Opus 2018-089: The War on God, part 2 of 5, Who Is the Boss

If God represents competition then the Ten Commandments are His basic rules.  That is why they are such a threat to governments.  As we said earlier, government hates competition.  It turns out that God also hates competition.  Take a look at the first commandment.

(Exodus 20:3 KJV)  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

If you are a devout Jew or a believing Christian then God must be the Prime Mover in you life.  He does not leave you any other choice. 

The battle of the boss begins in our personal lives.  Many individuals reject Jesus as Lord because that means they need to take second place in their own little universe.  People will be attracted to the saccharine version of Jesus that is based on half truths.  That Jesus is gentle and mild.  He is the one who would never expect them to take a stand or ignore their feelings because a silly book like the Bible tells them they are wrong.

The battle of the boss continues into our culture.  Even people who will not let Jesus rule their lives will embrace the liberty that a moral life delivers.  They don’t want child molesters teaching school.  They don’t want the government to raise their children.  This kind of thinking is a threat to the domination of the government.  People who stand up for the values that God laid down must be slapped down.  We have fools claiming that the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights come from the government not God.  While God does not change and is not fickle or capricious, the government is known for going back on its word.

Rights are from God, not the government.  This is a basic principle laid down in the Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men,...”

Our rights come from God and the government is there to protect those rights.  It is not there to give us rights or decide who gets them. 

Obviously this God thing has to be gotten rid of for the government to have the power it craves.

To be  continued...

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Opus 2018-088: The War on God, part 1 of 5

Have you ever wondered why the progressive left has so much trouble with any reference to God.  They are working to remove the Ten Commandments from any visible space in the country.  They have removed baccalaureate from graduation and prayer from schools.  They want to get rid of the “In God We Trust” on our money.  They have issues.

They thrive on double standards.  When Ted Tebow kneels to pray it is a national scandal.  When one who will not be named kneels to spit on America we are supposed to salute his bravery and hail him as a hero.  In school you have people in your face if you say a good word about God or a bad word about sodomy.  Recently we had a Senate committee asking a judicial candidate about her religious beliefs.  That was okay.  Don’t even try to ask someone if they are a Muslim.  These people have issues.

Why?

Because God represents competition and of course governments resent competition.  I think that power in primitive cultures radiated from the biggest muscles.  Kings and nobility came from the warrior class.  Eventually the religious leaders began to compete and sometimes win in the power game.  I assumed they figured gods had bigger muscles.  This reached its pinnacle in the conflict between kings and the pope in medieval Europe.  You see the Roman Catholic church claiming to have the final say in temporal as well as spiritual realms.  Henry VIII of England was a leader in the Reformation.  We tend to forget that because we get focused on his many wives and their sudden deaths.  He split England off from the Roman church over his rejection of the pope trying to tell him how to run his country.  To his dying day he considered himself a devout Catholic yet he was the one that started Britain down the road to being protestant.  His defiance of the Pope encouraged others to believe they could think for themselves and the influence of Calvin and Luther began to be felt. 

After the Protestant Reformation the influence of Calvinism began to move people toward rights that were given by God and the King was supposed to be the leader in exercising them.  The Divine Right of Kings did not mean the king could do whatever he wanted.  It meant he could do whatever God wanted him to do.  That would not do today because God needs to be removed from the equation.

So God must go, He is competition.

To be  continued...

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Opus 2018-087: Type A Conspiracy

I am getting tired of reading books written by people who are Type A personalities.  Such authors are aggressive, ambitious and generally very sure of themselves.  They tend to not stop to think of other people.  They also tend to write a lot of books telling people who are not Type A how to get the job done.  I remember all the books my wife tried to get me to read about being the perfect husband.  The anecdotes that were given usually showed a young man who was very self centered and insensitive.  The one that sticks in my mind was a guy who went out to play basketball with the guys on their first wedding anniversary and left his wife sitting alone at home with a romantic candlelight dinner prepared.  Really?

Maybe we need some kind of Government Personality Label like the nutrition labels on my soup.  It would be good to know if an author is Type A, a liberal, schizophrenic or married with children.  I would like to know what I am taking into my mind as much as I need to know what I take into my body.  I already have filters like this when it comes to sources of news.  If it is from the New York Times, the L.A. Times or the Washington Post I prepare my baloney filters and keep purging them as I read.  Usually I just don’t bother to read.  It is a little harder to discern if it is a book about marriage, gardening or raising children.

I don’t expect it to happen.  The kind of people that would need to write the regulations are all Type A and would put it at the bottom of their list.

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Opus 2018-086: No News Is Sometimes No News

On my computer I group links to web-sites based on their content.  For instance I have one for media sources and under that I have it divided into “check daily” and “opinion”.  I have another for “Fun Sites”.  I am seriously considering moving Fox News from my “daily” to my “fun site” folder.  Not only is the editorial position drifting left but the stories getting reported are becoming more and more like stuff you see at the checkout line.

For instance one link is to an article about Twitter users and a dad campaigning because her daughter got fired for having colored hair.  This is what Fox calls news?  Then there is the one about a woman taking in a 26 year old cat.

Maybe Fox won’t even fit in the “Fun Site” folder.

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Opus 2018-085: Headlines: Warner for President?

Mark Warner announces for the presidency.  Okay, that isn’t what he said but it is what he meant.  His actual statement had to do with coming out of the closet as being against the Second Amendment.  He has claimed to be in favor of gun rights in the past and still says he supports the Second Amendment, but according to the article in the Washington Free Beacon he only had a “C” rating from the NRA.  That is pretty wishy-washy.  It isn’t enough to get support in the Republican party and too much to be supported by the Democrat base.  He has chosen the Democrats as his position of choice.

Warner gives some conservatives warm vibes because in the past he has talked like a conservative.  Pay attention.  It is all an act.  While it is true that Democrats are part of the problem and Republicans don’t seem to be the solution, he is definitely part of the problem.

2018.  2020.  Keep in mind who he is.  He is another trying to ride the fence by saying he is a supporter of the Second Amendment while doing what he can to make it meaningless. 

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Opus 2018-084: Headlines: A Window of Sanity in the Blue

I was shocked at the headline in the Free Beacon.  It seems that the legislatures in two of the most liberal states in the Union, Massachusetts and Connecticut, have put aside bills they were working on that would have allowed doctors to help people kill themselves.  That is almost impossible to believe.

In case you are not paying attention there is an ongoing attempt to not only make suicide legal and acceptable but to force doctors to prescribe medications to speed the process.  It is usually packaged as a way to help terminally ill people who are living in agony to bow out gracefully.  Underneath there are a lot of selfish motives from insurance companies trying to cut costs to children wanting to cash in on their inheritance. 

It was interesting that the opponents to the bill used the race card to bring down a bill that is usually favored by the race baiting left.  One spokesman said the bill

“...would have become a cheap medical procedure that would have steered the vulnerable toward suicide and favored the white, wealthy, and well insured....  The poor, people of color, and people with disabilities would have received the all too familiar denial of care letters from insurance companies and from Medicaid, refusing to cover expensive care but offering to pay for suicide pills.”

The article says there are six states that have already made it legal for doctors to kill patients.  According to Wikipedia there are seven:  Oregon, Montana, Washington, Vermont, Hawaii, California, Colorado, but I remember seeing a headline that Hawaii was just starting to vote on the issue.  If you read the Wikipedia article be advised that the article is written by someone who is in favor of helping people commit suicide so the terminology and evidence is presented with that in mind. 

As a believer I am not overly worried.  As we say in Christian circles, and double it when Easter is fresh on our minds, “It isn’t the end of the world.”  I guess a Buddhist could say the same thing.  It is another step in the campaign to dehumanize us and make us just smart monkeys who have no real value.  It is the kind of thinking behind euthanasia and the abortion industry.  It is the kind of thinking that drove the genocidal maniacs of the twentieth century like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.  It believes that human beings are just smart animals.  It denies that we are created in the image of God. 

Happy Post Easter.  Christians are still celebrating the resurrection.  Evil is still trying to make the world into a mirror of Venezuela.  Today we have one small victory for the good guys.

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Opus 2018-083: The Sting

I think there was a movie of that title.  I didn’t see it, and that is par for my course, but I know it had to do with a couple of con men setting up someone for a fall.  It was based on deceit and quick thinking.  Today we celebrate what is called Easter.  It is the day that Christians in the West celebrate the joke that Jesus played on death.  Paul points out the joke on death.

(1 Corinthians 15:55 KJV)  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

But this is not based on deceit.  God was very open about the role that Jesus would play.  One of the prophecies that we find in the OT is what Paul is quoting.

(Hosea 13:14 KJV)  I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

Some people don’t like the name Easter.  They claim it has a pagan derivation.  Fair enough.  As long as they only reject the name but still celebrate the resurrection I will sit in the same pew with them.  As Christians we not only believe that Jesus died for our sins but conquered death so it has no fear for us.

Now if He would only do something about taxes.

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