Turtle quietly
Clobbers the purple dragon
For it is ninja
I am low
Seeking peace
Eight years ago I remember struggling. I was so fearful of Obama being president. I knew Obama would be a terrible president. Knowing what I did about his character, I was sure he would lead this country away from good, down an ever deepening chasm of darkness. I’d say that I was correct in that assessment. But I was also wrong. I voted for McCain and when it was a blow out I felt like my vote did not count. Mostly though I felt shame for voting for one of the absolute biggest RINOs.
The last eight years have been trying in many ways. Evil in this country and in the world has grown. These last few years have seen moral things called immoral and immoral things called moral. I know that has been happening for a long time, but it has been very in your face recently. So what is a person to do? It all comes down to the choices we make. Seek what is good and true and when you find it, grab it and hold on. That is what I will be doing. No matter who wins this election and the trials that tomorrow brings; I’ll do what God commands me to do. It isn’t about saving this county, it’s about saving souls.
Why I can’t vote for Clinton or Trump, and neither can you
Before you brandish pitchforks, let’s put some qualifiers on this. This isn’t a Never Trump thing, nor is it a Never Hillary thing, this is an Always God thing. Therefore, I’m not speaking to everyone, just those who believe the Bible to be the word of God. If you don’t believe that, then this doesn’t really apply to you. Second, if you are a new christian, then this also doesn’t apply to you, maturity and understanding will occur with time; and with politics, even the best of us have difficulty telling right from wrong. You are more than welcome to read this if you are seeking truth, but unless you’ve been a christian for a while, this isn’t directed at you.
Brothers, sisters, let us think through what God would have us to do, or not do come this Tuesday. We are truly blessed to be citizens of a country that was based on the word of God. No county aside from Israel has been so richly blessed as our own; part of this blessing is the ability to vote. Many countries are ruled by the few elite at the expense of all they govern. Those people don’t get to pick what the government can do or even who even runs their governments. We as Americans get to make that decision every two years! Just think of it; every two years we could replace every single person in the House of Representatives. Tuesday we could vote in almost a whole new group of people to represent us, and two years from now, we could do it all again. This is a great blessing we have been given, but it’s also a responsibility. We are not slaves, bound to our rulers, without a say in the affairs of our life. In fact, you could say that we, the citizens of this country are the rulers and our representatives in government are our servants. For all this power we have allowed ourselves to become timid and weak. We, who believe that the God of all creation is on our side, and if God be for us, who can be against; are looking to men to save us. Wicked ones at that!
I’m sure I’ve already offended some for suggesting that their presidential candidate is wicked. No one is perfect, or how can I judge them you might say. You would be right in saying that no one is perfect. Jesus is the only one who has ever walked this planet without sinning. That is precisely why each and everyone of us needs the grace and forgiveness that God offers us. We all come to him broken and we all continue to sin; I’ve never known any christian that lived perfectly after being saved, but we are a new creation after our salvation and our lives will reflect that. As for judging, God commands us to judge. While we are to love each other as well as sinners, but we are to abhor sin. How can we abhor something we can not define. You can’t live without making judgements. Judgement basically means making a choice. Deciding what clothes to wear involves judging. Cooking and eating food involves judging. You literally cannot live without making judgements. That is not the type of judgements we are talking about though, we are talking about judgments of life and death, right and wrong, good and evil. That’s a little bit harder than deciding to wear the red shirt or the blue shirt today. Fortunately, God give us a guide to know all this, we just have to follow it. Since we can now agree that we have a right to judge, we should figure out how to go about that. Only God is able to judge hearts and motives, so we are commanded to judge works. Works are simply the actions that we take. Let us find some actions and figure out how they line up with what God says.
How about we start with an easy one, how about murder. That’s easy right? What goes on in someone else’s marriage or the many “inconsistencies” of someone’s memory might be hard to judge, but murder? God surly wouldn’t want his people to vote for a murderer. And to be fair, I am not speaking about anyone who has committed murder, but has since been saved and served their time in prison. What is murder? Murder is taking of a life, but it is more than just that. If someone breaks into your home, you can kill them without it being murder. That person meant you harm and you defended yourself and your family by taking their life. You could cause a car accident and take someone’s life. That would be a horrible accident, but there would be no forethought or malice for it to be a murder. On the other hand, if you were to say, pay a person to kill, you are a murderer. Even though you yourself aren’t the one taking someone’s life, you are still responsible for it. Everyone gets this right? A willful choice to take an innocent person’s life makes you a murderer. So have Trump or Clinton murdered anyone? Have I? Have you?
Did you know that the US has murdered more people than Stalin? Did you know that we have murdered about the same number of people as Hitler did? I’ll grant you that we haven’t murdered as many as Mao, but we aren’t done yet. These are three of the worst individuals in history, how should we judge ourselves? But wait, you say we haven’t murdered that many people? I wish that were true, but since 1973 we have committed over 50 million abortions in this country. If you’re offended or trying to justify yourself, you need to take a hard look at yourself. The second book of the bible has a law commanding any who kill an unborn child to be put to death. I honestly don’t know how christians didn’t march on Washington DC in 73, or at least make their own political party and refuse to vote for any other party. Seriously, why have we not done that? Clinton won the Margaret Sanger award for pete’s sake. Margaret Sanger, if you don’t know, is the the woman who founded Planned Parenthood; the biggest abortion provider in the whole county. Clinton was happy to receive that award, she admires Sanger. Clinton has probably done more than anyone in recent history to ensure we continue the slaughter of babies. She is a murderer. Trump has paid people to make sure abortions are done, Clinton being one of them. So he also is a murderer.
That leave the questions of am I a murderer and are you one. This is a harder question for me to answer, but it is one that is much more important. I was born into this world years after this decision was made. I was paying taxes before I ever learned that my taxes went to pay for abortion. It isn’t easy to look at yourself, and know that willingly or not, you have helped to kill innocent little babies. Trump and Clinton both claim to be christian. They blaspheme God to call themselves his child while being unrepentant sinners. The bible tells me to turn away from people such as them. I have not given money to either of these people, but if I give my vote to one of them, I will become a murderer. I still don’t know who I am voting for on Tuesday. I know that I can not vote for Trump nor Clinton, and brothers, sisters, neither can you.
Hello president dictator
Today is a melancholy day. I know I’m not the only one to feel this way. Loss of hope can be crushing. And it has been a loss of hope. I had hope that things may be okay. Now I know they won’t be. My world, as well as the world as a whole is about to get tougher, scarier. This causes me sadness. I will continue to stand for truth and justice. I realize this may soon be illegal; it already is in some cases, but it is the right thing to do.
SR
The Stone
Choose to be right, or you end up being wrong
I am sick of Trump. The man’s name irritates me. The man himself is irritating, but irritating in the same way that a spoiled two-year who is throwing a temper tantrum. At least the two-year old has an excuse for throwing a tantrum; he’s two, and with some instruction still has a good shot at growing up to be a decent human being. Trump will turn 70 this year; not absolutely too late to change who you are, but unlikely.
No, what irritates me is everyone talking abut him; and how they talk about him. I’m listening to a radio host right now talk about him and the debate Thursday night. This host is someone I enjoy listening to normally, but over the last few months I’ve had to turn him off many times. I’ve heard the defense that he has a contract with Fox which would bar him from going after a candidate or possibly supporting a candidate. I say that’s hogwash. But let us come back to that later.
Fox news’ motto is “Fair and balanced”. So let’s examine what exactly that means.
Balance goes back to ancient trading, where one would have a scale or “balance” to weigh different products. Once you knew the weight, you could then determine the worth. There were people who built balances that, while they appeared to measure correctly, would in fact display the incorrect measurements. This was done to cheat; to steal; to hurt others for their own gain. It was important to have a balance that was right and true.
Fair. Fairness is pretty simple. We all know what fair means don’t we? Or do we? Fair: free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice. So to be fair basically means you have to be honest and right. If you happen to be dishonest and wrong, you then cannot be fair.
Now that we have finished our examination we see that to be “Fair and balanced” means your have to be honest and truthful. Honesty and truth. Two words that do not describe Trump. If you know Trump is lying and you don’t point out that he is lying; does that make you a party to the lie? If you devote half of your air time to talking about Trump and don’t ever talk about his lies, are you not condoning his actions?
Speaking of his actions, let us focus on them for a minute.
Liar. He is a serial liar. Every time I hear him speak I pick out several lies, and I’m sure there are lies he tells that I don’t recognize as such. When Trump talks for five minutes he tells a dozen lies. Cruz proved Trump is a liar last night during the debate. A simple online search will prove he’s a liar. He lies like he breathes, which is to say all the time, so let us move on from how huge a liar he is.
Murderer. While as far as I know, he hasn’t personally killed anyone, he has given money to those who make a living out of killing people. He hasn’t apologized for the deaths he has helped to cause or even said he feels regret over it. Quite the contrary, he defends himself. Just last week he defended himself for killing people. Even when murder is legal, it still is murder. And since a baby cannot possibly have attacked a person, necessitating that person defending themselves, any killing of a baby is murder. Trump is responsible for murder.
Trump has a history of hiring illegal aliens to work for him. Does anyone truly believe that he suddenly thinks that illegal aliens are bad? He’s saying what he thinks you want to hear! He doesn’t believe what he says.
Trump is not a Christian. He says he has never asked for forgiveness from God. That is a prerequisite to being a Christian. Again, he’s saying what he thinks you want to hear.
Since Trump is lying about being a conservative and a christian just to try to get votes, aren’t you a fool if you are a conservative or a christian and fall for his lies? So you’re angry and upset at the status quo. Then you absolutely can not vote for Trump. The man is part of the status quo. He isn’t an outsider to Washington. He is one half of all the problem with Washington. He gives money to people in Washington and they give him things in return. How is that an outsider?
So how about we return to what I was saying before about conservative talk show hosts not calling Trump out for who he really is. I am not happy about making the comparison, though his own fans have also made it, but Trump is a modern day Hitler. I don’t say that lightly. Hitler also tapped into the anger of the country. Hitler also blamed one group of people for the problems of the country. Hitler also promised to make Germany “great” again. Trump should be opposed most vehemently. The conservatives and the Christians should be doing all they can to denounce Trump.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For anyone to try to walk the knife’s edge between truth and lies in the misguided quest to remain “fair and balanced”, they will get cut and fall away from the truth. You have to choose the truth, because it is rarely easy. I choose to see Trump for who he really is and stand against him. What will you choose?
Some idle thoughts
The hypocrisy of the progressives and liberals is nothing new. I’ve been a witness to it most of my life. I remember the first time I saw a democrat break a promise from a former campaign, tell obvious lies in his then current campaign, and then see people who should know better vote for the man. Today however I heard three separate things during the day that struck me as funny.
First, with the recent shooting of the reports, the typical knee-jerk reaction of the left is to call for gun control. More screenings, less guns, less bullets, more drugs for the mentally ill. I’ve yet to hear a single logical explanation how any law would have prevented this. This man apparently had no convictions that would have kept him from getting a gun. He apparently had not been in a hospital and had any health reason to ban him from getting a gun. There was no history to keep him from purchasing a firearm. So ban all guns you say? The man committed murder and suicide, a law banning guns wouldn’t stop him. He would buy it from a black market. It may have made things a little harder for him maybe, but the end result would be the same, save for the fact that any law abiding citizen would be left completely defenseless without access to a gun.
Second, a judge declared today that the 4th amendment to the constitution doesn’t matter. The government can break the laws of the land if it wants and spy on all we the people if it so wants to, and the government really, really wants to. The people who brought a lawsuit against the NSA for their bulk collection of data were found to have no legal standing because they couldn’t prove that their personal records were in all the other records that the NSA has. So basically, the NSA is allowed to spy on the people it’s supposed to protect, keep all their information, and we aren’t allowed to object cause we can’t plop the evidence down on that judges desk. All of this to supposedly protect us from terrorists and radicals. They’ve been doing a bang up job of that haven’t they. If you didn’t get the sarcasm, read the previous paragraph again.
Third, I heard Clinton commenting on something Trump said this past week. Whether we should do any of this or not is not the issue, just on the statements that were made. So what were these statements? Trump said that we should deport all of the people that are in this county illegally. That’s right, he proposed that we follow our own laws. While I am no Trump fan, the idea of following the law doesn’t seem too foreign to me. Excuse the pun. So what was Clinton’s response you ask? Thanks for asking. Clinton said that it would be impossible to round up so many people and deport them. That we can’t send them home. People are breaking the laws. They have to be dishonest, cheat, and steal just to remain in the country, yet our government is incapable of finding them and deporting them. Let that sink in.
Really let that sink in. The very same people who say they cannot find, much less deport several million people who have committed crimes and are in the process of committing more crimes by being in the county are the same people who tell you that they can protect you from someone who may sometime in the future commit a crime if you’ll just let them take away all your weapons and let them spy on everything you do. Maybe hypocrisy isn’t the correct word for this sort of behavior. What is the correct word for someone who lies, threatens, kills, and steals from you for their own gain and power? Fuhrer perhaps?