Apocalypse Wrong: “Same as it Ever Was, Same as it Ever Was”

Whoops! Wrong Again!

Now that we’ve survived the great apocalyptic event of 2012, I guess we can continue with life as usual: slave away at work to be apart of the machinery of this “great” nation, place our family and ourselves before everyone else, including God, wait for the government to, once again, be ineffective and go over the “fiscal cliff,” hold to our patriotism without ever once considering the pain, sorrow and agony we perpetrate on most of the rest of the world, and last but not least, go to our particular BRAND of Christianity (church) on Sunday, or at the least at Christmas and Easter, while still being completely ignorant of what we, in reality, believe about God, Jesus, the bible, why we are here and what comes after this life, if anything. Yes, now that the Mayan calendar has been set aside, as I’m sure it will be, we can get back to the American status-quo and live our self-involved lives until we die. Sounds like a plan, an old and tired plan.

On the subject of the Mayan calendar, for almost two years we heard that the world would end on December 21, 2012. And then, about three or four months ago, when the prognosticators of this myth had started to get nervous, we started hearing that the whole doomsday scenario was wrong and what would happen on the twenty first of December, instead, would be a “new era of mankind.” And now folks are buying into this scenario. Could it be that life has become so difficult, tedious and treacherous that most of humanity is seeking and hoping for an end to the earth as it is today, or a new era of man to begin so life isn’t so unbearable?

{On a side note, I find it more than amazing, and amusing, that the atheist left will fall for any ancient myth as long as it has nothing to do with the God of all things. For years now, I have heard atheist after atheist proclaim, “Apocalyptic predictions have been a part of every culture since man evolved from the chimpanzee,” in refuting the Christians’ claim of the end of this current world sometime in the near future. And yet, I have heard many of these same atheists, over the last couple of years, talking about the Mayan calendar, and its supposed predictions, as though it all could be taken to the bank. It seems more than odd to me how these atheists can be so inconsistent on what they spew out of their mouths as “reason.”}

As for me, I find that I no longer fit in this country or world: 1) I have no patriotism left in me and do not trust this government to do the right thing ever, I dislike capitalism as much as communism, 2) my family is dead and gone, 3) I am disabled and on a fixed income: I am a card-carrying (social security) member of the 47% of shiftless and irresponsible people in this country, 4) I have left Christianity and all it holds to, beyond, of course, God the Father and Creator.

1) As anyone should be able to discern, if they have read any of my posts on American politics and government, I am not a patriot, nor do I hold to the patriotic propaganda that most functionally-illiterate and devoid of curiosity and discernment Americans buy into lock, stock and barrel. Over the past sixty three years of life, I have been misled and lied to by this government many, many times (to numerous to count), so I no longer trust this government to do anything good or decent. Enough said.

2) I have no family left, so I no longer have to worry about them living in this country and world at this evil time in history. They are blessed to be gone. In particular, I am so thankful that my mother died when she did (2000), because she would have been constantly in fear all of the time, if she had been alive now. Everything, over the past decade-plus, has taken a nosedive in this country and the world, and I thank Father that she did not have to suffer through this time.

3) I am disabled. I am on social security disability, which I worked for and paid into for years. I am also, at the moment, on medicaid and food stamps. I am seeking to make enough money (no success yet) at home to be able to get rid of the food stamps. I hate taking food stamps, but $700.00 a month doesn’t go far, when you have rent, utilities, an old car, car insurance and gas, so food stamps have been necessary. Therefore, I make no apologies to Mitt Romney, or the corrupt rich bitches in congress who look down their elite and greed-driven noses at people like me. To be honest and exact, Mitt Romney and the republicans can go straight to hell: if only there were such a place for vermin like them! I am proud to be considered, by these low lifes, as part of the 47%! The 47% are my people, even if I don’t always agree with them.

4) Lastly, I have come to discern that Christianity, like all of man’s religions, including atheism, is nothing more than a contrived phantom, which was created some eighteen hundred years ago to meet the needs and desires of the wealthy and powerful few; the wealthy and powerful few who have always controlled and operated this world.

The love and life of God, which Jesus had exhibited in Jerusalem, would, over the next two to three centuries, be manipulatively fabricated into a false set of political/ideological rules and regulations to control all who were not, nor would ever be, in power: the treacherous and manipulative men who had accomplished this evil task named the rule book, “the word of god,” and the rules, “doctrines.” These men also set up a clergy/laity system that resembled most other pagan religions of that time: priests, bishops, cardinals and popes. The main tenets of this contrived institution (Christendom/Catholicism) were “sin,” “eternal punishment,” and the return of Jesus, sometime in the distant future, to set up a worldly kingdom that would rule the entire earth; and, of course, these religious and political men would be the chosen rulers over all of lesser mankind (the common believer, pagans and atheists).

Man-in-power has always desired to rule over his common brothers and sisters, whom he has always seen as being less than himself, depending, of course, on their race, language, culture and beliefs about life. In order to accomplish this, man-in-power had to create, first and foremost, distinctions between himself and the rest of humanity: differences of races, in skin color, customs and language gave man the tools to carry out his Godless endeavor.

From the beginning of humanity, whenever and however God brought us into existence (I am still not convinced by Genesis or evolutionists), man-in-power devised governments, politics and religion in order to control others, and man-in-power did this primarily by keeping the biggest portion of the rest of humanity in the dark: ignorance and superstition were key to the success of man-in-power ruling over “lesser” human beings.

The keepers of the “deeper mysteries,” the hierophants (the priests, bishops, cardinals, pastors, reverends and popes of today), were the human factor in his religious institutions, while kings, queens, emperors and presidents were the human factor in his government/politics.

I once desperately held dearly to all the religious tenets of Christendom, and, in particular, I sought to be sin free and to more clearly discern the “end time” prophecies of the old and new testament. For almost a decade I dedicated myself to the study of the bible and a multitude of Christian books (commentaries) on the subject of the end times. Every text I read, however, had a totally different interpretation of the books of Daniel and Revelation. And, in the end, all I had gained, for all of the years of faithful and ardent study of eschatology, was a sense of utter hopelessness, confusion and fear: fear that I wouldn’t be perfect enough to be “raptured” when the Christ returned to set up a Talmudic kingdom on earth; not a Christ-like kingdom but a Pharisaic one, as I would come to understand.

After all of this religious self-debasing behavior and blinded seeking, I had started, as I had many years prior (when I was very young and ignorant), to once again lose faith in God. But, as opposed to that experience of many years ago, this time I decided to keep seeking after the truth of my Maker. And my Father was faithful to keep leading me towards it, as He still is. The Father, over the past five years, has begun to open my eyes to His truth. And the truth He has brought me to thus far is this: God the Father created everything that is, and He made the flora, fauna and human beings out of that creation (the universe and beyond). He made all of us to be chosen of Him, every single human being, not just one race/creed of humanity.

Father has shown me that my nature will always be imperfect to Him in this form, and yet He accepts and loves me as I am, as He does every other human being. Thus my Father has set me free from the legalistic despotism of Christianity (which was founded on the Pharisaic traditions and the “Talmud” they invented and perpetrated on others): don’t do this and that, do this and that, which is, as it turns out, nothing but a manipulated and mindless pursuit of nothing! My Father’s directions to me are simple: TRUST HIM, LIVE MY LIFE, AND LOVE. This is the example of Jesus, whether he was the Son of God or just the son of man. He trusted his Father for everything, lived his life as the Father had set in place and loved everyone he came into contact with; even those he blasted for their hypocrisy and treachery (the pharisees, scribes and sadducee).

At this moment, and this is difficult to write, I am uncertain as to whom Jesus truly was. I believe he was of my Father, and that he was sent by my Father in order to release the Hebrews from the despotic religion their corrupt leaders had concocted about Him. But as far as anything beyond this, I am trusting my Father to reveal to me, if He wills, what the truth is about Jesus. I want to know my Father’s truth about Jesus, and everything else, not what some man-contrived religion indoctrinated me with for almost a quarter century.

Yes, when we trust mortal, fallible man, whether “man of god,” scientist or politician, to tell us about life, who we are, how we got here, why we are here, what we are to do while we are here, and what will happen after we depart this life, then we set ourselves up to be used as political, religious pawns in a game of life the wealthy and powerful few created and play for their own selfish gain, amusement and pleasure. Yes, as the old song goes, “It is the same as it ever was…,” on the face of this earth, so when are we going to awaken from our religious/superstitious induced stupor and start seeking the truth of God about everything on our own?

You want the hard truth? If so, check out this link:

http://www.sweetliberty.org/perspective/jewishpersecution1.htm

Gun Control: Avoiding the Real Issue, as Usual!

The Victims of Natural Selection!

The horrific events of the last week have once again brought to the forefront the issue of gun control; in particular the availability of assault weapons to the general public. Assault weapons are what they are called, weapons used for assaults on human beings: military assaults. I am ambivalent when it comes to the ownership of most weapons, but for the life of me, I cannot comprehend why anyone would need an AK 47, or any other weapon that can kill dozens of people with just the pull of a trigger.

But this post is not about assault weapons or any other kind of weapon. This post is about the real issue I believe to be the cause of the shootings all over this country, and not just the recent tragedy in Connecticut.

Before I begin, just let me say that my heart aches for the parents of those twenty children and the friends and families of the faculty who were assassinated. But my heart, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion, also goes out to the brother of the shooter, who not only lost his brother but also his mother. Can anyone out there imagine what it would be like to be the brother of an insane individual who killed twenty children and seven adults, including his own mother? I know I cannot! Yes, I said this surviving man’s brother (the shooter) was insane. Have we become so zealous of this country’s despotic laws that we have become incapable of distinguishing between a criminal act and an insane one? I believe, sadly, we have. For a nation founded on rights/entitlements, this country sure loves to contrive laws upon laws, most of which have little effect other than to manipulatively steal away basic rights from people.

From where I stand and watch, American’s desire for legal retribution is so rabid that even the most insane of people are treated as mere criminals: pedophiles and mass murderers are treated as though they were drug smugglers and con men instead of insane, sick people. The fact is that sane adult human beings don’t have sex with children, nor do they go to an elementary school and blast children with a semiautomatic weapon. These acts may seem to many as being criminal in nature but they are not. These are the actions of an unstable mind and heart.

On to my subject for writing this post. I have written many times on the desensitizing and (resulting) dehumanizing effects of Darwinism. American children, for the last century, and, in particular, for the last sixty years, have been indoctrinated with the “scientific” notion that they are descended from chimpanzees (primates), and that there is no Creator or Designer of anything, beyond chance and mutation. Along with this “scientific” indoctrination, American children have been brainwashed with a postmodern/atheist philosophy/ideology (religion) that claims morals and ethics have evolved right along with everything else. In other words, our children are taught that natural selection (the atheist’s god) has instilled in man, by chance and mutation, mind you, the ability to know right from wrong. And since there is, according to the Darwinian philosophy, no supreme being to look to for guidance, people like this young man are left with this and that person’s ideology of right and wrong. This is moral quicksand at best.

This young man who murdered these children and adults was known to have psychological problems. And his mother was a “prepper:” a person who prepares for a coming apocalyptic event, such as the one that has, by some, been predicted for tomorrow, December 21, 2012. Add to this kind of reactionary lunacy a Darwinian perspective and perhaps we can begin to sense, to a certain degree, why this young man would be capable of such a heinous act.

If we are all here by chance (by accident), then our lives are not precious to anyone besides those who know and love us. And even with those who love us we may find that we are not as precious as we have believed, especially if they hold to an atheist/Darwinian mindset/religious belief. I will not go into the issue of religiosity among the atheists, because it is useless to discuss, and I have written about it before. But all of us should, by now, be aware that religious ideologies can become fanatical and violent, just look at the middle east as one example.

For the majority of generation x and y young people, there is no real foundation for what to believe, spiritually, morally or ethically, because we, the baby-boomers, have destroyed any real sense of stability, any real sense of saneness in this country. We threw out the moral and ethical baby with the bathwater almost a half century ago, and now we are paying the penalties and fines for our sordid excesses. We wanted a world devoid of God, and we have gotten what we wished for and sought with all of our strength. And I am not speaking of fire and damnation here, since I no longer hold to that myth. I am speaking of the hell we are making for ourselves right here on earth. It is not God punishing us! No, it is us punishing us for our self-actualized and perverse actions toward others.

A great deal of the outrage over this massacre in Newtown, Connecticut is due to the fact that this young man murdered twenty children. But where is the outrage for the tens of millions (perhaps hundreds of millions) of unborn children who were legally murdered in their mother’s wombs (by their mothers) over the last forty years? This society is outraged, as it should be, by the murder of innocent and beautiful children, but there is also, in my estimation, a guilty conscience behind a lot of this outrage. The guilty conscience of a society that makes the worshipers of Baal look like decent people, when it comes to the murder of innocent and unprotected-with-no-rights, unborn children.

For those callous, self-obsessed degenerates out there who would argue that a “fetus” isn’t a human being yet (“unborn”), here is a short segment from a book written by Ron Paul, a physician as well as politician:

On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was placed in a bucket, crying and struggling to breathe, and the medical personnel pretended not to notice. Soon the crying stopped. This harrowing event forced me to think more seriously about this issue. (emphasis mine)

Liberty Defined: Ron Paul

The first time I read this, I thought I was going to vomit. It still troubles me, because I can’t help but imagine this child slowly suffocating and not one doctor or nurse rushing to its aid? A non-human being doesn’t cry and struggle to breathe. And a doctor that carries out such a monstrous act is nothing more than a murderer (as was the mother), no matter what man’s weak, corrupt and ineffective law states. What happened to “First, do no harm?” From what I understand, some medical colleges have removed this phrase from the Hippocratic oath, while others just gloss over it now. Hypocrites! Liars! Inhuman Murderers! And people are appalled when a child is molested. What a sad, despotic joke!

During the election, I heard female news commentators saying, over and over again, “We are not going back…” They don’t want to go back to a time when women couldn’t murder their unborn children simply because the child was an inconvenient truth. They don’t want to go back to a time when sexual immorality, although present even then, was not touted as the norm. They don’t want to go back to a time when only a man could marry a woman or a woman a man. No, they don’t want to go back there, but they want the security, stability and peace that once was, to a great extent, a staple in this society fifty to sixty years ago: a time when most women could walk on their college campuses at night without fear of being raped, and people, even in cities like the one I grew up in, didn’t have to lock their doors at night or have electronic security devices, a time when children could walk to school without being enticed to get into a car or van with a perverse, insane man.

We can’t have our self-actualized and enlightened cake and eat it too. If we want a society that embraces sexual license and the right to murder the inconvenient living products of that act, if we embrace the idea of a man married to man and a woman to woman, if we embrace our rights/entitlements to the point where we will kill innocent men, women and children in order to gain wealth and power, then we must take what else comes with this kind of treachery: a society that is depraved, violent and self-absorbed, a society that is well on its way (and has most likely already arrived) to moral and ethical degradation and national decay. Take a good look at this country and see if the above doesn’t describe it?

Take a good look at the empires from the past, and you will find that the fall of those empires began with their societies. Government always reflects the moral and ethical nature of its people, whether that government be a democratic republic, monarchy or dictatorship.

Gun control should be addressed, but it is treating a very malignant tumor with a band-aid. The real cause of the tragedy at Newtown is a nation that has fully lost what little soul it had to begin with. America has become a soulless nation that murders the unborn, unwanted child, and the poor and weak throughout this world who, in the minds of many Americans, don’t deserve to be alive, and all in the name of Democracy (the real phrase should be: in the name of capitalistic greed and power). America has become a nation that has thrown out all it once held to as right, proper, decent and good. Today, in America, good and bad, right and wrong, proper and improper, decent and indecent have become politically-incorrect and intolerant words. People who still use these words, like me, are labeled as racist, homophobes, and practitioners of hate. The ugly and perverse, of course, never want to be called out for their disgusting actions.

So don’t blame assault weapons and an insane young man for what happened in Newtown, blame the cancerous disease that has overtaken almost everyone in this Godless society. Yeah, right. As if that will ever happen!

****Please check out the following link. It is probably closer to the truth than what we have been brainwashed to believe about the Connecticut Shooter:

http://www.sott.net/article/254873-Sandy-Hook-massacre-Official-story-spins-out-of-control

Conservative, Political-Religiosity: Bringing Shame on Our Lord!

First Posting: 10/2009

{Note: What I’m attempting to communicate in the following post is not a condemnation of everyone who goes to “church” and/or holds to conservative “values”: I’m not condemning anyone. The people I refer to as conservative religionists are those who, according with my experience, love this country/government, democracy and capitalism more than their Creator. And yet they preach the commandments of God, without Spiritual knowledge or discernment, while, at the same time, breaking those same commandments, especially when it comes to idolatrous behavior, and an unloving spirit. These conservative religionists are either completely Lacking in Spiritual discernment of the Lord’s truth or “religious” charlatans and hypocrites!}

As I’ve stated before, I have nothing invested in this world-system any longer, including this government and its politics. I am not a liberal or conservative, nor am I a democrat or republican: it would have made little difference to me if McCain had won the presidency, since both he and Obama are, in my estimation, part of the problem with this world, not the solution. The Lord, when He comes again, in power and glory, is the only solution to the overwhelming issues that face all of us, and, thus, because of our unbelief and apostasy, these issues will never be resolved in this age.

I am always amazed at the blinded persistence of American liberals and conservatives, when it comes to fighting for their political/”religious” ideologies: they are relentless rebels (without a clue) who chase after a “dream” (an American, manipulative pipe dream) that doesn’t exist. It seems that the nature of the unregenerate and conservative religionists, alike, is to keep pursuing the same old, man-made solutions (political activism, attending “church”, “playing the game”) to man’s immense problems, over and over again, and without ever discerning that the problems they face cannot be solved by man. Thus, these unregenerate and conservative religionists are, when it comes to their political/’religious” ideologies and dogmas, suffering from a type of insanity (according to Einstein).

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God ANY LONGER, God gave them over to A DEPRAVED MIND, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1: 28-32)

I am a stranger and exile here, and I’m longing for a country of my own, a heavenly one. However, after hearing all the hatred expressed by the “Christian” right, over the past eight months, and after receiving hate-filled email, like the one below, I sense I must write what lies so heavy on my heart and mind. I must speak out against the conservative religionists’ hypocrisy, idolatry, and hatred of others, which is based primarily on skin color / first, last and middle names / and political ideology: all of which make a mockery of the Lord, His Truth, and His Love:

For in the case of those who have once been enlightened (true enlightenment) and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, SINCE THEY CRUCIFY TO THEMSELVES THE SON OF GOD AND PUT HIM TO OPEN SHAME. For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, AND IT ENDS UP BEING BURNED. (Hebrews 6: 4-9)

This is why I sense I must speak out, because these apostate and hypocritical conservative religionists are “crucifying to themselves the Son of God and putting Him to open shame.” If these people were unregenerate atheists and agnostics, then I wouldn’t be paying any attention to this issue at all, since the unregenerate make no claims of belief in God, and are, therefore, Spiritually blind and dead: but at least they’re honest, for the most part, about what they believe to be true.

The following quote, in my estimation, sums up the unbalanced, patriotic (idol worship) nature and state of the “Christian” right.

“I hate Obama more and more every day. Everything that comes out of his filthy Commie mouth makes me want to scream.”

The "Christian" Right!

The evidence of this type of ungodly nature and condition can be observed almost every night on the evening news (liberal and conservative), as these conservative religionists go about breaking every commandment of God: the very same commandments they attempt to enforce on the unregenerate; which is, of course, the very definition of hypocrisy.

But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ “This is the great and foremost commandment. “The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ “On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22: 34-40)

Love your God, first and foremost, and love your neighbor as you do yourself. These are the commandments the “Christian” right preaches to others, but seem incapable of keeping themselves.

“MAXIMIZE LIBERTY, MINIMIZE GOVERNMENT”

The “Christian” right claims to want less government and more Liberty, and yet, over the last eight years, they never seemed to be all that concerned with the despotic intrusion on their civil liberties brought about by the (“homeland security”) policies of the Bush (Cheney) administration: increased security and scrutiny of American passengers at airports, wire-tapping Americans without a court order, internet invasions of privacy = “The Patriot Act”. Where was the “Christian” rights’ outrage for all of this “maximized”, intrusive (fascist) government, as Bush played the “Big Brother”? Perhaps conservative religionists like the name Bush (or Cheney) better than Obama, or just maybe they like the color of Bush’s skin better?

Could it also be that conservative religionists have simply been brainwashed (over the years), educationally, in the workplace, and by the republican party (owned, “lock, stock and barrel”, by the filthy-rich 1%), just as the Godless, for the most part, left has been brainwashed by the democrats (the same filthy-rich 1%)? Could it possibly be that the filthy-rich 1%, on both sides, are playing the working middle-class liberals & conservatives against each other: the greed-driven powerful ends playing (manipulating, politically) the powerless middle (working class) against itself, and for the sole purpose of achieving complete control?

Conservative religionists claim they want less of the very government they so idolize and worship, and yet, when it comes to certain political issues, they, hypocritically, do a complete about-face. For instance, when it comes to educating their little patriots, conservative religionists seem to have no problem with a “maximized” government (“socialism”): a government which is constantly “minimizing” their “liberties”, when it comes to the education of their children. Conservative religionists rail against any evidence of “maximized” government, until, that is, it comes down to dealing with something they can’t handle, emotionally or intellectually, and then “maximized” government seems to be no problem at all for them.

"No Child Left" Out of the Pit!

Every step the government (federal and state) has taken, over the last century-plus, has been to reduce, or even relinquish, parental control over their children’s education and “values”, and, thus, further the cause of postmodern/Darwinian/atheism (the illegitimate child of deism and “the enlightenment”: removing the Lord from our schools and society (Madelyn Murray O’Hare: “Be gone prayer!”), “valuing diversity” (cultural/moral relativism: “Tommy Has Two Daddies” “There is no good or bad anything!” etc), creating little cogs (the “no-kid-left-behind”, indoctrinated “workers-of-the-future”) for the machinery of the “state”, and the filthy-rich 1% (the “new capitalists”: anti free-enterprise) who own and operate it. Sounds a little like 1917 Russia to me! Only, in this case, the hard-core “Christian” right (the “commie” haters) are supporting the Bolshevik’s (“new capitalists”) takeover, and without any comprehension whatsoever.

The “Christian” right cries, “No socialism,” and yet most of these conservative religionists seem to have no problem whatsoever with CORPORATE SOCIALISM: massive tax breaks for the corporations (the 1%), which amounts, in most cases, to paying no taxes at all; massive financial “bail-outs” of Chrysler and General Motors (not to mention the major banks and AIG), and with middle-class tax dollars that will never be recovered by the middle-class tax payer.

The conservative religionists claim to hate socialized (government controlled) health-care, but they don’t mind government controlled, and republican backed, flood insurance. The insurance industry is paid one billion dollars a year, by the government, to write flood insurance policies. These policies are not guaranteed by the insurance companies that were paid to write them, but, instead, are guaranteed by middle-class tax dollars! After costs are subtracted, these filthy-rich insurance companies get to divide up hundreds of millions of dollars, and with no liability or risk whatsoever. The risk and liability for national flood insurance is placed on the common tax payer! And most of the people covered with flood insurance are wealthy: and these wealthy individuals will, after a devastating and costly flood, continue to rebuild in the same flood zones. And why wouldn’t they, since their socialized flood-insurance will take care of all their needs, and at the expense of the middle-class conservative religionists who blindly support and worship the very (socialistic/capitalistic) system these wealthy individuals own and operate.

The money for this government-operated flood insurance, as with the corporate “bail-out” money, is taken from the working class individual to serve the state, and the wealthy and powerful individuals (1%) who control it. Wake up, conservative religionists, this is simply covert SOCIALISM (for the rich only) under the guise of free enterprise! But evidently insurance companies, houses and property of the wealthy few, as well as failing and corrupted corporations and banks, are more valuable to the republican party, the government, and conservative religionists, than the common tax-payer’s (working class) health and life.

Having written all of this “chasing after the wind”, I am not suggesting, by any stretch of the imagination, any kind of action against this corrupted and evil system, since the ruler of this age oversees it.

{The word of God prophesies of this kind of greed and power, this evil world system. So to suggest taking action against it would be, in reality, to fall into the same political pit as the blinded, apostate religionists!}

The filthy-rich 1%, being blinded by the god of this age, are merely the manipulated pawns (devout followers) of the enemy of God:

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6: 10-12)

As I said at the beginning of this post, I sense that I must speak out against the apostate religionists who worship this hypocritical political system and its lies, but solely for the purpose of changing the mindset and heart, if the Lord wills, of those believers who are truly seeking the Lord. My desire is for the Lord, through His Spirit, to lead them away from this system of the world and back to His way, Truth, and Life in (Spiritual) abundance:

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. (John 14: 6)

So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I CAME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT ABUNDANTLY. (John 10: 7-11)

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. (1 John 2: 15-17)

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE YOUR HEART WILL BE ALSO. (Matthew 6: 19-21)

I pray for my hate filled friend, and those entrapped like him, that he would come out from the midst of this ungodly, worldly corruption and into the Light and Truth of our Lord. I pray that all who read this would sense the need to turn from this deadness and seek first the Lord’s righteousness and Kingdom:

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? 28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, WILL HE NOT MUCH MORE CLOTHE YOU? YOU OF LITTLE FAITH! “DO NOT WORRY THEN, saying, ‘WHAT WILL WE EAT?’ or ‘WHAT WILL WE DRINK?’ or ‘WHAT WILL WE WEAR FOR CLOTHING?’ “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. “But SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU.

“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6: 25-34)

Listen and believe the word of our Lord and Savior, through the power and discernment of His Spirit in you. Seek the Lord with all of your mind, heart and soul! Turn from the lies of this decaying world, and its leader, and live in the Light and Life of our Lord! Come out from them, and be cleansed and set free!

Romney’s “Final Solution” for the “47%”: Ignore Them & “Let Them Die!”

“If only we could get rid of the 47%… but how?”

Although I wouldn’t accuse Mitt Romney of building concentration camps (beyond the multitude of prisons we already have), gas-chambers and massive crematoriums, or at least not yet, I would accuse him of having a similar perspective as the Nazis had of the Jews, when it comes to middle-class and poor Americans. It seems that Romney holds to the same opinion of those in the American “lower classes” as his buddies in his UPPER and by-far SUPERIOR CLASS. You know, the UPPER (SUPERIOR) CLASS who built this country while the middle-class and poor “sat by and watched:” “WE BUILT IT!”

The revisionists of history are by far the lowest form of human being, and Romney and buddies are historical revisionists! This country, for the most part, was built by the middle-class and working-poor, with the help of the wealthy and their INHERITED (not worked for) money. And many of these middle-class and working-poor Americans, who had worked so hard to build this country, went on to become successful entrepreneurs; when the American-dream was still within the reach of every American: Ford, Edison, the Wright Brothers, etc. But that dream, for the most part, has been dead for a long time. And those, like Romney, who have benefited most from that long-gone dream now are bound and determined to keep everything for themselves and their UPPER CLASS buddies: “Damn the middle-class and poor, they serve no purpose anymore!” is the cry of the UPPER CLASS.

And why, in the eyes of the UPPER CLASS, is it that the middle-class and working-poor American serves no purpose anymore? Because Romney, and the like, no longer produce anything, and thus there are no production jobs to keep middle-class and working-poor Americans employed (productive). Romney and the like, being born with platinum spoons in their mouths, are incapable of doing anything but producing and hoarding more money, and with no concern whatsoever for this country, its people, or the rest of the world. Thus Romney and his buddies are, in reality, MORE THAN WORTHLESS to the rest of us middle-class and working-poor Americans.

Romney’s distorted-spoiled-brat view of the “47%,” as being nothing more than “entitlement-seeking victims and moochers,” should be a wake-up call for every flag-waving middle-class and poor person in this country, whether they be of the left, middle or right political persuasion. Romney’s “47%” includes not only those FEW who refuse to work and expect others to pay for them, but those who desire to be responsible for themselves and families, which, by the way, make up at least 40% of the “47%.” It is only a small percentage of the poor in this country who truly are shiftless and irresponsible. Most of the poor in this country work, they are “the working poor,” and they pay more in taxes than the middle class, the business owners, and the ONE PERCENT.

You see, we have a “regressive tax-system” in America, where those who make the most pay the least in taxes, and those who make the least pay the most. It’s like an inverted pyramid: the weight of the entire pyramid is on the tip, or those at the bottom who can least afford to pay any taxes, while at the top is a thin line that controls all the wealth in this country (95%) and yet pays less than 8% in taxes. The scum always seems to rise to the top, doesn’t it?

The Poor Pay: 12% Income Tax

The Middle-Class Pay: 11% Income Tax

The 1% Pay: 8% Income Tax

So, 33% of federal income taxes come from the working-poor and middle-class, while only 8% come from the most wealthy, and this leaves 59%, since the irresponsible pay no taxes (7%), to be paid by small business people who do most of the hiring of the working-poor and middle-class.

The reason the working-poor pay more taxes is that they don’t have the income loopholes that those above them can take advantage of. And by the time you get to the corporate and wealthy 1 to 5%, whose tax breaks (loopholes) are so criminal they pay little or nothing, you can see why the working-poor and middle-class have to pay more than their fair share. And on top of this, folks like Romney have most of their money and interests tied up in “off-shore and foreign accounts” where they are not subject to federal, state or local taxes.

And yet, with all of this, Romney has the nerve to look down his wealthy and healthy nose at those who actually support him and his buddies, the “40%” who work hard, or have worked hard (the retired and disabled), and yet never get ahead, because folks like Romney have destroyed their means of ever getting ahead in this country. You see, the very man who labels the working-poor and middle-class as “entitlement-seeking victims and moochers” has helped to set up an economic-system where the working-poor and middle-class must, at points, be dependent on government assistance to survive. Romney’s chasing after more and more wealth brought the working-poor and middle-class into the “great recession” of 2007 and 2008, which drove them into unemployment and the need for government assistance. Romney and the like, in their irresponsible and corrupt money making schemes, caused the current financial crisis, and now, as opposed to taking responsibility for their criminal greed, they instead choose to lay the economic blame at the feet of the working-poor and middle-class people who, in Romney’s warped and greed-driven mind, are shirking their duty by not being productive and paying taxes. This is tantamount to Hitler’s outrage towards the German people, in the Spring of 1945, for not fighting to the death for the Third Reich!

Enough said.

P.S.

Check this video out! It is long, but it is well worth your time, if, that is, you really care about what is happening with this country and you and family?

The “Founding Fathers” & Freemasonry

Think Again!

Below is an article that exposes the true nature of the men who founded this country:

Dragon Flood – Part Five – Dragon’s Head

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:36 PM PDT
Joseph Herrin (09-13-2012)

…Every major building in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, was dedicated with the laying of the cornerstone in a Masonic ritual. In every occurrence, the Freemasons, many of whom were Congressmen, Presidents, and other national leaders, offered up corn, oil, and wine as part of the ceremony.

Specific words are recited at each cornerstone laying ceremony. Following is that portion of the ritual relating to the corn, wine and oil. As you read it, keep in mind that the one referred to as Supreme Grand Architect, Supreme Ruler of the World, and Almighty God is known to the author of these rites to be Satan.

The Deputy Grand Master receives from the Grand Marshal the vessel containing Corn, and spreads the corn upon the stone, saying:

DEPUTY GRAND MASTER: May the health of the workman employed in this undertaking be preserved to them, and the Supreme Grand Architect bless and prosper their labors.

ALL BRETHREN: So mote it be.

The Grand Senior Warden then receives from the Grand Marshal the vessel containing wine, and pours the wine upon the stone, saying:

GRAND SENIOR WARDEN: May plenty be showered down upon the people of this State, and may the blessing of the bounteous Giver of all things attend their philanthropic undertakings.

ALL BRETHREN: So mote it be.

The Grand Junior Warden then receives the vessel containing Oil and pours the oil upon the stone, saying:

GRAND JUNIOR WARDEN: May the Supreme Ruler of the World (Note that this is an exact restating of Christ’s description of Satan) preserve the people in peace, and vouchsafe to them the enjoyment of every blessing.

GRAND MASTER: May the Corn of nourishment, the Wine of Refreshment, the Oil of Joy, and all the necessaries of life abound among men throughout the world, and may the blessing of Almighty God be upon this undertaking, and may this structure here to be erected be preserved to the latest ages in order that it may promote the useful purpose for which it is designed

ALL BRETHREN: So mote it be.

The words “So mote it be” may be familiar to some as a phrase used by Satanists, witches, and modern pagans. Following is an excerpt from a website explaining its usage.

Occultist Aleister Crowley used “So mote it be” in some of his writings, and claimed it to be an ancient and magical phrase, but it’s possible he borrowed it from the Masons. In Freemasonry, “So mote it be” is the equivalent of “Amen” or “As God wills it to be.” Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern Wicca, was also known to have Masonic connections, although there’s some question about whether or not he was a Master Mason as he claimed to be. Regardless, it’s no surprise that the phrase turns up in contemporary Pagan practice, considering the influence that the Masons had on both Gardner and Crowley.

In modern Wiccan traditions, the phrase often appears as a way of wrapping up a ritual or magical working. It’s basically a way of saying, “And so it shall be.”
[Source: http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/glossary/g/SoMoteItBe.htm%5D

In the book of the prophet Isaiah we find a passage where Yahweh pronounces judgment upon Babylon. Mentioned in the passage is the sorceries and dark arts of Babylon, including the various incantations and astrology. In ancient times kings consulted astrologers to determine appointed times for their various actions, for going to war, or to prophesy the outcome of some event. The stars were studied closely that their influences might bring success to the endeavors in which men and nations committed themselves. Yahweh speaks the following to those who put confidence in such things.

Isaiah 47:12-13
Stand fast now in your spells and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth; Perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you may cause trembling. You are wearied with your many counsels; Let now the astrologers, those who prophesy by the stars, those who predict by the new moons, stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

It would surprise many people, particularly Americans, and Christians in the United States, to learn that the practices of Babylon are not extinct. In fact, they have been practiced by the founders of this nation and continue to this very hour. Those who guide the counsels of America have consulted with the stars, and no significant work has been undertaken without first doing so. The practices of Babylon have been preserved by Satan and carried forward by secret societies, foremost of which in America has been Freemasonry.

David Ovason in his insightful and exceptionally well documented book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital has demonstrated quite convincingly that Washington, D.C. was designed as a Masonic city. Ovason is writing from the viewpoint of a man much learned in the esoteric rites and symbols of ancient mysteries. Ovason is an teacher of astrology by trade, understanding the ancient practice of casting horoscopes to determine auspicious days in which nation’s would begin new works. His understanding of arcane lore is revealed in his book.

Not surprising is the fact that Ovason is not a Christian. What did strike me as surprising was to learn that Ovason was not a Freemason when he wrote this book. However, he received such warm encouragement from some top Freemasons in America when his book was published, that he afterwards became one.

In his book on the secret architecture of Washington, D.C., Ovason explains the significance of casting a horoscope to determine the optimal time for beginning various works such as laying the cornerstone for important national buildings. Ovason writes the following:

The formal laying of a cornerstone was no new thing, even in America. It was already a ritual sanctified by Masonic tradition, a throwback to an age when it was believed that all human activities were overseen by the gods. In essence, the cornerstone ceremonial was designed not only to gain the approval of the spiritual beings, but also to ensure that these were content that the building was being brought into the world at the right time. That is one reason why it was commonplace for those designing cornerstone rituals to examine the time of the ceremonial in the light of astrology.
[Source: David Ovason, The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital]

Although Ovason has discovered none of the horoscopes that were cast to determine the dates on which events took place in the Nation’s Capital, he has examined the dates and times and drawn up the horoscopes himself. His conclusion is that “We must assume that whoever was directing the planning of Washington, D.C… had a considerable knowledge of astrology…”

http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/dragon-flood-part-five-dragons-head.html

Add to this the deification of George Washington portrayed in the capitol rotunda, and anyone should be capable of discerning that America was not founded on Christian principles by Christian men.

George Washington Deified (Top Center, Upside Down)

American Public “Education”

The following quote is from a public-school teacher whose main frustration comes from the pressure of “standardized testing:”

Sometimes it feels like you can’t take a moment away from the hard-core academic subjects in order to teach so-called “non-essentials,” like music, art, or physical education. These subjects are frowned-upon by the people who meticulously monitor test scores. Time away from math, reading, and writing is seen as time wasted. If it doesn’t directly lead to improved test scores, you aren’t encouraged, or sometimes even allowed, to teach it.

I’d like to think that I’m only speaking for myself or the teachers in my state on this issue. But, I feel confident that that’s not the case. In California, school rankings and scores are published in the newspapers and discussed by the community. School’s reputations are made or broken by the bottom line, numbers printed in black and white on newsprint. It’s enough to make any teacher’s blood pressure rise at the thought of it.

These are some of the things I’ve heard teachers say over the years about standardized test scores and the pressures surrounding student performance:

“I did just fine in school and life, even though my teachers didn’t emphasize achievement on tests.”
“It’s only one test – why does it matter so much?”
“I don’t even have time to teach Science or Social Studies any more!”
“I start teaching Test Preparation the first week of school.”
“It’s not fair that we’re ‘graded’ on how our students do on this test, when all we can do is present the information to them. We can’t help how they will actually do on Test Day!”
“My principal’s on my back this year because my students didn’t so well last year.” (emphasis mine)

“All we can do is present the information to them.” This is not teaching, as this underpaid and abused educator points out! Anyone can present information to a child, if, that is, they have an educational text and a modicum of experience with the material. Teachers should be more than mere information givers. Teachers should be a source of information and application, if they have been trained properly and are motivated. A person who teaches because he or she loves teaching, and who is competent in their particular area of education, can and should be allowed to transform their student’s lives, educationally. But this is not what is happening in public education today: teachers are being forced, politically and socially (multiculturalism), to become nothing more than information givers, and their students are being cheated out of the education they deserve, the education their parents are paying for.

As a former teacher, I have become increasingly disenchanted with the current state of American public education, which seems to have “evolved” into a never-ending stream of meaningless testing: a never-ending stream of meaningless testing that, in reality, is set up only to measure the effectiveness of the teacher, as opposed to measuring the student’s ability to successfully apply (use) the educational materials learned.

The American public education system is being held captive by a politically-motivated and thus worthless testing system (standardized testing), which simply measures the teacher’s ability to transfer basic information to his or her students, and without any emphasis whatsoever on the student’s successful application of the material learned. In other words, our public education system has become an “eat and regurgitate” or “memorize and spew out” system.

Sadly, it would seem the emphasis in American public-education, today, is solely focused on measuring if the tax payer is getting his or her educational money’s worth (“teacher performance”). As opposed to making sure their children are being educationally prepared for life, American tax payers seem to be content with test results that mean less than nothing to their children. This educational farce is just plain old politics as usual: “Give the parents test results, so they stop complaining about how illiterate and ignorant their children are.” I am always amazed at how the common American Joe can be so easily manipulated by this corrupt government and its systems, whether local, state or federal.

Is it any wonder then that generation x and y Americans are so ignorant, so incapable of simple analysis and problem solving? Is it any wonder that we’ve raised up, for the most part, two generations of Americans who are devoid of intellect and culture? In comparison to their Asian and European counterparts, who have been instructed (shown how) to successfully apply what they have learned, young Americans come off as nothing more than “self-actualized” ignoramuses: self-actualized ignoramuses who can’t even find their own state on a map, and who firmly believe rap “music” and “hip-hop” are equal, artistically, with Western-European classical music. This state of cultural ignorance is, of course, the main product of “multiculturalism” and “political correctness:” a mediocre philosophy, where everything and everyone is equal in capabilities, and where there is no good or bad anything.

Educational Process & Product

It is during the process of instruction that learning truly occurs. Testing is merely a tool, which should first be used to evaluate the educational process of the instructor, and then the product, or the measurable results of student’s knowledge and/or performance. The product, in the end, should be measured by the student’s ability to not only retain but apply what they’ve learned.

The effective and creative execution of curriculum/lesson plans is an educator’s most valuable tool. If the curriculum/lesson plans are good and the instructor is motivated, imaginative and creative, then the students are in an excellent position to be successful learners. Students, in this educational setting, can use what they have learned to enhance their lives. Testing then becomes an effective and affective tool, because it serves as a means for improving the teaching technique of the instructor while, at the same time, continuously motivating the student to learn more, so they may apply what they have learned in their lives…

In other words, the process of teaching is more important to the student than his or her test results. If a student has “ownership” of his or her education, has bought-in to the teaching process of any given instructor, then that student will most likely not only be able to remember the material learned but be capable of applying that material in his or her own life. In this educational process, learning and knowledge become relevant and important to a student, since the student can actually apply what has been learned. Students in this setting become active participants (partnering with the teacher) in their own education.

The difference here, of course, is between an education system that merely forces learning on a child and one that motivates a child not only to learn but personally use (apply) what has been learned (product). The current educational process only produces piles of worthless information the student will most likely never be capable of using and thus completely forget. Is it any wonder that test scores in most schools are low? This kind of educational process is self-defeating for the student, first and foremost, and the teacher.

{I remember very little public-school math and science, because there was more emphasis placed on meaningless (to me) facts-and-figures-testing than how the material related to my life in any real way (relevancy): relevancy to the student’s life is key, even if the student never pursues, or even uses, every subject he or she has been taught. If educational material cannot be conveyed as being important (relevant) in a student’s life, in even a small way, then the material will simply amount to force-fed learning and mindless regurgitation (“I have to pass this test!”). This kind of educational experience will have been, from a student’s perspective, a complete waste of time and energy. Take it from someone who experienced this kind of education and knows.

I learned more about math and science on my own, throughout the years, than I ever learned in a public-school classroom. As I needed the information, I was motivated to go and find that information and apply it to my life. I could have retained and used this information when I was in public-school, had my math and science teacher’s emphases been focused more on the application of material taught, but I had to wait and find it for myself. And my teachers didn’t have to deal with politically-mandated standardized-testing.}

Testing as a tool, not the goal, can be very valuable for both the teacher and student, BUT only if the testing is capable of revealing what works and doesn’t work in the educational process. Testing as the main goal of public education is outright stupidity! Success should be measured by not only what the student can remember and regurgitate, but also by the student’s ability to apply (use) the information he or she has “received” from the instructor: “received” = the student has been successfully instructed (= process) and thus can remember and use (= apply) the educational material taught (= product).

An educational process should be more concerned with the relevancy of materials taught than the memorization and regurgitation of worthless bits of information, which, in the end, have no real meaning to the student (irrelevancy). If the educational material isn’t relevant, in some way, to the student, then the student might pass the test, but will he or she be able to remember and use the material during their lifetimes? Is education just about passing tests, or is education about learning and achieving lifetime goals?

This important part of the educational process (application of material taught) is being undermined by the teacher’s need to instruct solely towards a test. Teachers, today, have no time to consider how to motivate their students to apply what they are being taught, since teachers careers have become solely dependent on “eat and regurgitate” test scores, which, in reality, reveal nothing about the teaching technique and capabilities of the instructor. Nor do these test results show or guarantee that students will be capable of applying, or even remembering, this educational material later in life.

The reason so many home-schooled children do better on the “SATs,” and thus perform better in college, is that they have had the time and attention needed to not only remember but apply what they have learned. Most home-schooled children I know not only have retained a great deal of useful information but are also capable of using this information. Home-schooled children seem to be more motivated to learn and creative than many public-school students I know. But, then again, these home-schooled children didn’t have to learn solely to regurgitate what they had learned right back out on a worthless/meaningless test!

“Vote for Me and I’ll Set You Free!”

The American Voter!

As I’ve stated in other posts, I am always amazed by middle-class America’s sheep-like gullibility, which is exposed, so vividly, every presidential election year, in particular. This disturbing spectacle is in full view right now, as there are less than two months left until the next “savior of America” is elected to office; the next savior who, like his predecessors, will simply follow the instructions of those at the top (the 1 to 5%) who paid for his presidency.

Every presidential election year the two nominated candidates spew out insult after insult about their opponent, but never is heard from them, in any substantial way, an explanation of how they will solve the problems facing the majority of Americans; and by the majority of Americans, I mean the middle-class and poor Americans. And yet, like easily-manipulated sheep, middle-class Americans, every four years, support their newest and “best-ever” candidate: they attend rallies, watch the conventions and “debates,” put posters on their lawns and stickers on their cars. Every four years, these pitiful sheep get all excited about the next president who will, in their evidently absentminded and brainwashed minds, turn their lives into the American utopia they always “dreamed” of (“…set them free.”). And yet every time, since Kennedy took office (or, perhaps, even before), their next supposed presidential savior is either assassinated or proceeds to completely undermine their lives and dreams by not fulfilling any of his campaign promises. And, to add to the misery, many times it is not even the candidate with “the popular vote” who wins, thanks to the “electoral voting system:” a corrupt system devised by the wealthy and powerful few to simply manipulate the entire election process. This every-four-year, obnoxious and criminal spectacle makes me want to vomit; it’s tantamount to watching a plane crash, over and over again, and not being able to do anything to prevent it!

{The top 1 to 5% power-brokers (like Romney) who control this country, and world, have already chosen and elected the next president of these united states. This is the dirty, little secret that only a few of us have come to recognize; the few of us who have withdrawn from taking part in this “democratic republic of the people, by the people and for the people” (this complete fraud), and thus have become, for the most part, immune to its manipulative trappings. We’re adversely affected by it like everyone else, but we know we can’t change it, so we don’t take part in the political farce!}

And it always, without fail, follows that within a year or less of their new president setting up shop in the oval office, American middle-class sheep begin to wonder why their new savior isn’t following through on his campaign promises to them. These sheep are completely clueless to the fact that their new president (or old, as the case may be), every four years, must pay back, must kowtow, to the wealthy and powerful few who bought his way into the presidency; the wealthy and powerful few kings and queens of this here good old United States of America!

“And the beat goes on…” “Same as it ever was, same as it ever was…” “…and pray we don’t get fooled again.” These pieces of songs from the sixties, seventies and eighties tell it all, almost. The fact is that these songs had no impact whatsoever on those who still take part in this once-every-four-years, political joke. I guess the American middle-class and poor, which are becoming, more and more, one “class” of people, are content to put on their red-white-and-blue colored glasses and continue on with the same old political process: a corrupt political process that always leads to the middle-class and poor being worse off than before. As Einstein pointed out, in order to change an outcome, scientifically or politically, one must be willing to change the process; or, in other words, one must stop doing the same thing over and over again and try some new approach to the problem so a different outcome may, perhaps, be realized.

“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”

Of course, this attempting to change the political process, and thus get a different result, will most likely never happen in my lifetime. So I guess the beat will go on the same as it ever was, and the middle-class and poor will continue to pray they don’t get fooled again, over and over again, every four years.

American Political Honesty & Integrity?

I am a firm believer in the truth that the Lord created man in His Own Image, and that man, sometime in the past, fell from the grace of his Creator. So I am more than aware that mankind (including myself) has, since that fall, had a multitude of issues contrary to the nature of his Creator, one issue being man’s lack of honesty and integrity.

Honesty: “The quality or condition of being honest; integrity.”

Integrity: “Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.”

This lacking in honesty and integrity, it would seem, has continually been on the increase during the days I have lived on this planet. In particular, it seems that honesty, over the last two or three decades, has been replaced with mealy-mouth double talk, in the form of “tolerance” and “political-correctness.” It seems to me that being a person of integrity, being an honest and forthright individual, has become something almost evil in the minds of most postmodern-atheists; who, by the way, seem to have almost total control in this world today. We live in a time when to speak one’s mind, unless it goes along with the far-left philosophy, is verboten. The non-conformists of the ’60s have turned into the despots of conformity in the twenty-first century. The speech and thought gestapo are always looking for those who refuse to conform to their low and mediocre, ungodly standards. To disagree with a pregnant woman’s right to murder (abortion), or sodomite marriage, is to bring the flower-power, pot-smoking gestapo down on you and family; just ask the president of Chick Fil A, if you don’t believe me.

Thus, American politicians, whether they be of the right, middle or left (with few exceptions: Ron Paul, for instance), have lost the ability to be honest and forthright, or so it would seem. In this day and age, the political end truly does seem to justify the means, no matter how destructive, corrupt, dishonest (lacking in integrity) and perverse the means may be.

Although there are a multitude of examples of dishonesty and lacking of integrity in this country, the lack of honesty and integrity in American politics today, in particular, is at an all time low.

{I am not saying that a lack of honesty/integrity has not always been at the heart of American politics, it most certainly has been, at least since I’ve been old enough to discern it. What I’m referring to, here, is the exponential increase of dishonesty and lack of integrity in American politics today.}

The American political system has become so corrupted that its participants no longer even try to hide their blatant dishonesty, their lack of integrity. These particular men and women (boys and girls is more apropos), the putrid products of my lost generation, I’m ashamed to admit, have not the least concern for the fact that they continually “flip-flop” on their political and social beliefs, which they claim so fervently to “stand for.” And when confronted with their political and social hypocrisy and outright lies, they can produce nothing other than idiot-speak/double-talk. Never is heard, from these power and greed mongers, “I am struggling with this issue, because it is difficult, and thus I seem, at points, to be contradicting myself.” or “I have changed my mind on this issue, and, whether it costs me the election or not, I must stand on what I believe to be true now!” Like everything else in this ungodly country, winning is everything: lies, hypocrisy, cheating and stealing are all fair game in America today, because all that matters is winning (“defeating the opponent”); the end always justifies the means in the good old US of A. I know this is most likely true in other countries also, but I live here.

For all of you middle-class working-folks who still worship at the alter of democracy and capitalism, here are some questions for you: How can you believe anything Romney/Ryan or Obama/Biden state, when you cannot verify, for yourselves, whether they are being honest with you? How can you trust any of these men, when you have no real way of knowing what is actually going on in the government and economic system you so love and support?

{Most of us have been led to believe, through the testimony of government and economic system “experts,” that it is an imperative, in a “democratic republic,” to have an educated and informed electorate. How can this country, then, truly be a “democratic republic,” when every year our public education system becomes increasingly more and more ineffective, to the point that many college grads can’t find their own state on a map, and the economic and political information we need to be a truly “informed electorate” is withheld from us by the powers that be? The powers that be, you see, don’t want us common folk to be too educated, and they certainly don’t want us to be informed of what they are doing, politically and economically, in their Park Avenue board rooms and secret societies. Darwin and multiculturalism is what they want us focused on, so we don’t become suspicious and, as a whole, start demanding answers to hard questions.}

We can all go on the internet and read, or listen to the government and economically controlled press, whether on radio, television, or in print, and take in what they are telling us, but how can we truly find out if we’re being given the true facts or just what their wealthy and powerful bosses want us to hear and know? Am I the only one who can see that there is no way to know what is truly happening in this political and economic system, because the truth is hidden from us, it has been buried so we can’t ever find it. And why is this? Well, I believe it’s because the truth, if known by us, would ultimately mean an end to this current government and economic system. If we, including me, really knew the truth, I believe we would turn our collective backs on the lie and seek another form of government and economic system to replace it. The only problem with that outcome would be this, and history is my witness: what we would replace this system with would merely be as bad, or even worse, as the current system that rapes and pillages us and our families every day.

We are stuck, and the power brokers in this country, and the rest of the world, know it. We have no choice but to grin and bear it. And don’t feed me the patriotic crap about a free republic of the people, by the people, blah, blah, blah, since, if that had ever been true, I would not be sitting at this computer writing this!

When I summon up enough intestinal fortitude to be capable of listening to the news channels, or read reports on line, I hear the current presidential candidates, Mitt Romney, in particular, dodging the pertinent questions being asked of them. Instead of ever stating, with any substantive evidence, what their plan is for overcoming the social and economic disasters awaiting ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of us working-class Americans, and the rest of the world, these career politicians simply come back with a simplistic overview of their “plans,” which is just enough to satisfy the less-than-brilliant folks who follow and adore them. And then, immediately afterwards, they proceed to quickly change the subject by spewing out of their mouths inordinate amounts of political rhetoric and personal attacks on their opponent. And the mindless and blind crowds cheer and wave their little flags, etc…

For instance, I have yet to hear Romney back up his claim, several months back, that he is a business man and thus superior to Obama. And when asked about his business “escapades” at Bain Capital, he simply states that this topic is out of bounds. If Romney is the successful business man he claims to be, then why wouldn’t he want to be questioned about his association with Bain Capital? Romney has been successful at making money, which, these days, doesn’t necessarily make a person qualified for a janitor position, not alone the presidency. Many folks in this country make a great deal of money, but they couldn’t lead a man dying of thirst to drink a tall glass of ice-water. Romney isn’t a JOB CREATOR, he’s a MONEY MAKER, and this country desperately needs a JOB CREATOR, not a MONEY MAKER. I have yet to hear Romney, in any depth, put forth a substantive plan that would even begin to start to fix the economic woes confronting the common working or poor person in this country. I do hear Romney, however, blatantly refusing to divulge the rest of his COMPLETE income tax returns for the last seven years: the two returns he has issued have been incomplete, which most folks on the right either don’t care about or are ignorant of.

I was always taught, and still hold to, if a politician refuses to be transparent about his or her past, in any way, then he or she is most likely hiding something that is not good, such is the case, I believe, with Mitt Romney. Romney finally admitted the other day, and evidently by accident, that he has never paid less than 13% in income taxes. 13%? When I was working, I made around forty-thousand dollars a year, and the local, state and federal governments took, on the average, about 33% of my salary every year. 33%! I don’t know about anyone else, but, to me, an income tax rate of 13% is the same as paying no income tax for a person who makes twenty-two million dollars in one year.

{On the lame argument, put forth by the republicans and far right conservatives, that there is a “class-war” in this country, and rich people are hated because they are rich, I say it’s nothing but a political dodge, it is pure and simple B.S.! I am not against people becoming wealthy, even to the point of insanity, which, by the way, is the case with many rich people in this country. What I am against, as are most working middle-class people, is the rich not paying their fair share in taxes. Those who benefit most from this capitalistic system should pay the most in taxes, and those who benefit the least should pay the least in taxes. We have a “regressive tax system,” where the top earners pay far less in taxes than do the lower middle-class working people. We should have a “progressive tax system” in this country, where the wealthy pay the most! We have a deficit problem because the rich are cheating, “legally,” on their taxes (loopholes, off shore accounts, Swiss bank accounts, etc); they are using the tax system to rip off the people of this country. And this is what Romney (as well as most of the folks in congress) is getting away with. This is why, I believe, Romney will not release more than two years of his tax returns. Romney doesn’t want the electorate to know he kept his money, over the last four years, while most of the rest of us lost ours. And it was folks like Romney that caused the financial meltdown, four years ago, to begin with!}

On the other hand, we have Obama, a person who goes to church on Sunday and yet believes in a woman’s right to murder her unborn baby and that two sodomites should be able to marry and adopt children. Of course, Bill Clinton also went to church, as did Nixon, Bush and Cheney, and we all know about their “moral fiber.” But at least I know what I have with Obama.

Obama inherited eight years of unbridled spending on wars, and a recession/depression that was caused by this unbridled spending, as well as the lack of regulatory control on the greed mongering banks and Wall St. And who was responsible for this mess? Not Obama, but the Bush/Cheney administration. Obama’s bail-out of the auto industry did work. Detroit has recovered and paid back what the American people, not the government, had loaned them. And the auto industry means jobs for working class people. Obama did do away with Bin Laden, the mastermind and financier of 9/11, whereas George W chased after Saddam Hussein, which cost this country trillions of dollars and the loss of thousands of lives: US and innocent Iraqi lives. “Obamacare,” as the right so disdainfully puts it, is at least an attempt by the Obama administration to look after the disenfranchised in this country, whose numbers increase daily.

It seems odd to me that the bible-thumping right would be so against the taking care of the poor, when this is an imperative of Christ and the writers of the epistles. And yet the atheistic-Darwinian left seems to be more compassionate? Go figure!

All four of these men (Bush/Cheney/Obama and Romney) have been blatantly dishonest in their dealings with the American people, Obama being the least of the four, in my opinion. Republican congressmen have openly admitted, for the last four years, that their ONLY goal was to make Obama a “one term” president. Now that it’s an election year, the republicans have snapped back into winning mode and are promoting themselves as the saviors of the middle-class, which is nothing more than a bald-faced lie. If they were the saviors of the middle class, they would have been working with Obama, over the past four years, to solve the economic problems the middle class has been facing, as opposed to playing dirty politics in order to get the black man out of the oval office.

American political honesty and integrity has become nothing more than a pipe dream: it has become “marsh gas,” “things that goes bump in the night.” The decline of the American empire is upon us, and all those of us can do, who have been lied to and cheated, in reality, is sit, watch and wait to see how it will come to its inevitable end; since we the people, when it comes to having a say, have been taken out of the political equation.

As with other fallen empires throughout time, history will no doubt come to the conclusion that the lack of honesty and integrity in America’s leadership and people was an important factor in its demise.

Americans Love Character Assassination (For Certain People, That Is!)

Joe Paterno: The latest victim of the Godless and greed-driven media!

7/22/12

I’m posting this again, since the self-righteous scum in this country will not even let Joe Paterno rest in his grave! This country has murdered hundreds of millions of unborn children, and this tirade over child molesting, in my opinion, is nothing more than Americans trying to soothe their own sordid consciences! I long for the day of judgment! I long for it!

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If there is any one thing modern Americans love even more than their rights, greed, war, and sex, it’s the tearing down of traditional icons by the media of both political sides. America has become a nation, because of its Godlessness and well deserved GUILT, that loves to see anyone torn to pieces for making a mistake. But, in particular, America loves to see a traditional icon (or anything traditional, for that matter) torn to pieces. In my opinion, this societal illness is tantamount to the Roman citizenry of two thousand years ago salivating over gladiators killing each other in the coliseum.

{Note: by traditional icons, I mean men and women who have and will stand for the good, those who will stand for something other than their own self interests and gratification. By traditional icons, I mean those who still hold to the notion that the wellbeing of others is more important than their own, whether they be of Christ or not. Sadly, the few people left in the world like this are becoming more and more the targets of the low-life and self-absorbed (“self-actualized”) multitudes who slither about on this earth, and who make life a living hell for everyone but themselves! You know who you are!}

Does anyone out there ever notice how worthless idiots like Lindsay Lohan can break the law time after time and no one in the x and y generations is appalled at all? Lohan even thumbs her nose at the California judges and all she gets for her blatant disregard for “the law” is another legal pat on the wrist, while Hollywood, mindless and moral deviates make apologies for poor little, drunk and stoned Lindsay.

And have you ever noticed how molestation of children by gays is almost totally ignored: The Man-Boy Association, for instance, while heterosexual men, in particular, are tried, found guilty, and executed by the press and public opinion? And all of this travesty of justice happens before the first court date has even been set. Then the judges, who are elected (not appointed, as they should be), and, therefore, must kowtow to the voters like any other politician, are forced to make judgments based on their reelection strategies, as opposed to the evidence, their judgment and true justice!

Yes, sir, just let anyone who doesn’t partake of this Hollywood/Darwinian/atheist/feminist/sodomite culture make a mistake, and the media crap will immediately hit the politically-correct fan. Such is the case with Coach Joe Paterno of Penn State University. Coach Paterno has been teaching and coaching at Penn State since I have been sucking wind, and I am almost 62 years old.

Yesterday, my reason for writing this post became even more evident. Bur first, let me give the background of what is really troubling me. As you’ve probably heard, since it is on every sports and news broadcast, a former coach at Penn State, Jerry Sandusky, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault on a number of young boys. It seems that a graduate assistant even witnessed one of these attacks, some years back (2002, I believe?), and reported it to Coach Paterno the next day. Coach Paterno then turned the matter over to his immediate supervisor, the athletic director, which was Paterno’s only real responsibility in the matter.

I worked in a school system and at a major corporation, and, in both cases, there was a “chain of command,” a “chain of responsibility.” If I witnessed a wrong doing, I was to report it to my superior, and then it was their responsibility to get it to the right people in the chain of command, not mine. And, in particular, I was never to go to anyone else, in particular, the police or any other form of authority. That was the responsibility of those higher up in the chain of command. My only duty was to report what I had seen or heard, if there was any wrongdoing of any kind. This is exactly what Coach Paterno did in this situation! When the graduate assistant reported to him, Coach Paterno reported to his athletic director immediately. It was then the responsibility of the athletic director and those above him to handle the situation, not Coach Paterno. Coach Paterno’s responsibility, after reporting the incident, was to do what he was being paid to do, coach the football team!

This is what administrators are paid for, they are there to handle these kinds of situations. That is why there is a “chain of command” to begin with. But in Penn State’s case, the chain of command failed miserably, and Coach Paterno has taken the fall for Sandusky and the administration at Penn State!

Yesterday, November 9th, 2011, the board of trustees at Penn State University fired Coach Joe Paterno. They openly admitted, during a press conference last night, that they didn’t have all the information on the “sex-abuse scandal.” But their lack of information wasn’t enough to stop them from offering up Coach Paterno as a sacrifice, a scapegoat!

Coach Paterno has dedicated his life to this university, and what did Coach Paterno get for his sixty years of dedicated service to the students of Penn State University? A telephone call telling him he was fired! And the coach had even tendered his resignation. All Coach Paterno wanted was to finish the season (3 games, and post-season), and retire, but that wouldn’t have taken the heat off of the board of directors and administration, who, by the way, are the ones totally accountable for this mess, beyond Jerry Sandusky.

If I hadn’t known what had happened at Penn State over the past thirteen years, I would have believed, from what I heard on the news and sports shows yesterday, that Coach Paterno had been arrested on sexual assault charges. Jerry Sandusky, the ALLEGED (not convicted) perpetrator of these crimes against children, was only mentioned in passing, as was the administration, athletic director and student assistant. It was evident the media machine was out to do away with Coach Paterno, and the media machine, as usual, had its way!

Coach Jim Tressel: One More Scapegoat!

A similar thing happened to Ohio State’s coach, Jim Tressel, although the situation was not as dire, and no one was physically harmed. Coach Tressel found himself caught up in a mess with five of his student athletes. They had broken an NCAA rule by selling their sports memorabilia and awards to get tattoos. Coach Tressel did fail, but his failure was a lack of judgment, which was due to his desire to protect his players from an outdated and asinine NCAA rule. But, just like Coach Paterno, Coach Tressel was sacrificed so the board and administrators would not be bothered by the press, and Ohio State would not be badmouthed by ESPN, and the like, any further.

It’s the lowlife scum at ESPN, Fox Sports Ohio (The Dan Patrick Show), and the major cable news-channels, who set out to destroy both of these fine coaches, and they had their way! They knew if they went after Jerry Sandusky that no viewer, after a few days, would pay any attention, since few people even know who Jerry Sandusky is. But Joe Paterno (and Jim Tressel) is a well known name in college sports, so, needless to say, Paterno was their target, even though he was not the perpetrator of the crimes against children, and fulfilled his responsibly by reporting what he had heard to his superior.

These modern-day sportscasters are mindless, thick-necked idiots who would sell their own children for a juicy story that might just bring them some more notoriety and a few more bucks. These men, for the most part, were failures in college and pro sports, so they now take out their warped revenge on those who have been successful, like Coach Paterno and Coach tressel! These sportscasters are the type of “men” (vermin) who now make this sick world go around every day. We can see them in the state, local and federal government, and on Wall Street, and in corporate headquarters, and on the pulpits on Sunday mornings. But, thank the Lord, there will be a day, sometime, when this type of man will be held accountable for his actions! I long for that day!

Whatever happened to loyalty? Where are the true men in this world? If there are any true men of God in this world, then where are they? I watched the Penn State board members last night and I was sickened: a bunch of nerdy, self-actualized, girly-men afraid of bad press. Gutless wonders, every last one!!

What happened to Coach Paterno and Coach Tressel is just a symptom of a much larger disease. And that disease is the Lack of the Lord in this world, which is leading to there being no men of character, integrity and guts to run this country or the world! There ain’t much hope, except in the Lord and the next life!

P.S.

11/12/2011

Finally, after the feeding frenzy of the mass-media, which has been going on now for the last three days, I heard an official from the State of Pennsylvania state what I had stated above.

According to this official, Joe Paterno, by reporting what he had heard to his superior (the athletic director), was not only following the right procedure according to Penn State University, but was also adhering to a Pennsylvania law!

But was there any apology coming from CNN, the channel where I heard this report? Absolutely NONE! Nor will there be! We live in a world where those in the wrong never have to backtrack and apologize for being wrong, especially in the warped world of broadcast and print journalists. Joe Paterno was suppose to grovel, and for no less than doing the right thing and even obeying the law of his state, but “reporters”, sports and news, are evidently above reproach, above an apology and admitting to rushing to judgment?

Does anyone but me, and Franco Harris, a former football player at Penn State (Pittsburgh Steeler), see that the Penn State board of trustees used the press to prosecute, judge, sentence and execute Joe Paterno’s character as a coach, teacher and human being? And many of us, the largest majority, allowed them to do this.

Why are most Americans so anxious to see a person who does good in this evil world brought down? Why has this kind of character assassination become such a perverted form of entertainment in the “good old US of A?

Here is what the Word has to say about man’s (not the Lord’s) judgment on others:

1“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2“For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5“YOU HYPOCRITE, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. (Matthew 7)

Deism, "Reason" + the "Founding Fathers" = "The Separation of Church and State" II

This is a follow up post to Deism, “Reason” + the “founding Fathers” = “The Separation of Church and State”, so I recommend reading that post first, since this is a continuation.

***{As I stated in the first post, I want to make clear that I believe all nations of this world have been corrupted and are, for all intents and purposes, Godless, just as the Word says,

“For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality (the Harlot), and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.” (Revelation 18: 3)

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3: 23)

But in the U.S. of A. there is such a strong, manipulative connection between the institutional “church”, government, economic system and patriotism, that I sense I must try to expose (if the Lord wills) the lies of this “religious”/political system to those believers trapped in them.}

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Here is a revealing quote from Thomas Paine, a devout deist and “founding father”:

The belief of the redemption of Jesus Christ is altogether AN INVENTION of the Church of Rome, not the doctrine of the New Testament. What the writers of the New Testament attempted to prove by the story of Jesus is the resurrection of the same body from the grave, which was the belief of the Pharisees, in opposition to the Sadducees (a sect of Jews) who denied it.

Paul, who was brought up a Pharisee, labors hard at this for it was the creed of his own Pharisaical Church: I Corinthians xv is full of supposed cases and assertions about the resurrection of the same body, but there is not a word in it about redemption. This chapter makes part of the funeral service of the Episcopal Church. The dogma of the redemption is THE FABLE OF PRIEST-CRAFT INVENTION since the time the New Testament was compiled, and the AGREEABLE DELUSION of it suited with the depravity of immoral livers. When men are taught to ascribe all their crimes and vices to THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL, and to believe that Jesus, by his death, rubs all off, and pays their passage to heaven gratis, they become as careless in morals as a spendthrift would be of money, were he told that his father had engaged to pay off all his scores. (emphasis added)

via Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Paine: Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion.

I have heard similar, blasphemous arguments from frothing-at-the-mouth atheists. But this scripturally ignorant and faithless statement is from one of the “founding fathers” who claims to believe in God, and, as the story goes, is one of those who helped “give birth” to this “One Nation Under God”. A nation which is supposedly blessed, according to Paine, by a God whose Son’s atoning sacrifice was “invented” (fabricated, made-up) by the pharisaic-influenced Apostle Paul and the other eyewitnesses to THE TRUTH:

Josephus is another source of historical testimony to the resurrection of Christ.

He writes this fascinating passage in Antiquities 18.3.3:

Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him many Jews, and also many of the Greeks. This man was the Christ. And when Pilate had condemned him to the cross, upon his impeachment by the principal man among us, those who had loved him from the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive on the third day, the divine prophets having spoken these and thousands of other wonderful things about him. And even now, the race of Christians, so named from him, has not died out.*

This passage is particularly amazing when considering the fact that Josephus was a Jew writing to please the Romans late in the first century. This story would not have pleased them in the slightest. It’s hard to imagine that he would have written it if it were not true.

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Let me say this in a different way: if Mr. Paine were alive today, he would claim a belief in God, and that this nation is blessed by God. And yet, at the very same time, he would deny the very nature, character and will of God and His Christ, which can all be found and discerned, Spiritually, in the word of God. In essence, Mr. Paine believed in a god (not the God) who allows his called-out-believers to fabricate stories (through his own inspired text) about his true nature, character and will. Mr. Paine was either a somewhat-less-than-honest, arrogant and unregenerate blasphemer, or he was a wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing, apostate hypocrite-of-the-worst-kind!

The late, and not so great, Mr. Paine was simply, and obviously, ignorant, Spiritually, of the word of God. Mr. Paine evidently had not the Spirit and Life of Christ in him (unregenerate), since he refused to believe and so could not rightly discern nor love the Truth inherent in the scriptures:

But A NATURAL MAN (“natural law”) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS TO HIM; and HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND (discern) THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY APPRAISED. (1 Corinthians 2: 14)

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (Galatians 2: 20)

To make matters worse, Mr. Paine would turn out to be a strong influence on another very prominent “founding father”, Thomas Jefferson, who was also a deist:

Jefferson adapted the REASONABLE QUALITIES of Locke’s argument with the philosophical underpinnings of Thomas Paine’s natural theology. Jefferson extensively studied Paine’s THE AGE OF REASON and agreed with Paine’s convictions that it was a grave injustice to lock God into a sacred text. This understanding of Paine immeasurably influenced Jefferson’s dealings with the Bible. For Paine, the Word of God ‘‘IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD’’ and through this, ‘‘God speaketh universally to man.’’ Jefferson absorbed this naturalism and sought to comprehend God in the laws of the universe, not doctrinal truths locked in scripture. For both Paine and Jefferson, the GOD IN THE BIBLE DID NOT APPEAL TO REASON. That God required complex doctrines and priestly authority to guide in His discovery, EXCLUDING MANY FROM RELATING TO GOD ON A PERSONAL BASIS. For THE REASONABLE PERSON, the evidence available in creation was all that was necessary. God was not only reachable but also understandable. Based largely on Paine’s influence, Jefferson focused his critique upon such exclusivity, diligently seeking to free Christianity FROM THE DARKNESS (of the word of God). (emphasis added)

via The Exaltation of a Reasonable Deity:Thomas Jefferson’s Critique of Christianity — Jeremy Koselak.

Note that many of the statements I have emphasized are, for all intents and purposes, not much different than what we hear, today, from “agnostics” and liberal theologians: “…the God in the bible did not appeal to reason”, the Word of God ‘‘is the creation we behold’’ and through this, ‘‘God speaketh universally to man.’’ It would seem, in looking back, that there was more than one “doubting” Thomas

This, from the very beginning (the Adamic nature), has always been the way of apostate and unregenerate man: take the truth (the word of our Lord and Savior) and twist it until you ring out all of man’s responsibilities and worship of God, and then reshape it into something that can be used to acquire all that fleshly man desires in this evil world system: wealth, power, prominence, autonomy.

Today, we have catch-phrases and terms such as “politically incorrect”, “politically correct” and “intolerance”. The “enlightened” term of Paine’s and Jefferson’s day was “REASON”!

Reason is but an uncertain deceitful instrument at best, and the blinding pride of man makes matters still worse. For when one has set his heart upon an idea–which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial as a castle of a dream–his powers are thenceforth used for the single purpose of making the picture of his imagination stand out as vividly and as like reality as possible…

(from The Earth’s Earliest Ages: G.H. Pember, {Pages 77-78})

To have put your faith in the Spirit of God to lead you into all truth, through the Word of God, was a major faux pax, according to Paine, Jefferson, and most of the other “founding fathers”. It was all about the “enlightenment”, it was all about “reason”, just as it is all about political correctness and moral and cultural relativism (“valuing diversity”) today: political correctness and moral/cultural diversity are two of the illegitimate and despicable offsprings of “the age of reason”: the “enlightenment”.

Mr. Jefferson, as with many others then, and today, was very closed-off to exposing his true “religious” beliefs, since he knew to be open and honest, in a “religious” sense, would spell doom for his political and economic aspirations.

{A similar confused theology (religiosity), like Jefferson’s, would also, a few decades later, confound a nineteenth century “scientist” named Darwin!}

If Mr. Paine, Mr. Jefferson, and the rest of their rebellious, political cohorts, were believers, as they erroneously claimed, then, because of their confused, humanistic intellectual-arrogance and disdain for the Truth, God had simply sent them a strong delusion:

…THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH SO AS TO BE SAVED. For this reason GOD WILL SEND UPON THEM A DELUDING INFLUENCE SO THAT THEY WILL BELIEVE WHAT IS FALSE, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. (2 Thessalonians 2: 10b-12)

As anyone can probably notice by now, I have not spent a great deal of time writing about prayer and imprisonment, because that issue is just a small symptom, a tiny inkling, of a much more invasive, devastating and deadly disease. I’m writing this post simply to attempt to show that we, as believers, cannot put our faith in this country, its government, its constitution, or anything else of fallen, unregenerate or apostate man: idolatry. Our faith must remain solely in the Lord and the Love of His Truth!

As overused as this scripture may be, I will quote it any way:

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3: 16)

This scripture is not the portrait of an unloving and uninvolved creator/god. This scripture is a portrait which reveals the love and desire of a sovereign Creator (God the Father and Son) for His sons, daughters and creation itself. To deny this is to deny God!

I believe that it’s time for those American conservative religionists, who sense the Lord’s calling on their lives, to wake up from their patriotic stupor and “religious” malaise and come to the realization that “the separation of church and state clause” was, and still is, as the atheistic God haters claim, a protection for the secular from the intervention of the Lord’s Way, Truth and Life: His Divine will. The “founding father’s” deistic/humanistic intentions were to have a secular society with some “biblical principles” sprinkled in for political/societal-control purposes: just enough to avoid chaos and anarchy, but not so much as to adhere to any one distinct supernatural entity, including “the God of the bible”. When we, the Body of Christ, hold any man-made document, including the constitution, in extreme reverence and awe, then we are, in Spirit and truth, aligning ourselves with the unregenerate and worshiping one of their many gods: we have, at this point, become apostate idolaters!

Like it or not, most of the men who founded this country were not believers and seekers of Christ’s Truth and Life. These “enlightened”, rebellious humanists believed in a god whom they had invented through manipulation of the word of God, a made-up god who would fit their needs, a mere religious-in-appearance, political tool to control the populace: ethics, morality, laws, justice, government, civil discourse (as opposed to anarchy and chaos). America’s “founding fathers” had discovered, just as Constantine (Emperor of Rome) had, some fifteen hundred years prior, that the bible and God could be misrepresented and manipulated in such a way as to meet the worldly needs of unregenerate man and his government. This earlier misrepresentation and manipulation, in Rome, would be responsible for the beginning of Christendom (catholicism, protestantism):

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.” (Revelation 17: 1, 2)

This ungodly “religious” institution is, in reality, the adulterous mother of the modern political state, and the apostate divisions (denominations, ideologies: deism) which were once the true Body and Church of Christ. What had begun with the Christ and His apostles in the Book of Acts, the true Church of Christ (the Bride), would, in just two-hundred years, be divided by Satan.

We can remain in this ungodly, idolatrous “religious” system and stagnate, Spiritually, or we can COME OUT from it and experience the Light and Life of our Lord. It’s up to each one of us to choose!