"On SOCIAL JUSTICE"
McTea Speaks Out "On SOCIAL JUSTICE"
What does Jesus mean by "My kingdom is not of this world"?
THIS WORLD IS NOT THE WORLD WHICH GOD CREATED. THIS WORLD IS THE WORLD WHICH MAN HAS MADE BY DISOBEYING GOD. THIS WORLD IS A WORLD WHICH MAKES ITS OWN RULES AND PROVIDES FOR ITS LUSTS AND CARNAL APPETITES BY GETTING WHATEVER IT NEEDS IN WHATEVER WAY IT SEES FIT TO DO. THEREFORE THIS WORLD TAKES THE COMMANDMENTS AND STATUTES OF HOLY GOD AS IRRELEVANT.
THIS WORLD MAKES ITS OWN GODS AND THEREFORE IT BELIEVES THAT THE LIVING GOD, THE TRUE GOD, IS JUST ONE OF MANY MANMADE GODS. THIS WORLD CAN NOT SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LIVING GOD AND A DEAD GOD. THIS WORLD IS BLIND.
THIS WORLD TRESPASSES ON ETERNAL LIFE, FREELY USING WATER, AIR AND LIGHT, AND TIME, SPACE AND MATTER, ACCORDING TO ITS OWN WANTS, WITHOUT KNOWING THAT IT IS TAKING ITS LIFE FROM THAT WHICH PROCEEDS FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD IN HIS CREATION OF LIFE. THIS WORLD STEALS, AND THIS WORLD DOES NOT THANK. GRIEF, TRAGEDY AND RESIGNATION ARE DEEMED UNAVOIDABLE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THIS WORLD. THIS WORLD ACCEPTS SIN, CRIME, WRONGDOING AND IMMORALITY AS THE HUMAN CONDITION. THIS WORLD'S IDEA OF MAN IS DEPRAVED TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT IT DOES NOT KNOW OF ITS DEPRAVITY.
THERE IS A GREAT AND SAD IRONY IN THIS WORLD'S DENIAL OF GOD AND REFUSAL OF HIS BLESSINGS: THIS WORLD BELIEVES IT IS FREE BECAUSE OF ITS DENIAL OF GOD, WHILE TRULY IT IS IN BONDAGE!
THIS WORLD MAKES MANY DIVISIONS AND CONFUSIONS. GOD MAKES ONE DIVISION - THERE ARE SHEEP AND THERE ARE GOATS - THE ONES WHO OBEY AND THE ONES WHO REBEL. THIS WORLD INDULGES IN STRIFE AND WAR, DIVISION AND DESTRUCTION. GOD SAVES, GOD UNITES, GOD BRINGS REST AND PEACE.
THIS WORLD THINKS IT CAN SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS AND CREATE A NEW WORLD. THIS WORLD THINKS IT KNOWS MORE THAN GOD KNOWS. BUT THIS WORLD WILL NOT ALLOW THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH THROUGH INTERCOURSE WITH THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. THIS WORLD EVEN ABORTS ANY POSSIBLE CONCEPTION OF LIFE ETERNAL IN THIS MORTAL BODY, FOR FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN. THIS WORLD IS RULED BY FEAR AND PREFERS DARKNESS AND SIN AND DEATH TO LIGHT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND IMMORTALITY.
THUS, GOD'S JUSTICE IS BLOTTED OUT BY THIS WORLD EVEN AS HOLY GOD BLOTS OUT WORLDLY JUSTICE IN THE BOOK OF HEAVEN. AND SO THERE IS ENMITY BETWEEN THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, AND MAN IS AT WAR WITH WHAT WOULD SAVE HIM. BECAUSE OF ALL THESE THINGS, THIS WORLD HAS ONE OBJECT OF HATRED ABOVE ALL OTHERS: IT HATES FATHER GOD, AND IT IS ESPECIALLY OFFENDED BY JESUS CHRIST AND CRUCIFIES HIM AFRESH IN ALL POSSIBLE WAYS DAILY, AND PERSECUTES HIS FOLLOWERS WHENEVER THEY ARE IN THE WAY OF THIS WORLD GETTING WHAT IT WANTS.
AND NOW WE SEE WHY JESUS SAID, MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.
BARRABAS wanted to establish the earthly kingdom of God. The people chose Barrabas rather than Jesus, when Pilate offered to free one of the two captive Jews, because the Jews fiercely desired to be liberated from Rome and saw that Barrabas was willing to provide leadership, rebelling against the Roman dominion over Israel. Jesus clearly allowed himself to be crucified because he was overcoming death, and defeating Satan, fulfilling prophecies that enabled God to be reconciled with man and save him from his sins, securing his inheritance of the kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world.
Before he died Jesus instructed his followers to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe whatsoever things he had commanded them. Had he taught his disciples to institute social justice? I can not find that. There is a higher principle to follow. He taught his disciples to follow him. There is no reference at all to doing this by means of governmental action. It is entirely individual.
THE BIBLE REJECTS "SOCIAL JUSTICE" AS DEFINED BY KARL MARX, JIM WALLIS, AND SOCIALIST IDEALISTS:
THE BIBLE OPPOSES THE IDEA OF INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL JUSTICE AS OUTLINED AND ARTICULATED BY PROGRESSIVES!
Here are a few salient points which are, in themselves and by themselves, enough proof that the progressives are misrepresenting God's command, God's directives, claiming "social justice" as God's doctrine and teachings and will and God's words, on this subject, as a means of deceiving We the People, in order to gain entrance to our trust, our privacy, our wealth, our homes and rights and lives.
Hear what the Bible teaches clearly, on this matter: go to the first chapter of the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament, wherein is found a characterization of communism, clearly exposing it as a criminal venture: and start by reading verse 14, "Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse." Then, read the context, the whole first chapter. See that an individual needs wisdom in order to go beyond "simplicity" and "scorning" and "foolish hatred of knowledge". Let each person work hard. Let families and non-government entities take care of the needy. It worked well for centuries. We don't need to re-dis-tribute, we need to learn the right way to be friends and fellows and join in paying tribute to God.
We shall render unto "Caesar" what belongs to Caesar. But if the government goes against God and the Church, led by usurpers and abusers of the public trust, and that government taxes We the People wrongfully, in order to fund its nefarious and injurious and licentious theft and destruction of America, we shall put a stop to that taxation and correct that government according to the words of our own U.S. Constitution: RIGHTFULLY.
The Christian folk who all joined their funds as one, as described in the Book of Acts, did so voluntarily in the spirit of the Lord. It is an abomination that tyrants use these sacred events as fodder for their rationalizations. They reveal themselves to be fools, by taking us as such.
Social justice is a concept. Anyone can use words like this phrase, to cover themselves while advancing an opposite cause. An informed electorate needs to discern this tactic.
There is a law of seedtime and harvest. This is the biblical principle God sets forth throughout the holy scriptures, that tells us that labor and diligence bring increase, whereas slackness and vanity bring diminishment. Death and poverty are the fruit of sin and ignorance. We do well to learn God's laws and principles, and to live by them. There is great counsel, and good statutes may be found, in the Holy Bible, teaching how to respond to poverty. The poor will always be with us, Jesus explains. This is because there are folk who refuse to be blessed with knowing how to increase in God's way. They just want the increase - and so they end up with the want. Want does not supply. God supplies. He directs Joseph in creating supplies to stave off famine because God feeds his people. "All our needs are met in Him through Christ Jesus."
God has an individual relationship with every person. He divides only one way: sheep, and goats. Believers, and those who do not believe they are of God's family. It is the highest irony that the sheep are rewarded with individual rights, individuality and all the dignity of personal relationship with God, whereas the goats are rewarded with such fruits of stubbornness as institutional poverty, institutional justice, institutional identity, institutions ad infinitum. It could be that Hell would be well depicted as a bureaucracy of unfathomable impenetrability. But the children of God avoid such evil.
No one else can eat or breathe or think for us. We are created individual, we are born individual, we die individual – we know God as individuals – and when we join as One we can know one another, as individuals, in the oneness of peace, without violating each other – blessing one another. We can form vast multitudes all made of individuals. Each of us, however, follows God’s commands voluntarily – that is part of the wonder and miracle of God’s unity that establishes his order and his purpose by multitudes in oneness. The oneness that is God our Father’s order is likewise the order of our each individual oneness for we are created in his image. It is what makes us able to join together with others and still be One.
For the Bible promotes individualism along with the just, kind, wise rule of the Spirit of Truth acting in the mode of servant, to the people: He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. (Proverbs 25:28) Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. (Proverbs 22:29) The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. (Proverbs 15:28) The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. (Proverbs 13:4) Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. (Proverbs13:11) He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. (Proverbs 12:11) He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. (Proverbs 10:4) The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. (Proverbs 21:16)
And these famous lines instruct well:
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And lo, it was ll grown over with thorns, nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Then I saw, and considered well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
(Proverbs 24:30-34)
Let the concept of "social justice" be brought in line with these good words and Amen.
-SpiritToSpirit
NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER
NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. (Chapter 1, verses 2-3)
And again, an angel spoke to Zechariah saying,
This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. (Chapter 4, verse 6)
This is what the LORD of hosts said to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet. Listen and see if you hear the LORD speaking to us, today in America, with these words. Surely his spirit does accomplish his will in this earthly realm. NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, SHALL THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SAVE OUR NATION FROM DESTRUCTION.
"THINKING EXCURSIONS": PUT ON YOUR THINKING CAP, DRINK SOME TEA OF TRUTH TO WAKE UP AND LET'S GO ON SOME MIND TRIPS WHERE DRUGS CAN'T TAKE YOU! For some good adventures in thought, go to Taking TEA.
Announcing! A New Thinking Excursion:
"Change As An Acid Bath" To read this new essay that reveals the linguistic habits of the mendacious mind and the reflexively cynical, acid philosophy of the leftist radicals who work to change our country into a socialist nation, see the bottom of the page called Taking TEA. This is a thinking excursion you might not want to miss! To find the link, look above the trees on the far right of the navigation bar atop this page.
TO READ McTea Versus Social Justice - HOW THE BIBLE REJECTS "SOCIAL JUSTICE" AS DEFINED BY KARL MARX, JIM WALLIS, AND SOCIALIST IDEALISTS: go to the page titled Taking Tea
Proverbs 24:21-25
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change.
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
What Do We Really Want ?
Of course we really desire human rights equally for every human born.
By that we mean we desire our inalienable rights to be kept intact and inviolate - and to be given all folk all over the world. And we distinguish our God-given, inalienable rights from the manmade "human rights" which are not god-given, as seen in their trespass and trample of the inalienable rights.
Of course we really want women's - and men's - God-given rights for all women and all men everywhere.
Of course we really want children everywhere protected from physical, mental and spiritual harm, from state indoctrination and mind-control through education that is not in accordance with parental rights to impart the Truth to the children.
Of course we really want peace, prosperity, and an economic open market operated on fair and godly principles as given us in the Bible's Old and New Testaments.
Of course we really want to protect our natural environment.
What we don't desire, is to give up our national sovereignty. No, no, no! Never that!
What we don't desire, is to compromise the Word of God that is the Rock upon which our Nation is founded.
What we don't desire, is to destroy or even diminish in any way what our forefathers and their families lived and died to create.
They are no longer here. They have passed on to the next life. We stand for them. We need to be loyal to their heart, and to trust in their accomplished ideas, pacts, ways, and the fruit of their passion, our U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution is more than a skeleton, a framework, or a blueprint. The United States Constitution is the expression of divine will for the self-government of a free people. Freedom from tyranny, ignorance, darkness, is no accident, it is the will of God, written out for us to read, to learn and to understand, in the holy scripture of our inherited culture of liberty - the Christian's Bible. The United States Constitution is the expression of Jehovah God's Law translated into principles of self-government intended to save a free people from the forces of evil rampant in the history of man.
The Constitution is the highest human declaration of how to live in peace, in justice and in grace. The U.S. Constitution spells out how to live in the unity which guarantees God's blessing, of prosperity and peace. The U.S. Constitution and the national sovereignty spelled out in our Declaration of Independence are essential to our nation and to our existence as a free people. When we resign our sovereignty, we resign our liberty, our authority and our origin in God and we step up onto the guilletine of transnational globalism..
What we don't want, is to give up our national sovereignty, thinking that doing this will help us get what we really want.
What we don't want, is to be deceived. Thinking that we must give up our national sovereignty in order to get what we want, proves deception. But who is the deceiver? But who is the father of lies? He who poses as the supply, the claim to answer the self's needs. Subtly does deception work. It masks as a necessary departure from tradition, or custom, or habit, convention or statute. Like youth who forsake their very own, one and only, family - and its values. Deserting family of origin, rejecting nation of origin, is insidiously ignorant, foolishly cruel destruction: suicide.
Any appeal of idealism to guilt, or fear, or shame, or any other motive, used to argue any rationale to resign our national sovereignty in order to accomplish these ideals and goals - these things which we declare that we really want, is an appeal to ignorance, an appeal which we must recognize as a cunning temptation and a false reasoning, which we need to reject categorically, decidedly, and quickly. It is a false, vicious, malicious, cunning lie. It's the temptation of good by evil.
Such an appeal ignores our history, our constitution, and our people: the truth of the unity in the United States. Such an appeal ignores world history and the ideologies of theft, murder and destruction. The action of evil upon the world's peoples has been documented, identified, analyzed and explicated. The tragedies have been catalogued. The heroisms have been recorded. Ignoring former error, wisdom, and the knowledge gained from the historic vision of evil and from the historic record of good - ignoring these things, is suicidal. Worse - it is murderous of one's own family and treasonous to one's own nation.
Do we really desire to be ruled and defined by the nations that brought us Nazism, Communism, Stalinism, Maoism, - Castro, Che, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Chavez, Ahmedinijad, Hussein, bin Laden, and all the rest of the tyrants ???
Do we feel we must surrender our precious constitutional freedoms, our American liberties, which were the first in the world to make slavery actually illegal after Britain's initial attempts, to give women the vote, to protect minorities, children's rights, and our natural environment - to abandon our nation just because we have not done perfectly? Is there such a thing as a perfect government for an imperfect people?
There are ways to minister to despair and deep trouble, without the complete, idiotic suicidal destruction of our foundation.
Look closely at the agenda of people who urge changes upon us. Our record of establishing freedoms and defending constituted rights gives us the envy, the fear, the accusatory aggression, of many nations, who have established no such commonwealth of blessing as ours, to which people gladly flock, entering illegally if no other way is possible, to this day. Yet the change-promisers think they know something we don't know. They count on our impatience, our misplaced guilt, our suspension in remorse. The terrible truth is that they condemn, contempt, and sell souls.
They wear our sneakers, use our cars and cell phones, and yet despise us. They accept our technology, adapt it, and pretend they don't need to credit us for our international aid and our blessing of wealth and health upon the world's nations, despite the corruptions that enter into our distributions of medicine, our charity, and sometimes spoil our efforts to sponsor, nourish, protect and steward those in need.
The idea of a new world order is creeping upon us. The melting of national boundaries seems to be just the answer to people angry with our government for not doing more, more quickly, more thoroughly, more widely, more fairly. The American way is established by the public's participation, not elitist subversion, in the cultivation of our social compact. It is slow. It is proven. It is effectual. The American national structure of our constitution and its propagation of our culture of freedom and our established conventions protects us from the horrors of the French revolution, the murderous furies of the Red revolutions, and the psychotic oppressions of terrorist regimes with their broadcast announcments of intentions to deprive us of a good life and to bring our society to a complete collapse.
Ring the liberty bell for real debates. Away with false science, pseudo quality, populism, impatience, deception, corruption. Yes, away with it all. And how? Make yourself educated. Learn how to detect lies.
What do we really want? Are we ready to let the U.S. of A. be dissolved, because we think we know something better? Beware of false prophets, who promise changes they can't possibly make. People who promise goods they can't deliver, appeal to anxieties they create, and cunningly lie - you must know how they lie, you must read, find out whose protests are real, and whose, suicidal.
Two men in a hall of mirrors accuse each other of personification - identity-theft. Which one is the real one? The one who looks in the mirror and sees his self, or the one who sees his reverse??
Wise people know good things need to grow, and good things take time to be built. Wise people beware of magic but when the ground shakes, they expect miracles in the power of the spirit of truth. They know that God is good and they look to Him and call upon his name.
God save the United States of America.
The Wolf is In the Sheepfold
TRUTH EVER AFTER
T.E.A. It's teatime. Time for a drink of 'truth ever after'. Yes, it's here, it's high time for teatime: time to choose truth over what makes us sick or wrong or apathetic altogether. Truth does a body good. Truth does America good. Truth is the drink that grows new life in the soul and converts a sad heart into a heart of joy. Truth makes a person and a nation alike strong. Truth puts minds into union without compromising individuality. Truth brings grace to communities and all human endeavors prosper by truth. Truth endows liberty, discipline, justice and peace. Altogether their fruits are righteousness and love. Truth is good. Truth is the only thing babies know.
Our founders began a good work. We need to carry it forth. God will help us if we choose his help, if we choose to believe he keeps his word.
America's faith is the one component of this unique nation that America's enemies can't countenance, because strangers to truth and faith can't see our spirit or even begin to know it. They do not recognize truth and faith to be real or try them out by walking in them - American faith is not the kind of faith others practice - it's a national, god-given, god-purposed, god-willed endowment that we're meant to be using to bring the world to prosper in peace and truth along with us - this faith works what looks impossible to folks who don't know it.
And here we have what feels like nearly the whole world lining up against the Christians and the Jews that were given this faith in order to share it with the whole world - given this love, this faith, this excellent gospel, to walk in it, demonstrate it, share it, bring everybody into it, and give God the glory for it. Some people are choosing instead to overpower and rule other people rather than join the happy throng. That thought that it's okay to rule other people is evidence of another force, a negative faith - call it cynicism, call it pride, call it envy, call it lust - it's a belief in another kind of power for getting things, and for getting things done, than the powers of truth and honesty and faith. It's a faith in darkness.
Cynicism, pride, envy and even foolishness are a rejection of light because people who desire to do wrong need darkness to hide it from others. Light reveals wrong, so their rejection of light goes hand in hand with their embrace of darkness. This is guile, working deception. In other words, what is trying to take over America is a belief that deception is more powerful than truth. The second world war disproved that claim, but some people don't know history, some people are stubborn, and some are in the thrall of evil.
Evil is the idea that truth is not needed and is not real. Evil is an absence of truth. Evil is the ignorance of love. Evil is surely what separates people from each other and divides their unions into separated parts in order to overcome and destroy them. Marriages, social compacts, nations, and alliances do not dissolve without the help of evil. Evil is the darkness that sees no light though it stands in it. That means that evil possesses no understanding at all of what is good. (Whereas what is good can understand what evil is.) In the world of darkness, impossibility rules. So, naturally, they believe dark superstitions because that's what they know.
Nothing is impossible with God. Jesus said it. God has put his faith in us. Just watch.
The news of America's growing disunity is misleading. The politicized media are distorting news or cherry-picking it to favor leftist ideological ideas: they are creating an information gap. Now there is an effort to politicize business and destroy the engine of our prosperity. Of the protesters in so many cities today, some are earnest, and some, cynical, but all are protesting as if they bear no responsibility and speaking as outsiders even though they enjoy the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as the rest of us. Thus they are defacing honor and shaming themselves publicly, while they, willy-nilly, join the enemies of America abroad, making league with the devil. But all have gotten one thing wrong. They didn't stop to notice that Americans are different. We are a responsible people, a capable people, a free people that will not give our liberties away. We are a strong people and our God is a true god and a good God. We love our God in truth and in spirit, walking with Him by faith.
We know things our despisers don't know: we know the truth and we don't deny it. Now we must defend it. God has equipped and trained us. So. Have your daily T.E.A. - it's TeaTime, America! Drink deep, and hear the Spirit's counsel. Get informed, keep your mind focussed on the truth, guard your heart, be cunning and kind, humble and wholesome, hopeful and watchful, and let the spirit of truth, our living God, guide you in all your days and ways.
Here's a great song to get started.
Oh, give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride thru the wide-open country that I love
Don't fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever, but I ask you please
Don't fence me in
Don't fence me in
Just turn me loose
Let me straddle my old saddle underneath the western skies
On my cayuse
Let me wander over yonder till I see the mountains rise
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
Gaze at the moon until I loose my senses
I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in
Don't fence me in
That was Cole Porter's twist on Robert Fletcher's poem.
So says the cowboy of American legend. The American poet says, " Something there is that doesn't love a wall" - and, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out."
Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall", pulls up the wisdom of a farmer, against his own musings: "Good fences make good neighbors." He asks us, isn't it better to think about what we do, and have a reason for it? That's very American. He thinks union is not uniformity but trust.
So, I say America needs to do a great big lot of thinking about walls and fences, about what to keep out or keep in, about whether or not to make a distinction between what is America and what is not, and what is friend and what is not, and if there is such a thing as evil, how to keep it out of America, and protect our children and our heritage. Who is minding America? There is so much amiss. We need to consider how we live, and get our house in order. It is our house, isn't it? And there being so many of us, we do need unity, don't we?
The rejection of purity, and goodness, as possible, is widespread, but it is stupid. In fact the demand for a pure environment contradicts the cynical rejection of a pure morality exposing such demands as a whining form of materialism. No one will drink a glass of water that is not pure. No one will argue, "Oh but purity is not possible". Not at all. We need to think about these things and come to agreements on the fundamentals established by our founding fathers and the God whom they followed. Such thoughts are thrilling, inspiring, bracing.
In the past, we formed our union and revived it singing songs together, reciting pledges and poems, founding documents, reviewing our history, revisiting the battles that won our freedom, celebrating holidays, gathering for picnics and cook-outs, volunteering at the hospital and sharing the news, attending town hall meetings, solving problems together and building new things together. It worked. We have to chase apathy out, rebuke ignorance from our lives, study to make ourselves unashamed to defend the gospel and the liberty we possess. We have to pull out of attachments to fictions and fears - toys and games that isolate us from society, for long enough to join and renew our union. We have to repudiate this disintegration of our society by the cop-out, drop-out ideas and the scornful and elitist ideas and the fears and tears mopes. Be strong, America! Be strong! Awake, America, awake!
FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. I desire to share a report, some words by Aaron Klein that will enlighten you on the furtive movements of evil creeping throughout our land; this report is introduced and followed by my comments upon it and for today I finish with a meditation on the power of UNI-TEA and that spells UNITY.
Note: Soros' funds and professional activists have been discovered providing an operation center for the Occupy Protesters.
Note: Some of the missing hundreds of millions from former NJ Gov went to Soros.
FIRST. PLEASE WAKE YOUR SELF UP TO WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING. Thanks to investigative reporter Aaron Klein, we are learning about a net quietly being drawn around us and almost imperceptibly tightened, bringing us into a tyranny known heretofore as the 'one world order'. Notice that like all the devil's works, it copies God's. It is "one" (unity), and it is "order", but it is the world's order, not God's order.
Like all rogues and knaves, this unidentified creeping hunter with a net does not introduce himself until he has already seized your power. And he has in his hands the worldly reins. It is a wolf in sheep's clothing. And we are just like little Red Riding Hood, unsuspecting, unfamiliar with craven, depraved deception and its jagged sharp reasoning. In fact, half of America thinks there is no such thing as evil! The grim work of the teachers who abandoned the truth. (Thank God for good teachers.)
This is a tyranny that penetrates the human soul itself. We see and hear, daily, the beautiful language of charity and idealistic ideas of progress used as bait to draw in the gullible who enter the trap - desperately trusting or recklessly gambling - hoping for new life, accepting the face of things, never suspecting people who are working elaborately and extensively to change our lives by subterfuge and altered rules and reconfigured definitions of terms, with a new script for the meaning of life and a thick, strangling tangle of regulations they claim will achieve nirvana.
In truth they immerse us in a net: a chaos of meaninglessness that mocks grammar and discourages clarity of understanding, in order to gain power for entirely other, hidden reasons and purposes that do not serve mankind's destiny nor help the needy, after all. Truth does not behave like this, at all.
The truth has an essential character, a unique kind of order, a very powerful might, called UNITY.
The Unity of the Truth is God's principle of form and design and order. Guile has copied it without success because unity perfectly reveals the character of its author: guile is uncovered by it.
This unity, achieved by living and willing obedience, and by resonating intercourse of understanding, and by the grace of agreement, is the mind we were supposed to have given to our children - the mind we have failed to impart - the mind which the schools abused, twisted around, perverted, and corrupted - the mind which many parents have forfeited for other, worldly things.
Call it... The Mind of Unity and if we don't learn it, and move in it, and live together in it, we will be crushed like rocks into sand. God creates new life which generates new life; evil only copies and invents. Now study the unified collaborative effort which copies God's unity, in order to destroy our nation and our way of life, revealed here by Aaron Klein in a news report on the new military doctrine known as “Responsibility to Protect".
- YoursTruly says:
- October 10, 2011 at 8:46 am "Bullies and Thieves Who Call Themselves Reformers"
- These "reformers" have demonstrated that they are not trustworthy by imposing their “democratic” "enlightened" principles on anyone and everyone without a vote. Did the July 23, 2009 General Assembly result in a vote in which the U.S. and other Western nations expressed their will? They did not ask permission. They deny rights and sovereignties which stand in the way of their enacting their will which is founded on lies and expressed in acceptable language. Beware. Just like the protestors who abuse the privileges of public spaces by playing with the rules in order to create chaos, these global gangsters play with divine law in order to create their own game board. We are the new pawns. Beware.
When Jesus, the Word of God, tells us a thing, we know that it is God the Father telling us that thing. Jesus lets us know that he speaks only what his father speaks. Therefore we can know, that what ever thing Jesus saith, that thing is what God saith.
THE WORD OF GOD
Furthermore, we know that Jesus is the Word entire. When God gives Moses his commandments for his people to obey, and when Jesus gives words to his followers telling them that all the commandments may be summed up in two, we have the heart of our God's will.
WHOLE
Therefore, looking at the commandment of God, knowing it to be his will for us to follow and to obey, we need to notice one thing especially, which is, that we are commanded to love God with our whole heart, our whole mind, our whole strength, our whole soul.
In another moment Jesus reveals more about this wholeness, that wholeness is the property of life. He says that the double-minded man will receive his reward. Judgment is the just response: provision, for the weak and poor, punishment, for the evil-doers. Doubleness, duplicity, reaps sin, and sin reaps death. Forked tongues speak lies that poison minds. The double-minded man will deceive and be deceived, perforce, of necessity, and willy nilly.
To love, and to live, requires wholeness. One can not live life as if life were a half life, any more than one can find a half of an apple growing on a tree or a half of a bird flying by. Jesus says that no man can serve two masters. He will betray one, inevitably, or the other, necessarily, merely to be true to the one, inevitably, necessarily.
Liberty, true liberty, is the knowledge of one's freedom, the possession of that knowledge, the securing of that consciousness as the very condition of all decisions which determine all essentials given into man's hands - all those choices which God allows. God is the ultimate decider, judge, determiner, and ruler but he allows, gives, and even commands, us to choose fundamentals of our destiny as well as all the details of our days.
In giving us choice God gives us worthiness.
Therefore the man who chooses two masters is not only disobeying God's command, because he is not offering and not worshipping and not knowing with his whole heart - he is also condemning himself to speak evil - for Jesus defines a double-speaking tongue as evil.
Jesus says that the mouth speaks what the heart knows. Therefore if you serve two masters you will speak lies - necessarily.
Jesus goes further with this understanding of wholeness. He tells us that our eye must be single. The eye that is single sees the light that is truth, and the light fills the whole body. But the eye that is double sees darkness and the light of that eye fills the eye with a darkness so great that it cannot know its darkness. Utter dark. Of spirit. Divided loyalty produces blindness.
The love of God with a whole heart - keeping nothing back - confers liberty to choose good.
Jesus is the one who spoke these words into the mind of the human family. Jesus is the word that saves. He fulfilled the promise made before the ages, that God would provide salvation in a saviour who would redeem man by atoning for his sins and giving his life so that God's word might be perfectly obeyed, righteousness perfected, witnessed, and given utterance in an anointing grace that transforms all who hear and obey with their whole heart.
Remember, Jesus fulfills Isaiah's words, that the saviour will come and heal the broken-hearted.
Elsewhere, God tells us that the sacrifice he requires is a broken heart, not bulls and blood, and that obedience is better than sacrifice. Jesus commands: Follow me. Nothing can replace Jesus' blood. The revelation of these mysteries and miracles brings the gospel to life anew in each heart creating new life in wholeness - shalom - "nothing missing, nothing broken."
Love God with your whole heart, hold nothing back, have no secret rooms, no reserved places for giving him next year, no 'one at a time' philosophy. Life's essence is wholeness. There is no half-life. To live half, divided, is to live a walking death.
He makes a mansion for you, and you withhold a room from him? No, no! Give him the full Yes - the fullest Yea you can utter, with your whole heart, your whole mind, your whole soul, your whole strength! Be all yea and not a jot or a tittle of a nay. And He will make you whole.
Jesus warned us that the divided things fall - the divided nation, the divided person, the divided heart, the divided thought, all are weak and will fall from their disunity. But the whole nation, the whole person, the whole heart, and the whole thought, are endowed with that strength that is the mark of life and truth being One. This oneness is what Jesus prayed for in his last moment, as witnessed in John's chapter 17.
My Declaration of Independence
Letter to My Fellow Americans,
July 4th - Independence Day - 2010
The reason I speak out: to sow seeds of courage, to spark streams of light, and to season the current fare with the good salt of faith in our God. Not to lift up my self but this nation. Not from a high opinion of my words but to do my part. This is for you. Let me honor our God by serving you in this way: to help us think this through and act righteously.
In my lifetime, America has gone from being a strong and prosperous nation in which Biblical literacy and symbolic literacy are standards approved, upheld and widely achieved, to a nation of spiritual blindness and intellectual stupor: illiterate, ignorant, clogged with human folly. Confusion is parading as truth and people object not, knowing no better. Do you desire to awaken? Then join me and grow in the power of knowledge of the truth. Let the army of One Nation Under God be the army of unity in the knowledge of truth.
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Hear what is the character of Abraham Lincoln: steadfastness of will; fairness of judgment; humility of self; growth of mind ; and bigness of heart. See that he was always growing his mind. Imitate him. [Angle-Miers, The Living Lincoln, 1955. p.391]
When I began to take notice of WallbuildersLive Radio, I thought that I know a fair amount about our history and our government's workings. I listened anyway, desperate to hear some believers acting on their faith, and because I desired to do my duty. What a wellspring of joy, I found! What a surprise. how much informed I was, what good company I found, how my courage increased, and my hope grew.
At first, I had even thought, ho hum, maybe I don't need to hear these things. I was horribly wrong. There is a great deal to know about judges, the law, the parts of our government, elections, issues like state's rights - we need to know these things very specifically. We need to hear about the good efforts and works of Jay Sekulow, Pacific Justice, and Calvin Beiner's The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, to name a few. We need to study them carefully.
We need to know, and to face, that it is a problem, that we are scattered, not unified, and that we have no unifying media network. We need to know how our government is being taken over by people who move around our laws to get what they want. They take advantage of our disunity. They quietly assemble their agenda.
So join me, become a listener, get educated, get primed with the latest facts, polls, definitions, and the firm truthful history of our country. When Jesus said, My people perish for lack of knowledge, he referred to the great strategic and military power of liberty. While we still have the freedom to learn, let's do it. Here is knowledge, served up for us, free, accessible, easy to hear daily. It will strengthen us, inspire us and unite us in the truth for America.
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened , that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy , that it cannot hear. Isaiah 59:1
THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD IDEAS ARE A KIND OF WALKING DEAD
First, I will speak of my understanding of what is that philosophical system called Naturalism: because naturalism is behind what we're up against. Naturalism is what takes the wind out of America's sails: puts her in a dead calm; and then brings on the perfect storm of chaos.
THE DEAD IDEA OF NATURE
Naturalism is the philosophy that holds (believes) that nature is a world unto itself: speaking of nature as if it is everything, and rules everything: it is the entirety of the world, and humankind dwell in it. Naturalism does not explain cause and origin, or purpose and function, except in the narrowest terms of appearance. Naturalism does not posit gods, primordial realms, or narratives. That is, in discovering and naming, and imposing a 'human-minded order' upon, the identity of things, the naturalist searches their attributes, features, elements, and ways, confusing these with the essences of things, in assuming that a thing is constituted of its observable components. The consideration of design, kind, relations, purpose - origin, author, operation - the principles that inform essence - and the substance without which a thing can not be said to exist - all these theoretical, metaphysical, spiritual considerations are moot to the naturalist's study of identity. He is looking at shapes, parts, moves - colors, sounds, sizes. Perhaps he is considering habitat, or classification. More fundamentally, naturalism substitutes sense perception for reason, narrowing knowledge by a supposed scientific discipline to the empirical as the means of identifying, knowing and understanding the world in which we live and breathe. Thus, naturalism acknowledges no primordial realm from which nature emerged, no god elsewhere existing prior to Nature, nor any god which created Nature and left it to "evolve", or could be known through his principles, his order, his purpose, as discovered in it. The naturalist does not see Nature as the image of God, the reflection of God, or the expression of God. He is not concerned with supernatural life because he does not believe in belief. The inexplicable is merely that which is not yet explained. It will be. Empiricism rules.
DO WE NEED GOD, OR IS NATURE SUFFICIENT TO ANSWER OUR NEEDS?
So, recapping. Naturalism is the system of thought that is founded on the notion that the nature of a thing is sufficient to define it; in other words, that the describable properties themselves, of physical entities, are the definitive element of those entities; as if their essence did not exist, or, as if the origin, the purpose and the character of physicalities (could they be determined) are irrelevant to their identity. In practice, since metaphysical and spiritual entities are not observable with the senses, in any immediate system of empirical knowing, naturalism comes to picture the world as a merely physical assemblage, without principles that order it and hint at any purpose or higher logic embedded in it.
It's July and the American population, legal and illegal, willy nilly is putting its attention upon its nationhood. Is America's origin as a nation relevant to day? Or, is our country merely what we want to make of it? How is its beginning significant? America was created in a period of time that we have come to call the age of enlightenment. Is America an enlightened nation, today?
The torch of liberty held heavenward by Lady Liberty is the primary symbol of the power of Liberty to enlighten all mankind with the truth, and the power of the Truth to make men free. The torch is the ssymbol that reveals the power of unifying light and liberty. It shows forth, too, the historical, international significance of America in holding forth for all the family of nations the light that shows the way: the light that is liberty; the way that is the way to live, the way to live that is the way to be free, and the way to be free that is the way to be righteous. (There are other choices, the lesser wisdom of which is amply illustrated by the cultural outcomes of the various nations.) Does the torch shine forth the right choices, today? The book of wisdom in her hand, and the torch of liberty, together symbolize enlightenment.
The bell of liberty booming and pealing heaven's wonderful tones of freedom is rung in Philadelphia to signify that we are called to stand for the truth that rings clear through our unity, and that rings strong through our life in liberty: Truth's great and timeless expression in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness. What is happiness? We need to define everything, because the words are being shifted around like poker cards. My understanding of happiness is, that it is the personal realization of God's grace in the happening realm (the here and now - the time/space continuum): including the pleasures of health and wealth, the prospering of mind and body, soul and spirit, family, friends and fellows. Realization signifies bringing something out from the realm of conception and gestation into the realm of pragmatic reality where it can serve body and soul.
CARTHAGE ALL OVER AGAIN? BEWARE, OH BEWARE!
WE ARE BEING MADE INTO A NEW CARTHAGE, NOT A NEW ROME!
Our terms must be carefully defined, because now we are living with a kind of ontological blizzard of shifting terms, brought about by the chaos workers. Dictionaries are being furtively rewritten. History is being quietly reframed and the truth is being edited out of the textbooks. The apologists for 'one world government' think they know it all. They never met the great coach John Wooden who said, It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts for knowledge.
Who is doing this? A small percentage - maybe 10% - who regard themselves as the necessary elite - which has realized how to work its will without regard to the law, the Constitution, or the people's will and their rights to choose truth over lies. This elitist group is transforming America into its plutocracy. These are the people who are not content to perfect the world in its present imperfect state. Chaos workers go about trying to create a new world. They wreck in order to make space to build anew. It all looks good on the drawing board. The new terms impress and fatten the Boards. Somebody gets paid a lot before anything even gets done. Finally, after all the undoing and the doing, there are new problems, greater problems, graver risks. The cost has risen; the time is lost; and the original intent is scorned or forgotten. This is, as God said, Not good.
THE STRUGGLE
A few good men have been trying to do life God's way, over the centuries. There are always those who make it their business to defeat such cooperation with the Almighty in such a way as makes God's existence look like a foolish idea. Nonetheless, each age brings a fresh argumentation for God's case in point. This struggle over the very meaning of life continues today. But let's consider the influence of this struggle upon our nation's founding.
THE GREAT 17TH-18TH CENTURY WAR OF IDEAS
There was a great war of ideational systems, so to speak, over the ages. In the 17th century Europe, the war took the form of a continent-wide shift of thought and struggle to control the reins of power - the universities and academies - all across Europe. It was a war for ascendency - bartering the good of science and the need for truth! - between those who denied the existence of reason and those who saw reason as a means for improving the lot of man. Deniers of reason were trying to thwart progress because it was robbing them of their established powers. The defenders of the existence of reason derived their understanding of reason from that logic which is revealed in scripture: which teaches that truth originates in spirit, not in matter. This is the divine logic as given by that higher source of inspiration called God (we know His Name). This was a war, in other words, between the belief in order and principle (however faulty was the practice of that belief, in religious and political systems), and a rival philosophy known as empiricism, which held that principles do not exist, that they are invented by man, that each thing exists unto itself, that there is no point in improving mankind, and that people simply live, and breathe, and seek pleasure, there being no reason, etc., etc.
Empiricism was even "supported" by the use of mathematics (and science in general), among the 17th century academic circles of Europe, with amazingly wierd theories that are almost unthinkable today - theories like, that all Things are "extensions" - things not created, things extending themselves according to their physical dimensions of height, depth, etc. Leibniz' discovery of the principles of dynamism and the emergence of physics as its scientific discipline appeared as a light amidst this cloud, just as national sovereignty was affirmed and the Puritans were establishing religious freedom. All these things were silenced in so many ways by a cabal using this strange marriage of empiricism and mathematics to fortify their theory and practice of monetarism. This cabal was knowingly advancing "darkness" in the form of empiricism (blocking scientific improvements for mankind) in order to control trade routes and establish dominion through financial domination. It's astonishing that this theory of empiricism gained any credence, because it is so untenable, and even absurd, to those who have experienced the freedom to think for themselves. It falls into the category of mass hysteria, or mass absurdities, and seems incomprehensible - until we reflect that it served a dark purpose. (It is only by studying history that such things can be fully revealed and understood.) Also, many professors are vain, and the obvious usually eludes the vain. As for the subtle and the sublime, vanity knows nothing of them.
THE HIDDEN MOTIVE FOR REJECTING REASON
This rival philosophy, once established, released people from the reasoning implicit in morality, so it came to be used to excuse, and to enable, and to support, the systematic financial takeover and exploitation of entire nations through their stock exchanges, banking systems and houses of trade then existing, and by this new amoral monetarism and Machiavellian financeering, the great combination of usury and speculation that formed a new basis for trade (immensely enriching some and immensely impoverishing others) took over the Netherlands first, and then Great Britain, as directed from Venice, where its originators spun a Machiavellian world of philosophical nonsense and succeeded in overturning the entire European educational establishment with their new "naturalistic empiricism" based on the exploitation of the ideas of DesCartes.
ESCAPING FOLLY, TYRANNY AND DEPRAVITY - SEEKING PEACE, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
They thus poisoned the modern world, at its dawn. But in the United States, the principles of liberty and truth in higher reason prevailed, as pronounced first of all in our Declaration of Independence, as won next by our successful revolution, then as established in our U.S. Constitution, and in time, as proven most righteously effectual through the republican democratic process. The establishment of free market principles went hand in hand with the establishment of individual rights. These principles of living well and prospering in what has been called "the above and beyond life" (Dr. Jerry Savelle) but is equally "the heaven here and now life", showed the world that as the soul prospers in the liberty of the truth, so does the body. Reason led the revolution that provided the greater mass of men with improved life, in this new, truth-affirming nation. Starting out with the idea of righteousness they invented "mighteousness", as we may phrase it. No utopia has ever succeeded as did these hardy communities of brave souls: fellow believers in Jehovah that followed Jesus in the New World.
THEY WERE THE BEST OF TIMES
The colonial times in America were such as has never been on earth. Here at last the commitment and courage to live by the Word and walk with the LORD God were answered with astounding success and prosperity attracting much attention. The Word spread and the immigrants multiplied. The newcomers learned the American way and they loved it. Together they built a new nation unlike any Western civilization had known. It was Greece, Rome, and the beautiful culture of Judaism, blended into a new spiritual DNA - a new Man: the American. It being a place where freedom of religion was becoming a byword, people were not quick to label the new man Christian. But there was no denying that nothing like this had appeared anywhere on earth in any period of man's life here, until now when finally the Christian Church - the body of men and women true believers -lived in the freedom to worship God - Jehovah - and do according to His will.
There were newspapers. There were courts. Sailors and soldiers came and went. There were transportation means, and inns. But what sins had overtaken Europe were largely absent: brothels,. abortions..and perversions - crimes, and atheism. The most frequent crime was stealing. Adultery was publicly shamed. Frivolity was discouraged. Obscenity, promiscuity, vulgarity and cursing, and public drunkenness, brought punishment.
LIVING IDEAS GREW:
THE IDEA OF THE PUBLIC GOOD -
THE COMMON WEAL -
THE ORDER OF CHARITY
98% LITERACY... FREQUENT SERMONS, HYMNS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, CONTINUAL DEVOTIONS AND THE FRUIT OF THIS CHRISTIAN ORDER WAS CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT
Fellowship and citizenship became realized ideals. Neighborhood, town and city became places of beauty where libraries, street lighting, police forces and fire departments were commonly established, and public utilities became expected services. Schools were built every five miles. Garbage was cleared away and human and animal sewage was directed into public plumbing. Hospitals arose. Marketplaces were not confusing places of deception but centers of developing standardization. Not only was crime mostly absent and corruption minimal, as documented in the contemporary history and annals of the times, but also, invention and industry thrived. Wealth grew. Love increased: strong families grew large and prosperous. How they have been misrepresented! There was genuine application and devotion to the practical task of general improvement of man's lot, through schooling, through church and all the learning it provided, and through the shaping of majority will in line with God's will, and instituting social and governmental and even economic norms of reason, for the application of equality and liberty to all, including all minorities. There flowered from this order, charities; institutions of higher learning; and societies dedicated to the advancement of mankind in one or another way. This tremendous growth needs to be known and celebrated by each new generation of children and remembered by all adult citizens and taught to all new citizens, in order that the Spirit of America may prosper.
ERASURE, FORGETTING, WEAKNESS, AND CORRUPTION
This early American history has been obscured of late, but when you dig down into the facts of what happened in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries here in the colonies, you discover that the churches fostered freedom from the get-go, in their thoughts and in the practices of community governance and the concepts of the general weal and the fellowship of man, the golden rule and the very specific balance of powers and the separation of powers, to create checks upon man's frailties in moral and bodily areas.... You discover this, and then come the questions, about how it devolved into today's massive corruption in all the spheres of life and culture in our nation. All the news, it seems, reduces to one word: corruption.
BARBARISM EMBOLDENED BY THE NEGLECT OF GRACE
The powerful and pure ideas upon which our life and security depend are being assaulted by "darkness" - the forces that are not ruled by civilization's great beneficial restraints and rules, for decency, kindness, creative love. A spiritual war proceeds - a war that the Bible tells us is the real war. There are people who despise the knowledge of God's order, his rewards and punishments, his blessings and curses, his elevation of excellence and his defeat of destruction and death. There are lots of things moving them to oppose civilization, such as, its imperfection, and, their covetousness. They despise the omnipotence of right over wrong; they chafe against the fact that the riches and fruits of virtue are not spontaneous but the result of labor and the possession of laborers, etc. It is the lawless west all over again, but this time, barbarism is added - and a savage, brutal hatred of God and those who love him. Yes, this is a spiritual war on many fronts.
FALSE RELIGION BELIEVES WHAT IT SEES ... THAT REVERSE APPARITION IN THE MIRROR
It is possible to live life backward and even upside down and never know the right way. Forces that do not acknowledge freedom have advanced alternatives to logic and reason. Mostly these forces of bondage amount to sheer mere physical force, but also, they use a kind of cunning alienated from the heart and logic of love. Cunning, itself, is a good thing to have. But cunning is most effectual when it serves righteousness. Jesus said, instructing his disciples, Be ye cunning as serpents and harmless as doves. But there is a cunning that is not harmless. It serves thieves, murderers, despisers of God's laws.
Whether by brute or by sinister tactic, the forces that are enemies of righteousness attempt to take over, or just simply take, what is not theirs. They do this because they can not possess their selves, because they are already possessed by resident spirits of darkness.
Try to reason it clearly. Good never seeks out evil - it is never finding evil desirable. It is always the other way around. Evil desires to possess what good possesses. Evil desires to be evil and to have good at the same time. So it convinces dupes to make an appearance of being good: to put on an act, wear the clothes and speak the words. Evil says, forget the heart, that's too much trouble. Serve yourself, not God. And besides, look how worthy you are. And so, many become charitable donors and think, now I am good. Evil wants the goods but it murders those who make them. It does not know the inner heart's motive of grace, working in those who love good. But it knows how to lie and steal and cheat, how to rob and murder, how to connive and trick. And people who don't know about evil's ways of deceitful trickery are sitting ducks. To defeat evil, you've got to obey God, first of all, and he says, to flee evil not to court it. God also counsels us to read his Word and know what evil is.
While we slice and dice words about the dangers of cults, and worry about the hyperactivities of zeal, and shy away from becoming familiar with the Holy Spirit which was given for our supernatural protection, spirits of deception and domination find openings. They are very glad for you to believe they don't exist, because such naivety gives them a free hand. Without bodies they can do little but influence minds. Anyone who believes the words of Jesus knows that Jesus spoke of the existence of demons: Jesus cast demons out, and said that demons knew him to be the Son of God, and that "even demons" believe in God.
The plan of our enemies is visible, now. It is the plan to take over America, not by vote, not by the law, not by the American way of making changes and amending our ways - but by cunning and by deception - by terror and by sheer force of numbers of voters gained by bribing and corrupting an illegal, imported population - the plan is visible, now. Turning America socialist or Communist is only the object along the way - the object is the annihilation of America. Bondage, debt, ruination, the end of liberty. One-World government to enrich the few.
Tyrannical spirits do indeed, by definition, seek to control our every move, our every word, even our every thought. They grasp at our children, our businesses, our health - and every means 0f controlling these. They attempt to take over lives as if to increase their control and power, and then they move us to commit what King David called the great transgression, presumption. To increase their scope and range of power, they work to generate political policies and social movements that lure peoples with goodies - but that do not value life, that cut off heads, that steal and lie without compunction or conscience. They have seized upon the gentle ways of freedom as a horse thief takes a noble horse and uses his skill to commit ignoble crimes..
ANOTHER BAD DEAD IDEA: TOLERANCE FOR EVIL - SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR THIEVES - NAIVE DENIAL OF DEPRAVITY
Talk about a forked tongue. These forces of chaos speak in the name of helping, while they exploit the naivity of civilized people. Abuse marks their habits as well. There are, now, a preponderance of not very well educated individuals who mean well but who have not been trained up to understand anything at all about the people who do not mean well - indeed, a large portion of our population does not believe that there are people undeserving of good. Thus the ideas of all of civilization's checks are now in question. Prisons. Laws. Borders. Even, purposes and ideas are being deconstructed, melted down, and made into an image of a strange god that seems to promise satisfaction. Thus even people who think themselves loyal patriots are helping to build a brazen idol of self: they feel so godly, distorting God's law, twisting his justice, and doling out his mercy without measure, to the lawless, the antiAmerican, the racist, the bigoted. They call it social justice and then they can sleep at night.
BUT LOOK HOW THESE THIEVES BEHAVE ONCE THEY GET AHOLD OF THE REINS OF POWER
All that creates order, and meaning, and peace, comes under fire. No longer do "Good fences make good neighbors". Now it's "Come on in and take what you need: we'll sack the rich and make it even-steven." A stupid raw cry of "rights" without any concept of responsibility, emerges, and reveals its true character by brazenly boasting its malicious hatred for the white man. A new term emerges: CRACKERS. The white man, however, is the part of mankind that, like it or not, has borne the greatest burden in doing so much to bring to harvest the fruits of knowledge, by government, by science, by applied art and culture, working to improve the lot of man, and best of all, bringing Christ to the nations so that all people may know of "liberty and justice for all." Even computer technology reflects this mind of liberty built up by faith in reason - taking data and transforming it in so many powerful ways for good. And yes, along come the dark forces and use it for bad.
WHAT IS GREATER THAN AN IDEA? THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
We are commanded to liberate persons - individuals - person by person - to liberate people from evil in order that its adherents might prosper in the love of God instead of being destroyed by the love of Self. We can't liberate people in any naturalistic way, they will still be superstitious, covetous, idolatrous. What liberates people is what touches the heart: the good will of God which is His Love, (God tells us He is the Spirit of love), as known through his Word, the Bible, (Jesus) and as experienced, personally. Truth alone liberates. Jesus Christ said, I am the Truth. In particular, Jesus is the Way that we can know Father God - the only way, he tells us. I think that this claim, this truth, reflects what the prophets proclaimed - that we were so rebellious toward God that he turned his mercy away. His arm is no shorter than before and he hears just as well but people refuse him and choose sin instead. This is offensive, of course, to God. God carefully separates people from sin to redeem them. He carefully distinguishes between good and evil and God is characterized by his distinctions. It is fools that cannot distinguish between an enemy and a friend. It is only because of Jesus that we may know Father God, now. This reconciliation is not only the Door to eternal Life, for us, but it is also Peace - true peace between a man or a woman and their God. Truth (Jesus) is actually therefore a relation, thus, of persons with Father God - each person relating to the knowledge of "I am" in the love of the Father. Truth, indeed, is not an idea, it is found in a "relation ship" of each person with his/her true father. The true father is the spirit father - the living God - who is our true maker, ruler, saviour, provider and the source of our life.
A CHRISTIAN NATION, THANKS TO GOD
Thank God we are citizens of a nation born of Christ. How do I know this is a Christian nation? It is simple. I'll use the method of Socrates with some super help from David Barton. ( SEE July 9th in Archives: http://www.wallbuilderslive.com/archives.asp?d=201007 ) Quoting from him almost verbatim (as often as I can) -
Question: What do you think makes a red state red, and a blue state blue?
Answer: A state is a red or blue state, when the majority of its citizens are Republican, or Democrat.
Question: So, the typical idea would be, 51% constitutes a majority. Or we might prefer to think of the majority that determines the state's identity as maybe 60%, or even 75%. Would you agree?
Answer: Yes, I'd agree with that.
Question: Then, how many Hindus does it take, to make a Hindu country? Or, how many Muslims might it take, to make a Muslim country? Same for a Buddhist one? You're not going to insist that every citizen of that nation be Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist, for that nation to be called a Muslim nation, and so on... right? You look for a certain percentage that you would call a majority.
Answer: True enough, for sure.
Question: Well, by the most recent poll of American citizens, guess how many Americans say they are Christian?
Answer: Well, I'm going to guess that it's a majority.
Conclusion: You're right. It's a majority. There's a new poll out, that says that 78% of Americans say they are Christians.
That sure sounds like a Christian nation. I'd say it's a fair and simple conclusion, that our nation is a Christian nation.
GOOD NEWS
You don't have to be Christian, for you to enjoy this Christian nation. God's sure reward for faith, that he hears the prayers of the righteous and answers them, gives America untold blessings to share with others. The truth is for all and its benefits are for all who would obey the law of the land. The lawless are restricted from it because lawlessness ruins it. One of the most amazing things about this system is that it can't be stolen because no thief can operate in righteousness. But it can be corrupted and ruined by lawlessness of its own members, ethical decay, and blindness to America's greatness.
You can be pagan, or heathen, atheist, or a practitioner of any religion other than the Christian faith, and yet enjoy the blessings that have come to America: because of its being a Christian nation! - in the same manner as strangers are honored, in Israel. However, here, in America, you're not considered a stranger, and you can be a citizen without espousing America's God. If you're a citizen of the United States, you're considered an American. This is a state of grace - can you see it now?
Our God is a great and good god which attributes righteousness to those who place their faith and trust in Him. As first unto Abraham, so unto his Seed which are believers in Christ of every nation and time. But again, you don't have to identify with the body of Christ, to be able to understand history, and see that the blessings which this country enjoys are directly due to its virtues and its freedoms, and its virtues and freedoms derive from our Christian Bible. Tracing that causative linkage proves the historical derivation is indisputable, for a reasonable amount of research will prove it to be true that our nation's principles derive from the Holy Bible. The founding fathers were deliberately applying the Bible's wisdoms and God's commands to the great nation-building edifice. They knew what they were doing, they said so, and they wrote it. Their words are there for people to read and to learn. But they and their words have been buried by a false rewriting of history that obscures especially the connection between the Christian mind and the mind embedded in our governing system - the mind that flourishes and prospers economically in the cultivation of liberty. Here's the big truth: liberty and military victory have a direct link. Liberty and economic victory are directly linked. Liberty and personal prosperity are directly linked. I have done this research and attest to its truth. I have heard David Barton quote the founding fathers and the Holy Bible, to prove that our Law and our Liberty and our documents derive from the Bible by chapter and verse. David Barton has, I am told, the largest private collection of colonial writings known today.
I can see that there are those who believe that they will benefit from darkening this truth of our history, our founding, our purpose and our character as a nation.
Have you ever had a conversation with someone who "just knows" that America is not a Christian nation - because the truth about American history is a lie that Christians make up? And so they won't listen to your compassion, won't accept your love because they are blinded, they are totally convinced that they know the truth, which is that God is not real, and that Christians are deluded simpletons who are trying to control everybody with their damned book! The controlling know-it-alls fear being controlled, themselves, because they think everybody else is like them. Don't we all make that mistake? Have you, if you are a Christian, ever tried to tell a Jewish person that this is a Christian nation, and seen the idea, hiding behind their politeness, that you are deluded, and that they must remember not to get close to you? (Steering clear of delusion, a good idea, yes - if one is possessed of the Truth.) So it is. The truth is precious. It is as a light. It is the light that shows us our path and is a lamp unto our feet. The truth is good, and shepherds us to safety. We should fear God. Our life is in His hand.
Therefore I can say the following words, without malice but with grave concern, on the occasion of our nation's honoring of its founding, on Independence Day, July 4, 2010.
My Declaration of Independence:
I can think, I can write my thoughts, and I can be free to do so, without fear of censure - because I am an American citizen. A lot of men died so that I could be free. My liberty is most precious to me in all that it provides and in all the protections it affords me. That is the operative truth in my life, as I see America overtaken by forces that threaten these very liberties.
Here's a little sense, to snuff out some of this nonsense. Make my censure lawful? Then find out about how the truth is worse than hornet's nests - from me and every other tea drinker! This here tea of American patriotism is 'truth ever always'. Pour it down the drain and it'll come back as rain. Who can stop the rain? Every drop will be looking to wash away every coat of lies until the unvarnished truth stands victorious.
I was born and bred upon the soil of Pennsylvania, within hearing of the Liberty Bell. I was schooled in citizenship and the liberal arts. And when I married a naturalized American citizen and bore his children, I taught them to love this country same as I do.
But lo. The public schools taught them something strange that contradicted my faith, my patriotism and my parenting. The schools taught them naturalistic, progressivistic, modernistic foolishness. The schools taught them to despise what I cherished. The schools robbed me of my children and my parenting, luring them in the traps of deceptions - evolution and relativism and political correctness, with their corollaries of elitist scorn, and uncritical but suspicious hatred of good - twisting their identities, teaching them they are accidents, animals, anomalies.
The very deceptions from which I had labored for decades to liberate myself - deceptions that had entered into our society in the last century, overtaking the families and creeping carefully at first into the classroo0ms, and finally staging battles in the Supreme Court where Opinion overturned our Constitution by posing as law - these deceptions found a new home in the minds and hearts of my children.
It took twenty years to understand this betrayal of our family by the schools. At first it was simply unthinkable. Then it was simply incomprehensible. Finally it was intolerable. By then, of course, our family had been destroyed. Multiply that times millions and you begin to see the dawn of darkness shadowing our land. Those of us who turned to the LORD were comforted and our families were restored. I think that many don't know to this day what hit them.
My husband had struggled through the second world war at first hand, as a child. I had endured it from a distance. I told him, after one long talk about our childhoods, that his childhood had at least this: he could identify, and see, and know, the enemy. Not so, in America in the second half of the 20th century. I faced an unknown, unidentified enemy that was finding its home in my parents, teachers - everyone. I recognized the enemy for what it was, sooner than he, because I had had to overcome it, just to grow up and get free of its grip on my family. I experienced it as massive cynicism resulting in disgraceful disloyalty, bad manners and all the life problems of people who have turned their backs on faith. But believing it to be an evil spirit on the move to destroy America - that was hard for me. I had thought it a Philadelphia demon.
No, this spirit is out to get the whole nation. Drown us in Freudian, Darwinian modernism, progressivism made of belief in Self and the small cadre of elites that could control the situation. My husband, who had mastered American business and society with his highly intelligent personal adjustment, lacked in only one area forbidden to Hungary by Russians: knowledge of the Spirit. He was not up on "spirits". He missed it completely at first, as it seemed to me. That thing came between many a husband and wife in those days. I myself was a sceptic and had advanced degrees, both by disposition and education, it was a miracle of God's love that I was able to learn the other form of intelligence (as I like to call it) which is faith. And then I was called to tell others about it all, spirit to spirit, person to person.
This enemy is spiritual and it is attacking America's spirit, having won, by now, half of America's heart and a good part of America's mind, as it seems. One half of America wrestles with this enemy, as it tries to knock us down, and the other half cheers the enemy on and sucks on the kool-aid it hands out. America is divided - and that is the very basis of illness. This enemy is spiritual and is attempting to take the American body by force and we who are conditioned to passivity in response to bodily disease, must arise, shake it off, flush it out and vomit it out, for it is a spirit and we can do that because we have the right. We have the right because America is our domain: America belongs to us. That is the essence of liberty! That we, in belonging to God, and submitting to the Truth, possess ourselves by God-given right. Rise, shine, give God the glory, and show evil what's what. If we don't do this. America dies.
And you see it has come to this, that we are as children, and we are as asleep, and we are as enchanted, and we are as fools, that we need to be told, that if something belongs to us, we have the right to determine who does what to it or with it or for it or by it, etc. It is ours.
As Christians possessed of the Holy Ghost, in Christ Jesus, we may, we can, we will, we shall, and we must stand and rebuke the devil. The way to do this is with words of authority, for we are, according to scripture, ambassadors of Christ - words spoken in spirit and in truth, full of knowledge and conviction and passion bear the authority of God himself: words of faith: supernatural faith backed up by God's own Word. It's going to come down to this. After we have done all we can and said all we could, we hahve to take possession of America for Christ. Command the demons to leave.
Look that evil one in the eye, think of how you are about to liberate the soul possessed by that demon that is peering out of the captain's window, that eye, at you - thank God for the power and the authority to speak for Him - and speak these authoritative words of faith: You demon, get out. Depart from this soul and depart from this body. Be ye cast into the sea. Be gone and never come back! You have no right to him/her. He/she belongs to me/Christ/America. He/she is my wife/husband/child/parent/friend/fellow. Get away from him/her right now. I command you to obey, and I have news for you: I know you must obey: because, you have nothing to do with him/her and he/she has nothing to do with you - therefore, this is not your place - and you must obey because I speak for the Father and in the name above all names, Jesus Christ.
Now, you will pronounce "hallelujah" with the full rejoicing knowledge that you have just removed a bad bug from someone. Do this entire procedure especially when confronted or affronted - without apology, without hesitation, without doubt. Be sensitive. The Spirit may lead you to special knowledge at that moment - listen carefully and do not dare to speak your own words and thoughts unless the Spirit prompts you to do so.
Do you know how to hear the Spirit instruct you? Probably not. The churches have buried that instruction. Just speak in tongues - like Paul said you should do. Like Paul thanked God that he did.
What? Act crazy?
You mean, crazy, like all the people wandering the streets of the world talking into little boxes in their hands? Holy babble lets God tell your spirit stuff that even you can't hear! But your spirit, if you can hear it, will tell you exactly what God has said. It's a little bit like an internal red phone, a direct line to God. Of course the devil is going to tell you, don't go there! Try to think this through with me. Remember, I had to learn this while risking being called crazy. Jesus himself was called crazy by his own family and maybe even his disciples at one point.
Of course demons are disobedient, filthy spirits. They resist. That's why your voice must be like a steel sword, unbending and unwavering in its inner faith, shining in its brilliant cutting love. When you are aware of what is happening, you are patient. Sometimes a person will start cursing you. Sometimes a person will begin to cry. You can reassure the person that you are not speaking to him/her but to a demon that is insidde him/her like a bad idea - or even, a dead idea. Her/she will think perhaps that you are mad. That is why you must not be emotional or personal - you are an officer of the kingdom. Try to keep your attention fixed on the spirit you are removing and just keep telling it that it has no authority to be there. It can do no more harm to you than a fly if you know what you are doing. You may need to command it to leave a number of times. You will not need to be violent, or even dramatic, to make facial expressions, or cries. You will need to believe your words to be God's command. Can you do this? Of course you can - God's grace is sufficient for all things He calls you to do. So, don't rebuke demons unless you hear God telling you, Now, Go Get 'em.
Clean up America. Rebuke these demons from people and see people stand dazed, and change from moment to moment - usually not all at once. DON'T CLAIM TO HAVE DONE IT. IT IS CHRIST THAT HEALS. Thank God. Learn His name and learn to talk with him every morning as you would with your own father. You do live with Him, you know. You can do these prayers for someone who is distant, as well. See what your faith can accomplish for Christ. Remember that we are commanded to pray for our leaders (first of all) but don't be naive. Pray for them and for our nation, recalling that Jesus did not evangelize the Pharisees. Maybe he prayed for them. Maybe he mourned their blindness. Just do what is right. Prayer has its place in the course of events.
I repeat. We have the right because it is our domain, it belongs to us. If we don't do this. America dies.
One of the most bizarre aspects of contemporary America's modernistic culture is the rejection of prayer as either socially acceptable or effectual. There is fear of prayer. Prayer is strange to the mind trapped in the bondage of the theory of evolution. Isn't that an awful irony. Trapped in an illusion of freedom.
However bad it may look, Independence is still the law of the land. The mental mess will be miraculously straightened up. The nation's unity will be restored. The people will awaken to a new day. The church will revive in the spirit of truth. I will witness this. It is in our hands as long as we don't deny our own rights.
The faithful are praying all over the land and there is nothing the faithless can do to stop that. They had no idea of our power because they worshipped their great activism. They found god in Obama. Now let them find out what it is to worship an idol.
We know, by now, what kind of change Barrack Hussein Obama is attempting, in our nation. He wants us to be no longer a Christian nation and has already pronounced it and claimed it to be so - as if that makes it so. After all, he is a naturalist, who believes, I think it, therefore it is. (This, by the way, is the mind of a one-year-old.) Indeed, thinking and speaking do establish reality - if they accord with truth! We ought to be saying right back to him, No, America is a Christian nation. No, you are wrong. Many liberal elites and leftists, Communists, socialists and atheists are Obama's followers in this vile and presumptuous change of our identity from outside in and from top down - it is a fundamental and gross trespass of the people's will that transgresses our God's command. You can't tell me I am not what I am. You can't tell America she is not what she is. That is tyranny, plain and simple. It is completely unAmerican. Nail it. Pin it down, understand it, don't let it get away from you, and like a bad bug, crush that thing.
Obama draws into his 'cause' all those that feel constrained by the Christian morals that uplift family. Our president divides our people for his private purposes which, if you look closely, include revenge, racist hate, resentment of prosperity and all the blessings that come to those who stand for individual rights rather than group entitlements and who prefer to work rather than mooch. His anti-Christian coalition uses putdowns that expose its low and vulgar values. They characterize as "do-gooders" the people who believe in hard work for pay and due diligence and duty. This kind of old-fashioned, unsophisticated and principled living makes a mockery of their drugs and sexual libertinism, favoritism and especially their favoring of aberrant behavior, even of criminals over honest citizens. It looks to me that they want an end to this mantle of virtue because they don't believe in its god. In other words, beware: they speak the word freedom, but they take freedom away from us - from you who support Obama, too. It's yours. Take it back.
Obama doesn't honor our Constitution any more than he honors our borders: he despises America. I believe he intends to rule us without democratic republican means as soon as he can accomplish it - by crisis after crisis unto collapse after collapse. The FEMA camps, Americorps, grants to Acorn and offshoots of Acorn, bloated federal payroll, open borders, takeover of business and banking and redistribution galore.... He is a globalist, one-world government fanatic who has disguised his true mind. We know that to be true. He despises our armed forces, too. He and his followers are so far past treason into the utter destruction of our nation and the delivering it up to the forces of darkness, that we have only God as our hope. He has even fooled and deceived his followers - and he mocks them. Half of America thinks the 'change' will be good.
They are against Christ and now they have passed laws outlawing the words of Jesus and Jehovah God, defining them as hate speech. Adulterers knew better than to justify their destruction of the family. It used to be that sin brought shame, and people hid their failings from the glare of public view. The public censure of disgrace is gone. Now, the public is expected to embrace pornography with its tolerance, a redefinition of marriage, family and even love. In the process of tearing America apart for what can only be called selfish lust in almost all cases, these changemongers have come down hard on America's mistakes and lied about America's good deeds. I have a new word for this: Obominable.
Obama's campaign to dismantle America's virtue only begins with disinformation, it moves quickly into theft - of property, of rights, and of life. Every thief knows to move quickly. Because he knows detection is inevitable. And it is theft even as it clothes itself in political process. The fine line between use and abuse can be nothing more than purpose. And the purpose is detected in the means: violation, force, deception, bribery, etc. Lies, theft, destruction. These are the distinguished works of Satan, my friends - according to the Bible: as follows: "The thief cometh not, but for to steal , and to kill , and to destroy : I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10) Ladies and gentlemen: people are trying to take our land because it is good, our nation, because it is powerful, and our home because it is comfortable, and clean, not yet inhabited by the violence that has destroyed other peoples. The theft begins with stealing our words and our thoughts by changing the way we speak - that is the very phrasing and the declared reasoning of Mrs. Obama.
I address my own fellow citizens as one who sees that the time has come to make an undisguised and unapologetic effort to save our nation from this very well organized, well heeled and well oiled campaign to take America away from Americans and give it to those who hate America and Americans.
We are not talking about policy: to agree or disagree. We are talking about changing our constitution, our borders, our manners, our identity: our form of government, our economy, and our very faith. That is absolutely outside Obama's realm of office. Completely outside of his elected position. Hear me. He's not talking about policies, he's talking about the government itself, the culture itself, the people itself.
I'm just a granny. Go ahead. I dare you to elect me president. I'll dare to stand. I'll get twelve wise counsellors. Isn't there someone capable of envisioning and organizing and leading a total shutdown of America until this ship gets righted? Oh Lord, I think we need a passel of plagues to stop this all-out assault upon our established, righteously lawful government, culture and liberties. I know sin brings a nation down and righteousness exalts it. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. Psalms 33:12. Down on our knees, everyone. America's government is polluted by the legalization of abortion because it is really infanticide. Other practices loom into the picture of catastrophic immorality: prayer forbidden in school; chaplains forbidden to speak the name of Jesus; Ten Commandments monuments removed; political indoctrination served up as truthful public education; unhealthy condom practices promoted to kindergarteners; the corruption, the ungodliness, oh my, oh my, oh my. We don't need to ask, Where is our Moses? - we need to turn to our God because we are in Christ and nothing is impossible with the Lord God:
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them,
With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Matthew 19: 26
Are you sure you want to back Obama and the liberal progressive left to bring America down? Or are you just looking for an outlet for pent-up anger: offense, resentment, bitterness and despair? (The old defeatist cycle.) Are you caught up in euphoria because of drugs, and think you know utopia is just for you? Get it together. You are about to lose your home, you have already lost your mind. Snap into position, wake up. Return to the fold. All hands on deck, really. Give up gripes. Rescue the lady Liberty. De pluribus unum: in unity is infallible power to defeat all enemies, don't you know?
Don't think America will rise up after you allow this rape. You will be left with God's wrath. The forces against America are so well-armed by our naiveties and our technologies and even our principles and policies, so very well served by our sneakers and cars and radios and our Madison Avenue/Wall Street/Hollywood/MainStreet myths - that if we don't encircle her with all the wagons of our faith, the rape of America will be tragic, brutal and unthinkably ungodly, and therefore thoroughly satisfy those whose sensibility is perverted by drugs (sorcery) and immorality (iniquity). The satisfaction will not be fruitful, however.
Try to understand the kind of enemy we have. These are people who take a child from its parents, tie one leg and arm to each parent, and then pull the child apart by pulling the parents apart. This kind of grotesque torture is so bizarre that it is inconceivable to the naive mind of modernity, unaccustomed to hard work, oblivious to terror even, it would seem, and a traitor to its own culture, by default. But our enemy is a kind of twin monster. Our enemy does not know God. He is of two kinds. He is a person who is blind to torture, yes, but either he is blind to doing it or blind to those who do it. In the end, it doesn't matter so much, to the one that is tortured and to our God which sees: it doesn't matter so much who does it and who doesn't see it.
We have a president who said he had campaigned in all 57 states. Does this not give you a clue? We have a president who hides his college records. Who sought out anarchists and subversive, anti-establishment rebels as friends in schools he attended in his earlier years and who appoints avowed Communists to staff his administration. Whose church preached black liberation theology, a well-known form of Marxist ideology. We have a president who bows low to Islam and apologizes for America's sins. We have a president who is a liar, a thief and a usurper. And he reflects half of America which chose him. We are in such deep trouble and have no body-system to unite us. We are as lost sheep.
Our current president is only carrying forth the plan that was hatched almost a hundred years ago in the form of progressive schemes and ideals - among Wilson and others.
The most recent example of our usurpist president's regime of changing our history and our character and our vocabulary is his statement that the statue of Liberty was paid for by contributions of citizens all over the country - no, here is the truth. The base was paid for in that fashion, but the statue was the gift of the freedom-loving French people to the United States of America. And Emma Lazarus was not writing about illegal immigrants as Obama claimed in his speech of lies, either! She wrote, and the words are found at the statue, that the persons rejected - exiled - by other political systems - systems practicing bondage and injustice - will find refuge in America - because liberty is for all. And liberty is for all because Christ is for all. But not all are for Christ, and America, and freedom.
This is a Christian nation, say it aloud and say it proud, if you're a Christian American. If you're not a Christian but a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, American, or someone with a private or even inarticulate religion - or even, an atheist - you're a full American, and you need to know that your freedoms are not given to your fellow man as cittizenship rights by your other religion that you practice, but only by Christ Jesus who died to glorify God and thereby save you.
If you want to remain thankless for the fruits of Christian values, and if you desire to deny plain history, and look away from all the nations which do not enjoy our rights, and pretend to yourself that all nations are equally good, then you have my prayers - while you are enjoying America.
If you're one of the Americans that was successfully seduced by one of the many alienating unAmerican or anti-capitalistic logics, seduced into departing from God and joining enemies of America in the attempt to bring America down because it isn't perfect, you can repent.
Christians don't behead those who depart, as do Muslims. You're welcome, with rejoicing. God answers repentance with mercy. And if your Christian pastor is telling you about social justice, you have some serious deep thinking to do, after some serious deep reading of your Bible.
If you're for America being what she always was - a democratic republic - and if you're for the American spirit of enterprise and freedom, seeking and pursuing happiness with liberty, and if you value life as sacred, and respect the God of the Bible, then we are of the same family. But if you are not, you are still my fellow citizen and you should study up because you have been hoodwinked and you're headed for the block. And I remind you, we Christians are not the beheaders. Don't quote me history. It is not an approved practice in our scripture or our tradition, to behead. Rather, we endow a new head - that is, a renewal of the mind!
Saying America is Christian and being mighty proud of it doesn't belie our good-natured, Christian good will in extending freedom of worship to all people who become citizens of the United States, whatever religion they practice. Note that other religions are not so charitable about the practice of strange religions within their borders. That tells you something very important about the essential character of the Christian gospel, the Christian people, the Christian nation. The atheists are not so tolerant. The new left is most intolerant. Political correctness is downright tyrannical. But American religious freedom is an undeniable virtue open to all and not exclusive, a superiority with an invitation to every person, that needs no apology, and it has the power to promote truth and good will everywhere so we should celebrate it all the more. Freedom of faith is a bedrock groundstone of American thought and the center of the American way. So when our president says we are not a Christian nation, he's doing more of that spinning that people say he is so good at doing. He fundamentally ignores the founding principles of Christianity which are the founding principles of the United States. It will be good for America when he gets edified in the truth.
Now then let us pray for America, for the continuance of our liberties and the means by which we hold them, live them and honor them. I thank God for the family that will hear my protest to this barbaric assault on American freedoms.
Amen and Amen
READING: MATTHEW, Chapter 12:
22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil , blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw . 23 And all the people were amazed , and said , Is not this the son of David? 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said , This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebubb the prince of the devils. 25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation ; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand : 26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand ? 27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out ? therefore they shall be your judges. 28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. 29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. 30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad . 31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come . 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye , being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh . 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak , they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified , and by thy words thou shalt be condemned .
What Is Indignation
HEADLINE: UNITED STATES HISTORY GUTTED AND LEFT FOR DEAD: AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN THE VICTIMS, AMERICAN CITIZENS SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
HEAR YE, HEAR YE: AMERICAN REPUBLIC OVERTAKEN BY LIARS, THIEVES, TYRANTS AND MURDERERS: THE PROUD, THE UGLY, THE LIVING DEAD
I've known for some years now, that our U. S. history has been strategically misrepresented by liberal progressives in the schools, the story of our brave nation has been craftily rewritten falsely in the textbooks, history books and biographies, and the honest, god-fearing, god-hearing folk that love America have been deliberately misjudged in the courts of law and public opinion. Now, I've learned the facts and trends of these misdoings afresh, from the teaching of the American Heritage TV Series Segment on the Supreme Court, referenced at this article's conclusion. Here's how I'd say it to you. Refresh yourself with the facts. Don't let this truth slip out of our minds and our hands. It's the lasso by which we can hogtie them.
The Supreme Court issues Opinions, not Law: Do you know this, Gentle Reader?
Yes, it's truly true, that the Supreme Court does not make law: it makes opinion. Spell that "Opinion? Opinion of nine unelected individuals, posing as law, to rule 300 plus million souls?" No, no, no! Blood-boiling No!
Every decision issued by the Supreme Court begins with the words, "It is the opinion of this Court that,".....*
THEN LET NOT CONFUSION REIGN! REINSTATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW!
No wonder things are a mess: opinion, substituting for U.S. Law? No. No, no!
People have recreated the tyranny of the British Crown: non-representation!
The Supreme Court is being wielded as an instrument of totalitarian power that overrules the Majority Will: to satisfy an illegal shadow government that pretends to know - better than our Constitution - how to rule this nation and how to change it for the better.
They have deliberately attempted to bury the United States Constitution in oblivion.
Our President has said on the record, that the United States Constitution is "flawed"!
The very representation of Majority Will that our ancestors fought and died to establish has been replaced with non-representative rule by the Supreme Court's opinion - it is the bondage of ignorance - in the name of naive WeKnowBetter-ism.
HOW WE PROSPER WHEN WE FOLLOW OUR CONSTITUTION'S DIRECTION
In this Republic, the Majority Will of the people rules, by established law and by our governing principles. The will of any minority can never over-rule the majority's will - minority will can only overturn majority rule by persuasion, education, and dialogue. That is, by law - by campaigns, settled by votes, and by other legally established measures for change such as amendments.
The three branches of federal government serve to accomplish the Majority Will: to execute it, to legislate it, and to judge it, in the manner of a steward, not as a king.
It should not be necessary to say that the executive executes, the legislative legislates, and the judiciary judges. These functions are separate, both in persons and in governments alike, for reasons of clarity, sanity and probity: for the checking and balancing of human nature. The separation of powers was designed to prevent the suppression or distortion or hindrance of the Majority Will, by means of any out-of-order rule by any separate power not representing We the People. For it was wisely said, that the government was made for the people, and not, the people for the government. Moreover, it is a government by the people, for the people.
The states, moreover, serve individually and one by one, to discover, to incubate, to apply, and to try, the will of each state's majority, according to the various and differing state laws that reflect the various and differing state populations and localities and cultures - serving the public in such manner that minorities are accorded the due processes of law and society while the Majority Will of each state is accomplished in the manner of representative democracy, that is, by the procedural representational operations of each sovereign state of the Republic.
This is the very purpose of the excellent design of our representative, democratic Republic. It is a federation of sovereign states which unite to combine into one nation - that constitutes our sovereign federal union, whose powers and provinces of authority as defined by our Constitution do not trespass into nor conflict with the powers and provinces of authority of the states, whose powers and provinces of authority do not trespass into nor conflict with those of the individuals in their several and unique families.
No government upon this earth, in the whole course of human history, is so well designed to respect the rights and responsibilities of individuals, states and nation all at once. No other constitution has lasted as long as our U. S. Constitution has lasted. And none have achieved such liberty and equality for all, including minorities, as we have done. It is a heritage to defend, to protect, of which we need to be glad, for which we need never apologize, that it has not achieved perfection!
SURPRISE: MINORITIES ARE PROTECTED BY MAJORITIES
The majority rules so that it might protect minorities: that truth is established in American history, not by myth or wishful thinking but by fact. We need hardly footnote it!
However. Take away majority rule and what do we get? Elitism, Oligarchy, and Treason.
THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN MAJORITY HAS RULED WELL, GUIDED BY WISDOM, TO EVER IMPROVE OUR PEOPLE AND OUR WAYS. THE MAJORITY HAS VOTED FOR LIBERTY AND EQUALITY, NOT BONDAGE AND INIQUITY. HISTORY PROVES IT SO. SO,
"SAY IT AGAIN, SAM!":
The End of Slavery was achieved by a "super majority" vote to amend the U.S.Constitution: the vote to end slavery was an act of the Majority Will, not an act of the Supreme Court. Emancipation of slaves was proclaimed by President Lincoln in defiance of the opinion issued by the Supreme Court. Neither was it the act of a minority, but of the majority unifying with, and persuaded by, the minority - the majority who were free, embracing the minority who were in bondage.
On the other hand - The Supreme Court ruled against freeing the slaves: (Oh dear God!) Yes, the Supreme Court did really rule that slaves are property!
The women's vote was conferred by a majority vote: by males!: not by the Supreme Court.
The right of 18-year olds to vote was conferred by a majority vote - of those older than 19! - not by the Supreme Court.
The Bill of Rights was written by elected representatives and passed by a majority vote: not by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court not only does not settle the law of the land, it is only the issuer of opinion.
Presidents like Lincoln and Jackson have told the Supreme Court, Thanks but No thanks!
But now the Supreme Court is being used to establish the minority's rule of the majority: how can this be?
Presidents Washington and Lincoln - with all of the founding fathers - executed liberty by majority will.
Fact: this is a representative democracy - a republican democracy - expressly designed to prevent the oligarchic rule of the majority by a minority -
designed to be amended by due process, not by unconstitutional judicial activism and overlord-ism.
FACE FACTS, TO OVERCOME WRONG - FACE TRUTH, TO GET RIGHT
Let's get back to being a democratic republic that follows its own laws.
Let's get back to being America, the land where right overcomes wrong.
The indoctrination of children to establish socialism now stands exposed - as vile, and without honor, hypocritical to the core, tyrannical in spirit.
As the very opposite of equality and liberty, this meddling in the souls of children while pretending to enlighten them, turning them against family, the nation and God, offends the dignity of humanity to the core. The real name for it is - sorcery, witchcraft - the manipulation of human will.
Depart from hypocrisy and its harvest of mayhem.
Turn to the Lord. He is good. His is the revenge, and his is the victory.
He will not forget his covenants with our forefathers. He will not forsake us.
Give him praise. Lift up his mighty name. Worship him with thanks and honor him with glory for he bestows blessing and love upon us.
"A Call for Understanding Right Action". By PC'P McTea: I'm one speck in the speckled trout that is America.
* David Barton reminds citizens of such facts in his American Heritage TV Series: Go and be liberated by true history (http://www.wallbuilders.com/MED_ahs.asp ).
NEW GROUND: SOLID ROCK NOT SINKING SAND
"WILL THIS 'DO'?" (Original Title)
TO: DEAR FELLOW PATRIOTS
SUBJECT: the "MARCH20MARCH" and America's Forced March Into Socialism: the Protest For True Health Care Reform and Against ObamaCare
DATE: March 24, 2010
THIS IS MY REPORT plus WELL CONSIDERED GOD-SENT COUNSEL TO YOU - MAY YOUR EYES AND EARS BE BLESSED
INTRODUCTION
Like so many others living through these trying times, I decided I must go to Washington, D. C. to join with thousands of others - to support the vote to defeat H.R. 4872, the health care bill backed by Obama - to make my protest to its unconstitutionality in person, with my voice, my presence, and my witness. Once again I found myself in a miraculously well-mannered, civil, and goodly company, American people of whole heart and sound soul - passionate believers in the spirit of America and the unique good purpose of these United States. There must have been nearly fifty thousand people there. That was less than one-third of the one and a half million persons who marched for Liberty and Constitutional Integrity and against the rape of Lady Liberty, back on September 12, 2009, but this throng was no less spirited in faith and no less hefty of voice - and this throng was also a miracle number indeed, given that the Saturday on which we marched came only three days after the call from Congressman Steve King of Iowa went out on Wednesday.
When all the dust settles, we'll know we were right to respond, regardless of outcome - for the outcome of greatest import and impact is not the bill's passage or failure, but our stand: on the solid rock of faith in what is right for America. This needs to be said often, loud, and clear, everywhere: America, land of the free, home of the brave, one nation, indivisible, under God, is not and never will be, a socialist republic. Some say she's already gone. No. America's alive and she ever will be. America is body of the spirit of liberty. Therefore, we will be glad, not to have been traitors but patriots, who guarded America's promise and broke the plague of lies with words of truth. For, even more than right legislation, this nation needs right people speaking truth to power. Our silence would allow treason to take our freedom and freely destroy us with it. As Cicero said, some twenty centuries ago,
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
THE ART OF THE CON AND THE NAIVETY OF IDEALISM: A MORTAL COMBINATION
Liberalism appeals to naive persons especially AND YOUTH IN PARTICULAR. When the liberal ideology was corrupted by lust and rasterized by intellectual deceit, it became disconnected from real life, and alienated from the heart of truth. This perverted liberalism spawned a generation of spooked progressives by means of combining the liberal tongue with the eyes of cynicism, to produce ears of credulity, which impede effective functioning in the practical world. These uncritical victims, being naive, are easily made the dupes of the cons. In their vapid protestations in denial of humanity's depravity even as they deplore it, they show the very mind of idolatry - self-deceit squared - in which we see the backside of ignorance, contrariness inside-out - and so, given a free hand with the wealth of nations, with their highly developed "arts" of defrauding and guile, playing shadows off of shadows, globalist con artists are ripping off America's own ideals and swindling Americans with their clever confidence deals: nets made of counterfeits, feigns, and hoaxes.
NOT THE NUMBERS BUT THE COMBINATION UNLOCKS THE TROUBLE
Christians are commanded to go among the wolves 'with the cunning of a serpent, and the harmlessness of a lamb'. We must discern evil especially when it dresses up like a shepherd. How does this wolf-shepherd treat this lamb that is you? Do I detect a gleam in his eye? Do I hear the sharpening of knives and the boiling of the water in the kettle?
What kind of pseudo-Christianity is this masquerade called "social justice", that lures millions away from seeking God's solutions and into offering their own answers - millions who yearn to do good or to be freed from sin, led into the error of pride - by the theft of Christianity's identity? Identity theft is ancient strategy. It's simple to detect: not the "what", but the "how", reveals the false identity. They ignore the inconvenient "modus operandum" of our Lord.
And what, then, shall we do, having tolerated the misundereducation of our youth? How shall we recover from allowing false educators to steal our children's minds, subverting and capturing the middle class population to turn it into slave support for the left, against its own parents, by raising up several very numerous groups of dolts, idiots, nitwits, dummies and highly literated fools? (To form the second rank of elites.) This kidnapping - by a publicly-funded, unlawful, massive misindoctrination - when combined with the entrapment of equally numerous groups of intruding pretenders and stealthy trespassers, invading the United States illegally from the world round, all suffering from unenlightenment, all too pleased to be retooled for dissatisfaction with the adoption of a very adulterating greed, sloth and lusty lawlessness - this combination, I say, has produced a lethal electoral cocktail. Could we not see the truth all along, as this lethal combination of cynicism and idealism ate our kids for dinner, wiped its mouth, and slurped down all the illegal immigrants for dessert?
WHEN WE KNOW OUR ERROR WE'LL BE READY AND ABLE, WE'LL GET ON POINT AND ON COURSE
How could we fail to see that we are being attacked by evil - that, figuratively speaking, the young man of Proverbs 5 has shacked up with idolatry itself and produced a double whammy combo of trouble? - people are painted all over their bodies with pagan symbols, rings in all the body parts, wild looks of rage in the eyes - the great Unwashed have become the great Plague - demanding others' wealth as tribute (re-dis-tribute) for their restoration - in all tongues except proper English - puppets elaborating their dictated victimization and enumerating their indoctrinated righteous rights - all without the merest idea or even sense of honor, time, history, humor or wisdom. Universal truth is beyond their ken. They lack the knowledge of work, as they lack the desire to work. Enraged by their inadequacy, betrayed by their own values, needy beyond calculation and forever closed to the consideration of merciful love, as it would seem, they are become a plague - the living, walking dead - and are greatly to be pitied. If we were they, then we'd be despising, not pitying. Maybe indeed they are self-despising and that is the hidden syndrome. But being merciful, we pity. Yet we must needs also be self-protecting: our children are among them, in schools and everywhere. Thank God for his miraculous salvation.
DELIVERANCE FROM THIS PLAGUE
How can such be named traitors, when they never knew the true cause? America was stolen from them, hijacked and hidden, before they knew her. That they are ugly, miserable and sick in their minds is no reason to abandon them - really. Nor is it reason, on the other hand, to put them in some special victim role beyond suspicion: nobody is beyond suspicion. Identifying who is true to America is going to require discernment by people who know the difference between truth and foolishness. So, we have a great deal of rescuing to do and we need God's help with every single bit of it. The devil has played America's Christians for fools. But we've got his number. We know his combination. Now we're going to raid his locker. We're going to bring back the dead, and we'll have all the votes we need. And I don't mean the cheap voting right of the dead that was employed by Democrats in recent elections. I mean, that in quickening the minds of American youth and immigrants and citizens everywhere with the glorious truth of Christ, we will win ourselves a glorious electorate that will not run from the lion, but stand and outroar him.
COMBINATIONS ALSO WORK TO CONCEAL TROUBLE
Combinations pose as unifiers while deconstructing unions. Combinations put seemingly harmless components into sequences that unlock disaster by division. Harvesting combines are giant machines that look like devouring dinasaurs swathing across the fields to cut up and thresh grains. There's a metaphor in that image. Combines - machines that speak words of union but shred the harvest of fellowship. A combination is not a union. For there to be a union, there must be a spirit unifying. That spirit is not the spirit of tyranny. It is no padlock. Think on these things. Think figuratively, America. Combinations lock and unlock all sorts of treasures, rights, properties and privacies. So let's see what is really going on. How does this work in today's dilemma?
The new kind of traitor wins his way by his forked appeal not only to baseness but also to idealism: with his promise of wealth that delivers bondage - and his promise of health that delivers death. By outright lies and cynical appeals he harvests souls for the bread of elitism. He works openly, slandering good folk, confusing the public mind, by the license of his stolen identity as the people's defender. He scolds, apologizes and moralizes, while his hands are busy stealing and signing codes to his followers and treaties with our enemies. We have to watch his hands. They are spinning regulations like cat's cradles to catch us in. He moves fast.
REPORT ON THE MARCH: OBSERVATIONS
So I give thanks to Representative King and other congressmen and congresswomen who stood with us, who came out on that dias on the lawn of the Capitol, and addressed remarks to us with courage and wit; and I give thanks, especially, to the organizers of the protest rally for their help and their worthy efforts - the folks who took time to put together bus rides and other arrangements - thanks to you each and all. To my bus organizer: thank you. Now if we can unify for more than an afternoon, without becoming a party, then we're going somewhere.
Thanks too to my sponsor who paid for my travels and graciously drove me for two hours to the bus departure place - starting out at 4 a.m.! - so that I could go: Friend, the best to you.
OUT ON THE LAWN: SIGNS OF LIFE IN THE ELECTORATE
It was a beautiful day. The Capitol looked splendid - from a distance. Up close, it looked untended and tawdry, it looked like a third world capital. There was a liquid black darkness and a deathly un-echoing silence filling the interior. We stood in the bright sunlight under a bursting blue sky and chanted, "Kill the bill!" No signs of life in there at all. Not even a whisper of response, not even a peeking face glimmering in the dark. But friendly congressional representatives who shared our views came to speak, and cheered us on with solid and enthusiastic exhortations and statements condemning the health care bill, the illegal manner in which it was being passed, and the leadership which allowed this degradation of our political process to proceed unhindered. I was thanking God that here was something to restore my faith in our elected representatives: some are continuing in noble spirit even while others have become thugs - wolves in sheepskins.
WHEN IS GULLIBILITY CULPABILITY?
When wrongdoing is committed by an elected official.
The question has arisen in many minds: how culpable, or how gullible, are these usurpers of legitimacy who are the ushers of this execrable and unwanted socialism? These leaders are willy-nilly promoting a false idea of social justice. While subverting the Constitution, they pervert the Bible. They need to be informed that, whether they are dupes (ideologues) or creeps (workers of darkness), either way, their acts constitute enmity to God and treason to our nation, and as such, will have foreordained and specific legal consequences because, although they are Biblical illiterates who have forgotten or trashed our Constitution, it still holds true that this nation is under God and submitted to the rule of law and not the rule of persons. They need to know they will be punished. They need to know, too, about how God's justice really works. Of these things they need to be reminded and warned. Perhaps some of them will regain the fear of of God that is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7; 14:16 & 27; 15:33). Some of them will not be saved even by punishment. But all their names and acts will be known. They will have to answer for perverting the Bible and abandoning the Constitution and as well for all the harm they will do to all the citizens of this nation and the countries of this world.
We need to pray for them because they do not know the true and living God, they do not fear him and they do not obey him, because they do not believe he exists. A terrible end awaits them. If they believed he exists, they would learn his commands and obey him instead of denying America's Christianity, denying God's creation of the heavens and the earth and all that in it live, and denying the simple truth of history.
Curtailing the rights to free speech and freedom of worship is not God's plan.
Making the Torah illegal as a form of hate speech is not God's plan.
Killing babies while they are still in the womb is not God's plan.
Destroying America's middle class is nothing but a fiendish plan to subjugate America's sovereignty to a global, one-world government. They think they are enlightened: it was always the same, for every tyrant who ever ruled, lying to himself, making rationalizations.
TRUE CHANGE COMES FROM CHANGED VALUES, WHICH COME FROM CHANGED BELIEFS: IS AMERICA STILL A CHRISTIAN NATION?
Candidate Obama's hypnotic promises of change, and the hopes these promises aroused, vague as they were, carefully concealed the strategy of using an appearance of legality to replace the idea of democratic republican reform with an entirely new idea: socialistic governance by fiat.
But here is something that does not change: there is the truth, and the truth is truly great. It's so great that it knows the end from the beginning. It's so great that it speaks and what it speaks IS. There is no contradiction, no shadow, no confusion, no doubt, in the truth. The truth precedes and ends all - it is greater than all that it creates, as an artist is greater than all his creations. Out of the truth come unity, peace and grace - these timeless treasures never come out of deceit, denial, division.
THE GOOD CHANGE TO HOPE FOR
There is only one change we should hope for: repentance and a return to the truth: salvation, for our entire nation.
True change is the result of a new, or a renewed, set of values and values are the result of beliefs: America has not EXchanged her belief in truth, and love, and goodness - the values of Christianity - for a belief in cynicism, materialism, and monetarism - which are not the values of Christianity nor of God.
THE BIBLE DOES NOT RECOMMEND WHAT OBAMA RECOMMENDS
The Bible does not back up Obama's program of change. The Scripture nowhere teaches that government should perform charity, forcing it upon the populace and acquiring the means by stealing, unconstitutionally, from some of them - the Bible teaches only, that leaders should be wise and kings should have mercy. Mr. Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama needs to study the Holy Bible. By himself. Carefully. Jesus feeds His 'sheep' and administers His Kingdom by the Spirit, not by the earthly forms of government which he refused to practice: 'My kingdom is not of this World.' (John 18:36) NO, BUT JUST AS JESUS WAS "IN, BUT NOT OF", THE WORLD, SO IS HIS KINGDOM IN THIS EARTH, BUT NOT "OF" IT. That simply means that his kingdom proceeds from heaven and God, not earth and man. Thus, Jesus rules, all right - but his manner of ruling is from the inside out, from the heart, to the words, the acts, the ways. And it all starts with getting the beam out of your eye, Mr. Obama, and ceasing to try to fix your neighbor's way of seeing things - the speck in his eye. That was something I could understand, and adopt, when I was 12.
The KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH IS RULED BY GOD, NOT OBAMA
The Bible is the story of the deliverance of mankind from evil, and the deliverance of man from his own depravity, by the great salvation of God, drawing unto himself those that are willing to be One in God, joining in his goodness, and serving his purpose for their life - in gladness, according to the good news, spread unto all nations: that the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom into which persons enter, being born again in the anointed spirit of Christ. Now this spiritual rebirth that supplies all needs and satisfies all desires by prospering believers in their souls so that they might work blessing in wealth and health and grace and God's glory for the benefit of the church, and through the Church, the world - through themselves and for others, for God's sake - this kingdom bears no relation whatsoever therefore to the program of "social justice" being blabbed by President Obama's advisers, with its enforced "charity", its usurpation of spiritual righteousness, and its denial of individual rights: the redistribution of wealth. Well - the relation it bears, is, that of the true, to its false pretender.
JESUS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED LIBERTY AND EQUALITY: FOLLOW HIM
For I have absolutely and utterly no doubt, that if God's word were followed to the dot of the i and the cross of the t, in spirit and in truth, this world would be heavenly and no government at all might ever be needed other than God's governing conscience and his Holy Ghost, his very spirit, within every soul. I realized that amazing truth, many years ago when I read the Torah for the first time as an adult, and exclaimed great surprise at its perfection, saying that if these laws and commands were followed, these precepts and principles believed, society would be very well off indeed, everywhere, and always, and understanding, in good time, that all the good sense that ever existed on earth, proceeded from these words. And it is neither impossible nor even difficult to prove these things to one's complete satisfaction.
The Word of God is worthy to know. So that the seemingly harsh provisions found therein would not, in contrast to nuclear holocausts and genocides, be seen as undue preventives. And so forth - seeing that God knew more than I, for sure, forever! Seeing, now, upon looking into what has been called 'progressive' Christianity, that it arose in response to the lies of Darwin and philosophies spawned by doubt, cynicism, false reasoning, denial of love. That kind of betrayal of the church is a travesty of Christianity. It shows how darkened is our dear Church, our body of believers, that this iniquitous "progressivist" version of Christianity should have been allowed to grow, and to intimidate Christians, for over a hundred years now - and that its latest froward grab at our nation's vitals should draw no protest: no loud voice of defense - let alone the outrage or fury such as Muslims claim to feel when their human leader who refused to be called god is treated as less than a god by non-muslims.
TRUE CHANGE IS REPENTENCE : REPENTENCE IS LETTING GO OF SIN AND ERROR
You can't change your ways without first changing your "core" beliefs. Call the values a person holds, the fruit of those beliefs that form your core. To "change" America for the better, change its core values and its core beliefs: stop pretending and be true. That is a change above all change. You desire to change your ways? Then you will need changed beliefs: truth, not lies; fear of the Lord, not terror. Then, with the passing of time, new values, different ones from before, will appear, evidencing the changed beliefs within the core of you: your heart. Of course, you'll need to abandon the denial of our history, our founding truths, our core principles and faith.
CHANGING THE CORE BELIEF IS THE FREE WILL RIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL
The first and prime point is this: permanent and essential change proceeds outward from within, not inward from without. Of course influence, force, inducement, do not alter the course of the heart's choice and its destiny. They merely bend them or cause a backward walk or turn persons inward by perversion. The second equally prime point is this: true, essential, permanent change, effectuated by the action of new beliefs, can only be the outward-proceeding action of a higher spirit grown into new life in the new ground of the cleansed heart: the Word, sown by the Holy Spirit - God, planting the Truth - Himself - in the soul's being.
JON VOIGHT AND THE RUNAWAY TRAIN
Two months before the MarchMarch I'd watched the movie, Runaway Train, in which Jon Voight stars. So then, when Mr. Voight came onto the platform down there in Washington, D.C. and spoke into the microphone to the throng that filled the green in front of the Capitol to the brim, we heard him tell us that Mr. Obama is suffering a compulsion and can't stop himself: he said, "He's like a runaway train." He may be, or he may be merely its figurehead, unaware that he is being used by forces far more sinister than his own seething angers that make him the chief pawn of an evil design to destroy America.
OBSESSION IS THE INABILITY TO CHANGE AND COMPULSION IS FIXATED WILL
I knew his metaphor had deep meaning for him: as a character in the movie, Runaway Train, Jon Voight offered an interpretation of towering sacrifice - a human heroism in responding to the meaning of this figure of inhuman obsession: a driving, thundering immensely powerful engine of destruction, out of control - berserk - unstoppable by any heroism - and headed for complete annihilation. Very threatening. Like a personification of impersonality: the very force of evil. Seemingly, no engineer in sight. All, computerized. Inhuman. This is a movie not to miss. See how righteousness of spirit in flesh and blood stops a titanic train.
Let us not miss the meaning, either, that the character played by Jon Voight is not the train, although, as he rides upon its nose, it seems that his passion outmatches the strength of the engine. It's a figure of diverting the force of evil into its own path of destruction, riding it into a mountain. The opposite, by the way, of a suicide bomber.
INVERTED DESIRE IS DEATH TO WILL AND KILLS FREEDOM
There was no stopping the runaway train. Its own mass was an inverted inertia ever incrementally accelerating and drawing a great quantity of cars behind its front three diesel engines - a black hole like a bowling ball hurtling impassive to an explosive wreck that was like a bomb of very large proportion. But instead of staging the great explosion, the movie's end shows images of the characters faces and the wrestling of their souls with death.
RIGHTEOUSNESS MAKES US FREE: TYRANNY CAN'T FORCE THE RIGHTEOUS
I think the idea is, this. Some things are so important, that having been right about them is the greater thing - an outweighing thing - that annihilates the negative effect, of the devastation of being defeated by those who were wrong about those things. I've found this to be true. Like all great movies, this one brings a truth home.
APPLY HERE
Well, here's the application. The bill is signed. Now, those of us who stood for right, are clearly standing in a victory that is spiritual. At this moment its fruit is unseen. But spring has only just begun and first come the blossoms, then the fruit. Faith seeds have been planted. The invisible nation of faith is growing out of the rock. Put your ear to the rock and hear the quiet rumble of the future being born. When our American Revolution occurred, it was the fruit of faith plantings, in the Great Awakening, forty years before it began. Remember that, and wait, holding faith in readiness.
Sing the praises of the Lord. God dwells in the praises of the righteous. His indwelling is power unspeakable that translates into life. Sing, praise God, grow power, be fruitful ground, and see what a good God is our Lord. Good things happen to those that love Him. Then let us love God in truth. He has a plan. He will use all this plagued people to create a new nation, a reborn America. We shall rid ourselves of false religion, tradition supplanting the Word of God, and the spirits that war against the truth. We shall be one nation. We shall live in love. The way we were made to do.
Now after these observations, I make some suggestions which I consider to be a very well thought out and valuable strategy given me by the Holy Ghost.
ATTENTION! LISTEN TO THE ROCK, NOT THE WAVES!
Know the objective and aim for it without forgetting it one minute. Know the enemy and account for its character: low, cheating, unscrupulous, malicious, envious, rebellious, wicked, etc., etc. Don't be disconcerted that you will hear your own objections and insights mirrored over there among the delusions. Some people are possessed of the truth but they steer by lies. Keep your eye on the leaders and their spirit.
THE WAR TO CONSERVE IDENTITY
They are mean, but the people I saw and travelled with on the bus are not mean, they are kind, intelligent, civilized, passionate people who don't know the ugliness of war. Yes, this is an enemy within, which is our supposed fellow citizens, our supposed brethren. And we saints, we who know we are sinners saved by a merciful God, we have to remember that there, but for the grace of God, go we....
And they are ready and determined to lay us flat and mow us down and roll over us. They have made their moves and taken their turn and shown their hand. They are determined to be skunks, weasels and rats. They have not done anything honorable, notable, memorable or wonderful. They have exerted the force of deception like true thieves. That's all they are. It would seem. Now it is our turn. Once again, what is really American will win the day. They will find out what that is, in the months and years to come. We are a free people, a faithful people, a strong people. We are not giving our nation up, we are not apologizing for it, and we are glad that God is correcting us, cleaning up our nation, separating goats and sheep, and preparing us to please Him.
THEREFORE. PATRIOTS' ALERT:
RED ALERT! RED, I say -
RED and MORE RED:
Do these three things, without delay, and do them well, after unifying, organizing, and taking aim. (There is a way to organize as one without reducing ourselves to a political party!)
FIRST OF ALL, NUMBER OUR FORCES. DO THIS BY ESTABLISHING A WEB SITE AT WHICH EVERY GROUP, EVERY PARTY, AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL WHO DESIRES TO STOP THIS ANTI-LIBERTY TRAIN REGISTERS - MAYBE IN SOME FANCY ANONYMOUS WAY - MAYBE IN SOME PLAIN AND OPEN WAY. GET THE NUMBERS. FOR NUMBERING ALL THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DESIRING TO KEEP AMERICA A FREE REPUBLIC WITH A FREE ECONOMY, AND COUNT OUR NUMBERS FOR STRENGTH, AND UNIFY. FOR, TRUE IT IS AND ALWAYS SHALL BE: UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.
UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN BE UNITED AS ONE BODY, BY THE HEART, EVEN WHEN WE HOLD DIFFERENT IDEAS AND OPINIONS, BY THE MIND. WE CAN UNITE TO STOP THE ANTI-LIBERTY TRAIN.
SECOND. PERFORM A TAX REVOLT. STOP ENABLING THEM. PUT ALL OUR DUE TAXES IN AN ESCROW PROPERLY TENDED OR DO WHATEVER WOULD SATISFY LEGAL REQUIREMENTS TO SHOW THAT WE HAVE SAVED OUR TAXES FOR PAYING THEM ONCE WE HAVE WON OUR CAUSE. MAKE A CLEAR AND PLAIN STATEMENT OF OUR REASON, OUR CAUSE, OUR MOTIVE, OUR SPIRIT, FOR OUR ACTION. THEN, LET THE NEWLY NUMBERED THRONG, 60 TO 80 PERCENT OF ALL U.S. CITIZENS, WITHHOLD OUR TAXES - IN A MOVEMENT IN WHICH I ENVISION LEGAL EXPERTS GUIDING US - AND NUMBERS EXPERTS STRATEGIZING THE ONGOING NEWS OF NUMBERS OF PROTESTERS AND NUMBERS OF DOLLARS WITHHELD. MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT BUSINESS. STOP IT COLD. WE HAVE THE POWER. IF WE CAN UNIFY, WE MUST HAVE THE GUTS.
THIRD. BOYCOTT ALL PROGRESSIVE AND LIBERAL CONCERNS: THEY HAVE ALREADY BOYCOTTED ALL OF US! BUSINESSES, SERVICES, MUSEUMS, CHURCHES, ALL PROGRESSIVE ENTITIES AND ENDEAVORS. SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM THEM COMPLETELY. FOSTER OUR OWN HELPS. LET THEM DISCOVER HOW THEY ABUSE US, HOW THEY NEED US, AND HOW THEY NEED TO RESPECT US ONCE AGAIN.
FOURTH. WHILE PREPARING TO DEFEAT THE PROGRESSIVES THAT HOPE TO DEFEAT US, HOPE AND PRAY FOR PEACE AND AGREEMENT, INSTEAD - IN CASE THEY SHOULD SEE THE LIGHT.
REMEMBER!
THESE THINGS CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY OUR UNIFYING IN THE POWER OF AGREEMENT.
THEREFORE, FORM A COMMITTEE OF LEADERS. Allow me to speak figuratively. Since our hallmark is individuality because we are grass, because we are individual patriots whose virtue and integrity is in our individual bladedness, then we must become a lawn of blades and a meadow of spears and a field of piercing words of faith, we must be a field for the action of Truth and we must let the Lord God rule as the wind runs through the grass and moves it all in the same direction without uprooting it.
'STRATERGIZE' TO WIN
Listen to Lincoln who quoted Jesus: Divided we fall, United we Stand! We must unite. We must all unite under God. And we who love peace and prosperity, work and family and the common weal, must now be warlike and intend all our intending toward our winning. We must aim our focus at the object of winning as the first priority, realize that this is a war, and keep our focus entrained and engaged, there, on the winning track, and while being watchful of everything and every move of the enemy, forego to think about defeating the enemy, and forego to think that defeating the enemy is the way to win this: no, no energy shall go to defeating enemy, rather all energy shall go to winning the day.
The way to win is to think about winning instead of thinking about defeating the enemy. You may say, Oh, but defeating the enemy is winning, but I tell you, that is inferior aim: and not sharp enough, because we are dealing with a new kind of an enemy, more strategically self-destructive than all previous enemies, all too willing to be defeated, in order to distract us from winning, and get us out of 'the place and the thought that is where and how winning will happen'. Do you see this? This is a self-killing enemy that calls for a new strategy. Don't think about defeating him. God will do that. Think about winning.
LOOK UP!
It may be that the only solid rock around is the Truth: and that THE HIGHER GROUND is the ceiling of that cave of truth! It may be that the only way to win will be to be invincible, such that our invincibility wins the enemy, by overwhelming his logic and winning his assent, mesmerizing him by superiority, rather than by destroying him. To be invincible we must be something we have resisted: "in Christ" - that's, inside the name of God, the anointing name: for Immanuel means "God with you" - if you don't know God yet, think of crawling inside the truth itself, as, into a cave within the Rock. We must all get together in the truth.
THE INVISIBLE AUDIBLE NATION OF TRUTH
We must join in the power of agreement, joined as One, in the cave of truth. Try this humble metaphor. Like the millions of bats that hang on the cave walls upside down (maybe because they have their feet planted in heaven?), bats that see by hearing - see in the dark by sounding the lay of the land - bats that are mammals with wings! - that all fly together! and when they come back into the cave by the millions, each one goes to his or her precise crag, and each baby goes to its precise parent bat. [We can extend this figure of speech, with thoughts of Batman, and of the bat in which Dracula enters homes.] God made the bat for a good purpose, to teach us how to be the invisible audible nation of truth - to show us that now, we need to get together, in agreement, in the truth, by the many, many millions, under one banner, to free America from this stealth coup, this tawdry takeover, this unAmerican and illegal "regime".
WE ARE NOT A PARTY, WE ARE AMERICA!
We must We must We must! know our numbers, our strength, our instructions, our tasks, our objectives, our shared goals, our platform, our frame, our form. We must know who and what we are and be undivided, undiverted, and almighty-determined. We can only do these things with God's leadership, God's blessing, and God's grace. People who aren't convinced of that survival imperative, might recognize the power of agreement, causeing us to need to 'fall in line' by the logic of the general good, or stand aside for safety, because no individual can defeat principalities and powers of darkness no matter how ignorant (fearless) he is, all by himself. We need the power that is created by agreement. It is protection and wisdom.
Our twin-headed enemy is attempting to mesmerize and terrorize - silence and seduce - employing all the tactics of ancient sorcery.
But we have the higher logic. We have a book that tells the truth in love, telling it in the spirit of truth.
Their book tells them to behead their enemy.
WHOSE HEAD?
Whether they do it by sword or by hypnosis, they claim a god which commands - AND demands - that they behead the enemy that refuses to join them :he' wrote this, folks - these are MOHAMMED'S words. But our book tells us to give these beheading heathen a new head: the mind of Christ, which is the logic that loves the enemy, knowing that God rules and will bless the higher head which loves life and does not hate nor despise life and which values life and despises death.
God is not pleased when the wicked rule. God will favor with victory those who cry out to him and obey him and God will hear the prayers of those who read his Book and follow His Way. (PSALM 37) Agreeing with the Almighty is not only wise and righteous: it is delightful and He will give you the desires of your heart if you delight in Him. What's to worry? What's to run from this? I don't get it. I'm glad to have a new head.
HOW TO GIVE PROGRESSIVE LIBERALS A NEW HEAD. It won't be easy. You can ask yourself what Jesus wants us to do, precisely, to love our enemies, in order to catch ahold of the larger logic he has in mind for us all. Isn't education and civilization itself, the gift of a new head, to the natural mind of man? Certainly the Bible teaches us that our Lord desires us to renew our minds daily, edifying - building up - the new mind in Christ Jesus. The question becomes, then, how to gain the attention and cooperation of those whose heads have been turned, twisted, and bent. Without their beheading us first. And this enemy is, in nearer cases, blood family. Truthfully, blinklessly, the Muslim too is human family.
Truly the harvest is ready and the workers are few. We have spouses, sisters, brothers, children and parents needing help out of the mind-traps of terrorism and the deceptions of pride and lust - drugs, and Kool-Aid, evolution and the brotherhood of man. We Christians have our 'older brothers' the Jews, and Muslims, and then we have others, Hindi and Buddhists and all the rest - all of these need to be given the truth. The whole of humanity is at enmity with God and the whole of our natural kind are our natural family, from Noah, from Adam. And if we love God then we will love them, hard as that is, by attempting to give them that new head that lifted us out of the natural and into the supernatural life of God. There, adopted into the heavenly family, we are one.
Thus we who have been adopted into the family of God - we know who our true family is. Those who refuse God cannot claim to be his sons. Even so, this natural family is the world that God so loves. If he died to save it, we should live to save it. For we live in his death and die in his life and that's one of those beautiful mysteries of splendid majesty that are beyond the usual understanding and sense of life. I can tell you this. Nothing in the natural life compares with the joy of living God's life. The practice of mysticism is not the retreat from reality but a mirror into heaven's higher meanings reflected here on earth.
THE RIGHT WAR FOR THE RIGHT PURPOSE
So we learn to know that we need to help, even by warring for the right thing. Not because the world is a village and everybody is everybody's mother and father. No. But in the infinitude of orderliness that makes for the eternity of beauty which flows from the Godhead, are the grains of mystery which get everything into its proper place, when his voice may be heard freely. It is a matter of listening, and choosing to obey. Then the one whose left leg is ball-and-chained to our right leg might be saved and that would be good, no matter what bad it was that he intended to do to us and to God and to himself. Drugs well teach us the nature of depravity, that it counts the individual body as a kind of soulless heaven without need of God, when the actual truth is, that without the grace of holiness, it is only a conscious clay,
We who have been brought to the brink of ultimata and beyond know that the right choices are life-granting and restorative, rather than destructive. Among those who love and hate, there must be separation of thought and mind and heart and soul from co-dependents - there must be distancing from the marriage of unlikes - and there must be disabling of the obsessive-compulsive complex. And this must be done without physical separation, war, or hostile conflict. It doesn't need to be cruel but it will hurt. It shouldn't aim to harm but damage will occur. The right and better purpose is all, at this point, that we have left to us: for they have seized the power and the venues of it almost entirely. But that higher purpose is the best weapon of all. The right spirit informs the right purpose and the right purpose wins. (Caution: impatience and doubt spoil it. But when God wills it, sanctification succeeds.)
DOCTRINAL SUPERIORITY BUILDS MORAL SUPERIORITY BUILDS STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY
Doctrinal superiority wins the day. Whose "god" is stronger? When does hate win over love? It has happened, when love's guardians lost the knowledge of who they were, and forsook wisdom for sentiment and mistook naivety for kindness. Be on guard for God's sake. Review your identity, your documents of liberty.
The logic goes like this. I have the moral superiority because I am for you (who have identified yourself as my enemy). I am for your rescue and our restored unity. You are not for me, you are for you. My victory is our victory. Your victory is our loss - yours as well as mine. That is why I win, without firing a shot, yelling a shout, or thinking a thought. Your logic drives you into actions that lose the day because they are morally low choices - self-centered ones directed by scorn and other inattentions. My logic serves unto me the actions that will win the day because they are the choices of love.
LOVING THE ENEMY: WINNING HIM AND WINNING THE REPUBLIC
Love says to the drug addict, the alcoholic, the verbal abuser, the power tyrant: you don't know what you're doing. So I withdraw funding. No gas for you. I withdraw help. I withdraw companionship, approval, enablement. I put respect for you in a carefully guarded place where I can conserve it. I separate you in my mind from your wrongdoing, your error, your behavior, your harm of me. I separate you from your sin and I condemn your sin. All because I love you - I know it is these things that will open the way for you to be liberated from the spirit of bondage. It is love, alone, that can conceive that not giving is a way of giving. Love is not fixated on details, specifics, materials, matters, except as they figure in this plan to liberate the prisoner who has adopted a completely indiscriminate logic, of "whatever it takes". The Republic must be rid of this poison, it brings with it a sickness unto death.
A MUTUAL AND CIVIL SUBMISSION TO OUR CONSTITUTION AND ITS RESTORATION
Don't think this is simple or easy. However, it is the only way, unless you want to break out the war ways and let all hell loose. This is not sentimental. This is long-viewing. They must be forced (made to see their way) into a mutual and civil submission to our Constitution. If they can't take our Constitution, then they are not Americans. Take away their citizenship and tell them to get lost. Oh how sad. Let that not be. Do everything in your power not to antagonize, not to react, not to enjoin their wickedness. Keep separate, keep in prayer, let God take charge.
TAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS
Amen and Amen. Number the troops. Withdraw their funding. Separate. Hope for peace. Get ready to praise God and catch them when they fall. And keep from being the one who starts It. (That's trouble with a capital T.) Be not the instrument of destruction, but of deliverance.
A WAR OF SPIRITS
I offer these comments as strategies certain to gain us the long-term victory. This is a war of spirits, they are struggling in a conflict over which economic theory, which social form and which governing body of law shall be man's raft in the coming years of turmoil. Head for the solid rock - reach for the higher ground, the ceiling of truth - turn the world upside down by faith in God - I thank our God Jehovah that the victory is his!
"The Third Tea: a Colloquy Within the American Soul"
THE THIRD TEA: ("HOLD ON, KIDS - STAY RIGHT THERE - IN A COUPLE DECADES WE'LL PICK YOU UP")
The First TEA is the call to wear the United States Constitution on Tea-Shirts. My offer stands ready for deployment: to design and market TeaShirts. More about that is found on the TeaShirt page of this website along with the introduction of the Second Tea. You can find the TeaShirt Page on the Navigation Menu, located on every page of this TeaTime web site, above the page "Heading", which is the picture of trees that I call "The Way".
The Second TEA is the call for a nationally televised, yearly competition offering valuable prizes for the recital by memory - on air - of the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the other great documents that form our country's foundation. Some great prizes of different value, might be: trips to historical places; valuable historical editions of American classics....one year's tuition for a great college like Hillsdale ....a recital before the Congress....a guest research position or visiting internship with a senator for 12 weeks...
The Third TEA is described in the following essay entitled "HOLD ON, KIDS - STAY RIGHT THERE - IN A COUPLE DECADES WE'LL PICK YOU UP", that takes the form of a citizen colloquy and convocation: this TEA is the call for a constitutional amendment protecting explicitly and permanently the freedom of our education practices and systems and philosophies from influence, direction or funding by the federal government or foreign entities, making it illegal for any agency whether a private, public or federal entity, other than the state or the local municipality, to dictate or to determine any or all educational matters: so that a clear separation is maintained between our schools and our federal government and any other entity other than these 50 states and their municipalities and their presiding parents, in order to ensure freedom of thought as an established, given and constitutional right, in tandem with guaranteeing the legal rights of children to seek without hindrance to develop the free and independent will and informed and edified minds which make a faithful citizenry productive and which secure a republican democracy as feasible, effectual and powerful.
Let the states, the municipalities and the parents control their children's education. Let there be no "cradle to grave" mind-control through State indoctrination in the way of totalitarian and authoritarian States, and let there be no ideological rewriting of textbooks, nor the reshaping of curriculi by ideologues. This is a good TEA. I present it in the form of a conversation within America's soul. I pray and hope that many will like it and take this Tea with me.
WE NEED TO BEGIN A MOVEMENT TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION. WELL OF COURSE: YES, WE DO!
THAT'S SO DRASTIC. WHY? CALM DOWN! WHAT'S THE MATTER?
THE OBAMITES AND PROGRESSIVISTAS HAVE MADE THE MOVE ON DAY CARE.
DAY CARE? WHA...? OR SHOULD THAT BE, "SO WHAT?"
YOU KNOW THAT "WALL" PROTECTING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION FROM INTRUSIONS UPON EACH OTHER'S PRACTICES AND PROVINCES?
Yup. ...Is that the First Amendment? Yup.
WE NEED A NEW WALL TO SEPARATE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION. Hey, yeah.
Nah. We already have the Constitution - but no, it's not being heeded - let's protect education specially.
GOOD IDEA, YES, WE DO. WE OUGHT TO DO IT. ADD IT TO THE LIST. HELL YEAH.
But wait: patience, prudence, it's a really complex issue and there are a lot of obstacles...
Yes, I agree too: sotto, sotto, calm down: you know, there's all the difficulties. You know, all the problems. It'll take time, patience and lots of blah blah too.
SO IT'S, "HOLD ON, KIDS - STAY RIGHT THERE - IN A COUPLE DECADES WE'LL PICK YOU UP".......?
Silence. Awe. This will take higher powers than human ones. Or else, we could stage a national protest.
NO! No, No! WE DON'T PUT CHILDREN ON HOLD. THEY CAN'T WAIT. THEY'RE GROWING UP!
So we agree: WE MUST DO THIS FIRST, WE MUST GET THE FEDERAL GOV'T OUT OF THE SCHOOLS AND NURSERIES NOW AND RETURN EDUCATION TO THE STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES NOW.
YES, WE MUST MUST MUST RESCUE OUR CHILDREN FROM THIS ENCROACHING DEVOURING BEAST...
- before we all go to sleep and don't care?
AND IN DOING SO WE WILL RESCUE THE REPUBLIC TOO.
I like that. It sounds like that's the good news. In disguise. It all goes together.
I SEE. THEY ARE BUILDING A LOCKTIGHT POPULATION CONTROL BIRTH-TO-DEATH MACHINE.
YES. I SEE THAT NOW. THEY NEED OUR CHILDREN. For votes, you know.
EDUCATION MUST, MUST, MUST BE PROTECTED FROM PROPAGANDA, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS.
You're right - I don't want my children confiscated along with my property. I want to keep my children. I wanted my property and my job too, but you know, what can you do? But this? This is over the top. Without my children, I have no future, no heart, no care, no purpose.... THIS IS FLESH OF MY FLESH, BONE OF MY BONE, SPIRIT OF MY SPIRIT. THIS IS KIDNAPPING IN SLOW MOTION.
Pause. How could we have been such fools? We were too trusting. Yes.
Soooo. Let's not get on their case for their obaminanitous naivity when we ourselves dropped the torch.
Right. That would be a dis traction. And we need traction.
And humility is traction.
Really?
Yep.
Okay.
So here's the clear course. Get the map. Set the compass by the priorities.
First things first: children are this nation's future. Education is ours to give them.
EDUCATION IS OURS, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S. IT'S OUR PROPERTY!
We need to talk with them. right away, tell them GIVE IT BACK. WE WANT IT BACK NOW. AND WE'LL TAKE IT BACK IF YOU REFUSE TO GIVE IT TO US. IT IS OURS BY GOD'S RIGHT.
You're right. And truth to tell: we never gave it to them,
they took it away in their sneaky "Let me help you" lying stinking way.
FOLKS, LISTEN: GATHER, DECIDE, MOVE FAST. Remember these sacred words, our starting point:
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The first and last unalienable right that gives meaning to the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, is THE RIGHT TO KNOW OUR RIGHTS, TO KNOW THEY ARE GOD'S GIFTS AND TO EXERCISE INDEPENDENCE FROM WHAT DESTROYS THEM. WITHOUT INDEPENDENCE OF MIND FROM ERROR, IGNORANCE AND DECEPTION, WE CAN'T EXERCISE LIBERTY AT ALL - INDEPENDENCE FROM MIND CONTROL IS THE RIGHT THAT makes all the other RIGHTS make sense - WE MUST HAVE freedom from mind control! This freedom is the Light of Life.
IT"S TRUE, WHAT YOU SAY. WE ARE LOST IF WE BACK AWAY FROM THE GREAT WORDS OF TRUTH, IF WE RENOUNCE LIVING UNDER GOD, STANDING FOR TRUTH, PROTECTING OUR CREATOR'S GIFT OF RIGHTS, AND WE'RE SUNK, IF WE IGNORE OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, AND IF WE ABANDON OUR FOREFATHERS' DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, WHAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA ARE WE? MOREOVER WE SHALL BE WORTHLESS AND WITHOUT GOD'S PROTECTION IF WE FORSWEAR THE UNITY OF "ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL."
Unity! Brother, how can we unify with what desecrates the Constitution and defiles the culture and reviles We the People? Are they our brothers and sisters? How can we deal with them?
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged. Proverbs 16:6
What can turn them around and change their minds?
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul. Psalm 19:7
This is mountain-moving time. This is pray-for-your-enemy time. We've got to desire to heal those who would be healed and commend the rest to the LORD. His is the battle, His the victory.
Okay that's settled. Now to the field.
WELL! LOOK UP. STAND UP. LOOK TO THE HIGHER POWER FOR HELP. TAKE THE STEP OF FAITH AND HE WILL FIGHT THE BATTLE FOR US. HE SAYS HE WILL. HISTORY SHOWS HE DOES THIS.
BUT SOME PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE... THEY ARE OFFENDED BY THE FAITH THAT ESTABLISHED AMERICA. WHAT ABOUT THEM?
Yes, they draw back from us when we speak of God. They say, We like the rights, the prosperity, the peace - but we don't desire Him and we don't want to hear you speak of Him.
They have been blinded by deception. For every true and good thing there is an imposter and a pretender. They have believed that all religion is bad. Is faith bad? JudeoChristianity is a faith - it goes against fear, it is the only mercy on earth. It is maligned - therefore we should join the maligners?
IF THEY ARE AGAINST GOD'S HELP, WHAT CAN WE SAY? WE DO NOT THESE THINGS TO PLEASE. WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT. THE BLIND FEAR. BUT WE SEE. Commend them to God.
THEN WE MUST DO THIS.
SEE THIS: UNDERSTAND THE MOVEMENT TO PROTECT CHILDREN AND EDUCATION THIS WAY:
LET IT BE THE GREAT BIG LOCOMOTOVE ENGINE PULLING AN ENTIRE TRAIN OF REFORMATION AND RECLAMATION!!
SO IF WE RISE UP SWIFT AND SHAKE LIKE THUNDER, ALL THE REST OF THE RESTORATION WILL FOLLOW NATURALLY OUT OF THIS?
YES! THIS IS THE LYNCHPIN TO GET THE MOVEMENT GOING. THIS IS THE PEG THAT HOLDS THE WHEEL ON THE AXEL. THIS IS THE UNQUESTIONABLY RIGHT FIRST FRONT. AND IF WE DO IT FOR GOD WE WILL SUCCEED.
WELL, yuh, you're right but it's hard to see. It takes a lot of knowing and seeing.
LISTEN TO ME, PLEASE! KINDERGARTENS WERE INVENTED BY NAPOLEON TO BRAINWASH AND CONTROL THE POPULATION.
Silence for a while.
READ ABOUT IT. IT'S PLAIN HISTORY.
It's true?
THE LEFT HAS ALREADY TAKEN THE UNIVERSITIES, THE COLLEGES, THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (along with the media and the courts) AND MADE THEM INTO mind-shaping TOOLS FOR PROPAGATING PROGRESSIVE THOUGHT. (dot, dot, disconnect the dot)
THAT MUST BE REVERSED. A.S.A.P.
And here is the way at hand. I'm telling you. A Constitutional amendment.
I didn't want any amendments. I thought, that'll just give the left a way to change the whole Constitution, or at least to challenge some crucial part - they want to do that. Obama says the Constitution needs correcting. But the way things are going, the Constitution will only be paper.
What about you Constitutional scholars and strategists: if you know of another way - a state by state stand - a less drastic, less risky, surefire way, that doesn't take decades, shoot the idea on out here, let's hear about it right off the bat - otherwise, it's gotta be an amendment to our beloved Constitution. After all, if they keep it up, the Constitution will become of no effect anyway. Except to us who know its power.
Wow.
(Is that an honest-to-goodness real and true American word? Nope, it's as Scottish as skullduggery - and that's "the art of luring the mind" that we've almost forgotten and that we need now to outwit stealthy enemies. But we Americans made Wow into a noun and a verb, and using it as an interjection we've made a new American art, the art of wonder.)
So anyway. It's a Constitutional Amendment, then, is it?
Listen here. The theft of truth is serious business. It starts with silence and it ends with death.
You're right. And unnamed unprosecuted crimes against the soul are still crimes against the soul.
THEY HAVE CREATED A POPULATION OF YOUTH WHO KNOW NOTHING OF LIBERTY AND U.S. HISTORY! WHO THINK THE CONSTITUTION IS "FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED" (Obama's words) AND IS STILL EVOLVING.
They have defiled our population with their mind control dumbing down millions.
Let's kneel and pray. Father we thank Thee for helping us.... We receive Thy help. Open the eyes of the blind, awaken our great nation, let us turn to Thee for Thou has said
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. (Proverbs 16:3)
A quieter tone prevails and thoughts deepen.
NOW ARE WE COME TO THE LINE IN THE SAND. THEY WANT THE BABIES AT 6 MONTHS OF AGE.
One speaks.
HEAR ME, PEOPLE: I OPERATED A CERTIFIED DAY CARE CENTER, FOR TEN YEARS. I KNOW MORE THAN A LITTLE ABOUT THIS. LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU WILL, PLEASE: large day care centers can't have sofas, pillows, cuddly stuffed animals, blankies, and other soft cuddling things because of germs. And that's only the smallest consideration. The main thing is the brain washing, the mind molding. Hear me now:
ONLY AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS AND TYRANNIES OPERATE STATE DAY CARE FACILITIES.
DON'T GIVE ME BULL**** ABOUT SIZE MATTERS AND FEDERAL AID AND STANDARDIZATION.
I suppose that stuff about testing and 'no child left behind' sounded reasonable enough, when progressivistas were still in the closet. But not now. NO MORE.
We won't - that's "we will not" - tolerate standardized Leftist, state-sponsored brainwashing - paid for by US!!!!!. We, who have independent-thinking, free-choosing minds and wills, are not stoopid. It's like asking the people to stand near their graves before they shot them. "
You mean, "Help us bury you!" Yeah. Yuh. Yup. Yes. We get it.
DAY CARE AND ALL EDUCATION MUST BE CONTROLLED AND OPERATED AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.
BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. NO COMPROMISE. IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN ACT NOW.
Glad to hear tell about this and thanks for getting us going. The more I look into this, I THINK FEDERAL DAY CARE PROGRAMS ARE THE NEXT WHAMMY IN THE REVOLVING NIGHTMARE.
That's right.
NOT ONLY SHOULD WE TAKE CONTROL BEFORE THEY CONFISCATE OUR CHILDREN FROM US
BUT ALSO WE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY OBJECT TO ANY SUCH NEW BEHEMOTH BUREAUCRACY.
I'M TELLING YOU, SHE'S RIGHT: THIS IS THE RUBICON - THEY'RE GOING AFTER THE BABIES THEY ALLOW TO LIVE. "The ones they allow to live." Do you hear that? What is this? It's insane.
YES, YES. SOUND THE ALARM BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BE STOPPED COLD AND DEFEATED.
They can't stop themselves. They are out of control. The responsible thing to do is to stop them.
This is true, this is true.
Silence. Pondering. Humility growing. Commitment glowing.
WE'LL DO THIS FOR THE BABIES, WE'LL DO IT, AMERICA, WE WILL AMEND THE CONSTITUTION,
Yes we will.
"WE WILL" LIGHT THE FIRES OF PASSIONATE LIFE AND DEATH COMMITMENT BECAUSE NOW WE ARE ABLE TO SEE - An Education Amendment IS NOW NECESSARY !
Yes. We understand that it is necessary, BECAUSE WE FACE A MURDEROUS SPIRIT
THAT IS WILLING NOT ONLY TO STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY, BUT EVEN TO KIDNAP.
AND HEAR THIS my dears: WE CAN BE GLAD OF SO FUNDAMENTAL AN ISSUE AS OUR BABIES' MINDS. WELCOME IT! Because their overreach will move us to recapture education from their grasp.
So then, this is a good necessity! a blessing in disguise! a clear way through the oncoming blast!
WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE RELINQUISHED CONTROL OVER OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, NOW "WE WILL" SEIZE IT BACK AND WE NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT, WE HAVE THE POWER. GOD IS ON OUR SIDE. PRAY ON YOUR KNEES. TELL EVERYONE TO BELIEVE. FAITH WILL MAKE THIS HAPPEN. WATCH AMERICA LIGHT UP SHORE TO SHORE UNTIL THIS BECOMES INEVITABLE.
Ahem. Excuse me. There might be some compromises that would avoid confrontations.
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU THINK THERE MIGHT BE REASONABLE COMPROMISES ABOUT THIS -
YOU ARE WRONG. IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HAVE NO SCHOOL, THAN THIS AND WHAT'S COMING.
You're right and he's wrong and here's why. Let me speak up. I teach literature. History and literature are more than entertaining, they teach us things that can't be learned any other way. Now, I can tell you this.
IN "BRAVE NEW WORLD", BABIES WERE ENGINEERED BY THE STATE BEFORE THEIR BIRTH .
Ahem. Excuse me. I think maybe you all are rightwingnuts. That's not happening here of course!...Is it?
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. They drink the KoolAid of OneWorldGovernment - we drink TEA. We're waking up. We are shocked and sad to see what our tolerance, our kindness, our generosity, and our neglect of national preservation, have allowed. We are repentant and filled with hope because of Grace. But the Professoriate is poisoned already. They silence debate, they give lower grades to students who disagree with their politics - they have politicized education! They've denounced reason and absolute truth. They embrace chance (evolution) and audacity (obamolution), flaunting their disregard for the fear of the LORD. Many of them are deranged of mind. They operate an internecine terrorism of spirit in the halls of American academia.
They're rewriting history and science, they've thrown out the canon of great literature, there are White Studies departments in 10 or more universities and yes, it's all about hating whites... In North Carolina, American history starts at 1877 (when progressivism starts); the Texas State Board of Ed is revising its textbooks to replacing the term "American" with "Global Citizen;" now the administration is moving for the federal takeover of day care; they've already moved truth and faith out of the schools decades ago and the parents are long gone.... They hand out condoms, teach the 3rd graders that sex is good for them - with each other or with adults! - and give them abortions without their parents' knowledge. Planned Parenthood works "hand in hand" with the Professoriate. Our teachers are promoting one world globalism and the guilt of the USA. They teach children lies, contradicting the Second Law of Thermodynamics, saying that Nothing exploded and in time, here we are... accidents of evolution, not creatures of God. They repress the truth and they silence the good science that disproves evolution and global warming. They've ended open-mindedness, dialogue, discourse, debate and objectivity, and logic confounds them because it is not relative. They're using the schools to promote gay marriage, abortion and global warming. My granddaughter went through a year of school,in which every nationality, religion and ethnic group represented by her classmates was celebrated, except hers - the white, the Jewish, the Irish, the Christian, the American. No, the wingnuts are all on the left, screwing into eternal hell. Figure it out. A new religion called secular humanism has taken over. It's just modern paganism - the worship of the flesh and the devil. Pagans, history shows us, use women and children murderously. They don't hesitate to lie and they believe that life itself is flawed and not sacred. They're wrecking America. Using our grace against us to establish their cult of personality and corruption in place of our patriotism and lawfulness. And using our wealth to finance their war against us.
NO, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM OF AN OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION, NOT AT ALL.
THE OBAMITES AND THE PROGRESSIVES HAVE ASKED FOR IT AND THEY'RE GONNA GET IT NOW.
MOTHERS OF AMERICA, UNITE! FATHERS OF AMERICA, UNITE! PEOPLE OF AMERICA, UNITE!
HAVE FAITH. AND GOD WILL HELP US NOW TO TAKE BACK AMERICA FOR OUR CHILDREN, FOR GOD. And you who shrink from God, who think you know what religion is: you've been deceived. God is love. God is a good god. He loves you as much as He loves me.
Let me say this to you. Seek the Truth.
THIS IS THE TIME, THE MOMENTUM IS RISING, THE VISION HAS ARRIVED, THE MISSION IS DEFINED. THERE WILL BE ENOUGH PEOPLE ACCROSS THIS LAND TO FORM THE COALITION NEEDED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. START COUNTING: THE PARENTS, CONSTITUTIONALISTS, CONSERVATIVES, LIBERTARIANS, TRUE LIBERALS, INDEPENDENTS, REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS WHO UNDERSTAND THIS EDUCATION ISSUE -
EVERYONE IS FOR IDENTITY PROTECTION, think, now: identity is more than I.D. cards, it's what and who a child understands he/she is - right? Protect our children's identity: it is their spirit's core truth.
AND ID PROTECTION INCLUDES SOUL FORMATION AND INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY AND PARENTAL RIGHTS especially THE RIGHT OF PARENTS to school their children's hearts. Politicized education is rotten. Our national security is at stake. This is the one to win, folks. Pardon my tone, I don't mean to frighten you, but we are attacked to the bone. SHALL WE DENY IT?
I'm glad to be the person voicing this call for a return to sanity and legality. I feel strongly that I am speaking a voice that is not mine - it is America's, it is yours and mine. I don't apologize for inviting reformation and reclamation and I feel very good about calling for a constitutional amendment for the benefit of all of us and especially our young 'uns and those not yet born and also, honoring our patriot ancestors and our fighting forces now on duty - join them, people, join history. WE ARE AMERICA.
So come on, folks, take up the drum beat, start the movement going, don't let them take day care, take it all back now. Hoping you found this 'dramatization' useful. Phebe Cooke-Pecs
Announcing!
New Cluster Essay: "Mind-Expansion" : Click the link at the top of this page in the navigation bar above the picture of the trees, to go to the page called "Taking Tea" and read this essay about what kind of change we Americans desire, and whether we shall be authors of the American mind, or not. There's a startling history already in place: "progressives" are in the final acts of "rewriting America" - but can they rewrite the rock America is built on - can they delete God and edit you and me?
Will You Have a Cup of Civilitea with me?
CIVILITY AND THE PRACTICE OF LIBERTY :
INTRODUCTION: Read and Think!
Is civility only possible in a democratic republic? Civility is a very great power and we so take it for granted that we assume it's exercised everywhere. I think not. Think about it. Is it true that civility is distinctly American? Civility is not good manners. Civility is not good breeding. Civility is not good taste. Civility is not good tradition, good custom or good convention. It's the practice of good will, person to person, to create a society ordered by goodness. It's what civilians do. Civilians operate the republic, by directing their leaders to fulfill their will according to the law and the Constitution. Republics work by the actions and ways of their civilian public. Republics have civilians. Monarchies have subjects. States have masses. Monarchies and states don't have civilians.
Civility and The Practice of Liberty: The Essay [Short Form]
Civility isn't just good manners. It's a heartfelt, soul-understood sense of, and practice of, the solidarity of the good fellowship that is formed by the citizenry of a democratic Republic. American civility is the very mark of our brand of democratic Republic. We don't brawl because we have recourse to the greatest institutions of public will, ever to exist. The power of the United States subsists greatly in this disciplined and good-mannered, cultured good will toward each other.
American civility characterizes all of our congressional business, all of our economic activity, all of our society. I can tell you for sure, that without our United States Constitution with its provision of our framework of agreement and law, we'd be citizens of another sort of country and where would our rights and privileges be, there? It's an honor to be a citizen here in this nation.
Among our current elected leaders a false idea of America's purpose and the reality that made America, a compromising belittling of our destiny, a cowardly perversion of the American character, holds, that we cannot abide by our Constitution. We have outgrown it, they think. It needs work, they claim. Well then, amend it. None of this subverting, smirking, scorning, of it – away with this stealth coup.
We can easily defend what is eternal and good. The traitor is the one with an indefensible case. The Constitution is founded upon Law – eternal truth - and it is good. What’s to improve? No, some people want to break the law, and so they seek to change the law so they won’t be found wrong. You might as well change the law of gravity so you won’t fall down when you stumble. A million lies will not alter the truth. Broken laws lead to broken lives, broken spirits, broken nations. Degeneracy is not the American will.
We are not fools when we resist inaction and insist upon doing truth. Fulfilling the American dream is more than a reengineering of comforts - it's the establishment and the perfection of a truthful life that can be shared in, for general well-being. We can call it a right - whether it's in the spirit of a protest or of active support, concerning a specific and actual cause, an idea, or a person. Yes, we have a right, to assemble, to join with each other, and join causes together, and make good things happen, and stop the bad things from happening. We can call it a right because the United States Constitution spells it out as one. But I can tell you that it feels to me like a privilege.
This civility is what life is about if you are not a slave, if you are blessed with a free heart. There is a reason for it - for knowing your neighbor. You, and your neighbor - your fellow - your...what else would you have him be? To have a neighbor, a fellow, someone with good will toward you - someone to trust, and to help if need be, who'll help you if need be - now this is the basis of the common weal, the shield against the estrangement and demeaning of one's humanity, of incivility.
You haven't fully lived the life you were born to live if you haven't tasted your freedom as a citizen of a free country. I say you haven't known what liberty is until you've exercised its higher privilege. What's this higher privilege of liberty? It's the exercise of civility. Today I enjoy spelling it civilitea.
To go and greet your fellows, campaigning for what you believe in, building heaven on earth with them, is a unique and gladsome thing. It gets your heart back upon what is most important. Put it this way: would you rather have the golden egg, or be the golden goose? Be good, be neighborly, be civil. Have a cup of civilitea with me and be glad that America is not the state, but its people. We drink a new drink: an American tea: a drink of sober, open-eyed joy. We like the truth and so we don’t live in fear.
We need to protect and preserve the greatest nation ever to exist on earth, the first nation founded under God - we need to wake up - and we need to do this now. With civility. For, to be American, is to be committed to lawfulness. To be American, is to live by the Constitution. To be American, is to be free to be civil and to choose civility over force, over deception, over cowardice, over death.
And if there is no way to do it with civility, then America is no more. And then it is time for a different cup of tea. And that’s a thought for another day.
09, 11-01
Thus endeth the short version. Bear with me as I learn as author and patriot, to exclude all but my point.
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Civility and The Practice of Liberty: The Essay [ORIGINAL, LEISURELY VERSION, Revised, with Paragraph Pointers, 09 11 04]
NEWNESS RENEWS YOUTH Today I did something for the first time. Did you know that the older you get, the better those words sound? When you're young, almost every day you do something for the first time. So, you sure feel young, doing something that you never did before, whatever age you've gotten to be! And that's a good thing. Time goes along and feeling young can become something you don't remember. Doing something new brings back being young - the not knowing, the learning, the going from unsteady to steady. And that's a good cup of tea indeed, this being young again!
FREEDOM BRINGS AWAKENING: THE PRIVILEGE OF CIVILITY But what I did today, now that was something even more really special than being young and new - it was, being free. I'm tempted to say, you haven't really lived, until you've had this cup of TEA! Say what? I'm saying, you haven't fully lived the life you were born to live if you haven't tasted your freedom as a citizen of a free country. I say you haven't known what liberty is until you've exercised its higher privilege. So, what did I do? What's this higher privilege of liberty? It's the exercise of civility.
THE EXERCISE OF CIVILITY PROTECTS AMERICA Well now, if you'll hear the great secret within, I'll tell you about what I did, according to what it meant upon reflection, because that's where the truth lies. What I did to exercise my higher privilege of being a citizen of the shining nation of liberty was, that I stepped out in my god-given, U.S.-backed freedom. I took a stand in the political arena. I politely declined to pay homage to what has been ironically termed "political correctness" : I stood up for what I believe to be right, with an act of civility. It was time to voice and to act my support for all the people who share my values, and my compassionate concern for those who don't - so I stood up for the United States Constitution, and I stood up with citizens all over this nation who believe that the United States is being ransacked wholesale in a stealth coup of our democratic Republic, by persons and movements not to be named here, who are trying to change it into a socialist governmental and economic system, along the lines of the new ashamed-of-America liberalism and according to a Progressivist vision that has not won a popular mandate and only got into office by a margin of under 3%. This is not the place to stack up the evidences with all the facts. I have seen all the facts I need to see, and I'll link to them from this site as time goes along. They are available for all to see.
BE A TRUE AMERICAN These are Americans, at least some of them are, and as citizens they enjoy the same rights as I do - but they are subverting my rights and the rights of all Americans by abusing the freedoms of our political process - and most of what they do is illegal, unconstitutional, and may I say, criminally unAmerican. Yes, I dare to say, that to be American, is to be committed to lawfulness. To be American, is to live by the Constitution. To be American, is to be free to be civil.
STAND UP AND THANK GOD FOR CIVIL LIBERTY I may not know exactly who is responsible for this blitz of illegality but I can tell a tree by its fruit and there's a lot of thievery going on, supplanting legitimate offices and powers with illegitimate ones, a lot of violating and exploitation going on, of both people and authorities, and I'm standing up with all the other good folks who believe in America to say we need to protect and preserve the greatest nation ever to exist on earth, the first nation founded under God - we need to wake up - and we need to do this now. I'm joining the good folks who have been taking this stand for some time now. And I'm thanking Jahweh God for answering my prayers, waking up America and reviving the Church - that is, the believers in the living God. I'm thanking our God and praising Him with all my heart, and all my soul, and all my mind, and all my strength, that the U. S. of A. is still a nation where we can worship God without restraint, without fear, and without shame.
CAMPAIGNING FOR PRINCIPLES Well, I went out and did something that people only do in countries that have been built on the foundation of liberty, like the United States of America - where the government was created in the form of a democratic Republic - where the citizens run the show and elect the public servants who go about doing the Citizenry's good will, to make the country a better place and get it all running smoothly, to everyone's satisfaction. This takes a special process known only in such countries - a process whereby people who may or may not agree with each other on more or less significant details, nonetheless exercise civility to agree in their principles, and create unity therein.
CIVILITY BUILDS UNITY Maybe we can hereby suggest a principle, a law of political process: that civility is the road to unity. I say, unfeigned unity. Civility isn't just good manners. It's a heartfelt, soul-understood sense of, and practice of, the solidarity of the good fellowship that is formed by the citizenry of a democratic Republic. American civility is the very mark of our brand of democratic Republic. We don't brawl because we have recourse to the greatest institutions of public will ever to exist. The power of the United States subsists greatly in this disciplined good-mannered, cultured good will toward each other, and of course anyone who is gifted with Bible literacy knows where it comes from and who to thank, for it. American civility characterizes all of our congressional business, all of our economic activity, all of our society. I can tell you for sure, that without our United States Constitution with its provision of our framework of agreement and law, we'd be citizens of another sort of country and where would our rights and privileges be, there? It's an honor to be a citizen here in this nation.
UNITY BUILDS PEACE, AND PEACE BUILDS PROSPERITY So it's a good and a great thing, that we have the means and the will, the constitution and the tradition, and the appetite and the understanding, to exercise our American civility to establish, and reestablish, and continue to exercise, a great and powerful unity, that permits all kinds of peace and prosperity. It's a unity that we fought the Civil War to preserve, after all. It's the boldest, bravest, best unity ever to be!
UNITY OF PRINCIPLES Now hold your horses, I didn't say uniformity - I said unity! And I can tell you that it feels like one of the best things I ever knew, to feel this unity at work among citizens that choose to be fellows instead of strangers. It's a power higher than all force - and something like light - because this unity is not about persons, it's about principles - it's about what is right - and I think we must therefore call it love. Because there is no greater power than that which is present when two or more agree. From agreement, in truth, with love, comes the power to make peace and prosperity real for every person. This is no mere dream. This has been done and its name is the United States of America. And we will never allow it to be undone. We will defend it with our lives, even as our brave and good soldiers and sailors and servicemen of every service protect our shores, our interests, our national substance and purpose.
CONNECT THE DOTS It may seem like a long way, from these high ideals, inked, blooded and believed, to walking a pavement with a sheaf of palm cards. But if we do not connect the dots in our own lines of action, what good will it do to connect the dots in our minds and know the scoop and to be able to discern the truth and not be fooled by deceptions? After all, if a fool is simply, he who has been fooled, then he who knows and does not act, is worse than a fool: he is a slave. The unconstitutionality of slavery is firmly established yet people continue to be enslaved to the foolishness which persists aided by pseudo science, false medicine and specious education. Even among our elected leaders a foolish, shrunken-headed idea of America's purpose, a compromising belittling of our destiny, a cowardly perversion of character, holds that we cannot abide by our Constitution. Treason in the highest halls of the land.
DO THE TRUTH We are not fools when we resist inaction and insist upon doing truth. Fulfilling the American dream is more than a reengineering of comforts - it's the establishment of a truthful life that can be shared in for general well-being. The cynics think lambs are fools. But an edified, cunning lamb with a serpent's mind and a dove's heart can do more than any cynic can even conceive, let alone do. He can do truth by practicing the wisdom schools don't know. It's free to learn, it's in Proverbs, but that book has been banned from the schools by the wise sophists, the know-it-alls that are spoiling our nation.
JOIN HEARTS, CHANGE YOURS So you go, to establish that civil agreement that springs from unity in the principle of love, and hope, and faith, and you wait outside a particular location where you're likely to meet a generally large number of folks going about their shopping and so forth - and you offer them information, and you offer them your hope that they'll consider your man, your woman, for office. You just decently and cheerfully give a simple invitation, and let them take it or leave it. Now, here you've done a civic act, the kind of act that makes this country run smoothly and gets the spirit of doing good into a running start - and now here you come, back to your private home, away from this public citizenry whom you've just met, and now, here you are a different person, for having met each one of them. And you remember some of them with glad gratitude, and you cherish their kind attention, remembering their searching eyes, their humble voices and their good will. You have joined hearts with fellow citizens.
DO GOOD WORK It's not a sale. It's not a preaching. It's the good work of meeting fellow citizens, telling them about a candidate who's running for a certain office, and telling them why you think he would be good.
A RIGHT THAT'S A PRIVILEGE I can tell you, it's just wonderful to do this. Especially when you have any firsthand knowledge of countries where citizens do not have this privilege. We can call it a right - whether it's in the spirit of a protest or of active support, concerning a specific and actual cause, an idea, or a person. Yes, we have a right, to assemble, to join with each other, and join causes together, and make good things happen, and stop the bad things from happening. We can call it a right because the United States Constitution spells it out as one. But I can tell you that it feels to me like a privilege.
AN AUDACIOUS INCIVILITY There were many people who were genuinely civil to me, today. I was really grateful for that. I enjoyed each person who was willing to give me ear for a short space of time. But there were those who don't know or care about this nation's greatness, the liberty in its heart, the civility in its soul. For these citizens, self comes first, and country comes last because they don't see the connection and how a nation is built out of good will and unity. These were the really rude ones. The very frightened people. The truly asleep. The ones that pretended they couldn't hear me, or even, spoke harshly and actually scornfully to me, walking by me without any concern whatsoever for the impact of their rudeness upon me. And now, here, I began to notice a pattern. The persons who were truly rude to us, who refused even to hear what we might wish to say to them, the ones who closed their eyes and ears and hastened past in a high-necked coat of scorn, were one and all, Democrats.
OBAMINANITY Now, there were a few civil Democrats. It's true. Not that they took the information from me. But a few did pause and listen to me and politely shake their heads and explain with a few murmers why they weren't interested: "No, I'm a Democrat." This was sufficient reason to dislike a candidate who would work to keep their taxes low, prevent their abuse by socialized medicine, and generally represent them well by cutting duplicate costs of bureaucracy. We are Democrats, we don't consider other ideas. Our ways are perfect, and yours are anathema. Obaminanity at any cost.
ZOMBIES ARE CLOSED-MINDED BECAUSE THEY ARE LIVING DEAD, NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOUND THE TRUTH AND CLOSED THE BOOK ON THE SUBJECT One fellow took the cake, to my way of thinking. He was on the young side - not yet married - and seemed to think he knew his mind very well. He had the issues so well organized in his mind, what he stood for and so forth. He came right out and asked - "Is the candidate pro-life or pro-choice?" Pro-Life, we said. At that, he allowed an expression of loathing to close his face as he returned the printed material to the table as if it were disgusting, and lifted his face away from us and spoke not a word as he marched off. My mouth dropped open but what could I say?
PRAY FOR THE LIVING DEAD First of all, it was good to respect everyone's right to their own opinion and this exercise was really refreshing for me. But privately, I wondered why he felt momentary hatred of pro-life supporters. For that was what I felt, brushing us off - a real hatred. So I'm cherishing this young man, particularly - because of how badly he needs to know the needs of the unborn to be protected by young men like himself - because of how poor he is, to hate people whose hearts are filled with the desire to be good to him - and because of how much he needs someone to pray for him. It may be, that no one ever prayed for him, before. That is what I call, a very special cup of tea: to change that reality.
SEEK THE TRUTH: BE MADE FREE INDEED So I pray for you, young man, that you might desire righteousness, and seek truth, for, he who seeks, finds. May you find that you are a candidate for God's blessing, and Amen to that!
THE FRANCHISE TO VOTE, THE CHOICE FOR GOOD WILL : LIBERTY'S FRUIT IS SWEET This is what life is about if you are not a slave, if you are blessed with a free heart. There is a reason for it - for knowing your neighbor. You, and your neighbor - your fellow - your...what else would you have him be? To have a neighbor, a fellow, someone with good will toward you - someone to trust, and to help if need be, who'll help you if need be - now this is the basis of the common weal. And to go and greet them, is a unique and gladsome thing.






