Monday, September 30, 2019
Tides of Tyranny: Call to Arms
Tides of Tyranny: Call to Arms: Is God dead … and have we killed him? My point is not that God went the way of the Tasmanian Tiger or Dodo flightless bird, but that too ma...
Call to Arms
Is
God dead … and have we killed him? My point is not that God went the way of the
Tasmanian Tiger or Dodo flightless bird, but that too many people in America no
longer believe inJesus Christthe Son of God or Jehovah God, and that this corruption of faith will in all probability only
increase. In other words, will likely continue. Have we not seen this scenario,
for the most part, turn out to be the case in Western Europe, where only small
percentages of people say they believe in God? But has not America been an exception
to this trend and remains so today? Not so fast my friends.
IAW
Pew Research data, a slight majority of Americans say they believe in God with
absolute certainty. Conversely, just over a half of Americans say religion is
important to them. More, recent data shows that roughly “half of Americans
say they favor a greater role for religion in society, compared to only 18% who
say they oppose that.” That’s a startling stat, especially when set side by
side with our West European brethren, which are not so keen on any faith-based
religious belief much less Christian faith-based religion. But before we start
going head over heels for American exceptionalism, we need to recognize
something is acutely off-center. Despite America’s perceived strong religious feelings
or beliefs, we continue drifting aimlessly in the direction of Western Europe’s
tumultuous secular seas.
Consider
this. Did not same-sex marriage take hold in much of Western Europe before it
reached America? The U.S. trailed behind, but not for long. Has not the views
that were once prevalent among the general public changed over the last several
years from a majority opposing same-sex marriage to a majority now supporting
it. Let us cognate on gender and how grammatical gender is now only loosely associated
with natural distinctions of biological sex. Americans are becoming more
accepting of a person’s identity that does not conform unambiguously to
conventional ideas of the male or female gender.
Why support? Transgenderism pop culture, media, academia and many within
today’s Democrat Party promotes it. The idea that gender is based on feelings,
rather than an objective standard tied to biology is now vogue. The
result: a large percentage of Generation Y now say gender identity is
a matter of choice. From what I have read and heard many Americans are fine
using transgender pronouns. This cultural change was fast in coming. So much
so, it is like being spun around on a fast circling merry-go-round amusement
park ride and it raises the obvious question: If America is so faithful, why
does it keep acquiescing on all the highly charged sociopolitical cultural
issues? Pardon the insensitivity, this being the case, what good is our
religious convictions? The answer, it appears, is not much good at all. Though
we may not be secularizing like the rest of the West, we aren’t stringently
observing traditional forms of Judeo-Christian beliefs. This being as it is,
does this make America, a nation of people practicing religious heresy? Stop
the ride, you want to get off? Too late!
If
Americans increasingly view religion as a subjective thing with no bearing on
the actual world, by inference, these same Americans must reason that religious
belief is a matter of opinion, not objective truth. Herein lies the essential
problem and it explains the contradiction of America as a nation with both
vibrant faith-based religions and defining culture.
What we have in America is a
root-and-branch separation of God from reality. We as a culture have rejected a
God who created and gave order to the universe, sets moral norms, defines our
being and binds our consciences to a moral code in today’s world. Essentially,
we have kept God but discharged the long-established traditional package.
By discarding the package are
we not rejecting
God completely? If believing in God has no impact on the way we view realities
in this world, whether they be gender, marriage, or who counts as a person
worthy of dignity and respect, then what God are we even paying homage to?
Could it be that the anti-theists are right when they accuse us of worshipping
a God of our own making or production?
Friday, August 16, 2019
Tides of Tyranny: Warning! Hunting Season Delayed
Tides of Tyranny: Warning! Hunting Season Delayed: Why did Universal Pictures postpone their plans to release The Hunt , a motion picture that depicts liberal elitists stalking and slaughteri...
Warning! Hunting Season Delayed
Why did Universal Pictures postpone their plans to release The Hunt, a motion picture that depicts liberal elitists stalking and slaughtering supporters of President Trump? Again, why would Hollywood withdraw The Hunt? Tinseltown may be prejudiced and they may even be anti-conservative, but they aren’t as stupid as some of the words that come from their lips might suggest. There is little doubt that, like mainstream media, the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome and loathes Deplorables. But there’s one thing they hate even more…” empty seats at the box office.”
However, those of my political and theological persuasion think otherwise. Let me be clear. There are significant numbers of Conservative, law-abiding gun owners, and Christian Deplorables who are undoubtedly not amused at the idea of a motion picture that satirizes the blood-spattered demise of proponents holding political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, smaller government, and socio-politically traditional notions.
I have no doubt that today’s Democrats, Socialists, abortion/euthanasia advocates and the likes of Waters, AOC, Tlaib, Omar, Pressley, Pocahontas, Sanders… would be absolutely entertained by the film’s unrestrained bloodshed. Why would the above-named antagonists or groups be amused at such a scenario? Let me answer this question with a question. Are not these same groups, for the most part, comprised of left-wing political adherents of an ideology, that is uncompromising and dogmatic? It would come as no surprise that these ideologues and/or radicals might find the movie knee-slapping, side-clenching entertaining. I find the mere thought of such a screenplay sickening, then again, I am a deplorable law-abiding gun-owning Christian with traditional conservative viewpoints and values.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Tides of Tyranny: Buyer Beware: Socialism is Toxic
Tides of Tyranny: Buyer Beware: Socialism is Toxic: Despite the historic evils of socialism, Democrats are proposing an evolving agenda of Medicare for all, free college tuition, higher ta...
Buyer Beware: Socialism is Toxic
Despite the historic evils of socialism, Democrats are
proposing an evolving agenda of Medicare for all, free college tuition, higher
taxes, guaranteed basic income, abortion on demand, Green energy and most
recently payment of reparations for the injustices of slavery past. I ask the
rank and file, the politician and the bureaucrat: Where's the injustices of
slavery. I ask the rank and file, the politician and the bureaucrat: Where's
the money coming from? Therein lies the problem. Do we rob Peter to pay Paul?
In other words, do we take something away from one person to pay another,
leaving the former at a disadvantage; expressed in a different way, discharging
one debt only to incur another. That's problematic is it not?
Even as we look at America’s own romance with socialism, we can see little success. Has not our efforts in America's five-decade war on poverty, as well-intentioned as it may have been, has been a complete failure? After trillions of dollars in taxpayers’ expenditures on the War on Poverty, destitution not only persists, it has become a flourishing line of work. What investors/stakeholders would allow a CEO to disburse money without the expectation of attaining a profit? As the happening now, frontline AOC, Tlaib, Omar, Pressley type socialist/leftist wave makes its way to the halls of Congress, I, like many Americans fear that we may return to the doomed, if selfless, efforts of LBJ’s Great Society, when throwing taxpayers money at social programs made us feel virtuous and with any luck guaranteed election/re-election to Washington’s political Swamp. A wide-ranging shift in thinking must occur. Success must be measured not by the amount of taxpayer’s money thrown at poverty resolutions, but by the results. In other words, how many people are escaping poverty as a result of an initiated program. Today’s Democrats, like Millennials have yet to differentiate equality and equity. Here lies the Conundrum. The difference between equity and quality is quite clear, but those who are not aware of the shades or nuances of the English language often fail to distinguish the variance between these two words. The difference is not great but is based upon the fact that not everyone has been created equally by our creator and has requirements different from others. Are not some people born with high IQ’s while other’s flounder at the lower end of the intelligence scale? Are not some people tall while others are vertically challenged? Are not some people overweight, while others maintain current height and weight standards? Do you expect all of them to eat the same quantity and quality of food? Therein rests the difference between equity and equality.
Is it not past time that we as conservatives begin to combat utopian socialism, welfarism and neo-Marxism? We must target and oppose today’s trendy left politicos who espouse radical collectivist political views. Contrary to academia, history, both recent and past tell us that socialism is not about justice, it's not about equality, it's not about lifting-up the poor and downtrodden. It's about one thing only: Power for the ruling class. And, the more power they get, the more they thirst for. They want to run health care, run transportation and finance, run energy, education, run everything including marriage and religion. They want the power to decide who wins and who loses, who's up and who's down, what's true and what's untrue, and even who lives and who dies. Today’s Democrats want to rewrite our nation’s history and eliminate the parts they disagree with.
Is there a danger with propagating socialism? Is socialism sensible? Does it even resonate with America’s working or middle class? Facts are facts, this being so, socialism may sound reasonable, but it never works. As often than not it comes with the promise of free healthcare, free education, more and better jobs for all. Some advocates have the best of intents: to reduce poverty by evening the playing field. But there are basically no long-lasting instances of it working to lessen poverty. Contrary to those who advocate socialism as a means to an end, it generally increases poverty to all citizens in all walks of life but those whose hands wield the power. Data tells us that Baby Boomers and Generation X (I, being one) are far more cynical of socialism. Generations preceding Millennials have seen enough to recognize socialism for what it is and where it eventually leads. Both Baby Boomers and Generation X have experienced the benefits of Capitalism. Think about it. Has capitalism not unlocked more doors of opportunity for society than it has closed? The problem with millennials and Generation Z isn’t that they’re budding socialists or collectivists, but that they’re idealistic enough to fall into the trap of believing people like Bernie Sanders, AOC, Pocahontas...Essentially, young people have been duped by the deluded of generations past, acceding to their ignorance.
Even as we look at America’s own romance with socialism, we can see little success. Has not our efforts in America's five-decade war on poverty, as well-intentioned as it may have been, has been a complete failure? After trillions of dollars in taxpayers’ expenditures on the War on Poverty, destitution not only persists, it has become a flourishing line of work. What investors/stakeholders would allow a CEO to disburse money without the expectation of attaining a profit? As the happening now, frontline AOC, Tlaib, Omar, Pressley type socialist/leftist wave makes its way to the halls of Congress, I, like many Americans fear that we may return to the doomed, if selfless, efforts of LBJ’s Great Society, when throwing taxpayers money at social programs made us feel virtuous and with any luck guaranteed election/re-election to Washington’s political Swamp. A wide-ranging shift in thinking must occur. Success must be measured not by the amount of taxpayer’s money thrown at poverty resolutions, but by the results. In other words, how many people are escaping poverty as a result of an initiated program. Today’s Democrats, like Millennials have yet to differentiate equality and equity. Here lies the Conundrum. The difference between equity and quality is quite clear, but those who are not aware of the shades or nuances of the English language often fail to distinguish the variance between these two words. The difference is not great but is based upon the fact that not everyone has been created equally by our creator and has requirements different from others. Are not some people born with high IQ’s while other’s flounder at the lower end of the intelligence scale? Are not some people tall while others are vertically challenged? Are not some people overweight, while others maintain current height and weight standards? Do you expect all of them to eat the same quantity and quality of food? Therein rests the difference between equity and equality.
Is it not past time that we as conservatives begin to combat utopian socialism, welfarism and neo-Marxism? We must target and oppose today’s trendy left politicos who espouse radical collectivist political views. Contrary to academia, history, both recent and past tell us that socialism is not about justice, it's not about equality, it's not about lifting-up the poor and downtrodden. It's about one thing only: Power for the ruling class. And, the more power they get, the more they thirst for. They want to run health care, run transportation and finance, run energy, education, run everything including marriage and religion. They want the power to decide who wins and who loses, who's up and who's down, what's true and what's untrue, and even who lives and who dies. Today’s Democrats want to rewrite our nation’s history and eliminate the parts they disagree with.
Is there a danger with propagating socialism? Is socialism sensible? Does it even resonate with America’s working or middle class? Facts are facts, this being so, socialism may sound reasonable, but it never works. As often than not it comes with the promise of free healthcare, free education, more and better jobs for all. Some advocates have the best of intents: to reduce poverty by evening the playing field. But there are basically no long-lasting instances of it working to lessen poverty. Contrary to those who advocate socialism as a means to an end, it generally increases poverty to all citizens in all walks of life but those whose hands wield the power. Data tells us that Baby Boomers and Generation X (I, being one) are far more cynical of socialism. Generations preceding Millennials have seen enough to recognize socialism for what it is and where it eventually leads. Both Baby Boomers and Generation X have experienced the benefits of Capitalism. Think about it. Has capitalism not unlocked more doors of opportunity for society than it has closed? The problem with millennials and Generation Z isn’t that they’re budding socialists or collectivists, but that they’re idealistic enough to fall into the trap of believing people like Bernie Sanders, AOC, Pocahontas...Essentially, young people have been duped by the deluded of generations past, acceding to their ignorance.
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Tides of Tyranny: Bad Apple Proverb: There's One in Every Bunch
Tides of Tyranny: Bad Apple Proverb: There's One in Every Bunch: Are you of the same opinion as I that coaches have a responsibility to ensure their teams maintain a semblance of appropriate demeano...
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