The Surprising Upsides to Suffering

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I am completely humbled by this lady’s words. She gets it… far better than I do. So I am re-posting it here. There is no question in my mind that we Christians… some of us anyway (including me)… as well as many in our culture suffer this “ontological lightness” and so the distractions, the, “hollow entertainment” and the business of life keep us from the, “weighty things.” There is a purpose to my suffering… and yours. BTW – I substitute suffering for sadness because that is what identify with more.

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The Surprising Upside to Sadness

Catherine Morgan / May 6, 2017

Depression. Discouragement. Sorrow.

 

Too often we find ourselves here. Waves of emotions overcome when we least expect them. While I’ve learned a lot about choosing light, daring to hope, hard thanksgiving, and spiritual battle, there are lessons yet to learn.

 

The more I consider these emotions I’d rather not experience, the more I see multiple reasons that depression—yes, depression—has been a gift to me. Here are five.

  1. Sadness forces me to depend on Jesus.

I am far more aware of Christ, attentive to Christ, and thirsty for Christ when I am discouraged. Trapped in a rough patch, the psalmists’ words suddenly spring to life: “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God” (Ps. 42:1). “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Ps. 73:26).

Only when I thirst for Jesus do I bend low to drink his living water. And so, paradoxically, in sadness I find the key to joy, which otherwise I might blithely miss.

  1. Sadness gives me humility and empathy.

Depression has a way of humbling me like nothing else, as God protects me from my own ego. It’s hard to feel you’ve arrived when you struggle to even get out of bed. In these moments I need grace like I need water, a knowledge that keeps me face-planted before the cross—a posture infinitely preferable to the kind of humiliating crash that often flows from pride.

Empathy lets me see the world from a brokenhearted perspective—it lets me borrow broken eyes. Am I compassionate? It’s only because I so deeply need mercy. How can I withhold this gift I’ve received and need more of each day? I meet homeless families, unemployed immigrants, teen moms, couples mid-divorce, suicidal folks, jilted sweethearts. Every one has the same needs, the same sinful soul, the same shy beauty of God’s image imprinted on their heart. When I see them, I see me. God redeems my sadness as he turns my eyes outward and fills me with compassion.

  1. Sadness rescues me from silliness.

As my seminary-nerd husband would say, my depression rescues me from ontological lightness. It’s easy to exchange weighty things for hollow entertainment. Unchecked, it can lead someone through 30,000 days only to face eternity with empty pockets. Isn’t this the spirit of Ecclesiastes 7:2? “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.”

Joy is not inferior to gloom—emphatically it’s not—but it’s easy in all the levity to miss the grand epic as it unfolds. Like hobbits happy in the Shire while Sauron advances, we can forget the stakes—life is short, eternity beckons, souls hang in the balance. A healthy dose of sobriety helps me see the world as it is: cursed and lost, in need of a Redeemer.

  1. Sadness prepares me for future struggle.

How often does a rootless faith blow away in adversity? A quick survey of spiritual giants indicates they have this in common: They’ve suffered. In various ways, to various degrees, they’ve driven those roots down ever-deeper into the love of God, so that when the storms of persecution or tragedy arrive, they’re prepared. They know from repeated experience where to find living water in a drought.

  1. Sadness is God’s way of strengthening me.

Jesus, who holds the galaxies together by his power, demonstrated another kind of strength as he was stricken, smitten, and afflicted. And in his mercy, he lends us a measure of his strength when we suffer. When we’re weak in ourselves, we’re strong in him.

When I fall into the pit of despair, I’ve learned to look up, to seek light, to cry out for deliverance, to long for home. It’s a struggle I may face all my life. That’s okay. God is at work, and I can trust him.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. (1 Pet. 1:6–9)

Thank you, Jesus.

Catherine Morgan is a church planter’s wife in Aurora, Colorado, and the author of Thirty Thousand Days (Christian Focus). You can read more at her blog.

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July 4th 2017: A Time to Hate Evil

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King Solomon wrote three books of the Bible. In Ecclesiastes he said there is a time to love and a time to hate.tumblr_l29yi3gag71qa8ix8o1_r1_1280

Paul in the Bible said we should hate what is evil and cling to what is good.

The New York Times estimates drug overdoses in America in 2016 were around 59,000. We have an opioid epidemic. The LA Times says this, “Last year, there were 20,792 homicides in Mexico — a 22% increase over 2015, and a 35% jump over 2014.”. These homicides are primarily drug cartel related. We need a wall for the health of both countries. Liberals hate the idea of a wall because illegal immigrants provide a dependent voting bloc. Republicans have zero courage. That is something to hate.

Now every June immoral men have parades taking “pride” in their evil behavior with even a President signing off on the wickedness. Obama in effect said sodomy is good – defying the very God who created him. Why is a good part of the world so enamored with homosexuality? Surely delusions run rampant on this earth. Homosexuals operate as if equality is the only worthwhile principle under the sun. Good men will hate such confusion.

Trump is hard to defend but he says he wants to make America great again. A good part of America would really like to see that happen. But the media and liberal democrats continually attack Trump with false narratives in an effort to derail his presidency out of sheer vengeance. Such an evil agenda must be hated.

The God of the Bible is the one who created you and all that you can see and behold. But this liberal nonsense of, “separation of church and state” that is not even in the constitution has been used by deceived men to drive God out of our society. That is a scheme of evil itself

Hillary committed a crime using her own email server and then lied to you about it. She also gave the Russians 20% of our plutonium for hefty donations to her foundation. There is plenty of evidence that the Clintons used Foundation funds for personal gain. Bill Clinton is an alleged serial sexual predator of which Hillary is an enabler. This low brow character is the person Democrats and the liberal media think would be a good president for you. Such delusions are easy to hate.

Any philosophy like liberalism that demands that Americans be snuffed out in the womb is surely the dung beetle of world philosophies. Fifty-Nine million dead Americans from abortion as a result of “sexual freedom” is incredible human carnage. Anyone who does not hate such slaughter has a leanness of soul.

While the liberal media and liberal democrats cook up false accusations regarding Trump, Obama gave billions of dollars to terrorist Iran, he used the IRS to attack political opponents, he used the DOJ to deflect responsibility regarding the fast and furious, and he used AG Loretta Lynch to get Hillary off of the hook. Add to all of that lying about Benghazi and having subordinates lie about a dead American ambassador all of which the liberal media gave Obama a complete pass on and the hate piles up like dead stinking rats.

Two caveats are in order for liberals. First is that we are to hate evil but not people. Second is that the typical liberal response is that we should not judge. Well, that is one verse in the Bible that paints a picture. Jesus also said we should judge with a right judgment and the need for discernment is thoroughly documented in the Bible.

There is plenty to be grateful about our country – the greatest civilization in the history of the world. First our great heritage is second only to God’s great providence in ancient Israel. Second, there are a whole lot of great people in our country who understand good from evil. Third, our appeals to our Creator do not fall on deaf ears.

If we continue on this foolish liberal path that says we are “evolving” beyond religion and our Creator then our decline will continue.

Jesus said He is the truth. This Fourth let us hate what is evil and embrace what is true.

One Sentence Explains Hillary’s Character

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(I wrote this in 2016 during the election but I am just now posting it.)

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If we know Hillary lied about Benghazi, and if we know there is a dead American ambassador, who pleaded for more security, on her watch, and if we know she concocted shrill fictions about her email server no less than four times even under oath on one occasion and, “under penalty of perjury” on a different occasion, and since it is obvious that Hillary stated publicly that she wanted everyone to see her emails and then deceptively used Bleachbit after that to acid wash those emails, and if it is blatantly obvious that foreign investors and foreign countries like Algiers, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman gave to the Clinton Foundation to gain favors before, during and after Hillary was Secretary of State, and if it is also easily apparent that Hillary illegally made way on her Foundation for personal gain, and if is it also blatantly obvious that Hillary used her position as Secretary of State for pay to play schemes, and if it is obvious that Bill is an alleged serial sexual predator, and if we know that Bill was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, and if Obama’s liberal policies have resulted in 94,391,000 people out of the workforce with Hillary continuing the same liberal policies, and since Barbara Streisand has graciously promised to vacate our country if Trump is elected, and if we also know that Hillary desires to afford immigrant Syrians careers in Detroit which is shock treatment to unemployed Americans, and if we know that Hillary will appoint rubber stamp liberals to the Supreme Court who will give her a free pass on everything she wants even if it is not constitutional which upsets the balance of power the Founders built into our system, and having clearly seen that Hillary will continue Obama’s policies of trashing our First Amendment, Second Amendment and the Constitution as a whole, and if it is 99.99 percent predictable that Hillary, like Obama, will use the IRS to attack political opponents and politicize the DOJ so carelessly that justice plays no role whatsoever, knowing that the next president is going to have to deal with an empowered terrorist Iran because Obama gave them up to 33.6 billion dollars which is easily the most diabolical thing any president of the United States has ever done, and if we are thoroughly appalled that George Soros spends millions on top of millions on top of more millions of dollars to manipulate American politics and American elections with Hillary’s tacit approval, and if we know that Hillary did not even pay attention to the level of classification on her emails thinking the “C” was some sort of alphabetical sequence which speaks to her gross lack of competence or her desire to intentionally deceive the American public, and if we know that feckless Hillary allowed hackers to obtain classified information due to her negligence, and if we know that Russians donated to the Clinton Foundation and then those same Russians purchased American uranium mines (which are strategic American assets) with Hillary’s assistance, and if we know that Hillary wants to resettle a million more Islamic migrants to America despite Islamic terrorism on our very own soil, and if we know Bill and Hillary made 153 million in speaking fees some of which was from Wall Street which reveals crony capitalism… the whole of which the New York Times considers minuscule, trite and dulcet infractions… and if it is obvious that liberal democrats and the media could care less just how deceitful and treacherous Hillary really is, all three specimens without a cure, then why on earth would we submit to CNN’s delusional, obsessive compulsive disorders and put Hillary in the oval office as the most corrupt president ever while she makes sport of our gullibility as we wax bitter under yet another corrupt leader rather than being, “deplorables,” and taking our chances with Trump who is admittedly a crap shoot (a dice game of unpredictable outcome) but not proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be a completely corrupt political weasel like Hillary… and therefore… for what do we live – to be fools governed by the corrupt?

Liberalism: A “Sophisticated” Golden Calf

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Liberalism makes idiots out of people. It is an idol.

So if Jesus did not say anything about public masturbation should we likewise not condemn that behavior? If Jesus did not say anything about the joys of becoming a billionaire by dealing in international arms then is that a legitimate calling?

If we are to have a correct theology then we have to consider and accept the whole Word of God.

I am not saying to “condemn” gay people. I am saying that like the woman caught in adultery those with same-sex attractions should not act on those impulses (like any other sexual sin) and as Jesus said, “go and sin no more.”

But because Jimmy Carter has an idol of liberalism then his functional god is liberalism so his theology lines up with liberalism… not orthodox Christianity. Having an “idol” is actually a technical term that violates the first commandment.

The reason I posted this is because what Mr. Carter says is very irritating… it very much leads people astray. It is talked about in Isaiah where leaders, priests and prophets led people astray… into sin… which is a very serious issue.

Homosexuality is condemned in about 7 different places in the Bible. But of course liberals use rationalizations, explanations,  disclaimers and all sorts of subterfuge to justify sin.

It is a sad thing to me that we follow men and strange doctrines rather than following God’s Word as closely as we can.

And just to be fair, many republicans have idols of power, prestige, position and influence – those items are all-important to them. The US Chamber of Commerce practices greed rather than prosperity. We know this because they aligned themselves with Obama’s outrageous act of giving Iran 33 billion dollars to Iran for the purpose of US companies (Boeing) tapping into Iran’s need to replace its airliners. Iran is a terrorist nation so what we have here is pure greed. But that was all done behind the scenes… not out in the open.

Jimmy Carter displays his ignorance for all to see and people will miss God’s grace and experience God’s judgment because of it.

UC Merced Tarnishes its Reputation by Honoring Anita Hill

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This ran at the Merced Sun-Star on 10/31/16 & the Fresno Bee on 11/2/16.

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It just reveals the delusions of liberalism that UC Merced would honor Anita Hill. There are plenty of holes and inconsistencies in Hill’s testimony to the Senate Confirmation Hearings if one wishes to seek the truth. But truth is never the agenda with liberals. And a boatload of truth will not move a heart that is not inclined to seek the truth. The agenda with liberalism is to destroy conservatives in any way possible.

UC Merced tarnishes its character and entertains a reputation of folly by honoring a person who lied in order to advance the agenda of liberalism. I wonder if there is even one person at UC Merced that will stand up and speak the truth? The powers that be at UC Merced as well as Anita Hill would do well to realize that eventually they must stand before God and give accounts for their actions. I wonder how truly honored they will feel at that moment.

Drifting Into the Abyss

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This ran at the Visalia Times Delta on August 31, 2016.

This is a political worldview essay.

Obama has decided that giving Iran, a terrorist nation, 400 million in cash, which some say commits three felonies, is a judicious move.

This Christian disagrees.

Liberals say that the government should solve most of our problems.

Christians know that is pure folly.

Modern liberalism proclaims that science disproves God.

Christians know that science is the study of how God made the world and how God made us.

Obama thinks giving terrorist Iran over one billion dollars of American taxpayer money is prudent. Boatloads of Christians strongly disagree.

Modern liberalism junks God by saying it is, “common sense” to believe there is no God.

Christians observe all of creation and realize there has to be a first cause and know unequivocally that God is the author of all that we can see and behold.

Modern liberalism says pretty much any sort of sex is acceptable. Rampant disease reveals the lie.

Christians know that people love their sins so they reject God.

Modern liberal media thinks that Christianity is something to be attacked.

Christians know that all men are accountable to God for their actions.

Modern liberalism does not see the relationship between socialist systems and the massive failure that they produce such as the USSR, Venezuela and Obamacare.

Christians know that any political system that rejects the God of the Bible oppresses people.

Modern liberals see no consequences in rejecting God both in this life and eternally. Christians look at the history of Israel and the history of mankind and see that those who reject God eventually suffer disastrous consequences.

Modern liberals conclude that there is no God and He has no claim on their lives.

Christians know the first claim God has on us is that He created us and the second claim is that Jesus died for each and every individual person as a ransom. Neither of these claims are trifling matters.

Modern liberals think that all employers should pay for employee contraceptive.

Christians know that this is simply a diabolical attack on Christianity and that reasonably priced contraceptives are readily available at thousands of local stores.

When I ask liberals about Bill lying to a grand jury, Hillary lying about Benghazi, and Hillary lying about her email server, the typical response is, “yes, but they got away with it.”

Christians do not take delight in evil.

In the 1930’s Hitler decided that killing Jews is acceptable.

Many Christians like Dietrich Bonhoeffer disagreed.

Liberals today have decided killing Americans in the womb is just fine.

Many Christians strongly disagree.

In the 1930’s Hitler told the churches to submit to the state, just like Obama has told American churches what to do.

Many complied. Some did not.

Modern liberalism is on the wrong side of history.

Christians make mistakes but more often than not work to get things right.

Liberals reject God so that they can do whatever they want.

Christians recognize that doing whatever you want eventually leads to destruction.

Liberals protest often enough around the world – usually trying to get a government to act.

There were 7000 Christian martyrs in 2015.

Christians know that oppressors will kill them for their faith yet they do not flinch.

The Founding Fathers sacrificed their fortunes and lives to birth our great nation.

Whose side are you on?

Ron Hunnicutt

Visalia, CA

Nineteen Ways to Repair and Overhaul Our Country

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This ran at Intellectual Conservative on 9/15/16.
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First, put term limits on all of Congress. The Senate has a boatload of dysfunctional dinosaurs and the House has a multitude of greedy power-mongering weasels.

Second, outlaw lobbyists. It is, “We the People,” not, “we the corporations,” nor, “we the special interests.” The current system is a crony capitalism process with insiders and politicians doing each other financial favors – otherwise known as bribes.

Third, abolish the EPA, the Dept of Ed, Dept of Ag, and every other regulatory agency. It is congress that makes laws – not bureaucrats and unelected do-gooders. Obama’s regulations cost taxpayers and businesses 1.8 trillion dollars per year.

Third, abolish government employee unions. When government employees go on strike they hold the public hostage and raid public funds. Also there is an extortion scheme that runs from taxpayers to union dues to liberal democrat politician election funds.

Fourth, finally declare that separation of church and state is nowhere to be found in the constitution. The influence and morality of the Bible improves both individuals and institutions.

Fifth, make cable TV providers give consumers free market choices by allowing them to choose the channels they wish to receive and pay for. Democratic Party operatives like CNN and MSNBC extort cash from cable package set ups that pay them money to stay on the air.

Sixth, abolish the IRS and institute a flat tax. The government plays favorites and invites bribes and corruption by taxing different people and entities at different rates.

Seventh, make Congress live under the exact same laws they put on the American public.

Eighth, return to the gold standard. Our money is backed by thin air and Obama has been printing it like a jackal on steroids.

Ninth, abolish the inheritance tax. Good parents leave an inheritance to their children and it is over-the-top greed for the government to steal a hefty portion of it.

Tenth, get back to the Rule of Law. Modern liberalism is a strong delusion and it corrupts everything in its path. Observe how tainted our current DOJ, IRS and Supreme Court is.

Eleventh, quit killing Americans in the womb. It is completely barbaric, sacrifices our future and brings a curse.

Twelfth, put illicit drug makers, drug runners and drug dealers in prison for a very long time. Drugs ruin people’s lives.

Thirteen. Immediately stop all ILLEGAL immigration. The current open border scheme is to create a dependentDemocrat Party voting bloc… nothing more. When you cut your skin do you just leave the wound wide open? A nation without borders opens itself up to all sorts of rogue invaders.

Fourteen. Let pastors speak on politics. Freedom of speech is a First Amendment right.

Fifteen, pass a law that all voters show proper ID. Not doing so is simply a method for liberal democrats to cheat in a multitude of ways. All of the shrill surrounding liberal objections to this matter are pure subterfuge.

Sixteen – have we the people vote on politician salaries and perks so that these politicians cannot simply raid public funds by their own whim.

Seventeen, immediately prosecute all lawlessness such as presidents lying to grand juries, secretary of states lying to the public, and presidents committing possible felonies by giving cash to Iran as a ransom.

Eighteen remove all liberal activist judges who have no regard for our Constitution and the Rule of Law but cite European Law and use the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to justify everything under the sun.

Last, study our heritage. There is a reason our country is the greatest country in the history of the world.

Now someone is going to say this, “That is just way too much. We could never get all of that accomplished.” Maybe not but it is high time to get started. And the only reason that we do not start immediately is because we have so very few statesmen and a multitude career politicians.

President Harry Truman in the American Patriot’s Bible gives us direction, “If men and nations would but live by the precepts of the ancient prophets and the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, problems which now seem so difficult would soon disappear….” There, “is a supreme opportunity for the church to continue to fulfill its mission on earth… [and to] provide the shock forces to accomplish this moral and spiritual awakening. No other agency can do it. Unless it is done, we are headed for the disaster we would deserve. Oh for an Isaiah or a Saint Paul to re-awaken this sick world to its moral responsibilities.”

The God of the Holy Bible is always the path to good things political or otherwise.

Ron Hunnicutt

Jokers Galore This Fourth

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If you are playing cards and your opponent has a joker then he can take you out. That is the problem in America on this Fourth. There are far too many jokers that have the ability to deeply harm us.

There are socialists who think government can solve all of our problems. Obama has opened our borders to concoct a dependent Democrat Party voting bloc which also lets terrorists, drug runners and sex-traffickers in. It is an illegal invasion of massive proportions. Obama has paved the way for a nuclear Iran. Obama is printing money which sets us up for a recession or worse. The donor class controls republicans so thoroughly that republicans signed on to Obama’s Iran deal just so Boeing and other corporations could make sales to Iran. Our power grid is vulnerable to what is known as a nuclear high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. 9/11 happened. Systematic terrorism is here and now in Orlando, San Bernardino, Fort Hood, Boston and elsewhere. Our Freedom of Religion is under assault by rabid atheists. Our centuries old Second Amendment rights are under assault by deceived and naïve do-gooders. Republicans are so scared of the media that they are now active case studies for cowardice. Men who sleep with other men (less than 3% of the population) have undermined the most basic building block of society called marriage. Obama’s policies have resulted in 95 million able-bodied people out of the work force. Obama has spent more money than all previous presidents combined. There are 3000 dead Americans daily in the womb through abortion. Space does not permit a thorough accounting.

Marie in the movie Bourne Identity says it best, “nobody does the right thing.”

All that to say this. We turned our backs on God in the sixties and so he says this in Deuteronomy 28:20, “The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.”

This is a statement to our culture.

Read Deuteronomy chapter 28 for yourself. Have you ever taken the time to read the Old Testament? The pattern is as predictable as the sun coming up every day. God blesses a people, they start to think that they are something great and that it is all done in their own strength, so they turn to their own devices in some sort of autonomous humanistic mode and eventually God has to come along and apply divine justice because the evil has piled up.

The evil is piling up.

Earlier in Deuteronomy 28 God says this, “Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God.”

This statement above is exactly and precisely what has made America the greatest nation in the history of civilization. It is not because we are a great people, but because God helped our Founders institute a great system. But liberalism deceives you day in and day out and tells you otherwise.

Yes… I know… we have to have separation of church and state. Except that this statement is not in our constitution. Christianity should influence the state just like it so thoroughly did in our Founding.

If we observe the rise and fall of the great civilizations of the past it becomes obvious that America is a whisper and an idea of fragile composition. Will we return to our heritage or continue to stagger into the current, liberal, “evolving” dystopia?

Ron Hunnicutt

Visalia, CA

Obama is a Wicked and Worthless Leader

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This article ran at the Visalia Times Delta on June 8th, 2016.

Obama is a Wicked and Worthless Leader

Someone needs to finally pronounce it! This is not about race. It has always been about virtue. This is a statement to our culture.

Do we have any idea how wicked it is to expose women and young girls to potentially mentally ill transvestite men or rapists posing as transvestites? What kind of malicious leader would conceive such malfeasance?

Throughout the Old Testament there are narratives like this, “And this king did evil in the sight of the Lord… and this King did what was right in the sight of the Lord.” One passage says that a king, “encouraged moral decline.” That really describes our current reprobates in Washington. It is highly myopic to think that our actions in this life will not be judged by our Creator.

The Bible clearly delineates that pure religion is to look after orphans, widows, the poor and to visit those in prison. Liberalism’s agenda is to advance the imaginary, “civil rights” of the immoral LGBT mob which Obama readily attends to.

Prominent in our Declaration is that all men, “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life….” The most diabolical statement ever uttered by any president in the history of our nation is, “God bless Planned Parenthood.” Rather than bestowing the blessing of life on the American people, Obama says, “God bless” the en masse killing of Americans in the womb. This is pure wickedness in the sight of the Lord who sees everything.

In the movie, Bridge of Spies, the character that Tom Hanks plays says this, “…but what makes us both Americans? Just one thing, one… …the rule book. We call it the Constitution and we agree to the rules and that’s what makes us Americans and it’s all that makes us Americans….” I think there are additional attributes that make us truly American but sticking to this interesting criterion for the moment, has Obama agreed to the rules of the Constitution? Not in the slightest! He just bypassed Congress and decreed that transvestite boys should have access to the very same restrooms that young girls use in schools! He has routinely trashed our Second Amendment right to bear arms by regulations. And he has conducted a frontal assault against,” Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….”

Do we really think it is befitting for a standing president of the United States to attack political opponents using the IRS? What kind of example is it for this mendacious president to deceive the American people about Obamacare, Benghazi, and Iran?

It was God Himself that fashioned marriage. It is nothing but hubris that causes Obama to think he can consult with his children and then reverse thousands of years of proven tradition.

The black rot of modern liberalism deceives us in manifold ways. We live in the greatest country in the history of the world at the grandest time to ever live.  If the American people do not turn back to God and elect moral and decent statesmen then our enemies both within and without will eventually destroy us.

Ultimately we will have to forgive this vile president and our fellow Americans for electing him. When Jesus cursed the fig tree it withered away. May the Lord curse all of the evil that Stanley’s son has cast upon us.

Liberalism is Killing the American Soul

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This ran at the Visalia Times Delta on May 9th, 2016.

Liberalism is Killing the American Soul

This is in response to Haynes article, “Without LGBT Rights, Religious Freedom Fails.”

Why is liberalism so enamored with homosexuality? First, liberalism adopts an Enlightenment principle that says man is at the center of everything instead of having God at the center so God gives liberals over to very strong delusions. Second, liberals do not want to be held to a moral standard so they are sympathetic to anything opposed to Christianity.

There is a certain foolishness of men that has no regard for the design of God. Mr. Haynes advocacy is the kind of nonsense we get from those who have prestigious degrees but no wisdom because they do not know God.

If homosexuality is equal to one-man-one-woman Holy Matrimony then why are there are there over 30 million deaths due to AIDS – the genesis of which is sodomy? Why does Mr. Haynes advocate such carnage?

What kind of social justice is it to advocate for the, “B,” in LGBT which is bisexuality – the practice of which means that a man sleeps with a man and then he sleeps with a woman thereby giving her all sorts of nasty diseases. Why does Haynes promote disease for women?

The reason why God says homosexuality is a sin is because it is not His design. Why is this so very hard to grasp? The Bible also condemns thievery and drunkenness. My hands are designed for work to help myself and those around me. I can claim all day long that my hands were, “born” to steal from my neighbor but that is a lie. God did not design my hands to steal from others.

Alcohol has many legitimate uses. A glass of wine is nice. Alcohol is a great disinfectant and very useful solvent. But God did not give us our bodies and alcohol for drunkenness. To say that a person was, “born that way,” in regards to misusing alcohol is simply an excuse to sin.

I am not unsympathetic to a person’s struggles with sin. I have my own. My theory is that most men have some sort of fatal flaw that can take them out. The high challenge is in overcoming the flaw and attempting to be numbered among good men.

Trying to find common ground between such opposing worldviews is extremely difficult. Have you noticed that activist homosexuals, rather than living and let live, sue Christian florists, bakers and ministers over grievances? How do we co-exist with such antagonism? Bank robbers and law enforcement do not have compatible interests.

Everyone screams for equality but the hard fact is that equality originates with God. We should look to God to define good and evil and if we let man define right and wrong then the process is flawed because man is subject to error. We cannot claim the equality God affords us and then spurn the rest of His counsel.

The carnage of AIDS and STD’s should prove to liberals that God’s principles regarding the sacredness of sex are a matter of truth. We need religious freedom but we must realize that truth emanates from one true God and there are many false gods.