Guns and Liberals-Bad KARMA

I am a seventy year old retired U.S. Army MAJOR.  I served in Operation Desert Storm as a Company commander, and also flew 117 combat missions in Vietnam in the USAF (F4 Phantom II Fighter-Bomber.  I grew up in the south (Louisiana), and have lived around guns all my life.  I own several, including several semi-automatic rifles.  I have been plenty mad lately at people, especially liberals and Democrats to kick their butts, but NEVER have I had a serious thought of shooting one of them with one of my rifles!  Why?  Because I was brought up in a generation where faith in God was a central part of my life, and that faith generated a value system that centered around Christian principles and God’s Ten Commandments.

Liberals want America to believe that the Constitution and our founding fathers were not religious people.  That is a bald-faced Lie.  All one has to do is look at the list of the 200+ names of our founding fathers and the signers of the Declaration of Independence shown in this link List of Christian founders and signers of Declaration of Independence, and it becomes readily evident that our founders were, indeed, to the man, Christians.  There is also ample proof in the writings of the founders that they intended for this to be a nation based on Christian principles.  As the founders put it, it was to be a nation where every man could worship God as he saw fit.  As Chief Justice Joseph Story, of our 1^st Supreme Court wrote, “Probably, at the time of the adoption of The Constitution, and of the Amendment to it now under consideration, the general, If not the universal, sentiment in America was that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from The State…An attempt to level all religions and to make it  a matter of state policy to hold all in utter Indifference would have created universal disapprobation [disapproval] if not universal indignation [anger].” On another occasion, in his “Commentaries”, he wrote, “The real object of the [First Amendment] was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sect”

Our founders did NOT believe that Christianity should be viewed legally on the same level as every other religion.  The founders and the majority of the people of the nation viewed the principles of Christianity as foundation for our governmental policies.  This is clearly stated by the founders.  As an example, this quote from Justice Story “One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. . . . There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations. . . . I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. “ 

Why is it important for America to know that our founders viewed the principles of Christianity to be the foundation upon which our laws were founded?  Because they also realized that for this Constitution to be effective, it was written FOR a Christian people in a Christian nation.  It protected the rights of other religions to be worshipped freely, but the founders DID NOT believe that any other religion was to be viewed by the government on an equal level with Christianity, because they believed that only Christianity had the moral and spiritual principles that would insure our nation’s future and security, both internally and externally.  Again, do not just believe me, but look at the writings of our founding fathers!

John Adams, 2^nd President wrote:  “…The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were …the general principles of Christianity….Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God….I could therefore safely say, consistently with all my then and present information, that I believed they would never make discoveries in contradiction to those general principles.”

“…We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion….Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any others”

Samual Adams, Organizer of the Boston Tea Party and Signer of the Declaration of Independence:  “Religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness…..A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of American than the whole force of the common enemy….”

Thomas Jefferson, writer of the Declaration of Independence and 3^rd President of the United States wrote: “The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain.  We all agree in the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses”

Our founding fathers understood that a nation without a moral compass such as the general principles of Christianity would be a nation that would not endure.  They encouraged the teachings of the New Testament in public schools.  (Yes, that is a fact:  Until the American people wake up from the deception and liberal indoctrination being spewed out in our universities and by liberal politicians and judges, and reject their lies and deception, then sadly, it is doomed to fulfill Thomas Jefferson’s prophesy from over two hundred years ago where he said:

“The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.” - Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821

“The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity ever acting, with noiseless foot, and alarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding with it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of which feeds them.”
- Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821

No nation without a moral compass can secure the freedoms of its people against the incessant encroachment of an out-of-control government.  Government cannot stop the slaughter of its citizens by simply taking away their guns, the only way the slaughtering can be stopped is by instilling in its people the principles of Christianity, where life is valued as a gift from God, where people fear God’s wrath and the just punishment awaiting those who break its laws.  Trying to seize all guns in this nation would lead to an outright violent overthrow of the government and the destruction of our national structure.  Our founders knew what/who would protect our freedoms, and they instilled it in the Constitution.  The SCOTUS has destroyed that foundation, and the other two branches must step up and restore the founders vision of the nation and put the judiciary back into its place, e.g., using Origional Intent as the guiding principle to issuing their opinions and NOT be allow to create law by declaring unconstitutional laws that comply with the original intent of the Constitution as written by the founders.

WEAPONS DO NOT KILL PEOPLE; PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE!

When will people stop looking at a weapon and blaming it for innocent people being killed?  That is so symptomatic of this “victim” society, but it is an absolutely stupid view!.  The gun does not kill until a person points it at someone and pulls the trigger; same for a knife, a bomb, poison, a car, or anything else!

Anyone ever wonder why mass shootings like this almost never occurred prior to the late 1980s and began with regularity in the late 1990s?  Although a few occurred prior to this, random shootings with no real grievances against someone being a motivation really did not start until 1998.  Although there are some who disagree with my beliefs, there are also many experts who say that violent games promote aggressive behavior and condition players to view the act of killing someone and the gory results of shooting somebody in the head, or cutting off a body part as not so repulsive an act.  In other words, they cheapen the value of another life to the players.  Virtually all of the extremely graphic video games came out after 1995 (ex:  Mortal Combat 1993; Grand Theft Auto 1998; Call of Duty 2003; World of Warcraft 2004 ).  It is my belief that these games cheapen the value of life and slowly desensitize players to the actual horrors of taking someone's life violently.  The more graphic and realistic the video games actions become, the more that they desensitize the players to the gore associated with shooting someone in the head and seeing their blood and brains splattered all over the walls and floors.  If killed in the game, then just restarting the game brings the characters back to life.  The finality of a death in real life is cloaked and softened in the minds of the players. 

           Again, there are conflicting beliefs on both sides of the argument whether the games do or do not stimulate violent behavior on the players.  I tried playing those games with my sons for awhile, and I observed that the graphic depictions of snipers blowing peoples' heads wide open, the blood and brain matter being sprayed graphically, and the mayhem done to people in those games was very disturbing to me personally, but seemed to have no effect on my sons.  Personally, I believe that although they may or may not stimulate the violent behavior, they do desensitize individuals to the gore and finality of the act of taking someone's life by a bullet.

There is also no question that the rise of violence and the exponential growth of gun violence is directly correlated to the disintegration of the family unit which is directly correlated in time line with the SCOTUS’s numerous rulings which removed prayer from public schools (1947), then government buildings, legalizing abortions (1973), government interfering with parental disciplining of their own children, and the school systems’ being sued by parents accusing teachers of improper disciplining of students in class.

The Surgeon General of the United States stated in 2001 that "...According to the report, the strongest risk factors for school shootings center are mental stability and the quality of home life, not media exposure."  As long as history has been documented, life has been centered around family.  The Bible tells us that after God created man, he created woman because it was not good that man should be alone:  Genesis 2:18-24:  "¹⁸ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.  ...²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs^[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. ²² Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.  ²³ The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”  ²⁴ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."  

God created the family.  God made that family unit a man and a woman.  It is through family that mankind grows in number.  It is through family that generations of individuals have learned proper manners, respect for others, belief in God, and the right ways to love one another as human beings and kin. But that family unit has been systematically destroyed by liberal judges making rulings that have destroyed the moral compass of this nation.  They have made rulings which have subjected Americans to pornography which poisons the minds of men, women, and even children with sensual stimulations stressing sex with anybody at any time, where adults have sex with children, and humans with animals, and sex where men and women are abused physically, mentally, and emotionally.  Pornography destroys the proper bond between men and women and replaces it with a fantacy world where people live out their fantasies with strangers they see on the screen, sometimes permanently destroying the relationship with their spouses.  They have made rulings which destroy the family structure that God designed and have imposed upon society a made-up family structure that is offensive to many individuals and groups that think God's plan is the ONLY plan that will effectively unite the country again.  What individuals do behind closed doors is between them and God, but to force through judicial mandate society to view and tolerate and have to not be critical of the perversion to Biblical guidelines that many of us believe the overriding mandate guiding our lives is extremely offensive, is hypocritical, and in my opinion illegal.  We have a government telling us what we have to think and what we can and cannot say, and that is antithetical to everything that the founding fathers believe and provide for in the Constitution.

To sum up, America functioned until the late 1940s under the concept of Original Intent, e.g., interpreting the Constitution by first looking at the intent of the writer(s) of the particular article of the Constitution and using that as the guideline principle by which the decision was conformed to the intent of the writer.  Starting in 1947 and continuing through today, the liberal judges adopted the concept of Judicial Activism, wherein they used the social norms and trends of the day to guide them in their interpretations of the Constitution.  That shift left the nation with an ever-changing basis upon which right and wrong was defined, leading us to a situation where today, in many cases, right or wrong is defined by each person, by the loudest protesting voices, or by special interest groups lobbying powers, rather than by the Original Intent of the founding fathers.  This is wrong, it is immoral, definitely unconstitutional, and goes against the spirit and promise of freedom that our founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

The majority of our founders were Christians, and the evidence is found in their writings.  David Barton, President of Wallbuilders, has collected over seventy thousand of the original writings of our founders.  It should be noted that many historians agree that there are 204 individuals that qualify to be called "founders" of our nation.  Of that 204 individuals, every last one of them identified with a Christian sect.  Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, all fifty-six identified with a Christian sect.  The breakdown can been seen here:  List of Christian founders and signers of Declaration of Independence Those who claim that our founders were not Christians are simply lying or do not know what they are talking about.

America has lost its moral compass, which our founders intended to be the principles of the Christian faith, and frankly speaking, until that is reversed, all the laws in the world will do NOTHING to stop mass shootings in schools, and gun violence on our city streets.  People kill other people, and if a gun is not available, they will find another weapon to do it.  The hearts, minds, and souls of America’s citizens must be changed before it can expect any behavior changes.  The concept of gun control changing anything is proven to be a pipe dream; just look at Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and many other cities where guns are as available as cigarettes to anyone with money and the will to look for them.  The government trying to control anything is ridiculous.  Prohibition didn't work, the War on Drugs didn't work, and gun control didn't work in the past and won't in the future. 

Let's face it; if history has proven anything, it is that evil is going to be a part of this world as long as it exists until Christ comes back and establishes His kingdom here on earth and banishes Satan and his demons to hell.  But until then, we will be fighting that evil, and unless we do so based on a belief in Christ and governing by His principles, it will be a losing battle.

AM I READY FOR THE RETURN OF CHRIST? YES!!!, AND NO...

As a Christian, for decades I have been hearing about the pending return of Christ. At least twice in my lifetime, that coming again has been forecast, and both times obviously was incorrect. When those times approached, I felt pretty sure those forecasts were misguided in nature, but still I pondered the "what-if" scenario; was I ready or not if by chance they were correct. Though the Bible says that not even Jesus knows when the Father will send Him back to bring His Church home to Heaven, still hearing these people so certain of that time made me both curious and cautious in saying whether or not these prophets of the pending return of Christ were wise, crazy, fanatics, or just publicity seekers.   In the end, I told myself that I was ready, and actually prayed that the forecasters would be correct.

But now, as I think about that, I question the wisdom of that prayer. Not from a selfish standpoint, however, but because of the state of many of my countrymen and actual friends and loved ones that I now know were not then, and are not now ready for that coming event.  I feel like I have failed to be the best I could be for Christ, and I am ashamed and disappointed in that failure.  I am one of the millions of Christians who took the "let someone else..." or "I am not goid enough to..." position, and will regret that probably forever as I do now.  My friends, acquaintants and loved ones have been deceived by Satan and this evil world, and had Christ come then, I am certain would have been condemned to hell for all eternity.

I guess the reality of that has hit home because I personally have friends and loved ones that I know do not believe that Christ is the only way to Heaven, that the Bible was written not by prophets and the disciples of Christ, but by men simply trying to improve their position in history, or that the translations are in error, or that a loving God would not condemn a "good person" to hell. And I am not ready to accept their fate yet; I am still praying that God will be merciful and open their eyes to see the truth. And I am convinced that Jesus IS the only way to Heaven, that one can never be "good" enough to earn one's way to heaven, and that the Bible IS God's words and instructions to us and is truth!

I say that NOT from pride, but because of evidence that God has shown through others, through the inspiration of His word, and through God's own speaking to me on two different occasions clearly. I cannot deny God's truth, His existence, His sovereignty, and His love because I have experienced it first hand, and have seen too many instances where He has revealed Himself to the world in undeniable ways.

So God, personally, I will say that I long to see Jesus come and save this world, and should You choose to call me home, I am ready and long to lay any jewels in my crown at your feet and thank You for your sacrifice and love for me that You would go through what Jesus did so that a miserable sinner such as I might know the redemptive love and freedom that You gave through Christ. But for the love of others, for the burning desire in my heart to not see ANYONE and especially those that I love and care for so very much suffer the indescribable misery of eternal punishment in hell separated from you, in Your infinite mercy, forgive my selfish desires .  Please let me stay here long enough to hopefully share my faith in ways that honor you and open the eyes of those I know and love personally, and those You love and would allow me to share my faith in a way that helps them see the loving God that I see as my sovereign God, the only God, and Jesus as my Savior and Messiah. This is my prayer. AMEN

Why Jesus Had to Die!

 

Why did God send Jesus Christ to earth to become the Messiah; to take on the burden of being the  bearer of every sin committed by every person that will ever live from the time of His resurrection until the final judgement?  Theologians and Biblical scholars can give great, in-depth explanations about how and why it had to be that way, but it really boiled down to a very simple reality:  there was no other way for man to be reconciled to a Holy God.

FACT 1:  Sinful man cannot abide with a Holy and righteous God.
FACT 2:  Since the fall of man (and woman) in the Garden of Eden, man has been sentenced to live in a sinful world, and to have a sinful nature.
FACT 3:  GOD gave man laws to live by through Moses, but mankind failed to live by those laws over and over, proving that we were incapable of being holy and living a sinless life.  No amount of animal sacrifices were enough to keep man free from the guilt of sin against God.
FACT 4:  Left to ourselves, man is going to sin against God, causing separation from God, and is incapable of obeying God's law and living a holy, righteous, and sinless life.

When we think about God creating us, we can understand why God followed the path He did in redeeming us.  SATAN will use every means available to attack, including trying to destroy our children, grandchildren, friends, family, and other loved ones.  I am also learning very painfully that Satan is the most evil, despicable entity in God's creation.  The pain that Satan causes people is indescribable and so cruel and, sadly, often so unnecessary if only people would understand that He is relentless in his attacks.  What is Satan's purpose in attacking us?  The answer is very simple:  To keep as many souls for himself and from following Jesus.  Satan is a fallen angel.  When the final judgement of Christ comes, Satan and all his demons, and every soul that has refused to accept Christ as their personal Savior, unfortunately, will be condemned to eternity in hell with Satan and separated from God. 

Satan wants to keep people from focusing on worshiping God, on giving God control of their lives, from accepting Jesus and on rejecting Satan's deceptions.  What is sad to me...so very sad...is that people are gullible and susceptible to Satan's deceptions because they/we/I are not grounded in their faith; we do not realize that we must commit to following Christ's example every hour of every day.  We must constantly be on the lookout for Satan's deceiving ways or we will be swept away by the world and out of God's leadership if we give Satan even a toehold in our minds and hearts.  Think it cannot happen to you?  Do not be foolish!  Think about what the Israelites saw when Moses went before Pharaoh to free them.  They saw God turn the waters of the Nile to blood, God strike the Egyptians with plagues of locusts and frogs, and the Passover when he killed the the firstborn of every Egyptian, including Pharaoh’s.  Yet, when they were camped on the banks of the Red Sea and saw Pharaoh’s Army of chariots approaching, they crumbled in fear until Moses told them to watch and see the redemption of God and God parted the Red Sea for them to cross on dry land, the drown the Army of Pharaoh as they tried to follow.  Then, as Moses was on Mt. Sinai and receiving the Ten Commandments from God, they grew impatient and weak, and built golden idols and worshipped false God's.  God then kept them wandering in the desert for forty years until the last of the old generation died off before allowing them to enter the promise land.  

If the Israelites, having seen such miracles first hand can be deceived by Satan and his followers so easily, it is absolutely ridiculous for us to believe that in today's world of information overload, the internet, and the availability and glamorization of sin through pornography, drugs, and corruption of all that is good and decent, that someone not firmly grounded in Christianity could be easily led astray.  The truth of this is obvious and evident by the growing war against Christianity by liberals, homosexuals, politically correct fanatics, and radical Islamist.  Satan is on the attack, and is winning!

God knew that because of the sinful nature of humans, try as we might, we could not ever successfully resist Satan's deceptions and live keeping the laws of Moses and stay sinless and in a redemptive state with fellowship with God.  He gave the Israelites opportunities over and over again where they fell away from following and worshipping God, were conquered and enslaved, cried out to God for redemption and forgiveness, were redeemed, and eventually the Israelites fell away from God again and again.  God allowed prophets to announce that eventually a Messiah would come and restore the Israeli promise land and kingdom on earth. 

God knew from the beginning of time that man would need a Messiah, but man had no idea that the promised Messiah would be like Jesus!  The Jewish people expected the Messiah to be another King David, a warrior king protected and enshrined by God and the earthly kingdom  would endure forever.  But God knew that mankind needed another type of a Messiah, one that would establish an entirely different type of earthly kingdom that encompassed the entire breadth and scope of humanity.  Jesus would open God's kingdom and freedom to every human who would ask forgiveness of their sins and accept Him as God's son and the Messiah. 

Mankind had demonstrated for thousands of years that it was incapable of following the laws of God and being "good enough" to earn salvation.  God demonstrated over time that we were incapable of living by the “law”, and that only an ultimate sacrifice such as Jesus made could free man from the condemnation of our sin.  I am so thankful that God made it simple; simple to accept His mercy through Jesus; simple to accept the forgiveness of our sins through Christ; simple to receive grace and assistance through the Holy Spirit which indwells us.

Satan...in Jesus's precious name I curse you to the depths of hell.  God...you have my life; forgive my weakness, my lack of commitment, my lack of discernment, and my lack of courage.   Make me ever mindful of Satan's deception attempts.   Please give me the Godly wisdom I need to recognize Satan's attempts to destroy my witness for you and the courage to reject them and to call on You as my salvation and strength.  Thank you for Jesus, through whom I am justified and forgiven for my sins, redeemed from condemnation, sanctified to you forever, and will be glorified to you in Heaven when I close my eyes in death.

 

HOW AND WHY WE SHOULD LOVE GOD - "’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments"

           

                It was twenty degrees this morning at 0645 when I woke up.  Me and Louie (my 18-month-old Schnoodle), put on our extreme cold weather clothing (him a Santa Clause tee-shirt and me four layers of clothing that made me walk in a manner similar to the abominable snowman), ventured out for our morning walk.

          The sky was crystal clear, and I saw the belt of Orion and Venus, the morning star, and as usual, I thanked God for waking me up this morning, for the beautiful sky I was seeing, and for all my blessings, and told God, “Father, I love you.”, in the same manner many of us probably do every day.  Of course, I meant the words, but for some reason, still alone in the dark as the day started breaking, I thought “what do I mean when I say, “I love you” to God the Father?  Am I repeating them out of a feeling of gratitude, and if so, what am I grateful for?  Or, am I repeating them almost like I repeat the Lord’s prayer at times; just saying the words because I think I should say them because I have been told I should say them?  Am I repeating them in a way that God really sees the love and gratitude that I feel, and do I really honor the Father with my words AND deeds, which reflect the love and gratitude I feel, in a way that He feels what I feel in my heart.

          I pondered those words during my walk, and then when I came home and started listening to Dr. Charles Stanley’s daily message, I was rather shocked to hear that his message for the day was “Loving God”.  When I heard that title, I realized that God was talking straight to me, telling me that I needed to love Him as He loves me.  But even more importantly than me realizing that God was honoring me by telling me that He loved me, that He wanted me to share what He was telling me today.  As I pondered why God would want me to share this message, it occurred to me that this message that God has put on my heart today, and on Dr. Stanley’s heart today, is a lesson that America needs to understand that our Government is totally failing in demonstrating to our nation and the world.  That failure, as Jesus says below, is why America is failing in its role as standard bearer for goodness and righteousness in a world spinning out of control and going to hell in a handbasket.   

          When Jesus was questioned by the Pharisees and the Sadducees about what the greatest commandment was, His response was “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” 

          The last sentence in those three verses grabs my attention:  “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”  As I interpret that, Jesus is telling us that everything else in the Bible is dependent upon us understanding and obeying those two commandments.  He is saying that if we do not Love the Lord our God with all our hearts and with all our souls and all our minds, then everything else we do is just “going through the motions”, and not truly understanding why we are doing something, why it is important that we do God’s will, and what all of this means in our time while we are here on earth.

          I have had many leadership positions in my life in the military, working for others, and in my church life, but probably none more important that my roles as a father and husband.  One of the most important lessons I learned as a leader, however, was that to be truly successful as a leader, I needed to be sure that those in my charge understood not only what I was asking them to do, but more importantly why I was asking them to do something.  I learned that in helping those I led to see the “big picture” as best I could, then they began to understand what their role was in that big picture, and why their role was so important and where and how completing their role successfully made the completion of the overall mission successfully possible.

          God is doing the same thing when He tells us that in loving Him and loving our neighbors as ourselves, we are setting the foundation upon which the rest of the world has an opportunity to a demonstration of how God loves everyone and has a plan for each one of us to maximize our impact on His mission through Christ to save us all from Satan’s condemnation for all eternity for those who do not accept Jesus Christ as their savior.  Just as a soldier or a worker perform their job better when they understand how important their job is to the overall successful completion of the “big picture” plan of their leaders, so we as Christians, by loving God as He instructs us to, will be able to more effectively communicate to others how God loved us so very much that He willingly sacrificed His only begotten Son on the cross of Calvary to become our Messiah, our pathway out of this sinful world into an eternity of bliss in the presence of the God of everything.

          As I examine my own love for God, I realize I fall short of loving Him like I should, and because of that, I am missing out on many of the blessings that God wants to show me here on this earth before I close my eyes in death and go to Heaven.  And though I cannot go back and regain all the blessings I have lost thus far, as Paul says in Philippians 3:12-14: “¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

          Pressing on; putting in the past the mistakes I have made, the regrets for what I have and have not done, I will continue to pray, I will continue to read and listen to God’s word and seek with my heart and soul and mind to love God above everything in this world.  For I believe if I can stay firm on that path, God will feel that love from me, feel the gratitude that comes from understanding how deeply He loves me, feel the gratitude that comes from Him drawing me closer to Himself, and eventually Him showing me ways to better serve Him while I am on this earth.  This is how I need to show my love to my Heavenly Father, and how I hope to fully feel and understand the love my Heavenly Father has for me.  With that, will come a deeper understanding of the how blessed I am, and I am confident that will allow me to better show my love for my Savior and Heavenly Father in a manner that will please Him.  He deserves that if for no other reasons than what He sacrificed through His son Jesus, my Messiah, so that I have the opportunity to spend eternity in Heaven with Him and not be condemned to hell with Satan for all eternity.  All blessings beyond that are just gravy.

          Finally, I believe that God is telling Americas that we, as Johnny Lee once said in a famous country song, are “Looking for Love in all the wrong places”.  Those Americans looking for love and peace through political power, through financial wealth, through strategic alliances between companies and other countries, through personal relationships, and any other way that one can conceive of, will not find it in those ways.  Our politicians and judges today have turned their backs on God's word and adjudicated God out of the Government almost completely. That is NOT what the founding fathers envisioned and provided for in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and if anyone says otherwise, they are either lying or ignorant of who the founding fathers really were and what they really believed about the necessity of our government system being based on Christian principles, and faith in God and Christ being the foundation upon which the nation would prosper. True peace and love and harmony in this world are never going to be found until we, as individuals, businesses, states, and nations, first learn to love God as Jesus instructed above.  Jesus promises us that if we do that, everything else will fall into place, because “’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

SEXUAL HARASSMENT-AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS

I was raised to be a gentleman, and to treat a lady like a lady. That meant opening doors for them, pulling out chairs for them, insuring their safety, and complementing their looks on dates, special occasions, and in general if they had taken pains to make themselves look attractive. I am now seventy years old, and if I treat a woman like that today, especially if the lady was a co-worker or business associate, I could be accused of sexual harassment. To me, that is disgusting and very disturbing. 

First, let me say that I am NOT a chauvinist.  I believe that if a woman can do a specific job as well as a man, then both should be paid at the same scale, and a person's sex must not have any bearing on whether or not the person gets a job or not.  In other words, a person's sex should have absolutely nothing to do with how much they are paid, whether they get a job or not, or what benefits they are provided.  HOWEVER, there is one situation where that situation SHOULD be modified.  In the military, physical strength often can and must be a factor in determining whether or not someone should be deemed qualified to do a job.  As an example, if a soldier in an infantry squad/platoon/special ops team is wounded in combat, frequently it is necessary for that wounded soldier's teammates to drag or carry the wounded soldier quickly out of harm's way and to medical care.  Facing facts, there are some situations where a woman simply could not drag or lift and carry a wounded male soldier to safety.  But in the same light, if a female proves she can meet the same rigorous physical requirements of the job that the males must meet, then she should not be discriminated in hiring or filling a position-PERIOD!

Second, let me say that sexual harassment as was originally described in the law should not be tolerated.  Sexual harassment was originally defined in rather tight terms; it was described as any situation where a person holding a position of either supervision or influence over another person's job uses that position to pressure someone for sexual favors.  The vast majority of incidents report of males being the harassers.  The following link gives a rather comprehensive discussion of what is "sexual harassment": Wikipedia Definition of Sexual Harassment  This is plainly an evil and sick act and deserves both condemnation and punishment.  Likewise, the same condemnation should apply to any female that would harass a male employee as described above.  But over the years, that definition has been expanded and broadened in the court of public opinion and political correctness to the point that now, simply complimenting a woman's appearance might lead to a man being accused of sexual harassment, and that is wrong!  Now, political correctness demands that if a man is accused of sexual harassment, then that man is crucified in the liberal press whether or not there is any proof or not.  We have seen several instances recently where prominent conservative FOX News male news persons were forced to resign because of unsubstantiated accusations, some of them going back decades.  Now, Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore from Alabama is now being persecuted by BOTH the liberal news media and the establishment Republicans in Congress because of accusations against him by five women who made their accusations after Judge Moore defeated another Republican and made his way into the state-wide contest to fill the seat that now U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vacated after his appointment.  

Are these accusations true or not; frankly no-one really knows now.  However, many questions arise to any person with an objective mind.  Why did the women wait until this time to make the accusations when the time frame of some of these accusations go back over forty years?  Why did they not make the accusations at the time of the offense?  Is/are the accusation(s) provable, will the accuser(s) be willing to take a polygraph before the stories are published?  Did the accuser(s) know one another?  Had the accusers ever told anyone else prior to this time of the attacks?  Are the accusers from the opposing political party or vocal opposition persons of Judge Moore's religious and political beliefs?  Have the accusers been motivated by Judge Moore's opposition to make these accusations?  Were the women physically assaulted or are the allegations about verbal harassment?  I have read in Judge Moore's case that in at least one instance, the accuser told her mother of the incident after several years.  If so, that lends more credibility to the story, but, in fact the accusation is still just that; an accusation with no ability to be proven.  And, when one considers Judge Moore's forty-plus year history of fighting for the restoration of America's original belief structure and conservative foundations, then some might find it hard to believe such accusations because they are so contrary to what Judge Moore has said and done over the past forty or so years. 

All I am saying here is that it seems awfully unfair for this man to be convicted and banished to the point of being forced to withdraw from the Alabama race, or face expulsion from the full Senate if he stays in and gets elected, which seems highly improbable now.  The principle of innocent until proven guilty is absolutely shot to hell by the liberal press and the politically correct liberals on the left.  Especially when with some of the accusations could not possibly be proven in a court of law.

It is probably a very unpopular position to put forth, but it seems to me that the "system" is stacked against men in a very unhealthy and dangerous way.  A woman today can make charges against any man, destroying his career, his reputation, and his future, with absolutely no proof presented, and facing no legal punishment when/if  the charges are found false.  In a day where women are demanding equality of treatment, then there needs to some quid-pro-quo in the legal and court-of-public opinion worlds for the protection of men from women who have ulterior motives and make damaging, unsubstantiated accusations of sexual harassment against a man.

I also have heard cases where women verbally attack a perfect stranger for simply complimenting the woman's appearance.  Guys like me brought their male children up to treat every female like a lady.  If in passing I were to tell a lady I was introduced to that she looked lovely or pretty or very nice, I would be behaving like most men born in the forty's through the early sixties were taught how to treat a lady, especially someone raised in the South and West.  It would both insult me and anger me if a woman reacted like Ashley Judd did to being paid a compliment recently by taking offense and chastising me for trying to do so, and I would probably reply that I was sorry, I mistook her for a lady instead of a liberal nut-case, and politely then excuse myself.

I miss that age where women were proud to be known as a lady and complimented on their appearance and did not feel offended or threatened.  I miss the days when women were ladies, where there was a standard of behavior and appearance where women exercised some modicum of propriety with their behavior and appearance.  I miss the days when ladies were treated with appropriate respect and admiration for who they were rather than how they insisted others treat them because they feel like they would get the respect and recognition they deserve because of their sex.

Again, in MY opinion, over the last thirty to forty years, the women's liberation movement has intentionally done all it could to make women feel like they are wasting their lives if they choose to follow the traditional path of becoming wives and mothers and not do everything they can to prove that they are as capable as a man in every situation.  What the women's liberation movement has failed to do is understand the damage that its platform has done to literally destroy the value placed on being a good mother and wife.  Can anyone really say that in today's world, a woman that chooses to be a wife and mother is recognized as being as valuable as a woman who pursues a career to be a CEO or political leader?  I think not, and that is a shame and an injustice.  Every woman has value if she chooses to do and be what God intended for her to be, just as every man has the same value.  A mother that raises a child to be a person of faith, integrity, dedication, and honesty has as much value as a woman that pursues her dream to be  a CEO or President of The United States of America, and, as such, should be treated with respect, love, and value.  In fact, that same analogy applies to every person, male or female.  Sexual harassment of any person is an act of disrespect, conducted by a person with low self-esteem, the value system of a demon from hell, and one unworthy of the respect and admiration of anyone, and is an act symptomatic of the lack of a Godly moral compass having been ingrained into the person's up bringing.

It is a shame and disgrace that in a civilized, educated world like we live in today that women must fight for equal treatment on the job and in the workforce.  Obviously, there are situations where a woman must work, rather than just deciding to work for their own satisfaction.  But in either case, if a woman is in the workplace, she deserves the same treatment, respect, benefits, wages, and evaluation as a man would holding the same job.  The ONLY situations where a woman MIGHT not be qualified to hold the same job as a man, as I described earlier, is where her physical strength capabilities might endanger a fellow worker's safety should an occasion arise where she must physically rescue a fellow male worker from danger and possible endanger his survival because she cannot assist the injured party because of her strength limitations.  And, to be totally honest, there many be other situations where there might be justification to put a male requirement on a position that I am overlooking simply because of my background and frame of reference, and if so, excuse my not mentioning them.  But other than that, I think it is absolutely the right thing to do to hire, pay, promote, and if required, fire an individual STRICTLY on their job performance and capabilities.  To NOT do so is wrong, and to inflict the indignation of sexual harassment on an individual is a dastardly act and must face condemnation and rejection by any person with a Godly moral compass and sense of right and wrong.

WHY IS AMERICA TEARING ITSELF APART FROM WITHIN? DECEPTION BY LIBERALS AND BY SATAN, THAT IS WHY!

                Why is America being torn apart from within?  Is it racism, political abuse of power, immorality, sexual perversion, economic instability?  The answer is yes to all of these destructive forces, but it should be noted that these are all just the symptoms of the major cause of our internal destruction.  They are ALL symptoms of a nation that was founded by men who intended for that nation to operate and govern using as a foundation for ALL its laws, policies, and actions the Christian religion, but has strayed away from its intended heritage.  Not the Jewish, Islamist, Hindu, Buddhist, or any other non-Christian faith, but upon the principles of Christianity.  

            I do not ask or expect anyone to believe me, but all should believe the words of the founders themselves. For example:

           AMENDMENT ONE TO THE CONSTITUTION:  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...".  
          The purpose of this Amendment was NOT to separate government from religion,

but to prevent the Federal Government from dictating to the individual states which Christian religion was the official legal religion of the nation.  This is stated explicitly by one of the first Supreme Court Justices, Associate Justice Joseph Story:

• The real object of the [First Amendment] was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sect”
•  “Probably, at the time of the adoption of The Constitution, and of the Amendment to it now under consideration, the general, If not the universal, sentiment in America was that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from  The State…An attempt to level all religions and to make it  a matter of state policy to hold all in utter Indifference would have created universal disapprobation [disapproval] if not universal indignation [anger].”

Our founders were a religious group of individuals, and all strongly felt that the principles of Christianity were essential to our nation becoming and remaining strong and independent.  Again, don’t believe me, read their own words:

• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion….Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any others” John Adams, 2^nd President of the United States
• Three points of doctrine, the belief of which, forms the foundation of all morality.  The first is the existence of a God; the second is the immorality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments….Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these articles of faith and that man will have no conscience…the laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they can never make him wise, virtuous, or happy.” John Q. Adams, 6^th President of the United States
• Religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness…..A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of American than the whole force of the common enemy….”  Samuel Adams, Signer of Declaration of Independence and organizer of the Boston Tea Party
• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Ben Franklin
• The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain.  We all agree in the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.”  Thomas Jefferson, 3^rd President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence
• “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.  Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country….Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society”  George Washington, 1^st President of the United States and Commander of the Army of the Republic which won our Independence

So, how did America go from being a nation with declared dependence upon the principles of Christianity as a foundation of our nation’s laws and government to what it is now, a nation whose government has done everything in its power to destroy Christianity as the foundation of our government, and to turn America into a godless agnostic, morally depraved nation?  We Americans have done it to ourselves by becoming an morally apathetic and uninvolved bunch of individuals more focused on material success, self-gratification, and in denial about our nation’s dependence upon the blessings and protections of an Almighty God for the protections of our liberties and independence.  We have become a nation who are convinced a big, nanny-state government, free from Christian guidelines and self-discipline, taking care of all our “needs” is what is best for all our people, a vision exactly the opposite of what the founders intended.

We have been deceived and blinded by Satan who has convinced over half of this nation that God either does not exist, or does not care about what happens.  He has convinced liberals and non-Christians that Christians are people who look down their noses at non-Christians; that Christians think they are better than everybody else, that Christian beliefs are no longer applicable, and that God will not send people to hell as long as they are “good” people, although the definition of a “good” person is undefined, or varies from person to person according to how that person views the world and their and others’ behavior.

America was strong because America WAS a Christian-based nation who understood that our freedom and our liberties and blessing were given to us by God because of our acknowledged reliance and dependence upon Him as our protector and sustainer.  Until it returns to that nation as envisioned by our founders, it will not be great again.