The following italicized text is taken directly from this week's edition of The Jerusalem Post -- Christian Edition.
On the night of March 11 – as members of the Fogel family slept in their home in Itamar – Hakim Maazan Niad Awad and Amjad Mahmud Fauzi Awad set out from the village of Awarta, 2 km. to the south, armed with knives, face masks and a wire cutter, security forces said on Sunday.
The following account of the massacre that followed is based on confessions from the two suspects, a reenactment of the attack by them, and a painstaking investigation led by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
The suspects planned the stabbings days ahead, and made unsuccessful attempts to obtain firearms from a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine representative in their village.
The lack of guns did not dissuade the two men from carrying out their plan to murder Jews.
The youths left Awarta on foot, and after a kilometer, decided against using their wire cutter after seeing that the fence had an electric sensor. Instead they climbed over the fence without triggering its alarm, hiked over a forest hilltop, and reached a row of homes in Itamar.
They entered a home adjacent to the Fogel residence, but no one was there. They stole an M-16 rifle from the home, as well as ammunition and body armor, and walked down the street.
The terrorists then saw the Fogel residence, and spotted children sleeping through the window, security forces said.
Immediately after entering the home, the youths set their knives on two brothers sleeping in their beds, four-year-old Elad, and 11-year-old Yoav, killing them both.
They then entered the parents’ bedroom, where they launched a knife attack on Ehud and Ruth Fogel. The parents fought back. During the struggle, one of the suspects used the stolen M-16 to shoot Ruth Fogel dead. Ehud died of his stab wounds during the fight.
The two men left the house, but then they heard three-month-old Hadas crying.
Awoken by the attack, the baby lay in her crib in her parents’ bedroom.
“They went back into the house and stabbed the baby to death,” a security source said.
Two other children were in the home, but were spared because Akim and Amjad did not know they were there.
Amjad later told interrogators that he would have killed them, too, had he known that they were in the house.
Few media outlets in the United States carried this story--if you don't watch FoxNews, you probably didn't know about this atrocity. What you do hear from the rest of the ridiculous so-called objective media outlets is that Israel is always the villain. Here's another story you won't hear from the majority of our media outlets:
As a large number of Jews gathered near the Fogel home to show their support for the two surviving children and the extended family, a car driving by the crowd stopped. In the back seat of that car was a Palestinian woman in an advanced stage of labor. There was no way she could have made it to a hospital--her baby was coming. Who helped her--showing compassion and delivering her baby? A Jew, there at the Fogel home. One Jewish baby, brutally and mercilessly slaughtered along with her family, by Palestinians. Another baby, this one Palestinian, who was the recipient (along with her mother) of the kindness and compassion of a Jew. A Palestinian butcher kills a baby with a knife and says that the child's age didn't matter--it was a Jew--and a Jew, showing kindness to a Palestinian in the midst of a Jewish gathering to mourn the victims of Palestinian butchery and hatred.
Another contrast--we all remember the media attention given to the flotilla which was entering Israeli waters--encroaching upon the sovreignty of the nation of Israel and breaking its law. We all remember how the media tried to demonize the IDF for boarding the ships which refused to enter an Israeli port and refused to follow the laws of the sovreign nation of Israel. We remember how they were attacked by the occupants of the ships--brutally beaten and attacked by so-called peaceful people. The media didn't cover the reasons for Israeli policy. The media didn't explain that ships headed for Gaza frequently carry weapons for the terrorists of Hamas--terrorists who have fired thousands of missiles into civilian territory. They have targeted schools and school buses. The Israelis must protect themselves by doing everything they can to stop the flow of weapons and military supplies into the land controlled by an organization which has sworn itself to the destruction of Israel. Most media outlets spun their tales with all brazen indignation--as if there isn't really a threat to the Israeli people. Yet those same media outlets haven't told you that the IDF just intercepted a ship, the Victoria. It was a cargo vessel sailing under the Liberian flag. The captain peacefully allowed his ship to be boarded, and the Israeli naval personnel found 39 containers that had been loaded in the Syrian port of Latikia. Two weeks earlier two Iranian naval vessels were docked at the same port. Those vessels had crossed the Suez canal when they were allowed to do so by the Egyptian government after the fall of Hosni Mubarak. The containers were marked as if they contained cotton and lentils. A search of those containers found advanced weapons-including surface-to-ship missiles that could be fired from the shores of Gaza and take out Israeli naval vessels within several miles of the coast. Those missiles had markings on them and had technical manuals as well--all of which was written in Farsi-the language of Iran and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahminthemoodforjihad. Did you hear about this from our so-called objective media? No, you did not. I didn't either--I also found this in the Jerusalem Post.
And now for the final contrast. Al Qaeda has sworn itself to our destruction. Its leaders regularly call for attacks upon Americans. It is an organization, as we all know, that is responsible for the attacks of 9/11 and the deaths of more than 2,900 people. Hamas has sworn itself to the destruction of Israel. Hamas, and other Palestinian organizations, are responsible for attacks which have killed thousands of Jews. America has a population of over 300 million and Israel has a population of 6 million Jews. Proportionally, Israel has suffered far more at the hands of Hamas than America did at the hands of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. We just killed Bin Laden-and doing so was the right thing to do. We did so by aggressively entering, without permission, the land of another nation. We killed him even though he was apparently unarmed and was hiding behind his wife. We continue the drone strikes even though the government of Pakistan has asked us to stop. Yet we ask Israel to negotiate with Hamas. We ask them to set the banquet table for them and give them a huge portion of the most fertile agricultural land in all of Israel. We ask them to give up half of their capital city, including the portion of that city that contains the sites most holy to both Judaism and to Christianity. History has shown that Muslims desecrate the sites holy to all other religions when they control a territory.
Let me ask you to consider this--if we begin to see Islamic terror here in the US--attacks, shootings, suicide bombings (a recent survey of Muslims in America found that over half of 'American' Muslims support suicide bombings here in the States if it advances their cause) what will we do? Will we do what our governments has demanded that Israel do? Not just this administration, but George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter all demanded that Israel give Muslim terrorists what they want with nothing in return. No recognition that Israel has a right to exist--no halt to the bombings, no halt to the attacks from Gaza--nothing. If we were to do for Muslims in America that which we demand the Israelis do for the Palestinians, then we will need to give them half of Washington DC and give them the rich agricultural land of Kansas and then give them a strip of land to control between those two areas so that they will have a 'contiguous' space of land. We will need to overlook justice when they kill American school children and babies.
We need to remember what God promised to Abraham--"I will bless those who bless you,and I will curse those who curse you." God also promised special retribution upon anyone that divided Jerusalem. Either you believe God or you don't--but that is what God says about Israel and Jerusalem.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Thomas wasn't the only doubter...
History and perception haven't been kind to Thomas, one of the disciples of Jesus. No Christian can hear the name of Thomas without thinking of him as the doubter. Even atheists use the phrase 'doubting Thomas' in reference to anyone who is highly skeptical. We all know the story about how Thomas, when told that the other disciples had seen the risen Christ, famously said that he wouldn't believe them until he not only saw the Lord, but was able to touch his wounds. In remembering this story, we don't often recall how all the other disciples doubted as well.
In the hours leading up to the arrest of Jesus, He told his followers that He would be delivered to the authorities, that He would be killed, and that He would arise from the grave, victorious over death. They had all seen Him heal the sick, raise the dead, feed the multitudes, and still the storms. But apparently they didn't believe Him when He told them that He would die and then would arise again. If they had believed Him, they might not have been so distraught and fearful and hopeless in the aftermath of the crucifixion. If they had believed Him, they would have been at the tomb before sunrise on that third day so that they wouldn't miss the spectacle of the Risen Lord emerging from His tomb. They didn't believe Him, and when He arose, they weren't there. They were in hiding.
The women who had followed Jesus also failed to understand or believe. They went to the tomb that morning not to see the Risen Lord, but to annoint the body of their dead hero.
Thomas was not the only doubter. They all doubted. And so have we all--at one time or another. Maybe we have doubted the truth of the Bible. Maybe we have doubted God's love for us. Perhaps we have doubted that God would truly forgive us for some of the things we have done. Jesus wants us to be free of all doubt. Jesus said that Thomas was blessed once he had seen and believed, but that those who believed without seeing were to be more blessed. Don't we all want to be more blessed?
The freedom that Christ brings to us isn't the freedom to do whatever we want because we know that we are forgiven. The freedom that He wants us to have comes, in part, from being free from doubt. When we are free from doubt, we are blessed. We are blessed when we don't doubt that God loves us, has forgiven us, has a plan for us and for our lives, and that we have an eternal destiny with Him. Freedom from doubt brings peace and a sense of security--even in difficult times--even when we don't understand. That is part of the blessing that comes with belief.
In the hours leading up to the arrest of Jesus, He told his followers that He would be delivered to the authorities, that He would be killed, and that He would arise from the grave, victorious over death. They had all seen Him heal the sick, raise the dead, feed the multitudes, and still the storms. But apparently they didn't believe Him when He told them that He would die and then would arise again. If they had believed Him, they might not have been so distraught and fearful and hopeless in the aftermath of the crucifixion. If they had believed Him, they would have been at the tomb before sunrise on that third day so that they wouldn't miss the spectacle of the Risen Lord emerging from His tomb. They didn't believe Him, and when He arose, they weren't there. They were in hiding.
The women who had followed Jesus also failed to understand or believe. They went to the tomb that morning not to see the Risen Lord, but to annoint the body of their dead hero.
Thomas was not the only doubter. They all doubted. And so have we all--at one time or another. Maybe we have doubted the truth of the Bible. Maybe we have doubted God's love for us. Perhaps we have doubted that God would truly forgive us for some of the things we have done. Jesus wants us to be free of all doubt. Jesus said that Thomas was blessed once he had seen and believed, but that those who believed without seeing were to be more blessed. Don't we all want to be more blessed?
The freedom that Christ brings to us isn't the freedom to do whatever we want because we know that we are forgiven. The freedom that He wants us to have comes, in part, from being free from doubt. When we are free from doubt, we are blessed. We are blessed when we don't doubt that God loves us, has forgiven us, has a plan for us and for our lives, and that we have an eternal destiny with Him. Freedom from doubt brings peace and a sense of security--even in difficult times--even when we don't understand. That is part of the blessing that comes with belief.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The 38th anniversary of the worst Supreme Court decision ever...
This weekend marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the infamous decision that has resulted in the legal murders of more than 50,000,000 people. The following link will take you to an article in The American Thinker, and it is so well written I just had to share it with you.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/roe_v_wade_the_supreme_courts.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/roe_v_wade_the_supreme_courts.html
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Never waste a good crisis...
There are no words sufficiently foul to describe the cruel actions of one despicable deranged druggie whose ramblings are incoherent and whose premeditated choices led to the deaths of 6 innocent people and the near-fatal woundings of so many others. Nothing originating on this earth will be enough to heal the families so awfully devastated on Saturday in Tuscon, Arizona.
Having said that, I must now say that I am not surprised by the haste with which far too many have put Sarah Palin, conservatives, and the Tea Party in their cross-hairs. Sarah Palin's use of the "cross-hair" analogy was metaphorical--and liberal 'intellectual' types who fail to see that are certainly not objective in their analysis. Since some apparently feel that the use of metaphor is inappropriate because it creates a 'climate of hate', then those who wish to demonize conservatives over this tragedy have some "splainin to do" (with apologies to Ricky Ricardo).
They need to explain why it was wrong for Sarah Palin to use a hunting metaphor when the following facts are indisputable:
*President Obama launched his political career in the living room of a man who didn't just talk about blowing up innocent people--he actually did it.
*President Obama has been influenced by the work of Cloward and Piven--attending multiple conferences where they were keynote individuals. They advocate violence as a means of achieving the overthrow of our current way of life. Just google 'Cloward and Piven violence' and watch some of the videos of recent speeches given by Piven. She says that she does not regard "nonviolence as a necessarily inevitable rule" and that violence is OK as long as it is part of a well planned 'strategy'. I am not making this up--google it for yourself and see what she says.
*Racist Black Panther party members, one of whom publicly calls for blacks to go out and "kill some cracker babies" can stand at a polling place with night sticks and intimidate white voters and Attorney General Eric Holder, who works for President Obama, drops the case against them-a case which had already been won.
*Liberals all over the country fan the flames of racism with no concern for the potential for racially motivated hatred and violence when they accuse the Tea Party of being racist--a claim which could not possibly farther from the truth.
*The 'preacher' who baptized Obama, married the Obamas, and led the 'church' in which Obama sat for twenty years openly hates white people and racist hateful vitriol is his unwavering message.
*There was a publication by the Democratic Leadership Committee in 2004 that featured nine bullseyes over regions where Republican candidates were considered vulnerable that year. The caption: TARGETING STRATEGY. How is that different from the items on the website of SarahPAC? It's not different--the point to see here is liberal hypocrisy. Those who complain about Sarah Palin but don't mention or consider or discuss or condemn the left for its hateful speech are hypocrites.
Seriously--does any rational person really think that a drug-addled loser whose favorite authors are Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler would find anything attractive or compelling about anything Sarah Palin has ever said? Get over the doublemindedness--if you want to cast stones at Sarah Palin for this tragedy, then start paying attention to the real world and give some thought to the facts outlined above.
Having said that, I must now say that I am not surprised by the haste with which far too many have put Sarah Palin, conservatives, and the Tea Party in their cross-hairs. Sarah Palin's use of the "cross-hair" analogy was metaphorical--and liberal 'intellectual' types who fail to see that are certainly not objective in their analysis. Since some apparently feel that the use of metaphor is inappropriate because it creates a 'climate of hate', then those who wish to demonize conservatives over this tragedy have some "splainin to do" (with apologies to Ricky Ricardo).
They need to explain why it was wrong for Sarah Palin to use a hunting metaphor when the following facts are indisputable:
*President Obama launched his political career in the living room of a man who didn't just talk about blowing up innocent people--he actually did it.
*President Obama has been influenced by the work of Cloward and Piven--attending multiple conferences where they were keynote individuals. They advocate violence as a means of achieving the overthrow of our current way of life. Just google 'Cloward and Piven violence' and watch some of the videos of recent speeches given by Piven. She says that she does not regard "nonviolence as a necessarily inevitable rule" and that violence is OK as long as it is part of a well planned 'strategy'. I am not making this up--google it for yourself and see what she says.
*Racist Black Panther party members, one of whom publicly calls for blacks to go out and "kill some cracker babies" can stand at a polling place with night sticks and intimidate white voters and Attorney General Eric Holder, who works for President Obama, drops the case against them-a case which had already been won.
*Liberals all over the country fan the flames of racism with no concern for the potential for racially motivated hatred and violence when they accuse the Tea Party of being racist--a claim which could not possibly farther from the truth.
*The 'preacher' who baptized Obama, married the Obamas, and led the 'church' in which Obama sat for twenty years openly hates white people and racist hateful vitriol is his unwavering message.
*There was a publication by the Democratic Leadership Committee in 2004 that featured nine bullseyes over regions where Republican candidates were considered vulnerable that year. The caption: TARGETING STRATEGY. How is that different from the items on the website of SarahPAC? It's not different--the point to see here is liberal hypocrisy. Those who complain about Sarah Palin but don't mention or consider or discuss or condemn the left for its hateful speech are hypocrites.
Seriously--does any rational person really think that a drug-addled loser whose favorite authors are Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler would find anything attractive or compelling about anything Sarah Palin has ever said? Get over the doublemindedness--if you want to cast stones at Sarah Palin for this tragedy, then start paying attention to the real world and give some thought to the facts outlined above.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Here's a good story...
Tonight, I am sitting with my son and two friends of ours. We are all enjoying some very fine cigars. The stick I selected is a Kristoff Maduro that was given to me for Christmas. My son Alex chose a Kristoff Ligero. Josh picked a Guillermo Leon. All are fine cigars. Kellen chose a Cuban Monte Cristo and is enjoying it tremendously. It will be Kellen's last cigar with us for a year. Tomorrow, he is leaving for a year long mission trip with an organization called The World Race. He'll begin in the Dominican Republic, and then he'll go to Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, and Guatamala. Then he'll go to Africa and spend time in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. From there he'll travel to Southeast Asia and visit Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia.
Kellen will be traveling with only a backpack and very little else while he travels. In each country he will have contacts with churches and schools and orphanages. You can see what Kellen is doing by going to his blog at http://kellengorbett.theworldrace.org/ and reading. Read the 12/31/2010 entry and you'll see how this amazing year will work for Kellen. kellen's writing is quite good--he is a professional writer and has been published in several venues. If you'd like to follow him throughout the year, sign up at his blog by looking at the left column on the screen and click on 'Receive Updates'.
I would like to ask you to consider joining our family in supporting Kellen as he travels for the next year, taking the love of Christ into some of the most needy places in he world. For only a few dollars, easily donated through a link in his blog, you can play a part. In regards to the Great Commission, it has been said that some go and some send. In helping Kellen, you will be playing a role in the sending and through your assistance, many people will be blessed.
Kellen will be traveling with only a backpack and very little else while he travels. In each country he will have contacts with churches and schools and orphanages. You can see what Kellen is doing by going to his blog at http://kellengorbett.theworldrace.org/ and reading. Read the 12/31/2010 entry and you'll see how this amazing year will work for Kellen. kellen's writing is quite good--he is a professional writer and has been published in several venues. If you'd like to follow him throughout the year, sign up at his blog by looking at the left column on the screen and click on 'Receive Updates'.
I would like to ask you to consider joining our family in supporting Kellen as he travels for the next year, taking the love of Christ into some of the most needy places in he world. For only a few dollars, easily donated through a link in his blog, you can play a part. In regards to the Great Commission, it has been said that some go and some send. In helping Kellen, you will be playing a role in the sending and through your assistance, many people will be blessed.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Mene, mene, tekel, parsin....
The fifth chapter of the book of Daniel tells the story of the feast of Belshazzar. This man, the son of Nebuchadnazzar, put on a feast during which a disembodied hand appeared and wrote on the wall. This story is the source of the contemporary phrase "the handwriting on the wall." (apologies to those very young people who think that Facebook was the first place that you could write on a wall) The hand wrote the words mene, mene, tekel, parsin. No one was able to understand the meaning of the words, and Daniel was summoned. Daniel gave the interpretation to the king. He told the king that the days of his kingdom had been numbered and it was about to end. He told the king that he had been weighed in the scales and found wanting. He told the king that the kingdom was to be divided and given away.
Did the left wing fail to read the handwriting on the wall? Apparently, they did. They saw Americans writing on the wall when Americans tried to be heard in town hall meetings before health care passed. Instead of listening, the left wing members of Congress just cancelled their town hall meetings. They were unwilling to face their constituents and hear them. They chose not to be the voice of the people whom they represented.
Here is what I think America wrote on the wall:
Americans want jobs.
Americans want government to live within its means.
Americans want lower taxes.
Americans want reduced government spending.
Americans want their freedoms protected--not taken away.
Americans want a secure border and sensible immigration policy and no amnesty for illegals.
Americans want the relationship with their doctors protected, not controlled by Washington.
Americans want those who govern to empathize with us, not treat us with arrogant disdain.
Americans want a government that respects the wishes of the governed.
America hasn't gotten what America wants from Washington for a long time. The failure of the left to read the handwriting on the wall has led to the results we see in Tuesday's election. "Mene" -- your days are numbered. Here are some numbers:
66--the number of seats the conservatives picked up in the House.
6 -- the number of seats in the Senate the conservatives picked up.
2/3 -- the number of Democrats in the Senate who will have to campaign to keep their seats in the next election and are likely to lose if they didn't learn from what they just saw.
17--the number of state legislatures that flipped from Democratic control to Republican control.
600+ -- the number of state legislative seats that switched from liberal to conservative hands.
Tekel--you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Madame Pelosi obviously is illiterate when it comes to reading the handwriting on the wall. Today, the House Dems--about to be in the minority--will be electing the Minority Leader and she is brazen enough to run for the position and they are likely dumb enough to elect her. She says that she had nothing to do with the loss of seats, and the hardline liberals are supporting her instead of assigning any responsibility to her for their recent debacle. America weighed her and her ideas--America found those ideas wanting. She wasn't inappropriately demonized for political purposes--she was shown to be the architect of House policies that the American people wholeheartedly reject.
Parsin--the kingdom was to be divided and given away. Well--they had the whole shebang--the House, the Senate, and the White House--and after two years of total control and four years of controlling the House, the economy is in horrible shape, spending is unsustainable and threatens the very foundation of the greatest nation the world has ever seen--and they won't listen. Well, America has divided them -- we will see if they decide to read the handwriting on the wall...
Did the left wing fail to read the handwriting on the wall? Apparently, they did. They saw Americans writing on the wall when Americans tried to be heard in town hall meetings before health care passed. Instead of listening, the left wing members of Congress just cancelled their town hall meetings. They were unwilling to face their constituents and hear them. They chose not to be the voice of the people whom they represented.
Here is what I think America wrote on the wall:
Americans want jobs.
Americans want government to live within its means.
Americans want lower taxes.
Americans want reduced government spending.
Americans want their freedoms protected--not taken away.
Americans want a secure border and sensible immigration policy and no amnesty for illegals.
Americans want the relationship with their doctors protected, not controlled by Washington.
Americans want those who govern to empathize with us, not treat us with arrogant disdain.
Americans want a government that respects the wishes of the governed.
America hasn't gotten what America wants from Washington for a long time. The failure of the left to read the handwriting on the wall has led to the results we see in Tuesday's election. "Mene" -- your days are numbered. Here are some numbers:
66--the number of seats the conservatives picked up in the House.
6 -- the number of seats in the Senate the conservatives picked up.
2/3 -- the number of Democrats in the Senate who will have to campaign to keep their seats in the next election and are likely to lose if they didn't learn from what they just saw.
17--the number of state legislatures that flipped from Democratic control to Republican control.
600+ -- the number of state legislative seats that switched from liberal to conservative hands.
Tekel--you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Madame Pelosi obviously is illiterate when it comes to reading the handwriting on the wall. Today, the House Dems--about to be in the minority--will be electing the Minority Leader and she is brazen enough to run for the position and they are likely dumb enough to elect her. She says that she had nothing to do with the loss of seats, and the hardline liberals are supporting her instead of assigning any responsibility to her for their recent debacle. America weighed her and her ideas--America found those ideas wanting. She wasn't inappropriately demonized for political purposes--she was shown to be the architect of House policies that the American people wholeheartedly reject.
Parsin--the kingdom was to be divided and given away. Well--they had the whole shebang--the House, the Senate, and the White House--and after two years of total control and four years of controlling the House, the economy is in horrible shape, spending is unsustainable and threatens the very foundation of the greatest nation the world has ever seen--and they won't listen. Well, America has divided them -- we will see if they decide to read the handwriting on the wall...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
America's problem isn't political, and neither is the solution...
Well, things have been so busy I have had very little time to blog. And with this election being the silly season it has been, there has been little worth the time it takes to blog. Honestly, there is so much about which we should be concerned I wouldn't even know where to begin to treat things comprehensively--so I haven't been writing.
There is something I would like to say before the election on November 2. What I have to say may surprise some of you. So much of our nation is angry. So many conservatives have pinned their hopes for change on what looks like an upcoming conservative thrashing of the left--they are wrong to do so. Our nation is in trouble--it is in a very dark place right now. The problem, however, is not political. The solution isn't political either. The problem is spiritual, as is the solution.
America isn't great because of our land. Other nations have more land than we do. America isn't great because of our resources. Other nations have more of everything than we do. America isn't great because of our people. We all came here from somewhere else--so ethnically and racially we are the whole world. America is great because our Founding Fathers, despite the left's attempts to rewrite history and deny this fact, founded this nation with the unwavering belief that God reigns supreme in the affairs of men and is worthy of our worship and our respect and our aspirations. The Christian worldview with which they wrote the Declaration of Indepence and the Constitution is the basis of our freedoms and of our greatness. The democratic process, with its inherent respect for freedoms, has given us the most free society the world has ever known. Capitalism, with its rewards for those with good ideas and a good work ethic, has made us the most prosperous nation the world has ever seen. Other systems of government, lacking the Christian respect for each individual and lacking the incentive to make one's life better, have always failed. Even those democracies modeled after ours lack the Christian foundation we have had, and have not had the strength that America has known and shown.
Now we live in a land that denies our own heritage. We give no honor to the ideals of the Founders, nor do we as a people honor the God they worshipped. Instead, as a nation, we strive to eliminate all mention of God from the public square and that is supposed to be a good thing. We take God and discipline out of schools, and we end up with shootings like we saw at Heath High School in Paducah, KY and at Columbine in Colorado, and then ask why God allows such things to happen. We see the sexual 'freedoms' and 'liberation' that came with the 1960s, and now wonder why we have an epidemic of STDs, unwanted pregnancies, and broken homes and fatherless children.
When we forget that there is a God and that there is an eternity about which we must be concerned, then the only pressing concerns become selfish ones. We abort babies because the sex we had to create them was selfish. We want to have the good life, and we want someone else to pay for it. We want to do whatever we want whenever we want, and we don't ever want to be offended and we don't ever want anyone to tell us "No." to anything that we want to do. We want to believe that all morals are relative and that none are absolute, and that anyone who says that there are absolute moral standards to which we should aspire is 'intolerant'.
In my blogs, I have frequently railed against the Democrats and the current President. But I am just as aggravated at the Republicans. They had the reigns for several years and they spent money just like the liberals do. They put just as many earmarks into legislation as the Democrats. They have no one to blame for their loss of Congress in 2006 but themselves. The Democrats are disingenous as well, however. Barney Frank and Maxine Waters blocked greatly needed finance oversight and reforms and they are as much to blame for the housing crisis that began the current economic downturn. Barney Frank, for crying out loud, blocked regulatory reform that would have scrutinized Fannie and Freddie while he was involved in a sexual relationship with a man that is an executive for one of these institutions. ( I don't think that this guy is the same boyfriend of Barney that ran a brothel for gay male prostitutes out of the home that he and Barney shared--but then again, we'll never be sure about that because the lamestream media won't touch stories like that about liberals )
As long as enough people in American want abortion on demand to avoid the consequences of sexual activity outside of marriage, there will be Democrats who get elected by promising to keep that available. As long as enough people in America want to have men marrying men and women marrying women, there will be Democrats who get elected by promising to work towards those ends. As long as there are people who would rather get a check from the government that the work of others provides, then there will be Democrats who get elected by promising to tax those nasty rich people (who by the way, are the ones who use their resources to hire unemployed people and grow the economy by growing their businesses). As long as there are idiots who think that if we just give up all our weapons and close all our military bases that the world will follow along and then we'll live in peace and tranquility, then there will be Democrats who rail against those who believe in a strong national defense and they'll get elected by doing so.
I've come to realize that the problem isn't the Democrats. The problem is that too many Americans no longer see the big picture. As long as there are enough Americans who see things selfishly and Godlessly, then there will be politicians who cater to those people to further their own selfish ambitions. I will still be voting on Tuesday, and I will be voting for the most conservative candidates in each of the races. But I am not functioning under the illusion that I'll wake up Wednesday and all will be well. America's spiritual problem isn't going to be fixed by the political process. While God may choose to use good people in the political process to make a difference, what God really wants to see in our nation is a return to Him--a turning of the hearts of the people to Him as the Founding Fathers looked to Him. It is their legacy on which we have lived--and it is their legacy to which we must return if we, as a nation, are to remain great.
There is something I would like to say before the election on November 2. What I have to say may surprise some of you. So much of our nation is angry. So many conservatives have pinned their hopes for change on what looks like an upcoming conservative thrashing of the left--they are wrong to do so. Our nation is in trouble--it is in a very dark place right now. The problem, however, is not political. The solution isn't political either. The problem is spiritual, as is the solution.
America isn't great because of our land. Other nations have more land than we do. America isn't great because of our resources. Other nations have more of everything than we do. America isn't great because of our people. We all came here from somewhere else--so ethnically and racially we are the whole world. America is great because our Founding Fathers, despite the left's attempts to rewrite history and deny this fact, founded this nation with the unwavering belief that God reigns supreme in the affairs of men and is worthy of our worship and our respect and our aspirations. The Christian worldview with which they wrote the Declaration of Indepence and the Constitution is the basis of our freedoms and of our greatness. The democratic process, with its inherent respect for freedoms, has given us the most free society the world has ever known. Capitalism, with its rewards for those with good ideas and a good work ethic, has made us the most prosperous nation the world has ever seen. Other systems of government, lacking the Christian respect for each individual and lacking the incentive to make one's life better, have always failed. Even those democracies modeled after ours lack the Christian foundation we have had, and have not had the strength that America has known and shown.
Now we live in a land that denies our own heritage. We give no honor to the ideals of the Founders, nor do we as a people honor the God they worshipped. Instead, as a nation, we strive to eliminate all mention of God from the public square and that is supposed to be a good thing. We take God and discipline out of schools, and we end up with shootings like we saw at Heath High School in Paducah, KY and at Columbine in Colorado, and then ask why God allows such things to happen. We see the sexual 'freedoms' and 'liberation' that came with the 1960s, and now wonder why we have an epidemic of STDs, unwanted pregnancies, and broken homes and fatherless children.
When we forget that there is a God and that there is an eternity about which we must be concerned, then the only pressing concerns become selfish ones. We abort babies because the sex we had to create them was selfish. We want to have the good life, and we want someone else to pay for it. We want to do whatever we want whenever we want, and we don't ever want to be offended and we don't ever want anyone to tell us "No." to anything that we want to do. We want to believe that all morals are relative and that none are absolute, and that anyone who says that there are absolute moral standards to which we should aspire is 'intolerant'.
In my blogs, I have frequently railed against the Democrats and the current President. But I am just as aggravated at the Republicans. They had the reigns for several years and they spent money just like the liberals do. They put just as many earmarks into legislation as the Democrats. They have no one to blame for their loss of Congress in 2006 but themselves. The Democrats are disingenous as well, however. Barney Frank and Maxine Waters blocked greatly needed finance oversight and reforms and they are as much to blame for the housing crisis that began the current economic downturn. Barney Frank, for crying out loud, blocked regulatory reform that would have scrutinized Fannie and Freddie while he was involved in a sexual relationship with a man that is an executive for one of these institutions. ( I don't think that this guy is the same boyfriend of Barney that ran a brothel for gay male prostitutes out of the home that he and Barney shared--but then again, we'll never be sure about that because the lamestream media won't touch stories like that about liberals )
As long as enough people in American want abortion on demand to avoid the consequences of sexual activity outside of marriage, there will be Democrats who get elected by promising to keep that available. As long as enough people in America want to have men marrying men and women marrying women, there will be Democrats who get elected by promising to work towards those ends. As long as there are people who would rather get a check from the government that the work of others provides, then there will be Democrats who get elected by promising to tax those nasty rich people (who by the way, are the ones who use their resources to hire unemployed people and grow the economy by growing their businesses). As long as there are idiots who think that if we just give up all our weapons and close all our military bases that the world will follow along and then we'll live in peace and tranquility, then there will be Democrats who rail against those who believe in a strong national defense and they'll get elected by doing so.
I've come to realize that the problem isn't the Democrats. The problem is that too many Americans no longer see the big picture. As long as there are enough Americans who see things selfishly and Godlessly, then there will be politicians who cater to those people to further their own selfish ambitions. I will still be voting on Tuesday, and I will be voting for the most conservative candidates in each of the races. But I am not functioning under the illusion that I'll wake up Wednesday and all will be well. America's spiritual problem isn't going to be fixed by the political process. While God may choose to use good people in the political process to make a difference, what God really wants to see in our nation is a return to Him--a turning of the hearts of the people to Him as the Founding Fathers looked to Him. It is their legacy on which we have lived--and it is their legacy to which we must return if we, as a nation, are to remain great.
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