Things We Can't Say

We can't say that abortion is murder, homosexuality is aberrant, Jesus is the only Way, Darwinian evolution is a flawed theory or that criminals are 'bad.'

We also, apparently, can't call bullies 'bad.' We can say that bullying is unacceptable behavior, or that it isn't 'nice.' But no one is permitted to call any childhood behavior bad, let alone the person doing the deed.

All this leads us to 'therapies' and 'counter measures,' to help children learn how to get along with one another. But it does nothing to actually solve the problem!

What happened to linking bad behavior with character? Some things are constructive while others are destructive. Can't we point out the destructive nature of stubbornness, obsessiveness, being critical, apathetic, self-indulgent, callous, willful, or any number of negative character qualities?

Why do we have to separate the behavior from the attitude that stimulates it?

Oh, I know! Because no one is BAD!!! Only behaviors are bad. People are good.

Here's a News Flash: If you don't know what's wrong, you can't fix it!

Parenting is about training little people who have no values. If we let them simply express what they feel, don't be surprised if they develop a destructive value system.

Some people simply have no empathy toward anyone. They are self-centered and narcissistic. Tell them a particular behavior hurts the other person and they will have no sympathetic response. Psychology calls this Anti-Social Behavior Disorder.

Isn't that nice? They have a disorder of the 'mind.' It's not their fault. Of course, the mental health community has no idea what 'the mind' is, nor do they know why it's disordered! They believe the mind to be the brain, judging from all the brain studies and chemicals applied to make the it work better. Think about that! Seven pounds of grey matter, sitting on top of your neck is running your life. No wonder nothing is my fault.

The Bible says the mind is a function of the heart and that the heart is desperately wicked, beyond anything anyone can 'know.' [Jer. 17:9] Calling this kind of wickedness "unacceptable behavior" isn't attacking the real problem.

Here's another good reason to keep your children out of the State School System. They might get hurt.

The Real Purpose For Separation of Church & State

What's does the Westboro Baptist Church have in common with the city of King NC? They are both fighting for Free Speech Rights in America

The Westboro folks are in the U.S. Supreme Court (right now) arguing that they have Free Speech rights to insult, inflame and otherwise intimidate families as they seek to bury their fallen heros.

The folks in King NC are arguing before their own City Council for the right to honor their war-dead with flags representing the nation and beliefs of all they died for.

King is a small town of less than 7000 souls, North West of Winston-Salem, just South West of Pilot Mountain (or Mt Pilot for you Mayberry fans)

Both seek the right to free speech. One seeks the right to be rude, obnoxious, incendiary and hurtful – while the other seeks the right to honor their dead, in harmony with their religious beliefs.

One will likely win! The other may very well lose.

Should the Westboro folks win and the King folks lose, it will (once again) expose the myth of equal rights under the law, in America. Our rights stop at the door of our churches. Why? Because 'someone' may be offended.

The mythological tenet of 'separation of church and state' as it is now interpreted, will be the telling factor. Citizens have the right to say all sorts of things – wave all sorts of flags and banners – honoring every crude, rude and indecent thing anyone can imagine. Citizens have the right to believe anything they want – and speak up for it – in any public venue we provide. What citizens can't do, however, is say / display / picture / or pray on government property.

Am I the only one who sees this as contrived?

No! Most people in this country understand what's going on: The forces of evil – in this case anti-God – are working overtime to eliminate any official recognition of the God of the Bible. The gods of nature; the gods of mythology; the god of humanism; the gods of imagination are all OK. Just not the God Who reveals Himself in The Bible

Why? Personal animis! Hatred of authority! Decadence! Narcissim!
Every government known to man has been and is based on religious belief.
Communist countries = atheistic (faith-system) Humanistic
Moslem countries = Allah
French Republic = Humanism (self as god)
Primitive cultures = pantheists / animists [native Americans]
Oriental societies = mythology / ancestor worship
Monarchs of Europe = divine right of kings to rule
Roman / Greek / Ancient Egyptian / Mesopotamian / Minoan / and on and on
ALL based on religious beliefs
The problem is NOT that America was founded on religious beliefs
Rather, that America was founded on biblical beliefs!

Any god you can name or create is better / more acceptable than the God of the Bible! Why? Because He actually rules over the affairs of men, and everyone knows it! He is the only One we do NOT want to answer to. The snake god can be appeased by men. The God of the Bible cannot!

Reconciliation with this God requires submission of the will – to Him! and to what He believes.
That's why the 10-commandments are so odious!
That's why the flags have to come down!
That's why the Pres. can't be seen standing in front of Christian symbols!
That's why we can't even put up a religiously-oriented Christmas display!

Even though “Christmas” is NOT a Christian holy day. The fact that people think it is – scares the humanist / atheist / narcissist to death!

What happens when God is exiled from a culture? The people are then free to govern themselves....any way the see fit.

What happens when people govern themselves according to their own desires? Moral chaos. Political despotism. Run-away corruption in government and business. The co-opting of justice in favor of what men see as fairness. Wait! We're already there!!!!

The God of The Bible is out of our schools; out of our families; out of our government; out of our commerce; out of our churches (for the most part). The forces of Darwinian evolution – even though most people still reject the premise – have won!

The Pope says evolution is an acceptable explanation of how God created the universe and many Christians agree! If God is de-throned, at this beginning point – why serve Him at all? If the Bible isn't accurate at this beginning point, why believe anything else it says?

The battle is to eliminate The God Who has authority and to Whom we are ultimately accountable. Atheists imagine there isn't a God. Humanists substitute the human spirit. Animists, animals. Spiritists, spirits. Mystics, feelings. And so forth.

Who do you worship? Judging from the way Christians live, they aren't worshiping The One True God of Heaven, either. So why the hub-bub, Bub?

We Love Obama -- But We're Willing To Share

Polls suggest that the American public likes Obama, the man, but not Obama, the policy-maker.

A likable guy, a pleasant personality, a pleasing demeanor, but when he puts his hands into our pockets or supports homosexual unions or funding abortions, we pull up short!

Is this an Obama-problem? Or is this an American people-problem? We voted him in, wanting him to change everything about our country and our way of doing business. We wanted his brand of socialism and 'free lunch' for everyone. Why the hypocrisy?

Well, the theory was grand, but the reality is painful. Did we not see this coming? Sadly, for many, the answer is No! The vision for America that Obama and his crowd have is not the vision most Americans hold. This is a man who clearly does not share our perception nor our dream.

But what else do we NOT see coming? Pundits speculate and Obama operatives claim that Mr. Obama doesn't want a second term as President. They see him using the presidency as a spring-board to a global career.

What's more appealing: having to deal with solving the problems of American polity with solutions that will not please everyone and most of which won't work? Or simply making speeches and being entertained around the world by any and all who see him as either a drawing card for their organization or a set-piece for their own purposes?

This is a man who fits the mold of the one God prophecies for the End Days. A global, charismatic leader who is asked to take control of a global economy and political situation that is careening out of control. A man who will be Israel's 'savior' in her quest to fight off her enemies.

This man will gain the support of ten global 'kings' -- power brokers who may be leaders of countries or leaders of economic regions -- who give their authority and power to him, 'in one hour.'

A man who will be a World Dictator, seemingly in control but ultimately destroyed by the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. A man who will be indwelt, eventually, by Satan, becoming The Antichrist.

Is Obama the Antichrist? I doubt it. But the pattern was set by Bill Clinton's post-presidency. A global career that hasn't really taken off. Could this black, pseudo-christian, mock-Muslim, liberal, progressive, socialist pull it off? This man without a documented past? This man who loves himself more than life? This man who does not see himself as an American and who's wife clearly hates everything about traditional Americanism?

The progressives have ruined our economy and set us on a post-American track. Is this the beginning of The End?

Where Are The Parents?

A listener writes, regarding the Judge who overturned Prop 8: He saw a law that infringed on the rights of a minority group and ruled it unconstitutional. The majority can not take away the rights of a minority just because they don't like who or what they are.

Is that what happened? A majority of the voting population of a State simply saw something they didn't like and decided to outlaw it? No objective moral or social reasoning, just emotional reaction?

Constitutions exist to protect societies from being hijacked by virtually any person or group which decides to take it in another direction. The Framers of our Constitution did not see homosexuality as a good thing, nor even as a benign "alternative" life style.

Couched, as it is in biblical principle and philosophy, our Constitution protects us from morally destructive ideals and practices. It does not view selfish desire as an alternative to good order.

Homosexuality is not new. It's been around for millennia. It has never been identified with a morally superior culture. The cultures which embraced it eroded from within and vanished. Homosexuality has never been equated with 'good order.'

There is, as yet, no link of homosexual desire with DNA or with brain chemistry. Try as supporters might, they are left with the reality that homosexuality is a self-serving desire. A sexual desire that leaves those who practice it less stable, emotionally, less healthy, physically and less able to strengthen the society in which it exists.

When a small percentage of the population (3/5%) seek to drag the majority into moral and physical degradation, how is it that the majority has no right to protect itself? It seems to me that this is exactly what the majority should be doing.

The States that support homosexual unions have done so against the will of the majority, through legislative fiat. So, how is it that the minority has the right to take away the rights of the majority, simply because they don't like something?

Homosexuality kills! It is physically destructive, resulting in billions of dollars a year in health care costs -- to the majority.

Homosexuality destroys! It is morally and socially destructive to a society. It costs the society in terms of stability, attacking as it does, the family structure.

Homosexuality corrupts! Seen as normal, it is more likely to attract young people into the behavior, experimentally at first, but then like an addictive drug to the complete corruption of their moral fiber.

Homosexuality destroys 'good order.' A judge recently overturned the military's 'don't ask - don't tell' policy, paving the way to open homosexuality in the military. This, despite the opinion of Service Chiefs, all of which claim it will destroy good order and military effectiveness.

That otherwise intelligent human beings can't see the danger and destructiveness of this behavior, points to a moral degradation of our society. We are being conditioned to accept every human desire and behavior as 'normal.'

Do you think this will strengthen our culture? And, if it's not morally strong, do you think it can withstand a concentrated attack from a determined enemy?

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, killing over 2000 mostly military personnel.
Islamic radicals attacked New York City, killing over 3000 civilians.

We conquered Japan in just over 4 years. With radical Islam, it's been 9 years and we're the bigots if we don't want them to erect a shrine to their treachery, a scant 300 yards from their greatest victory.

Other than fulfilling the sexual desire of those practicing it, homosexuality has no redeeming qualities. Let the 'parents' of this society stand up and tell the 'children' NO!

Obama & Beck: What's The Difference?

There are probably no two men in America who are perceived to be more radically different from each other than President Obama and Glenn Beck. But that's just on the surface.

Where religion is concerned, and specifically their beliefs about God, Jesus, Salvation, Grace and Heaven, they are two peas in the same proverbial pod! Neither of them hold to the Bible's description / definition of any of these. But that's only scratching the surface.

Obama was born, raised, and educated Moslem. He offers no testimony of ever renouncing his 'faith,' and seems to go out of his way to live up to Moslem tenets. He bows to Islamic Kings but not Christian Queens. He doesn't take his non-Moslem wife to Moslem countries. He covers Christian symbols when delivering speeches. He has been photographed removing his shoes and entering a Mosque for prayer with fellow Moslems. Something no Christian would be permitted to do.

Beck is a Mormon. He claims to be a Christian. But Mormons don't believe Christian doctrine! Mormons believe Christian churches/denominations are 'of the devil.' [Joseph Smith: Book of Mormon] Mormons don't believe in the Jesus of the Bible. Their's 'became' The Messiah at His baptism and attained godhood through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel [Mormon "Articles of Faith"] Mormons believe water baptism to be the "very gateway into the kingdom of heaven."

What divides these men is their political philosophies and their character. On that score, Glenn Beck is one of the best things that's happened to America is some time. May his tribe increase.

But, Glenn Beck is part and parcel of the Cosmic Humanism [formerly The New Age Movement] that is rapidly taking over religion in America and around the world. Whether it's Oprah or Chopra or Brian McLaren [Emergent Church] or Benny Hinn, or Glenn Beck, the theme is the same: We Shall Be As Gods!

This is all about The Shift! Whether it's Wayne Dwyer's book and now, Movie, or Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, "Grand Elder of the Living Maya," or many other variations of the theme, this "Shift" is from a purely physical orientation to one that is spiritual.

Making this shift means blending with whatever you may call or believe to be God. It may be through Eastern Meditation or Prayer Walking or Incense Burning or the self-hypnosis of Contemporary / Charismatic so-called "worship," or any number of methods.

This is the formulation of the End Times Religious Order! That people can call themselves "Christian" while believing in this sort of thing is what the deception is all about. Those who are swooning or rewarding their physical senses with secular rhythms and discordant beats, through what passes for 'worship' in the Contemporary Church Movement, are simply being prepared for The Shift.

Are you preparing? Or are you paying attention? The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [I Tim. 4:1]

In Support of The Park51 Mosque

Recently a number of 'Religious Leaders' gathered at the site of the proposed Mosque, just 200 yards from 'Ground Zero' to offer their support for Religious Freedom, Brotherhood and Peace. The rest of us are just Bigots!

What you have to do is look at who these Religious Leaders are and what they represent. They are the Liberal, Progressive wing of whatever religious group they represent. The educational institutions listed are also liberal. Liberal Jews. Liberal Protestants. Liberal Baptists. Liberal everything.

What is a Liberal in the world of religion? These are folks who have abandoned the basic tenets of their religion in favor of something else. That 'something else' is whatever liberal, progressive, post-modern or heretical principles appeal to them.

If it's Judaism, the liberal Jew does not hold to the basic principles of Judaism.If it's Catholicism, or Evangelicalism, or any other religious group, the same is true. The exception would Protestantism. This entire group is already Liberal, and has been for over 50 years.

In government, it's the same. A Liberal (now progressive) American is one who has abandoned the governing principles of the United States [The Constitution] in favor what they see as a better way. They give lip service to American Ideals, but re-define the words and concepts to fit their own perceptions.

My point is: Pay attention to what people believe, before you start thinking that their support of peace, brotherhood and religious freedom is legitimate. Should that mosque be built, YOU won't be permitted inside for worship! It's not a Church For All People. And there is ample evidence that Muslims have routinely built mosques at the sites of their most prominent conquests.

When churches can get building permits wherever they wish to build, it might be time to consider some of this rhetoric. But, we all know that churches face up-hill battles to build houses of worship in many (most?) areas of these United States. And churches are truly open to all people.

The Liberal wing of American politics and American Religion do not share the majority view in either. They do have the loudest, most prominent voice. Don't be intimidated by a vocal minority!

The Wrongs of Rights

Can you list your "Rights?" We have Civil Rights, Personal Rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, The Right to Choose, The Right to feed our family [think illegal immigration], Childrens' Rights, Individual Rights, The Right to Healthcare, The Right to own a home [think America's economic collapse] and the list goes on, almost endlessly. New Rights are being found or created every day.

Now....can you list your Responsibilities? If you are the average person, this list will be much shorter. We have been taught NOT to think in terms of responsibility. Responsibility mitigates our Rights, controls and limits the free expression of our Rights. Responsibility is quite simply a Killjoy!

However, without responsible citizens, family members, legislators, police officers, teachers, pastors, professors, administrators, executives, etc, the society suffers. Individuals are inflated beyond the bounds of decency and respect. Decisions are more self-centered than magnanimous. Children don't learn to control their desires. Parents don't parent. And society suffers.

We have reached the point where everyone is an individual and no one has any real responsibility for the condition of the group. The 'system' has become so complex and confusing, even the worst abuse can be explained in such a way as to either convince or so obfuscate as to leave most people polarized and frustrated. Often frustrated enough to 'check out' of the debate.

An emphases on Rights leads to Rebellion. An emphasis on Responsibility leads to character. Seen any character lately? Our society is fixated on making sure everyone knows and has essential Rights. This has led to a breakdown of morals and decency. The most obvious abuse has been in The Family. Children who grow up understanding their Rights, generally develop a superiority complex and confront any and all challenges to those Rights. In the process they do not learn Life Lessons.

Look at all the Government Programs designed to compensate for irresponsibility. The Message? Live however you want and the government will pick up the pieces. This is a recipe for government control. The reason we have seat-belt laws is because the government is the final insurer against the damage which accrues to those not wearing a seat-belt. Multiply that by however many Rights you have to do whatever you want. Now, divide that by the laws and policies devised to control for your irresponsible behavior and you begin to see the social slavery created by all those Rights!

Cynical? Wait till you see National Healthcare, Amnesty for illegal immigrants and the Rationing of Energy [Cap-And-Trade] which spells the end to private property. All because people have Rights!