Saturday, July 23, 2022

Deception - When the Grounded Fall

I've been trying to put a label on the feelings I had while watching the last January 6th Committee hearing. There was a mixture of sadness, disbelief, and trepidation.  

Understanding that it's crucial to provide the facts surrounding that horrific event in a coherent and precise way to the Nation, the Committee has done an awesome job of stepping through the timeline with corroborating evidence and testimony.  Sworn testimony from Trump's people. His own supporters who were there with him when it all happened.

So many people were deceived. Folk you thought were too grounded to ever fall under the power of a deception were also deceived.

The Bible talks about deception in the last days but I could never understand how so many people could possibly be blatantly deceived.  I do now. This past decade has been an eye opener in many ways. 

Christians have a tendency to revere--almost worship--their spiritual leaders, forgetting that those leaders are clay. Their every word is taken as a Word from the Lord, with no discernment. 

I have sat in services where the pastor spent a lot of time talking about politics, promoting their own personal politics. Of course, they put a wrapper of scripture around it to make it easier for their followers to swallow.

In these situations, deception that begins with the leadership will also flow through the followers and continue to grow exponentially. 

There's no shame in being deceived, but it's very shameful and pitiful to choose to stay in that deception.

Our Nation is a great nation because it's built on a foundation of democracy and freedoms supported by that democracy. We came very close to losing all of that on January 6th because of deception. 

A deception that ended in an attempted coup--a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. A coup. Here...in the United States of America.

Please God never again! 

Friday, July 8, 2022

Pro-life...Really?

If the last time you cared about an individual was when they were a fetus, you are pro-birth, not pro-life.

If you don’t care if and how that mother and child will survive after the birth, you are pro-birth, not pro-life.

If you consider transgenders and homosexuals to be sub-human and want them to be treated as such, you are pro-birth, not pro-life.  Yeah, I've seen your posts where you shared your hatred for these individuals and then your next post was about the love of God.

If you're a bigot or racist, you are pro-birth, not pro-life. Period.  Bigotry and racism will NEVER allow you to have compassion and empathy for all humanity.

If you have a problem with struggling and deserving families receiving governmental assistance to eat, have shelter, and medical care, you are pro-birth, not pro-life.

If you automatically think, "Don't work, don't eat," when you see someone struggling financially, you are pro-birth, not pro-life.

Do I have to even mention that whole, "Guns don't kill, people do," thing?

Pro-birthers only care about individuals from conception to birth. After that, not so much.  Their care is reserved for only those they deem deserve it. This includes, but is not limited to those of acceptable race, skin tone, nationality, dress, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, educational level, employment, and bank account.

If you say you're pro-life, be pro-life for life does NOT end at birth.

This post serves as a mirror, not an accusation.
 

Saturday, July 2, 2022

 Train Speeding into Regression


1950's America. Folk have stated they long for it. It was the happiest time for them. 

What was it like for all Americans in the '50s? Does that really matter? For some, the answer is a resounding, NO.

Folk incorrectly use the word fascist when describing opposing political parties. Yet, they're ecstatic when true fascist behavior is displayed, labeling it patriotism.

Relationships have been destroyed because of almost worshipful loyalty to a man...a MAN who doesn't even know they're breathing. Yes, it happened in the Church, too.

What is it going to take to wake folk up out of the almost cultic stupor into which they seem to have fallen? Being personally impacted by the backward movement of our country? 

For instance, interracial marriage was illegal in some states in the 1950s. A Supreme Court Justice is ready to challenge a law whose foundation is the law that legalized interracial marriage.  Would it stop there? What would happen to the foundational law? Now, for some, this would be counted a good thing and would be praised as "God at work". Even though there are a lot of interracial marriages among church folk, some Christians actually believe the Bible forbids interracial marriage. 

It's a very scary world.  Right is castigated as wrong and wrong is praised as right.  What's even scarier is this world has been here before--on this slippery slide into regression.  The end result was atrocious.  

Imagine how awful it would be if it had been forbidden to teach about the atrocities that occurred back then in our schools. History would be throughly white-washed and we'd have no yardstick to measure and check recurring like behaviors.

Forget denominations, loyalty to man--clay, religious sects, and politics. We had better be sure and very sure our foundation is anchored in Christ and His Word.