher in Great Britain with
obvious anti-American and anti-war sentiments) and the recent publication by a news magazine in the
United States with similar sentiments concerning
misinformation alleging desecration of the Koran to inflame
Guantanamo detainees boarders on clear indications of
motives.
The story reported
from Guantanamo apparently had no grounds in
fact. Yet, the
consequences can never be extinguished nor the continuing
aftermath be completely stayed. It has undermined the
credibility of America and given the enemies of the war in
Iraq some sort of
victory.
The acquisition of
pictures from Iraq continues under investigation but
reportedly came from surveillance cameras to provide
security.
Yet, much that lies
behind these hostile attempts to place the allied forces in
Iraq and Afghanistan under attack and bad publicity has to do
with a philosophy that has never worked, though often tried
throughout history, that of appeasement. Indeed, in recent
history appeasement failed as a measure to stop Hitler and his
Germany prior to World War II!
However, some
people and even some nations will never learn that truth. They are too enamored
by the unrealistic elevation of human nature to that of divine
status. This
philosophy sees every human being in the world as being
basically good and reaching toward that realization of
goodness in life.
Nevertheless, unredeemed
human nature will let us down every time!
May 4, 2005
Mosul, Iraq: A picture
relaesed through AP news shouts a thousand volumes of
philosophical, cultural and religious
differences.
A US soldier embraces a fatally wounded
Iraqi child with a passionate effort to bring some
comfort. This small child had become one of the victims
of a suicide bomb attack. Thus, the world of darkness
unleashed its evil hostilities indiscreminately, no matter how
many lives would be swallowed and how many families would be
tormented by the horror of the
terror.
The US soldier obviously sought to bring
some comfort. The picture communicates an urgancy in the
effort of the soldier to express his care, the arms clutching
the little child firmly.
On the other side, the terrorist driven
by lust (see PARABLE OF THE
SUICIDE BOMBER) seeks to
manipulate his god to accept him into the splendor of his own
self-centered, evil desires by paying his way into his heaven
through murder of innocent people. His
religion, based upon the darkness of his own hatred and self
love, moves him to close his eyes to all truth in favor of the
bleak, black darkness of his own heart and
mind.
We find ourselves moved to pray for
masses of people enslaved by this evil hatred, including the
terrorists who need deliverance from the power of Satan.
May the truth finally reach this dark underworld of distitute
madness.
FICTITIOUS
SKIT
Note:
Names within this skit are cloaked to assure
anonymity.
Therefore, this skit is designed to analyze something
of the character and nature of those who seek to promote an
elitist disposition such that the rights of the minority
exceed the rights of the
majority.
Preface
In the
whirlwind of chaos created by those scheming to undermine our
society and discredit a perspective grounded in other than materialistic
humanism, the imps seeking to invade our souls and
minds have found a hay day. Their dastardly human
comrades bask in the evil lures generously provided by this
army of imps seeking to captivate and control the human spirit
and usher in the dark, endless and destructive storm of
woe.
But
enough chat.
Let’s eavesdrop on the imp colony.
Imp, the Horrible:
Ok, all you slimy delegates,
as the chief I mean to evoke utter chaotic results from this
conference. So,
down with the gavel. I intend to tailspin
this meeting into the most heated assault on—and excuse the
profanity—every speck of goodness, decency and love within
every human heart.
Do I hear an objection?
Imp, the Sassy (waving a hand high in
the air): I do! I do! I
object.
Imp, the Horrible: Object to what, for crying out loud?
Imp, the Sassy:
Oh—uh—I don’t know. I just object. That’s
all.
Imp, the Horrible: Well, object all you want to. Just keep your yapper
shut!
Imp, the Sassy:
Oh, but…
Imp, the Horrible: Sassy, what part of Just keep your yapper shut
don’t you understand?
Imp, the Sassy:
Oh, I just wanted…
Imp, the Horrible: Sassy!
Imp, the Sassy: OK! OK!
Imp, the Horrible: Wow!
Now maybe we can get somewhere. Yes, Doubter, I see
your hand.
Imp, the Doubter: Well, I’m not at all sure we are on the right
track. I mean,
those humans aren’t always easy to
deceive.
Imp, the Horrible: Why, of course not, Doubter. That’s why we must be
alert and find the weaknesses in each. And due to our record
of—well—failures, that’s why we’re only imps rather than
full-blown demons. Have I gotten your
attention, Doubter?
Imp, the Doubter: Well, if I can get the ringing of your
overwhelming roar out of my ears, I would say that you make
sense, though I am not really sure.
Imp, the Horrible: Doubter, you’re never sure about anything; so,
what else is new?
And yes, Thinker, what can you
add?
Imp, the Thinker: Well, of course, I’ve been giving a lot of
thought to matters.
Imp, the Horrible: Of course, Thinker, you always do—and I like
that. You’ve been
a big boost to our efforts, even if I must say so, and as you
know, I’m never very free with my compliments.
Imp, the Thinker: I’ve been just assessing situations. For example, the
earthling creatures aren’t always easily assuaged by
promises. But
they are nearly all centered in their own little world, around
the core of themselves, their egos. Many would sacrifice
friendships, family relationships or almost anything else to
enhance and embellish their own egotistical images.
Imp, the Horrible: Absolutely, Thinker. You’re right. Abortion proves
that!
Imp, the Thinker: Recently, I’ve been keeping up with some
interesting movements in the United States Senate. Do you know that some
of our advocates relish the deceptive language of privacy to include
murder of innocent, unborn children?
Imp, the Horrible: Absolutely, they used to call murder of children
abortion but since
that term has a bit of unacceptable connotation now among a
lot of people, they speak of the right to privacy
to (and get this) cover a multitude of sins! Their deception is
fantastic!
Imp, the Thinker: Maybe, but I am afraid it’s really not effective
enough! Some of
the do-gooders have
started calling their hand on that practice.
Imp, the Horrible: Oh, how I hate those do-gooders!
Imp, the Thinker: But we aren’t altogether without
recourse.
Imp, the Horrible: I love the sound of that, Thinker. Speak
on.
Imp, the Thinker: Well, the master often makes a lie sound like it
could be no other than the truth.
Imp, the Horrible: Oh, we have definitely encouraged the repetition
of lies. If a lie
has been repeated over a period of time, more and more people
begin to perceive it as factual. For instance, evolution. At the outset, it was
a theory to be
tested over time.
No amount of testing has turned up conclusive evidence
that it is true.
No amount of investigation of archaeological
discoveries brings absolute proof. Yet, the notion of
theory has been dropped.
Now, many institutions teach evolution as fact with
no compunction to justify their arbitrary decision to do
so.
Imp, the Thinker: While what you say is (darkness forbid the use
of such a word, but to make my point) true, we don’t have
limitless time to follow that technique to deceive the
masses
Imp, the Horrible: Hmmm… Then, you must have a better course.
Interesting.
Imp, the Thinker: Well, think with me for a moment. What is the number one
thing that sets people on a course toward
destruction?
Imp, the Horrible: Oh, yes.
We can learn well from our master what that is. He handled Eve and
then got to Adam through Eve.
Imp, the Thinker: Now, you are on the highway. Our master tempted Eve
to become her own god by eating the forbidden fruit, becoming
totally independent.
She didn’t need anyone to tell her what to do. She would for herself
determine what is good and what is bad and establish her
independence from the true God. And Eve was able to
reach Adam.
Imp, the Horrible: Ah, yes.
Original sin.
But how can we continue to replicate that temptation in
a sophisticated society where people believe the word God can mean almost
anything?
Imp, the Thinker: That bodes well for us,
of course. You
see, if the word God
can mean most anything, it’s
simple for people to accept self as a god without
having to justify that practice to anyone. Even when these people
would never call themselves gods, in practice they act as
though they are gods.
Imp, the Horrible: Oh, you mean that this notion in practice
reflects the same disposition as original
sin?
Imp, the Thinker: Quite true. Hence, it’s a small
step to lure these people into seeking egotistical
gratification by exercising their roles to express their
perceived godhood.
Such a disposition sets up a we-against-you
determination.
Imp, the Horrible: Y-y-yes.
I’m beginning to catch a thrilling scenario! It’s the kind of thing
that happens to cells in the body when certain cells go wild
and become detached from the whole purpose and control of the
body. They spread
with independent growth to pressure and kill healthy
cells. Unabated,
these wild cells eventually kill the body.
Imp, the Thinker: You are absolutely right. Individual persons in
a society pursuing wild, unrestrained and detached ideas begin
to sever the relationships which provide coherence to society
itself, thus eventually destroying that
society.
Imp, the Horrible: It’s happening in the Senate of the
United
States right now. The issue of Judge
Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court provides the catalyst.
Imp, the Thinker: Sure.
But our inspired cohorts have faltered in their haste
to protect murder of unborn children. Oh, they used some
good-sounding expressions, such as right to privacy as a
code word for abortion.
Imp, the Horrible: That’s a good one. They have done well in
making the right to privacy to trump the right to life, but
somehow they haven’t been convincing enough. Many Americans have
seen through that.
But, you know, I do love the way they have promoted the
idea that Judge Alito’s conservative views as being out of the American main
stream. It’s
really unfortunate that some of these vocal conservatives have
quoted statistics that expose that great lie for what it is,
an outright lie.
Imp, the Thinker: Well, we can’t afford to give up. We have made some
strides so far, but we must unite our efforts to
lure many more people into the god-complex such that
society will definitely take a turn for the worse in every
area.
Imp, the Horrible: So, what’s
our course to implement this strategy?
Imp, the Thinker:
Tolerance.
Imp, the Horrible:
Tolerance?
Imp, the Thinker: Yes. If we can overshadow
the thought processes of these humans with the idea of tolerance…
Imp, the Horrible: We have
been trying that approach for sometime, but I think I am
catching a glimmer where you may be going with this. Judge Alito exercises
intolerance for the rights of women. He is greatly bigoted
because of his exclusivity. He is one of those intolerant, bigoted
Christian conservatives! Therefore, he’ll take
the court down a road to rob liberal-minded
Americans of many of the rights they have
won over the decades.
Imp, the Thinker: Indeed, if
each person is his own god, then each has a right to believe
the way he wishes.
There can be NO absolute
truth. Hence, who are these
conservatives anyway to tell others what to believe with
respect to abortion or anything else?
Imp, the Horrible: I like the
way one Senator put it—I take it back. I mean, several
Senators have concurred.
They… ha… ha… ha… have called the supporters of Judge
Alito a reflection of the far, radical right. If we can build that
kind of blind criticism, man…!
Imp, the Thinker: But we
mustn’t take anything for granted. Unfortunately, there
just aren’t enough Americans who swallow that lie hook, line
and sinker.
However, I don’t propose we do away with that
particular strategy, just expand into every possible avenue of
assault.
Imp, the Horrible:
Like?
Imp, the Thinker: Oh, make a
lie seem a bit more credible with a sprinkling of more facts,
or a distortion that stretches the truth to draw a false
conclusion, or any number of sly, deceptive ploys. As an example, the
focus on a woman’s
right to deal with her own body in her own way. Thus, she may choose
to end the pregnancy rather than to carry the child full
term. Those who
would argue against that right can be pictured as extremist.
Imp, the Horrible: But what of
those who would argue convincingly that the baby has a
right?
Imp, the Thinker: Those
people simply fail to measure up to reality. There is historical
precedence in the philosophical perspectives of Friedrich
Nietzsche and Niccolo
Machiavelli.
They promoted the power ethics of might makes right and
survival of the
fittest.
Imp, the Horrible: Ah, yes,
and the liberals now hide that under right of privacy,
which…
Imp, the Thinker: …which is
to establish a dichotomy. If each person is a
god to himself, then whatever he thinks and does is a private
matter to him and not subject to intolerance of others. His religion is his
own private affair and cannot be subject to political
interference. He
has a right to express his power and survival over weaker
ones, such as unborn children.
Imp, the Horrible: Nor can
religion interfere with the political process—establishment clause,
assuring each one protection in privacy to commit murder he’s
legally entitled to.
Imp, the Thinker: Right. That’s what I mean by
a mixture of fact with lies toward breaking down
society.
Imp, the Horrible: But one
thing keeps flashing into my mind. Some of those Senators
who favor murder on demand for a pregnant parent are often
unsettled. They
could be swayed to compromise their resolve.
Imp, the Thinker: Oh,
yes. When you
really have no convictions to begin with, it’s not hard to
give in to pressures, especially where one may see himself
enhancing his own position. That would be
especially true where the Senator’s constituency fails to
endorse his position on abortion. This has been a
sore spot in moving forward toward total disintegration of
society.
Imp, the Horrible: These
Christian broadcasts from the religious right have been a
thorn in our side.
They keep the people’s conscience stirred up, moving
them toward a voice in Congress.
Imp, the Thinker: But we
still have some stubborn Senators who would defy God Almighty
with a fist in His face could they visibly stand before
Him. They have
been doing well in blistering those religious right advocates
with malicious lies and misrepresentations. As long as they bark
and howl into the night to maintain darkness, we do have a
chance! Their
delaying tactics could end up defeating Judge Alito’s chance
to be appointed to the Supreme Court. That would indeed
serve our ends.
NOTE
We intend to continue this discourse in
the near future.
Reasonable
Response
Many of us agree
that stern and unwavering rebuttal and decisive,
uncompromising stance spells the appropriate response to the
judges who arrogantly, with unrestrained malice and
hostility couched in totally insensitive edicts, reject
all reasoning which does not elevate their elitist philosophy
and conform to their agenda to promote their own godhood! After all, how dare we
resist being told what to think, what to say and what to
do. Micromanaging
our lives seems to give these judges with a god-complex a
boost toward absolute and unquestioned rule within our
society.
Parenthetically,
allow us to acknowledge that we do have many judges who have
not succumbed to the sordid exploits of the judge in
California,
judges who demonstrate integrity and respect toward the
uniqueness of our nation and show a faithful link to our
forefathers and their worship of God and promotion of family
and religious values.
These are judges with a constitutionally sound
perspective.
Were it not for these true-blooded American judges,
our nation would have long ago been cast upon the garbage heap
of history!
Even so, some of
our dear visitors and friends gently remind us that
name-calling and denunciation achieves little to move the
elitist judges toward change. They insist that we
need to reach their hearts and persuade them to open their
eyes to the light.
To these well-meaning friends, loving these misguided
souls toward the truth must be gentle and
persistent.
But let us not
quibble. This
issue our friends and visitors raise definitely has
merit! Christians
reveal an inner strength reflected through a tolerance that
demonstrates genuine love and concern, an attitude which cares
little for self-protection and the establishment of good
posture before accusers.
In such a disposition they willingly follow the
footsteps of their Lord, Who refused to retaliate when reviled
and falsely accused.
This unique Christian character centers, not in self or
self-serving goals, but in Jesus Christ and His love and
concern for others expressed in an effort to reach the person
or persons who demonstrate strong hostilities toward
Christianity and especially toward Christians. We are indeed reminded
of the Apostle Paul (Saul), who started his hostilities toward
the Christian religion, but ended up as a strong advocate of
Christ and Christianity.
Truly,
Saul held strong, devout sentiments and gave extreme
expressions to his commitments. He consented to round
up Christians and even consented to their deaths (Acts
9:1-9). Following
that dramatic conversion experience on the
Damascus
road, Paul (his chosen gentile rendition of Saul)
became a missionary representing those whom he had persecuted
diligently and from the point of his conversion to
Christianity directed much of his missionary efforts toward
the gentiles.
But
Paul had always been guided by zeal to act upon all light he
had, however little that light appeared before his experience
with the brilliance of the heavenly light that blinded him and
made all other light deep shadows by comparison (Acts
26:12-18). The
absolute difference in the case of Paul and some other
misguided people even within the society of today may be
discovered in the very fact of light
itself.
Those who cherish the truth (light or revelation) will
truly respond to that light which they encounter. Such response pivots
upon the acknowledgement and recognition of absolute
truth.
However,
the burning indictment Christ lodged against the scribes and
Pharisees (John 9:39-41)
had everything to do with their rejection of light
(truth). They
were sealed into the deep regions of their own darkness
because they knew it all and they could never be
taught.
Christ addressed these bigoted, arrogant scribes and
Pharisees harshly and directly, sparing not the truth in his
words (see John 8:44-45). This same Jesus who
defended the sinners and prostitutes as coming to the light
and the blind man who was healed because of his belief that
brought sight had no tolerance for deception and
cover-ups!
Hence,
some of us feel strongly that we should spare no words against
those who disdain truth and light and wallow in the slime of
relativism, revealing total insensitivity toward decency and
genuineness.
There can never be any meaningful dialogue with powers
of darkness who never acknowledge the reality of truth. In such cases,
every measuring rod to determine validity has been
totally rejected by these renegade judges!
True,
name-calling and denunciation of such judges may never reach
them. But neither
will anything else on earth when they deliberately close their
eyes to all light.
Then, why bother to waste time to call them who
they are, as to call a spade a spade? Simply, while
we may never reach them, we can spur others to oppose them and
encourage the voters to send the right ones to
Washington
who can eventually change judges once again to bring a genuine
heart back to our nation.
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