When Logic is Lacking

The Drudge Report reported that government officials investigated a skit which aired on the liberal network "Air America" last Monday, April 25. The skit featured a gunshot aimed at President Bush.

From The Drudge Report:

The announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."

This is what the liberals substitute for their lack of logic. They thrive on television and movies because images can be used to smuggle in opinions through the back door of consciousness, through innuendo and subliminal clips. Now, in radio, without the power of images, they rely on sensational tricks such as the above, howbeit to plant seeds of hatred and bigotry.

Liberalism is such a moribund ideology.

A Coward or A Liar

I have been reading The Count of Monte Cristo and have just read the chapter where Albert Morcerf finds a little article in the newspaper implicating a man named Fernand in some traitorous mercenary political activity several years ago. Albert Morcerf seizes upon this as an implication that his father, le Comte de Morcerf, is a traitorous mercenary because his father was named Fernand Mondego before his father’s ascendancy into wealth and power. Albert rushes the newspaper’s owner and challenges Beauchamp to a duel because Albert feels that Beauchamp’s newspaper has slandered the family name.

I thought this emphasis on honor above life seemed anachronistic until I recalled the exchange on TV between Hard Ball’s Chris Matthews and Senator Zell Miller during the Republican Convention. Senator Miller challenged Chris Matthews to a duel because Chris Matthews introduced Senator Miller as an “old time seggy,” a racist segregationist.

I applaud Senator Zell Miller who has kept such a forgotten value as honor alive in this age of slander and innuendo.

Here is a link to the story of the challenge: Duel

In the old days, a man who doesn’t accept the challenge of a duel of honor was labeled either a coward or a liar, or both.

Agonizing Over a Rule While Overturning Weightier Matters of Law

The defenders of the filibuster claim that the rule has been in place for two hundred years, and changing the rule would do unpredictable harm to the Senate.

Marriage between a man and a woman has been in place for more than two hundred years. So has the natural purpose of sex, as that between a man and a woman. So has the sanctity of human life.

The lawmakers confirm judges who do not hesitate to change the laws for marriage or for the sanctity of human life, yet they agonize over changing a single parliamentary rule that has been perverted in its application and used to rob righteous men and women of their chance at serving the nation.

They are more zealous for man's rules than they are for universal moral laws. This government body deserves the condemnation of the Pharisees if it does not overcome the filibuster.

There's Hope For Atheists

Atheists sometimes yield to the pressure of logic and evidence, even on supernatural matters. Take for example former atheist Anthony Flew. As reported by Associated Press,

"A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God more or less based on scientific evidence, . . .At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England."

Here is a transcript of an interview with Flew: Atheist Becomes Theist

My pastor brought Anthony Flew to my attention in his message today.

The Two Natures

The origin of death is moral, not physical. Adam’s moral failure started a physical process that culminated in his physical death. It took 930 years for this process to work itself out towards Adam’s death. The death process has become shorter since. The average human lifespan today is 82 years.

Christ, on the other hand, experienced death, but not because of moral failure. His death came about as a result of the logical outworkings of the processes that were already at work in the world since the time of Adam. Some names for some of these processes are “envy” and “jealousy”. Christ was put to death because of the envy and jealousy of the ruling religious party of the time. He lived a perfect life and it took only three days for His perfect life to reverse His death.

If Christ lived a perfect life, then His response to the Adamic natural processes constitutes a pattern for overcoming death and corruption. However, within the closed system of the Adamic nature, there can be no escape from its logical outworkings, which ultimately results in death. One needs a new nature to overcome Adamic processes. To obtain the new nature, one must be born anew. One needs a spiritual rebirth. One needs the Christ nature.

Having obtained the Christ nature, Christ’s life becomes the pattern of behavior with its set of responses to Adamic forces. These prescribed responses will lead to overcoming death and corruption at their seminal stages.

How Intense Is Your Worship

On Sundays in America we have the choice of worship services to suit our tastes. We can go to a traditional service where hymns are dominant, or we can go to a service which features modern choruses with brass and electrical guitar. We can choose churches that have a choir and orchestra, or we can just stay home and tune in a worship service on television.

In Iraq and other Moslem countries, Christians worship at the risk of their lives. The pastor of a small church in Baghdad received death threaths from Muslim radicals. Boldly, the pastor proclaimed to his congregation, "If you are not prepared to die for Christ, don't come to this church for we have received death threaths." The congregation grew, and is now a thousand strong. News on this link.

Have we really worshipped God yet in America?

Court exhibits some sanity

Justices displayed some unusual sanity when the Oregon Supreme Court decided to uphold the traditional definition of marriage as that between a man and a woman.

Concluding remarks from the Justices’ opinion:

"In summary, we conclude as follows. First, since the effective date of Measure 36, marriage in Oregon has been limited under the Oregon Constitution to opposite-sex couples. Second, Oregon statutory law in existence before the effective date of Measure 36 also limited, and continues to limit, the right to obtain marriage licenses to opposite-sex couples. Third, marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples in Multnomah County before that date were issued without authority and were void at the time that they were issued, and we therefore need not consider the independent effect, if any, of Measure 36 on those marriage licenses. In short, none of plaintiffs' claims properly before the court is well taken. Finally, the abstract question whether ORS chapter 106 confers marriage benefits in violation of Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution is not properly before the court."

Would that this sanity will be contagious to other judges and justices.

Deconstructing America

The judges and justices have successfully subverted the Constitution.

Now the political process itself is being subverted. The filibuster being waged by the Democratic minority is designed only for one thing – to prevent conservative judges from being nominated to the court system and ensure that only politically correct ideology prevails in the courts. The majority seems powerless against it.

The deconstruction of America is well under way. There is no longer a rule of the majority.

Illinois Governor follows Judge Greer

The Washington Post reported:

CHICAGO, April 1 -- Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich (D) issued an emergency rule Friday that requires pharmacies to accept and fill prescriptions for contraceptives without delay, after a growing number of complaints nationwide that some pharmacists are refusing to dispense birth control pills and the "morning-after" pill.

This is the legacy of Judge Greer who took an active role in Terri Schiavo’s execution, ordering her starvation.

Now pharmacists are being ordered to participate in the execution of the unborn against their consciences and against their religious beliefs. They are being forced to issue the drug known as the “morning after” pill, RU47, which is designed to kill the fertilized egg in the lining of the uterus.

America is moving ahead beyond Roe V. Wade, ever closer to the dung heap of history. Governor Blagojevich now joins Judge Greer in leading the way.

The Coming Theocracy

Secularist liberals have been resorting to labeling any move to uphold the right to life, or traditional marriage, as “theocracy.” As long as it can be traced back to the Bible, then it must be struck down as “theocracy.” The actions of legislators and executives of government are seen as “based on religious morality,” and therefore leading to establishment of religion. Soon, people of faith will be banned from holding public office because of the theocracy scare being whipped up by the secularists and their black-robed allies in the courts.

Theocracy is undoubtedly going to happen, not just in the way that the secularists expect. It will not come by an act of Congress, or by executive order, or by the will of the people, or by the zeal of the Church.

It will come with great power:

"For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be."

Matthew 24:27

It will come unexpectedly:

"For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

Matthew 24:37-39

It will come with a vengeance:

"But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence."

Luke 19:27

Who is scared of the coming theocracy? Not me. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

265 Popes in 1,973 Years

The Papacy is significant. Protestant evangelicals have theological objections to the office of the Pope. One of their objections has to do with the doctrine of infallibility. While Catholic doctrine teaches that the Pope is infallible when he speaks on matters of doctrine, evangelicals believe that only the scriptures are infallible. Because they believe that the scriptures are the Word of God, and since God cannot lie or make a mistake, then the Scriptures are inerrant and infallible. Another theological objection is the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. While Catholic doctrine teaches that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, the personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ on earth, evangelical Protestants believe that Christ is present in every believer, and that there is a democracy of faith. “The ground is level underneath the cross of Christ,” i.e., not one human being has a special standing when it comes to being right before God. Every human being can come to Christ without any other human intermediary.

However, I believe that the Papacy performs an enormously significant role today. The Papacy, with all the pomp and circumstance that has grown around it, demonstrates the historical continuity of the New Testament to our time. It is true that the Canon of Scripture is complete in the New Testament, i.e., all the books of the New Testament comprise all the truths we need to know about God’s final revelation and we need no other tradition. With the Papacy, however, a historical link is made through the centuries back to Peter, who was an eyewitness and apostle, and is mentioned in the Gospels. There have been two hundred sixty five popes since Peter, although the original office of Peter is debatable as to whether it was the first papacy. For a list of all the popes and their biographies, click here: Popes.

One Step Beyond Roe V Wade

In Roe V Wade, the state was in a relatively neutral position, neither advocating abortions nor preventing it (not considering Federal funding of some Planned Parenthood programs). The state simply permitted mothers and doctors to carry out abortions without fear of criminal prosecution. In Terri Schiavo’s case, however, the state went a step beyond its "neutral" position in Roe V. Wade and ordered the execution of the disabled through a court-ordered starvation, the removal of Terri’s feeding tube.

In both cases, the state found “just” cause in favoring the strong over the weak. In Roe, V. Wade, it was the woman’s right to privacy; in Terri’s case it was the husband’s right of custody. In both cases, there is a denial of a basic right to life. An unborn fetus has no rights, and neither does a “vegetative” human being. Human rights are only for those who are capable of living life as defined by the experts and the judges. In Roe V Wade, the state hides behind "saving the life of the mother", and in Terri's case, it hides behind "right to die."

All attempts to stop the denial of life to those persons have failed. The judges and justices struck down every attempt to save life as “unconstitutional.” The judges and justices can nullify any law by that simple decree of “unconstitutional,” and they have done so. The written constitution has been rendered meaningless and the constitution now only exists in the minds of the judges and justices, whose intellects rule the day. America can get rid of dictators on foreign soil but is powerless before the black-robed tyrants on its own soil.

One of the classic television series in the 1950’s was “One Step Beyond” which followed the themes of “Twilight Zone” in exploring the bizarre. With the Terri Schiavo execution, America has gone “one step beyond,” and has moved closer to the abyss of history.

The Heart of Socialism

Pope John Paul II exposed the foundations of socialism and outlined its ideological structure in the following:

“Continuing our reflections . . . we have to add that the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism. Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil. Man is thus reduced to a series of social relationships, and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears, the very subject whose decisions build the social order. From this mistaken conception of the person there arise both a distortion of law, which defines the sphere of the exercise of freedom, and an opposition to private property. A person who is deprived of something he can call ‘his own’, and of the possibility of earning a living through his own initiative, comes to depend on the social machine and on those who control it. This makes it much more difficult for him to recognize his dignity as a person, and hinders progress towards the building up of an authentic human community.”

Excerpt from
Centesimus Annus
05 May 1991

The Same Destiny for All

Pope John Paul II passed away on Saturday at the age of 84.

Under the shadow of the Pope’s demise, Terri Schiavo was cremated on the same day.

"So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. All share a common destiny-the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

As it is with the good man,
so with the sinner;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.

This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all."

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

Terry Schiavo - Strike Two Against America

Terri's life was significant. Her death brought the lie to the assertion of the lawyers and judges and experts that her life was meaningless, and therefore disposable. Terri's case was a test for the nation. It was a test for the President, the Congress, the Judiciary, the Governor of Florida, the State legislature, the State justice system, the police, the medical practitioners, doctors, nurses, the media, and every citizen.

Roe Vs. Wade brought out the question, "When does life begin?" Terri Schiavo brought out the question "When does life end?" In both cases, the state presumed to know the answers. Instead of turning to its deep moral traditions and rich spiritual heritage and history, the state dismissed them as "religious belief", and instead turned to science and the opinions of men. It abandoned its life-affirming moral code and embraced a cold and heartless legalism that sanctioned murder. For a second time, the state dismissed God and said, "Away with Your religion!"

Roe Vs. Wade brought millions of abortions. Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer inaugurated euthanasia. How many disabled will be legally killed in the wake of Terri’s state-sponsored execution?

It’s strike two against America.