On Politics and Religion. Because I have studied politics for so long, I tend to read everything with an eye for political content, even the Bible. Or especially the Bible? I believe that government founded on biblical principles is the very best kind of government. Ours is just such a government. The principles of representation, separation and division of power, and capitalism are all biblical principles. But even as the positive principles of good government are biblical, so are the negative consequences of bad government. Take Psalm 94:20&21 for instance.
"Can a throne of destruction be allied with Thee, one which devises mischief by decree? They band themselves together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death." (NASB)
It is amazing how our current political environment resembles these verses. This is the most anti-God, anti-Christian government we have had in our entire history. We have had corruption (see Grant and Harding), we have had ineptitude (see Buchanan) we have had dangerous policy (see Carter), and we have had socialism (see FDR) but we have never had all four on such a grand scale moving at such breakneck speed to deliberately destroy everything that made this country great. It makes me sick, and it scares the daylights out of me. However, they have made a fatal error that will give us our one chance to change things and right the sinking ship--they have discounted and scoffed at God and the people who believe and follow Him.
Verses 22&23 of Psalm 94 go on to explain the consequences of those who would govern this way.
" But the Lord has been my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. and He has brought back their wickedness up on them and will destroy them in their evil; The Lord our God will destroy them." I love the last line. "The Lord our God will destroy them."(my emphasis) They do not understand this part, that is the "our God" part. He is real, He is powerful, and He is at work. And HE WINS.
This should comfort us and spur us to action. This country was founded by people whose expression and practice of belief in God was threatened just as ours is now. These people took action against the authorities that threatened them. We can too. We will not leave to start over again like our Separatist and Puritan fathers did; rather, we will pray and talk and write and protest and run for office and send money. We will effect change by making ourselves heard and putting ourselves forward BE the government. This is still a government of, for, and by the people and we are "the people." This is not the time to hide in the safety of our churches and families, or they soon they will not be safe. This is the time to get involved and do the hard work and heavy lifting needed to turn this country back to its founding principles. They worked. Because they worked, we enjoy a standard of living like no one else in the world. I, for one, want to keep that and make sure my grandchildren have it, too. If we do nothing, evil will prevail and we will all lose, and that is not acceptable.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
On Right-wing Extremism
I have to add a new category to my postings. I said yesterday that I am a right-wing extremist as defined by DHS, but this is nothing new really. I have described myself for years as a right-wing nut. The difference is now there is national recognition of the condition. We must be onto something because the MSM and Hollywood nut jobs are beside themselves over the tea parties, and the Secretary of Homeland Security is out defending her departments statement on the morning shows. She needs to. She has made mainstream, average hardworking Americans the enemy.
Today I am going to prove that I am entitled to the label "right-wing extremist" by quoting Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a 19th century British preacher and author. Spurgeon wrote an expository of the book of Psalms and in his commentary on the Ninety Third Psalm he wrote the following:
"society would be the football of the basest of mankind if God did not establish it, and even the globe itself would fly through space, like thistledown across the common, if the Lord did not hold it in its appointed orbit. That there is any stability, either in the world or in the church, is the Lord's doings, and he is to be adored for it. Atheism is the mother of anarchy; the reigning power of God exhibited in true religion is the only security for the human commonwealth. A belief in God is the foundation and corner-stone of a well-ordered state" (135, vol. 4, Treasury of David).
Obama said that the United States is not a Christian nation. He is wrong. This nation was founded on Christian principles and to the extent that it still functions it is because of those principles. That Obama is trying to undermine those principles and tear down this country is in little doubt. That he does not believe in those founding Christian principles of government is also in little doubt.
This is why the tea parties were so widely attended by regular Americans who still believe in the founding principles, many of whom are also still Christians themselves. This is also why the left is in such a tizzy. They are the haters in this country. They hate "us" and they hate the country becuse it is "us." But they are going to have to get over it, because there are more of "us" than "them" and we have awaken. (This is the same "sleeping giant" the Japanese awakened with Pearl Harbor and look what happened to them')
I also would like to make an observation with regard to the Mexican problem. The same Mexican government complaining about guns coming over the border into Mexico, complained loud and long when right thinking Americans wanted to seal that border to keep illegals from coming here. Listen up. You cannot have an open border that is open in only one direction, so make up your minds.
Today I am going to prove that I am entitled to the label "right-wing extremist" by quoting Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a 19th century British preacher and author. Spurgeon wrote an expository of the book of Psalms and in his commentary on the Ninety Third Psalm he wrote the following:
"society would be the football of the basest of mankind if God did not establish it, and even the globe itself would fly through space, like thistledown across the common, if the Lord did not hold it in its appointed orbit. That there is any stability, either in the world or in the church, is the Lord's doings, and he is to be adored for it. Atheism is the mother of anarchy; the reigning power of God exhibited in true religion is the only security for the human commonwealth. A belief in God is the foundation and corner-stone of a well-ordered state" (135, vol. 4, Treasury of David).
Obama said that the United States is not a Christian nation. He is wrong. This nation was founded on Christian principles and to the extent that it still functions it is because of those principles. That Obama is trying to undermine those principles and tear down this country is in little doubt. That he does not believe in those founding Christian principles of government is also in little doubt.
This is why the tea parties were so widely attended by regular Americans who still believe in the founding principles, many of whom are also still Christians themselves. This is also why the left is in such a tizzy. They are the haters in this country. They hate "us" and they hate the country becuse it is "us." But they are going to have to get over it, because there are more of "us" than "them" and we have awaken. (This is the same "sleeping giant" the Japanese awakened with Pearl Harbor and look what happened to them')
I also would like to make an observation with regard to the Mexican problem. The same Mexican government complaining about guns coming over the border into Mexico, complained loud and long when right thinking Americans wanted to seal that border to keep illegals from coming here. Listen up. You cannot have an open border that is open in only one direction, so make up your minds.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
On Politics. When I started this blog, I began hesitantly to post my real conservative leanings and particularly my beliefs about our soon to be new democrat president. I was at the time convinced it would be Hillary, whom I considered to be an unabashed Marxist based on her early writings and studies of Saul Alinsky and others. Her dream of socialized health care is just one example of those beliefs in action, but it was enough to make me very afraid of her. I still am because it turns out Hillary is the worse kind of Marxist, a pragmatic Marxist. She is willing to do whatever to be in power even if that means working for the man who defeated or staying married to the man who repeatedly cheated on her.
However, I am taken back daily by the brazenness of our new president who is a Marxist also and a pragmatist and a liar. (Hillary is a liar, most politicians are.) But Obama is the kind of liar who actually believes his own lies, I have decided. He gave a speech of April 15, tax day, in which he unflinchingly stated that he had already given a tax break to 95 percent of American workers. (Whoever they are.) If he is referring to the 13 dollars people are getting back in payroll taxes, I have to think that all those people at the Tea Parties yesterday do not see that as a tax break. If they happen to still smoke, they use up that break in about four days or so. (I am pulling numbers out of the air, too. Practicing for my government job.)
All of that is scary and maddening enough, but the frosting on the proverbial cake, is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report defining "right-wing extremists." It turns out I am one. I am a vet, although not a Iraq or Afghan vet; I am opposed to government interference in my life, and yours too. I am oppose to abortion and gun control; I think the government needs to back off and that state and local governments should take back their rightful powers. Lastly, and maybe most subversively, I believe the Constitution as it was written and intended by the founder is the Supreme Law of the Land, not the courts or politicians. It is not a "living" documents. It is a written, fixed statement of our freedoms and it should be interpreted as such. (Also I listen to a lot of talk radio which he will try to silence.)
So what does all this mean for my future? Well, having been a student of the communist oppression in Europe and the USSR, I have to think that at some point the government will come after people like me who oppose them and say so. I am a small fish in this pond, but even the smallest fish can spread the message if left unchecked so I do not expect that they will leave anyone "unchecked." How long will it take? Not long, I expect. Obama has been in office less than three months and there is already a report circulating defining "right-wing extremist." How long can it take before some action is taken against this perceived threat? Not long. This is not a president who is going to roll along and take action as the situation allows; rather, this is a man determined to take action quickly and decisively to create situations that produce the kind of country he wants. That country is a Marxist country where the reigns of power are in the hands of the government not the people. The government is "them" not "we the people" as put forth in the Constitution.
Hold on to your hats; we are in for a wild and dangerous ride, but I intend to keep writing here as long as we still are allowed to exercise our right to free speech.
On Books. Mark R. Levin's Liberty and Tyranny is a must read to understand what is happening with this presidency. Levin takes the argument back to the Constitution and the founders to show how our country is being destroyed by the Statists as he names them, people who want to control every aspect of American life through the power of the State.
However, I am taken back daily by the brazenness of our new president who is a Marxist also and a pragmatist and a liar. (Hillary is a liar, most politicians are.) But Obama is the kind of liar who actually believes his own lies, I have decided. He gave a speech of April 15, tax day, in which he unflinchingly stated that he had already given a tax break to 95 percent of American workers. (Whoever they are.) If he is referring to the 13 dollars people are getting back in payroll taxes, I have to think that all those people at the Tea Parties yesterday do not see that as a tax break. If they happen to still smoke, they use up that break in about four days or so. (I am pulling numbers out of the air, too. Practicing for my government job.)
All of that is scary and maddening enough, but the frosting on the proverbial cake, is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report defining "right-wing extremists." It turns out I am one. I am a vet, although not a Iraq or Afghan vet; I am opposed to government interference in my life, and yours too. I am oppose to abortion and gun control; I think the government needs to back off and that state and local governments should take back their rightful powers. Lastly, and maybe most subversively, I believe the Constitution as it was written and intended by the founder is the Supreme Law of the Land, not the courts or politicians. It is not a "living" documents. It is a written, fixed statement of our freedoms and it should be interpreted as such. (Also I listen to a lot of talk radio which he will try to silence.)
So what does all this mean for my future? Well, having been a student of the communist oppression in Europe and the USSR, I have to think that at some point the government will come after people like me who oppose them and say so. I am a small fish in this pond, but even the smallest fish can spread the message if left unchecked so I do not expect that they will leave anyone "unchecked." How long will it take? Not long, I expect. Obama has been in office less than three months and there is already a report circulating defining "right-wing extremist." How long can it take before some action is taken against this perceived threat? Not long. This is not a president who is going to roll along and take action as the situation allows; rather, this is a man determined to take action quickly and decisively to create situations that produce the kind of country he wants. That country is a Marxist country where the reigns of power are in the hands of the government not the people. The government is "them" not "we the people" as put forth in the Constitution.
Hold on to your hats; we are in for a wild and dangerous ride, but I intend to keep writing here as long as we still are allowed to exercise our right to free speech.
On Books. Mark R. Levin's Liberty and Tyranny is a must read to understand what is happening with this presidency. Levin takes the argument back to the Constitution and the founders to show how our country is being destroyed by the Statists as he names them, people who want to control every aspect of American life through the power of the State.
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