05/12/2008

Freedom of Speech.

 

 Now for the past couple of year this country has gone thru a few public tirades about the Right of Freedom of Speech. However, with the growing ignorance of those being allowed to graduate from those indoctrinate buildings some call Public schools, we need to clarify this issue up. The Bill of Rights state: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. It is so Simple and to the point. The Freedom of Speech is the template for which the Forefathers created the Rights, an indispensable condition of nearly every other freedom is based upon.

 

 If it is so direct and simple then why are so many people confused? The reason comes into play when people make their statements like the Dixie Chicks and then those who hear respond in an unfriendly manor. The Bill of Rights that our Forefathers gave us allows for us to speak our mind freely and without any fear of recourse. This Right however does not state that everyone that hears our speech has to like nor does it say that others have to agree with it. In the Dixie Chicks case they felt that this freedom gave them the Right to speak how the felt about the current president and everyone who heard them would still accept and like them as they did before they made those statements, WRONG !

 

 We are given this right to speak our mind, other are just as deservedly so given the right to not agree and even HATE us for those statements. Then they are allowed under the same Right that you used to speak they are allowed to speak what they feel about you and what you said. Then in the case of some celebrities we are also allowed to not buy their CD or go to their movie and that is our RIGHT. So the next time someone says something stupid and then follows it with “I can say that cause of Freedom of speech”. Your reply should be “Yes you do have that Right, and I have the Right to think and say that you’re an IDIOT! 



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04/30/2008

There is a new Clam out there about a New Dollar that does not say " In God we Trust"

  Since the 1950's the American currency has had the words In God We Trust. So now a new E-mail is going around, sadly we got caught in it as well, that is showing a coin Dollar that does not have the words IN GOD WE TRUST. This is not true. Here is the story.  Since the 1950's the US Mint has put the words IN GOD WE TRUST on American currency.  In 2007 the US Mint started a series simiar to the 50 state quatars. This time they were going to do Coin one Dollar coins. Each new coin would have a different president on one side and the Statute of Liberity on the back. Well due lack of space the words In God We Trust were not found on the front or back, however the sides of the coin does have those words there. For more info on this you can check out the following sites.




http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp

 

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=schedule


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04/24/2008

Why do Christians kill their wounded….

I do not think we "kill" them. I used to think that way, but in the cases that I know of with clarity,  the men and women of God were not repentant or willing to submit to the counsel.

Let's look at the ones that I know of.

Roberts Liardon, gave himself a 3 month sabbatical, used counsel that was not even in the country, tried to get married to dispel the fact that he was gay and had gotten caught.

Never was able to return to the full ministry that he had once had.

Jimmy Swaggart, Lust or whatever with a prostitute, submitted the first time to 6 month sabbatical, then when he was caught again, refused to step down. Now you find him angry with the AG and charismatic’s on various channels, but none of the Christian ones.

Tammy Baker, never acknowledged any responsibility in the fraud that she and her husband participated in. She did peddle stuff with the guy who went to jail for fraud, Kevin with Natural Cures. She has since died of cancer; no we are not saying that was

God’s doing God is never the cause of evil. However, our own works makes our bodies

Produce some bad chemicals and over time take their toll on us.

Jim Baker, did take responsibility while in prison and was restored, but keeps low key. He is working in the ministry with his son, who had for a time rebelled against God because of his parents, doing good works for street people.

I think if people are truly repentant then the church is accepting, but in far too many cases they are not. They are mad they got caught. That is not repentance.

As for the word Fell, no, that is not the word for Swaggart or the others. They were not sins of opportunity, but they sought out the women, men, drugs, etc. They kept pursuing them and then lied to their family, friends, and church. Some lied in the beginning about it, so they were not trying to get repentance they wanted a get out jail free card. Those that do come before God and do repent and then make it right with those that they wronged I think the church, that is you and I, owe them our forgiveness and our help to get them back. They do not need for us to help knock them down. The world does that enough !

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04/01/2008

US  vs. Victhem

This week as with most weeks we heard someone, this week it was a Presidential candidate, doing more damage to the people of this country. Instead of getting in front of the camera and telling everyone that the statements of the Rev. Wright were wrong, divisive and with out any merit. He said he understood where the anger was coming from and recognized that this what America feels, that is just pure Barbara Streisand !

We need someone in this country to stand up and say everyone; every group has been attacked, taken advantage of, insulted, made fun of and even harassed. So now that we understand this we are no longer going to play the victim we are going to understand WE are Americans and are going to find the answers to our problems together. We have had 40 years Civil Right laws, 40 years of equal employment laws. Do people still hire based on race, YES ALL colors do. I understand if I do not get a job it may or may not be because I am a white male and this company has to fill their quota of black, women or other minorities. That does not make me a victim it makes go to another place and apply there. You want to be taken serious then take responsibility for your actions. Do not blame slavery that happened over 100 years ago or blame it on the white man stealing your land for beads. No one owned YOU and no one stole your land.

  Everyone gets discriminated against that does not make you a victim that makes you human as well as it makes the ones that made that decision human. It is NOT us against them it is US period. We are the people that live in this great God given country. Not start acting like it.


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03/25/2008

                                                                                  Daily Thought


John 3:16 says “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life”. 

Paraphrased – The next verse says, He didn’t come into the world to CONDEMN the world, but that the world through Him may be saved.

I deal with people every day that have sinned to the max.  There is probably nothing left under the sun that they haven’t done, and many times.  Yet when they come to prison, they stop long enough, get off the drugs or booze, and with more clear headed thinking, realize there is a better way.  Or at least they hear there is a better way and they will try anything, (thus their past).  But in that past, they never found peace, joy, love, patience, kindness, long suffering, etc……

They found hate, suffering, turmoil, betrayal, lust, were used up, beat up, and left to the devil to do with whatever he wanted.

I ask these women, you have asked Jesus for forgiveness of your sins?  Yes. 

But it is hard for them to believe that they are “WORTHY” to be forgiven.  That Jesus loved them so much that He died for them.

But that is what happened.  I find no place in the Bible where my name, their name or your name is excluded.  He said for ALL.

Why is that hard for us to accept?  Because we know ourselves?  And we don’t think HE does?  That’s where the lies from the devil start.  The input of thoughts that demean ourselves, debase us come into our mind and we accept them.  We think, well Jesus may forgive that sin, but He won’t forgive this one.  That is why we become so critical and judgmental on others.  We are hard on ourselves.  So we take that same ruler and apply it to everyone else.

This isn’t soft soap teaching.  This is the Bible.  We don’t give up and quit and stop behavior to accept Christ.  We accept Christ into our hearts, make him Lord of our lives and then through our daily readying and praying and communicating with Him, the old ways begin to drop off, melt away.  The desires from the old life gets less and less.  We develop new habits, new thoughts, new desires.  Because we learn to LOVE HIM.  It isn’t an overnight relationship.   It may be the first time sensation, revelation, excitement, or not.  But the minute we believe he died for our sins on the Cross and take him into ours, that relationship begins.  At least with HIM.  What we do with it is up to us.

We can put it aside and continue what we were doing.  But we don’t enjoy it.  We try to override our thoughts, that forgiving spirit He now has applied to us.  And we can reject Him, again

Do what you know you should do.  Just ask Him to help you keep this relationship going.  You aren’t perfect.  He knows that.  But you can learn to desire to do His will.  You see the blessings He’s given you.  You know you’re on the right road.  The Bible says, “don’t look to the right or left, but keep your eyes on Him”.

Do that and begin that relationship with Jesus.  It will be the best one you ever had.

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03/11/2008

Government Schools

  As a father of 2 boys I have gone thru and am still trying to get one child past the age of 18 and on to making a good life and family of their own. In doing this one must put their child thru an un-holy and tortured set of years know as school. Now don’t get me wrong I think that one should learn and be taught to know how to add, subtract, Read and write correctly, and no I don’t think any answer is an ok answer to spare the “feelings” of the child. However, I did run across a letter to the editor the other day of a national newspaper stated the following..   "As a new substitute teacher, I just received a letter from Fulton County schools warning me not to correct the Grammar of the children.” Now the letter went on to state that the kids needed to be able to express themselves in a manner that was fitting to their heritage. What this said to me was that this teacher was told not correct the grammar of kids that were not of same race as her because someone might think that the teacher would only correct the grammar of a black student and not a white student.

   I want to be the first or second to tell you that a helpdesk agent I hear some of these kids talk today when they try to reach the helpdesk asking for assistance. Most of them sound like this…. “Dog you know there ain't no rightouse boys (employers) out dere (there) who’d give da good job to a brother dat lays it on the line (speaks) like me….” The point of the letter was to say that some schools are telling our teachers that they can not correct the grammar of a black student if they are a white teacher without insulting the child’s culture, heritage, tattoos, proficiency on the field of sports and hairstyle. Now when did we go from learning the 4 R’s to worrying about the child’s sports play or their way of speaking?

   Now I did a little research and found out that what we know as "ebonics" or the language style that is favored among many blacks, actually came from around 1619, during the slave trade, ships collected slaves not just from one nation but from many nations. Although they were mostly Africans certain areas spoke different languages, Some Africans spoke Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa. Then ship workers and the slaves had to be able to understand each other. There was a kind part African and English combo. So since it really isn't a black thing, but an English thing, then why is there a problem in trying to correct it? We're talking about education here and success in later life for these kids. Isn't that what schools are supposed to address?

    Then I also heard where some teachers at a school in Seattle have banned the use of Legos in class by children. The reason they gave as it turns out was that the children had developed a Lego town and were learning about capitalism and how to make money and get people to pay for their srvices. The teachers couldn't have this, so they banned the Legos. Was the reason because they were harmful to the kids, no but because they wanted the students to learn that owning private property was evil. They also said that Lego town had become a class-based, capitalist society and they (the teachers) believed that was unjust and oppressive.

Now, is this what you expect from your friendly neighborhood government school? This does show you that every facet of education is being infected with socialist liberals. So here is just an example of the nonsense that the kids who attend the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle are being programmed with:

  • The teachers decided that the children's assumptions about owning private property "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society, a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive." That's right, they actually said this.

  • After these kids displayed such horrifying tendencies with their Lego town, the teachers decreed that "All structures are public structures" and "all structures will be standard sizes." Sound familiar? Somewhere Karl Marx is smiling.

  • The teachers said that in banning the Legos, "our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation." If that doesn't send shivers down your spine, I don't know what would.

So there you have it...Socialism 101 being taught to young children who don't know better. But they do deserve points for their sudden burst of entrepreneurship with their Lego town. It's too bad it was accidentally demolished. Perhaps the teachers took it over through eminent domain and are building a communist re-education center.

 

 Remember they get to teach your kids anything while your not there !!!!


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03/04/2008


Less Freedom means Less prayer

 

    The other day I heard a talk radio show host the other day state that he believes that over the past 30 years, and that it escalates every decade, we Americans are losing more and more of our Freedoms. Now I am not here today to dispute or support that statement as a whole but I began at that point to look at Christians over the past 30 – 40 years, yes I am that old that I can look that far back so hush. What I have found is that for the past few decades or so we Christians have lost our “NEED” to pray. The more we as a Nation become dependent upon State run assistances or new inventions that begin to “help” us more and more the less we feel the need or the desire to pray, I also have become lethargic in my praying in the past few years.

 

    Our fore fathers had need of everything from their health to the weather to help their crop to the very daily food. They needed God to be their very source of life. If you take the time to read any of the American writings from our own constitution to the Bill of Rights or any of the other many writings you can read words such as “retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence” not from God but from any form of tyranny or oppression with God’s help and total dependence upon God and his guidance. However we as a people seem to feel it is more incumbent upon our current government rather than our very own creator to bless and support us. How have we become a nation of the deserving from a nation of the independent?

 

   We wonder why and how “God could let things happen” such as 9-11 or Pear Harbor? In my humble opinion it may not be that God “lets” these things happen as much as we allow them to happen. Here is my reasoning. Our creator has given us the power and the authority over all we see. However, we giving up that power to a group of men and women who may or may not be as in touch with our heavenly farther as our fore Fathers take some of our freedoms in exchange for “their” protection. They then become our authority figure and our deity. Which at that point we replace God with our president then God no longer has any authority to prevent the things which with prayer and dependence upon him he would impede events that unfold in our lives. The more letters we write to congress means the less we will call for prayer in our lives. Because then we have moved the ultimate power source in our being from the heavens to Washington.

 

   What will it take for us as a person and us as a nation to revert back to the dependence upon God?