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HOW MANY TIMES and HOW MANY WAYS MUST I SAY IT?


Okay, I admit that the title demands explanation. What am I talking about?  Of the many things that this would appropriately fit, what I am addressing is the Professional Political Elitist’s true agenda.  There is an interesting parallel to what is happening in Washington and the response of King Herod in the Bible upon hearing of Jesus’ birth.  Before, you turn me off thinking I am a Trump worshipper and calling him the new messiah, I AM NOT!  Of the things I consider Trump, Messiah is not one of them.  Don’t take that as an expression that I do not support him as President, I do but do not worship any man.  Each of us has flaws and each of us fails, but each of us has a job to do and an assignment to complete.

King Herod was deeply troubled by what he clearly perceived as a threat to his power and rule. This new baby, being called God, and King of the Jews was a direct affront to his lordship, and he reacted as tyrants and despots do.  He committed mass genocide in having all the male children up to two years of age slaughtered.  That was his approach to thwarting the perceived threat.  That is very akin to how the Democrats are responding to Trump’s election and his success.  He is their nemesis and a direct threat to their rule and control.  Herod could not tolerate that thought and neither can they.

I readily acknowledge that the mass slaughter of all the male children is far more egregious than impeachment, but the basic premise and intent is the same. Both actions are rooted in a desire and intent to ‘protect turf.’  In Herod’s case, it was his kingdom and in the case of the Left, it is to safeguard their perceived imperial rule and power.  They did not magically find what they were looking for in the Ukraine phone call because they began calling for Trump’s impeachment and destruction before his inauguration.  The call was just another attempt and tool to achieve that objective. They have turned over every rock they could find, looking for something, anything they could accuse and convict him of.  They have found nothing but have exposed an incredible amount of corruption, much of which is from within their own ranks. 

When people do not march to the drumbeat of the tyrannical despotic rulers they cannot be tolerated, and drastic measures must be taken.  Those measures must be sufficiently severe to assure that anyone thinking of disobeying in the future would be filled with incredible trepidation.  They want fear to grip the hearts of we peons and ensure that we never have the courage or daring to step over the prescribed line they have drawn.  How dare, the citizens to question the leadership of the rulers?  We become, in the words of Hillary Clinton, “A basket of deplorables.” 

America was founded as a Christian nation.  I’m sorry if you disagree but when I read our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, I can come to no other conclusion. When I read the writings of many of our Founding Fathers and the Framers of the American Constitution, that conclusion becomes impossible to ignore.  When I read the views of many of our former presidents, both Democrat and Republican I see that until the modern era, they agreed that America was founded upon biblical principles and our laws and our moral fabric was directly connected to the teachings of the Christian Bible.

Let me offer a few excerpts from some of our previous leaders that reflect their agreement with my assertions.  In 1837 John Adams said, “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (July 4th)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity…?”  That certainly sounds as if Mr. Adams believed that America was a Christian nation and purpose.

In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge made this amazing declaration, saying, “[The Declaration of Independence] is the product of the spiritual insight of the people… About the Declaration, there is a finality that is exceedingly restful… If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers. …If there is any one thing among us that is established beyond question, it is self-government—the right of the people to rule. …We hold that the duly authorized expression of the will of the people has a divine sanction. … The ultimate sanction of law rests on the righteous authority of the Almighty…”

Those people in power and seeking power in Washington must be reminded of our founding and the views of our founders.  When we consider the clear animosity toward our beginnings, and what we are as a nation by many on the Left it is deeply disturbing.  People like Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff, Al Green, Maxine Waters, Ocasio-Cortez, Comey, Brennan, Obama, Clinton, McCabe, Strzok, and a myriad of others consider us a threat to their power.  They see Trump as the force impeding the pursuit of their total dominance and therefore, he must be destroyed.

I believe that they believe as David Plouffe, a senior Obama advisor declared in a tweet in 2016.  He said, “It is not enough to simply beat Trump.  He must be destroyed thoroughly.  His kind must not rise again.”  Does that not sound eerily like the view demonstrated by King Herod regarding the birth of Jesus?  The election of Donald John Trump the 45th President of these United States of America was their worst nightmare and it came true.  Therefore, they will stop at nothing and no Constitution or Law will prevent them from their pursuit.  The only stoppage will come when enough of them are indicted, convicted, and sent to prison or the voters vote a sufficient number of them out of office to make them an afterthought. 

The Democrats, at least on a national level, find any reference to God, anathema.  We are not allowed to say, “Merry Christmas” but are demanded to use the more generic “Happy Holidays.”  God forbid that we should seek to be Merry or that we should recognize the Christ of God, that might be offensive to the snowflakes and the politically correct.  We dare not exercise our 1st Amendment Rights of both Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion.  Oh no, that can never be for those in the ‘woke’ community might be offended.  The fact that we are offended is inconsequential because, after all, we have disobeyed the edict of the Lords of the Earth and vote for their enemy. 

How many times and how many ways must I say, “What the Democrats are doing is seeking to destroy any opposition to their perceived lordship and right to power.  They are seeking to destroy enough of us that disagree to ensure they will never be questioned again.”  It is about Power and Control and not about America or Americans!

God bless you and God bless America!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2020 PERFECTION…


A few years ago, my optometrist said, “You have better than perfect vision.”  Technically, I don’t think that is possible, but he said the oft used theory that 20/20 vision was perfect vision.  When I pressed him, he informed me that the designation of ‘perfect’ might not be the best but that it was the baseline standard for what his profession deemed optimum vision.  At that time, I had 20/15 in both eyes and to him, that was better than perfect.

In life and politics, we are always striving for perfection.  Well, maybe not always, but we want things to be the best possible.  Sadly, in too many lives and in American politics it appears that we have evolved in our attitudes to the idea that ‘pretty good’ is okay and what is being called ‘optimum’ in today’s politics would be resoundingly rejected by our Founding Fathers.  They wanted a ‘more perfect union’ and did not believe that ‘just okay’ was okay.  They wanted the best possible and so should we.  

Our Founders saw the dangers of the human ego and the thirst for control and power and gave us repeated warnings to guard against those situations and people.  They placed within our founding documents, the Constitution and Bill of Rights safeguards.  They did all they could in both their actions and subsequent writings preserved for posterity to warn us of the dangers and give us guidelines to preserve the Republic.  Sadly, we have allowed the deviousness of the devious to erode our government and steal from us rights and liberties for their purposes.  That can change but not without incredible pain and sacrifice. 

If anyone had told me, as a child or a teenager, in the ’50’s and 60’s that we would be on the brink of witnessing the year 2020, I would not have believed it.  In the ’50’s and a significant portion of the 60’s we had the ‘Red Scare’ and most believed that there would be a nuclear war with the Soviets and/or the Chinese long before we became adults.  We endured the drills hiding under our desks to protect us from a nuclear attack.  We lived with a certain amount of daily trepidation.  Some built bomb shelters at great expense and sacrifice, hoping to survive what was deemed a certain eventuality.

If 20/20 is perfect can we anticipate the year 2020 providing or ushering in an era of perfection?  Where are my rose-colored glasses, I need to feed my unicorns and trim the wings of the flying pigs in my back yard.  With the present state of disarray and decay politically ‘pretty good’ would be mighty good.  If we achieve the objective of defeating the toxic liberal offering of Socialism and unseat the most anti-American, anti-Freedom, anti-God, and the sanitization of history and blurring the lines of moral decency we might achieve ‘pretty good.’

As an American who has lived more than 70-years, served in combat, raised a family, worked for what I have, and preached the gospel for over 50-years, I want more than ‘pretty good’ or ‘just okay.’  The desire for perfection lives and grows daily in my heart.  Believe me, I am very aware of my lack in that area.  I am profoundly cognizant of my personal deficiencies and failures.  Yet, I continue to ‘press toward the mark’ and ‘seek that prize.’  I have always believed that if you accept second-best you get third or fourth or fifth best for your complacency and abandonment of the pursuit of the best. 

As a preacher, I have encountered the arguments, “Well, I’m a good person.  I don’t hurt anyone. I am not any worse than anyone else.”  That is a flawed view of God’s desire and demand for us and it is a capitulation of our dream and objective of being the best we can be.  The slogans of the various branches of the military, designed to inspire also expose our deficiency.

The Air Force’s current slogan: “Aim High, Fly-Fight-Win” is a lofty objective and would demand a rejection of the status quo and any acceptance of pretty good.  The Navy’s current slogan: “Forged by the Sea” requires some inquiry to define its application to life and the pursuit of perfection.  The Navy’s slogan is not that the sailors somehow crawled out of the ocean in some evolutionary process, but the Navy was designed to tame the seas.  In life, we have stormy waters that must be tamed and navigated and pretty good just won’t cut it.

The Army’s slogans: “Army Strong” and “Be the Best or All that You Can Be” reveals that strength is required to attain the best and reach the highest goals in life.  There can be no acceptance of second best. and it is a revelation that we cannot do this alone but must move as a unit.  The Marines’ slogans: “The Few, The Proud” and “Looking for a Few Good Men” or women as would be apropos today demanding a sense of the pursuit of being elite.  If you are not willing to give it your all you will never be a part of the victorious.

The Coast Guard’s slogan: “Born Ready” almost sounds like the Boy Scouts but “Semper Paratus” or ‘born ready’ and suggests that the attitude of determination is integral in their mission.  Ingrained in the various branches mottos is the attitude that nothing less than perfection is acceptable.  The Air Force’s motto: “Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do” is a proud target.  The Marines’ motto: “Semper Fidelis” (Always Faithful) is indispensable if the pursuit of excellence.  The Army’s motto: “This we will defend” is an attitude that must be incorporated in the pursuit of perfection and the protection of the Republic.  The Navy’s motto: “Honor, Courage, Commitment” is essential in both the public and elected officials if the nation is to rise above mediocracy and beyond the acceptance of ‘pretty good.’

What will the year 2020 bring to America and us as individuals?  Without question, we will witness even greater division politically.  We will find ourselves faced with decisions more difficult than any of the past politically, socially, economically, and spiritually.  We can revert to the paranoia and hysteria of past eras or we can determine that ‘Making America Great Again’ is more than a catchy political slogan but a worthy objective. 

I am convinced that many on both sides of the political aisle want America to survive and thrive.  Sadly, some of them do not truly understand what America has been, is, and can be.  They have been taught a revised and slanted view of our Republic, its original purposes and the benefits of our system of government.  They have only seen a sanitized and revised history of America and the world and out of that distorted view, they vote. 

Also, there are many who have heard so little real biblical truth from the pulpits they believe the humanized interpretation of the Scriptures and are manipulated by political correctness.  We are far from perfection and may never see any semblance of the exceptionalism and patriotism that established our Republic and keep us and much of the world safer for generations.  However, failing to desire that status and abdicating our responsibility to pursue excellence and fight for the prize of perfection nationally and individually dooms us to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th best and that is unacceptable for this American.

Join me in a willingness to vote against the destruction of America and reject all politicians who do not or will not protect and defend the constitution.  Let’s reject those on both sides of the political aisle who place their pursuit of power and control over their obligation to serve the American people and the Republic.  I will vote no on the Leftists Agenda of National Socialism and vote for America! 

God bless you and God bless America!

ARE WE AS DUMB AS POLITICIANS THINK WE ARE?


I am frightfully serious in asking, “Are we, the American voters, as dumb as politicians seem to think we are?”  I would love to offer a resounding NO, but the continued election of some gives me cause for concern.  Politicians are a unique creature and until and unless the voting public prevents them from continuing their agendas, they assume that our lack of involvement is permission.  That is one of the reasons our Founding Fathers and the Framers of the Constitution provided so many warnings and safeguards for our system of government.  Unfortunately, those warnings have gone unheeded or ignored and the safeguards revised by the political elitist we keep sending to Washington.

I sometimes snicker when I hear politicians attempt to ‘talk the talk’ of whatever crowd they are addressing.  Hillary gave her best attempt to ‘talk blackish’ to an audience of African Americans in her campaign. If I were black it would have been insulting and revealing.  Pandering should be rejected every time, and in many ways, she was rejected, at least by enough people of all ethnicities to be defeated. 

One of the leading Democratic hopefuls, Joe Biden, is no less insulting as he attempts to ‘talk the talk’ to average citizens who know something about guns and self-defense. One of his feeble attempts to appear knowledgeable as in New Hampshire and he lapsed into his faux gun knowledge diatribe.  He said: ”I believe in 2A (2nd Amendment) but nobody says you can have a round – a magazine with a hundred clips in it…”  WHAT?  His attempt to use gun lingo failed so miserably that the audience should have been rolling in the aisles with laughter, thinking it was a comedy routine.

He continued his rant and talked about the soul of the nation and how his Dad would lie awake at night and stare at the ceiling wondering what would happen if he got sick.  He was attempting to address average citizens with the problem of healthcare and health insurance.  He went into a rant about sending the children off to school and then rambled about fire drills.  Then he attacked the NRA and announced, I have taken them on twice and beaten them twice.  What is he talking about?

He spewed forth more diatribe and said, “I believe in the 2nd Amendment but nobody says you have a round…a magazine with a hundred clips in it…a hundred b-b-bullets in it.  We protect geese more than we protect…no joke, you can only have three shotgun shells when you go shooting for geese.  But guess what, we protect geese more than we protect our kids.”  WHAT?  That incoherent rambling is hopefully not playing well with American voters.  But if it is then we are as dumb as he and the politicians think we are.

Hey Joe, let me speak to you as someone who has served in the military, been in combat, was raised in rural East Texas and been around guns all my life.  I am a hunter, a sportsman, and have a smidgen of knowledge about guns.  The shotgun is only limited to 3 rounds for migratory birds and without the plug can hold more rounds.  The term ‘sitting duck’ could be used to focus on geese and ducks.  The laws on limiting rounds for hunting them is designed to ensure that the number of birds will continue to be ample enough that people can enjoy hunting for years to come.  Deer, on the other hand, are not as easily killed as migratory birds and you just might have to shoot more times to hit and harvest your quarry. 

On the other hand, migratory birds nor deer have a propensity of invading your home and attempting to kill you.  Yes, I remember the movie “The Birds” but that is fictional, not factual.  When I seek to protect my home from an unwanted intrusion by a perpetrator seeking to steal or do bodily harm to me and my family, Joe Biden is not the man I want to determine what protection I can utilize. 

As a former Navy Seal once said when asked, “How many rounds do you need?”  He said, “One more than the bad guy.”  If someone invades my home in a surprise break-in, I probably will not have time to run for my hidden and separately stored back-up magazine for my 2 or 3 round mag.  Or as Joe said, my magazine that has 2 clips in it…  (Sarcasm intended).

When we add to Joe’s incoherent ramblings and rhetoric to the spin the liberal leftists use in advancing their paranoia of man-made climate change, universal healthcare, higher taxes, reparations, redistribution of wealth, and plunging us into the abyss of economic and energy regression we should be awakened.  They either think we are all blithering idiots, or they are.  Either way, they are posing a threat to our way of life, our freedom, and our Republic.  They are becoming a danger to themselves and us so, please reject them resoundingly in the upcoming elections.

America let’s demonstrate that we are not the mindless non-thinking pawns they have grown accustomed to.  Let’s show them the door and reclaim, preserve, protect, and defend our Republic and our Freedoms! 

God bless you and God bless America!

THE GOD PROBLEM IN POLITICS…


One of the two major political parties in America is on the record of having a God problem or a problem with God in the public square.  In the Democratic presidential debates, we are witnessing the culmination of what has been observed in years past regarding the view of religious freedom in America.  Those hoping to receive their party’s nomination for president could have and should have expressed support for religious freedom in America.  They have had ample opportunity to do so, but at this juncture, they have not. 

It is my view and the view of many Americans that both major political parties should consider religious freedom a principle to be protected and defended.  One Florida Democrat has publicly declared that any person who votes for Trump cannot call themselves a Christian.  David French argues that the only reason Evangelicals support Trump is out of fear.  He argues that Evangelicals think that Trump is their source of protection for religious freedoms.  He argues that position is cowardly and repulsive.  You may agree, but I adamantly disagree. 

I do not believe that Evangelical Christians are dependent upon Trump to protect our freedoms per se.  I believe that most see a very real enemy and a threat to our religious liberties, 2nd Amendment rights, and other liberties threatened by the toxic advancement of liberalism.  We see the invasion of evil on many fronts and view Trump as a breath of fresh air giving us a courageous president willing to stand with us against this onslaught. 

What Mr. French calls fear is a united effort to fight the destruction of our freedoms.  We are not blind to Trump’s flaws nor are we blind to the dangers of the agenda of the Democrats.  Therefore, we support the person who supports our fight for freedom.

When failed candidates like Robert Frances O’Rourke are willing to declare their intent to use the IRS against Christians and religious organizations that oppose same-sex marriages that identifies a God problem.  When the 2016 National Democratic Convention would erupt in a chorus of boos when the words “God-given” was used, that expresses a God problem.  When the Democratic Party advances the view that they consider the ‘religiously unaffiliated’ as their largest religious group, that suggests a God problem.

American Founders such as Thomas Jefferson contended that the American constitution must provide the right for every citizen to live according to his own beliefs.  They recognized, as should we, that the government if given opportunity would invade the private space of citizens and stand between a man and his God.  They understood that there was a very real danger of the government attempting to coerce man to violate his own conscience and bow to the ideological sentiment pervasive at any given time.  They wanted to ensure that each of us had our religious liberty protected and provided the Bill of Rights to provide that guarantee.

America was founded with a view of God’s providence and on the day before signing the Constitution, John Adams wrote his wife Abigail.  The first paragraph on the third page of the letter said, “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the greatest anniversary festival.  It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by the solemn acts of God Almighty.” 

In his closing, he said, “You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not.  I am aware of the toil and blood and treasures that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.  Yet through all the Gloom, I can see rays of ravishing light and glory.  I can see the end is more than worth all the means.  And that posterity will triumph in the day’s transaction, even [although] we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not.”

Moral relativism has become pervasive in the Democratic Party and too evident in our society in modern America.  The devil has never ceased in his attempt to convince man that he can be like God or be god himself.  What is moral relativism?  A simplistic definition is: “The belief that ethical standards, morality, and position of right or wrong are subject to a person’s individual choice.  We can all decide what is right or wrong for ourselves.”  That eliminates moral absolutes and plunges us into the abyss of relativism and societal declension.  It may sound good and tolerant, but it is a dangerous pathway that can only end in the destruction of society as a whole.

Billy Graham was right when he said, “The nature of God never changes.” Men change, societies change, and worldviews change but God is unchanging and eternally the same.  (Malachi 3:6).  Moral relativism allows for some incredibly immoral behavior which is deemed as acceptable and even normal. 

If we are our own god and decide what is right and wrong, surely, we can see the potential dangers of that view.  Some argue, that white lies hurt no one and it is okay to lie so long as what we do does not actually hurt another.  They also argue, that so long as it is between two consenting adults it is okay.  That is to ignore the clear teachings of the Bible and blur the lines of morality to the point that every person does what is right in their own eyes and selfishness and self-centeredness becomes our moral compass.

The God problem of the Democrats is one of the reasons I cannot support their Party.  I am concerned that this continued plunge into depravity will result in judgment falling on our nation.  People today are so driven by hate they no longer use reason and refuse to acknowledge any truth but their own truth.  In my fifty-plus years of studying the Bible, I cannot ignore the reality that God sometimes allows a season of grace and mercy before judgment.  I fear that our present pathway in America is leading to some incredibly dark times in our future. 

The idea being presented by some national ministers that the Bible is open to interpretation has grown in the past few decades.  I suggest that the Bible is and isn’t open to interpretation. It is the inspired Word of God and was written under the direction of the Holy Spirit.  If the open interpretation view is embraced and practiced in all of society, we would have utter chaos.  There would be no definitive right and wrong and no moral compass by which we could navigate the troubled waters of life.

A military office that gives an order expects that order to be carried out explicitly.  If we adopt the view of private interpretation private property would be endangered because if a person believes they have a right to what is yours or mine, they would have no qualms about attempting to take it.  Employees are not given the option of interpreting corporate edicts.  If the rules and guidelines of the parents are open to interpretation the family unit would plunge into total anarchy. 

We have allowed the murder of millions of unborn babies and called that a woman’s right to choose and made it about women’s health.  We have allowed the destruction of the home and two-parent families with a man and woman.  We have allowed the view to becoming pervasive that God blew it when He created male and female and put some of us in the wrong bodies.  If urges are allowed to rule and passions not kept in check by some moral absolutes then no child, man or woman is safe. 

I oppose the Democrats on a national platform because they have abandoned everything I believe in and everything that made America the Free Republic it has been and is.  You can disagree and that is your right.  I will vote to protect America and our American Freedoms.  You vote as you deem best, but please consider what is being advanced before you make your choice and choose wisely.

God bless you and God bless America!

SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE…


Today being Christmas Eve left me wondering, should I post or not post today? After prayer I decided that this was what I was to write, so I offer these thoughts and pray they will resonate with you. I also want to wish you a Happy Christmas Eve and a very Merry Christmas!

Today my objective is to incorporate a consideration of science and the Bible in a Christmas themed presentation.  I have long been amazed at the incredible revelations found in the Bible in ancient times and how that hundreds if not thousands of years later scientists discovered they were factual realities and medically sound techniques.  If I had no other reason to believe the Bible is the Word of God that would be enough, but I have more, much more.

I hear some, even preachers contend that the Bible ‘contains’ the Word of God but is not the Word of God.  I find that objectionable and that would relegate the Bible to the status of just another book of philosophy and not a guide for ‘faith or practice’.  It would require me to abandon my confidence that God is unchanging and His Promises, as revealed in the Bible are reliable or dependable.  That would be a terrible place and one that would produce an untenable gospel.  How could I trust the declaration of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead?  How could I trust that God will forgive every sin upon repentance?  How could I believe the words of Jesus in John 14 that He is preparing a place for us and coming back? 

You may wonder, how this has anything to do with what is happening in today’s world, socially, politically, governmentally, etc.  It has everything to do with it?  If we do not have a reliable Bible that “is” the Word of God, a God who is unchanging, then we have no absolutes.  We would become laws unto ourselves and the result would be anarchy and chaos.  There would be no constraints on society for civility and each person would become their own center of the universe. 

Science is in a continual state of flux.  In the realm of medical science, no doctor that has practiced medicine for any length of time practices the same as they began.  New discoveries make that implausible and impractical.  As new techniques and discoveries emerge doctors change their approach and treatment.  Thank God they do!  However, I contend that the Word of God never changes, and God never changes. 

There are many examples in the Bible of scientific truths being revealed long before scientists recognized and proved those realities.  In Isaiah 40:22 – “He (God) sits enthroned above the circle of the earth…”  Imagine that, the Bible declared that the earth was round over 1100 years before Columbus and 350 years before Aristotle first argued that the earth must be round, not flat. 

How about Job, who lived over 4,000 years ago.  He recorded God’s question found in Job 38:16 – “Have you entered into the springs of the sea…”  Wow!  The existence of springs in the ocean was not discovered until 1977 almost 4,000 years later.  The last half of that verse states: “…or have you walked in the recesses of the sea?”  Amazing!  Those recesses were not discovered until 1873 almost 3,900 years after Job declared it. 

I am reminded of Matthew Fontaine Murray a Naval Sea Captain who discovered the ‘paths of the sea’.  He was a navigator and discovered that vital navigational information did not exist for sailing many waters.  His quest was spurred by the Bible. He was quite ill and asked his daughter to read the Bible to him.  She began reading Psalm 8 and in the eighth verse read, “whosoever walked through the paths of the sea.”  He stopped her and had her repeat it.  Then he said, “The paths of the sea, the paths of the sea.  If God says there are paths in the sea, if I ever get will I will find them.” 

He was also inspired by Ecclesiastes 1:6 – “The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits, the wind returns.”  He determined that based on that declaration it was logical to believe that in certain places the wind would blow predominately from one direction and that knowledge would be of infinite value to sailing ships.

We dare not omit the directions that God gave Moses regarding sanitary conditions, medical procedures, and treatment.  Through Moses the value of quarantine.  It was not until the 14th century that the practice was embraced.  The ports in Venice and Genoa first refused immigrants who might be carriers or infected with the Bubonic plague.  Even in the 17th and 18th centuries leprosy spread over southern Europe until the practices of Moses in the Bible were enacted.  Moses disinfected the patient’s clothing, bed, and house.  The leper was required to wear a covering up to his upper lip and was quarantined on certain occasions.

The health and hygiene of the Israelites in the wilderness enabled them to survive.  They adopted practices that were not universally embraced and look remarkably like modern practices.  Dr. M.R. DeHaan, who received his M.D. from the University of Illinois Medical School practiced medicine and later became a preacher.  He offered a vital view of science and the Bible especially through Israel in the wilderness. 

Dr. DeHaan wrote: “We ask the question since Moses was educated in all these [Egyptian] superstitions and primitive practices, how does it happen that he does not teach or recommend these remedies in his writings? Although he deals in detail and great length with diseases, the treatment of infections, leprosy, and running sores, yet the illusions, deceptions, gross errors, and superstitions concerning anatomy, physiology, pathology, and treatment of diseases as taught in the highest schools of learning in Egypt from which Moses was a graduate [Acts 7:22], are never taught or even suggested in the books of Moses. But instead, the instructions Moses laid down for Israel were utterly at variance with the accepted practices of that day, and fully in harmony with modern-day scientific facts.”            

Science is confirmed by the Bible rather than the Bible confirmed by science.  Science, or man, has been slow to appreciate, understand, or discover the truths of God’s Word from thousands of years ago.  With each scientific discovery, previously revealed in the Bible, my faith grows stronger. 

Thus, I can say on this day, Christmas Eve as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, I believe it to be a factual reality because I believe the Bible is THE WORD OF GOD!  I have a personal relationship with my Savior and know that my life has been changed through that relationship.  My experience and subsequent years of pursuing Him and His purposes have produced a peace that is beyond my ability to adequately explain. 

I do not care what day Jesus was born or even what month.  I believe He was born of a virgin as the Bible declares.  I believe that He lived a sinless life, as the Bible declares.  I believe He died on the Cross for my sins as the Bible declares.  I believe that He rose from the dead and has ascended to the right hand of the Father, just like the Bible says.  I believe that He is preparing a place for me and will come back to take me to my eternal home, just like the Bible declares.  I BELIEVE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  The agreement of science with the Bible helps inspire our confidence in God and His Word!  I do not care what your political affiliation or religious affiliation is, God is the answer and He is our Hope!  I pray for each one today and ask that God will grant each a very Joyous Celebration!  May you have health and blessings!

God bless you and God bless America!

CLIMATE SCIENCE? Seriously, You Call That Science?


Once again, I venture into the menacing waters of man-made climate change.  Once again, I state the obvious, facts do not support the conclusions of the alarmist.  Once again, I declare that the scientific data debunk their theories and exposes their hypocritical paranoia.  Man’s effect on the climate is minimal. 

If you are still reading and have allowed your blood pressure to recede to a safe level, I will continue.  I believe in being good stewards of the environment.  I love the outdoors, and the many benefits of this planet.  We can do things to clean up the environment and keep our rivers, streams, beaches, cities, and countryside beautiful and usable.  However, we do not have to impede man’s progress and place such restrictions on humans that enjoyment of nature becomes impossible.  That is cutting off our noses to spite our faces and counterproductive.

I do not know if the ‘scientists’ who have jumped on the man-made climate change train are sincere or not.  I do not know if they are trying to find acceptability in their society or if they are simply deceived.  I do not know what motivates them, although I do know that people like Al Gore have become incredibly wealthy advancing this theory.  The man-made climate change agenda is part and parcel of the United Nations Agenda 21 Initiative and seeks ultimate control of all nations and all people.  That alone would make it suspect to me.

Tony Heller has exposed some of the most egregious dishonesty of mainstream environmentalists in his video titled “My Gift to Climate Alarmists.”  Who is Tony Heller?  Let me give a brief view of some of his credentials and then proceed.  He earned a BS in Geology from Arizona State University and a Master’s in electrical engineering at Rice University.  He studied geology at Boston University, computer science at Northern Arizona University, Computer Science at Colorado State University and Geochemistry at the University of New Mexico.  He is a lifelong environmentalist and has fought for clean air and water over his career. 

What did Mr. Heller expose?  One of the interesting facts that he revealed was that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that forest fires reached their peak in the 1930’s.  Wait?  They reached their peak?  That would mean they have been declining since, right?  That’s the factual data compiled by our own government.  The climate alarmists conveniently omit that information and use 1980 as the benchmark and insist that we have had increases since and it is due to ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change.’  That is a tad fraudulent, don’t you think?

He also revealed that the claim of ‘climate scientists’ pushing the man-made global warming agenda claim that rising sea levels is the result of this phenomenon that man has caused.  That is scientifically inaccurate, and the empirical data suggests that the sea levels have been rising for 20,000 years.   Many anthropologists believe that when the sea levels were low people were able to walk from Siberia to North America.  Interesting thought. 

Hot weather is blamed on man-made climate change but when you examine the statistical evidence, we discover a few omitted revelations that are germane.  The number of days over 90 degrees in Waverly, Ohio was eye-opening.  In 1895 there were 73 days recorded above 90 degrees.  That was 1895, not 1985, just in case you misread it.  In 1936 there were 82 days above 90 degrees.  Since the 1930’s there has been a downward trend in the number of days above 90 degrees.  The climatologists use 1955 as their benchmark for data to be examined.  They do so to show an increase.  They selectively pick the benchmarks for their theories rather than considering all data, they find that which supports their theory and go from there.  That is deciding the outcome you want and manipulate the data to prove it.

One environmental activist (scientist) Ottmar Edenhofer, the lead author of the IPCC’s fourth summary report released in 2007 revealed their agenda in a speech in 2010.  He said, “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”   We know that the U.N.’s climate chief Christiana Figueres revealed that the true aim of the U.N.’s 2014 Paris climate conference was “to change the (capitalist) economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

I do not believe that all the scientists are dishonest, but many are either dishonest or dangerously deceived.  Would it not be appropriate to ask, “If the sea levels have been rising for 20,000 years, why do they insist this is due to man-made global warming?”  That would predate any industrial advancements and mechanization of the past 100 years.  The period they insist is the culprit in ‘climate change.’

Why do those reporting on this issue fail to mention the declarations of Edenhofer, Stewart, and others who want to ‘ride global warming as a means to defeat capitalism and impose socialism or communism on the world?’  Why?  Because this is about Power and Control not about the betterment of the planet or any genuine concern for a problem that is fictional.  It is a tool to manipulate the minds of the non-thinkers and create a paranoia that allows them to strip us of our rights and liberties thinking we must do so to save the planet.  God is still in control, so calm down!

The insanity of the toxic liberalism, the increasing activism, and push toward the imprisonment of humans impeding progress by despotic oligarchies and tyrannies must be exposed.  That is another of the many reasons that I oppose the national Democratic agenda and will vote NO on every Democrat in 2020 and beyond.  My vote is for Freedom!  My vote is for America!  My vote is not for sale!

God bless you and God bless America!

DEBT and DEFICIT ARE A PROBLEM…


From time to time I will have someone blast me over my concern for the national debt and soaring deficit.  I had one fellow conservative tell me, “Not to worry, it’s only paper and not real.”  I’m sorry but somehow having a significant portion of our nation mortgaged and the paper owned by foreign nations, is paper that I am concerned about.  That reality gives them far more influence and leverage than any of us should find comfortable.

I would be pleased to discover that I am wrong, and it is nothing, but an assortment of number positioned strategically on paper and meaningless in the overall scheme of things.  However, I do not believe that day will ever present itself, and it is a matter deserving of serious concern. 

Our national debt of $23 Trillion is beyond my ability to relate.  It has been projected to grow by 150% in the coming years.  Most members of various financial think tanks all agree it is a problem, but there is no consensus as to how to resolve the issue.  In fact, most of the proposals that filter out of those consortiums of wisdom are unrealistic and frequently terribly misleading.  That too is cause for concern.

I had one well-meaning person tell me that this was easily solvable by simply printing more money and paying off the debt.  That is a pathway to hyperinflation and a total stagnation of our economy.  It is also a means to cause every nation in the world to look the other way and ignore any requests we have for borrowing money.  Who would lend money to a nation that attempts to shaft them by printing money thereby devaluing the worth of that money and leaving them on the short end of the financial stick?  Would you?

The only possible pathway to fiscal stability and making any serious indentation in the national debt would require some very austere measures.   There is no current politician or previous politician willing to advance those measures because it would mean the end of their political careers.  We all know that their careers are far more important than ‘fixing any problems’ in America.  We are secondary to their political ambitions and that is a major part of the problem.

Sweden and Switzerland have taken some drastic measures to rectify their financial woes.  America would be required to reduce debt as a share of the national income by about 60%.  What politician or voter would allow that drastic measure to see the light of day?  The tightening of the belt would be so severe that many, now on the government dole, would be cut off cold-turkey and that is not going to happen.  It would affect those of us on Social Security as well and that is not a palatable pathway for millions of struggling Americans dependent on their SS checks.

America’s threat of insolvency is very real.  There are those on the Left who are hoping for an economic meltdown to defeat Donald Trump.  What could they be thinking?  Is defeating or destroying him worth destroying the country? 

With the current push of the Democrats toward Socialism and away from Free Market Capitalism, it seems that many do not realize how economic stability occurs.  Maybe that is because they too believe that it is simply paper, and we can print our way to solvency.  We can neither print our way to solvency or borrow our way to prosperity.  Both have exacerbated our current problem and like it or not, we are facing some austere times in which we will deal with the debt, or be destroyed by its weight.

The Keynesian economists have seduced many politicians into the belief that they should love debt and not fear it.  Hopefully, we will find the courage to begin seriously dealing with the matter before we fall over the proverbial financial cliff and plunge into the abyss of financial chaos and darkness. 

Our own Federal Reserve Chairman has declared, “The federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and rising debt.”  I don’t care if it is a Republican or a Democrat driving the fiscal bus, this must be addressed.  The almost $1 Trillion deficit of 2019 is totally unacceptable and is a dangerous act of ignoring the problem.  The debt began to grow exponentially under George W. Bush, exploded under Barack Obama, and now appears totally out of control.  It now appears that even if we elected a very fiscally conservative president this beast is on the loose and unstoppable. 

We are facing a fiscal Day of Reckoning!   There will come a time when we will be required to pay the piper.  Will that be our generation, that of our children, or grandchildren?  I suspect it will be our grandchildren, and the incredible burden and dark future we are leaving for them is unforgivable. 

It is no wonder that there are Millennials and Gen Z’s who are leaving work for mental health issues and becoming suicidal.  What would we expect with the incessant ‘doom and gloom’ of the Climate Change Activist, the staggering national debt, and other issues? 

The 24/7/365 attack on the current president deeming him to be Lucifer incarnate and the most dangerous and deranged man on the planet opens the door to a mindset that produces a failed society.  Chaos, anarchy, and total surrender to the paranoia and fear are in the cauldron of destruction the Left has been brewing in today’s world.

Our present economy is encouraging, and we should all be praying for the continued growth in the GDP.  However, that growth needs to be coupled with a systematic plan to reduce spending.  The management of our elected officials reminds me of a person who gets a $100 raise and on the strength of that raise incurs 5 times that amount in debt.  A fiscally responsible position would be to take a significant portion of that raise to pay down current debt and invest the rest.  That is not the path of most people and assuredly not in the mentality of our politicians. 

Alexis de Tocqueville warned of a condition that would destroy America if it were to transpire.  He said, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”  That day arrived and has been with us for decades.  That is another reason to not allow politicians to serve decades in Washington.  The longer they stay in power the more susceptible they are to corruption, the influence and appeal of money, position, and power.  America will not survive unless ‘we the people’ take back oversight of our government and hold politicians of all stripes accountable.

I am concerned and as we enter the Holiday Season, I am more keenly aware of debt, deficit, and spending.  Each of us, individually, need to take the necessary steps to trim our budgets.  Each of us as members of the republic needs to demand our politicians do the same thing with our federal tax dollars. 

God bless you and God bless America!

AMERICA’S MORAL COMPASS…


The real question is not if America has a moral compass but what happened to it?  No, I do not think slavery is, was, or will ever be moral.  No, I do not think genocide is, was, or ever will be moral.  Likewise, I do not think that practicing abominable practices are moral, right, or acceptable.  I do not believe that abandoning God and our moral moorings regarding the family, lasciviousness, greed, envy, hate, and love are acceptable.  I believe God placed within each heart a compass to help us navigate the troubled waters of life.  That moral compass, more than any law, stems from evil and evil activities. 

However, it is apropos to insert the oft-cited quote of James Madison, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”  Men are not angels therefore, laws are required, and it is mandatory that society polices itself.

Someone asked, “It is possible for a modern liberal to have a moral compass?”  Before you automatically say, NO I ask that you pause and realize that anything is possible.  The legitimate and complete answer is YES and NO, depending on the person, situation, and definition of ‘moral’.   Like Bill Clinton, “It depends on what your definition of is, is.” 

If a person believes that there is a moral standard based upon something other than man’s own creations and concoctions, the answer is YES, it is possible.  Any moral system that believes in something greater than one’s self opens the door for a moral compass to exist and be exhibited. 

All moral systems are not equal, and some are infinitely better than others, in my view.  All roads do not lead to Rome or Heaven.  I am a Christian and believe that the Bible’s guide for faith and practice is the best of all moral systems.  I believe that tolerance is good and a worthy pursuit so long as it does not require me to abandon my faith and Bible-based convictions.  At that point, I shun it and although I defend their right to believe what they believe, I will have no part of it and will stand against it.

Many liberals today do not seem to have a moral compass and are by nature evolutionary in their thinking and standards.  They do not believe in absolutes morally and inflexible truth.  They appear to have adopted the belief that humans, over time, and perfect themselves through their own efforts.  Their moral compass appears to be any compass that points toward the latest ideological perception of improvement. 

When I was in my 30’s and 40’s I thought that most liberals believed in women’s rights.  My view of their position shifted when I witnessed their gravitation toward pandering to the transgenders movement and Islam.  My view has significantly changed now that liberals, almost unanimously, defend men who identify as women being allowed to participate in women’s sports.  They call that tolerance and demand that we all abandon our views and bow at the shrine of liberal thought.  Sorry, but the thing inside my cranium is called a brain for a reason and with it, I can think.  Thinking allows me to see the fallacy of their argument and demands that I resist.

The liberal ideology that has become toxic over the past few decades has embraced political correctness to the degree that any disagreement is branded with a salacious expletive. 

Islam has a doctrine in their holy book called ‘taqiyya’.  According to sharia, in certain situations, they are allowed and even directed to engage in deception. They are allowed to lie and pretend to be followers of legitimate local law but secretly continue to work for the advancement of their ideology.  The liberals, at least in Washington, seem to be of the same mind.  It often appears that they have an unwritten agreement that allows them, under the protection of their Party, to lie to the American people in order to advance their cause and agenda.  Is that moral?  Not in my view, but then I believe the Bible’s edict to be truthful.

The atheist biologist Richard Dawkins concocted the novel theory, which he called the evolutionary benefits of homosexuality.  He argued that the benefits had to exist because homosexuality existed.  He called that scientific proof.  No that is opinion, not science.  The liberal appears to root their values on whatever is deemed fashionably righteous in modern society. 

Have we forgotten that in the early portion of the 20th century the liberals embraced eugenics and forced sterilization?  Today they have evolved into proponents of androgyny and political censorship.  What’s the next morally acceptable thing for them?  Could it be pedophilia or concentration camps with forced indoctrination of the non-liberal?  They have abandoned the Bible as a basis for morality and reinterpreted the Bible to embrace whatever trend they deem approved and acceptable.  Preachers have been seduced and coerced into abandoning the Bible in a quest for acceptance.  What has happened to America’s moral compass?

I believe in absolutes, especially when it comes to moral values.  I believe the Bible and that is my basis for my core convictions in all matters.  I do not embrace moral relativity or situational ethics.  I do believe that all men are created equal in the sense that we can all have God’s forgiveness and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  All of us are not equal in gifts, talents, abilities, or even intelligence.  We are equal in the sense that we are created in God’s image and have the capacity to receive His grace and goodness.  Orwell said in Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” 

Modern liberal thought seems to be that morality is whatever is presented and promoted by their ideological guides.  They appear to hold the view that all humans have moral sentiment and that defines a ‘moral compass.’  To them, it is a compass because it points to whatever nearby liberal magnet idea is presented.  They fail to realize that the magnet is detrimental to civil society and anathema to the teachings of biblical moral purity.  To them, a compass is a compass even if it does not produce the betterment of people or alleviate suffering or produce unity and civility.  Their compass or basic ideological position seems to be, “My way or the highway” and “The End Justifies the Means.”

I continue to pray for America, my beloved nation, to regain her moral compass as a people and as individuals.  I pray for God’s mercy and forgiveness for our drift and shift from our founding principles and His biblical directives.  You can agree or disagree with my assessment, but it is mine and I stand by it. 

God bless you and God bless America!

AMERICA, THIS IS MY PLEA IN 2020…


I, along with millions of other God-fearing, Freedom-loving Americans, am concerned about the state and future of our Republic.  No, I did not say our Democracy because that is not what we are, but our Republic.  Yes, we have a form of Representative Democracy but are not a Grecian Style Majority Rule Democracy as many suppose.  Those facts are embodied in our system of government, our Constitution, and our history.  Sadly, too many, including some who teach in our institutions of higher learning are apparently unaware of those facts. 

Before Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of these United States the Left called for his impeachment.  Maxine Waters wanted him impeached because he called Hillary, “Crooked Hillary.”  How dare him use that kind of derogatory language toward a member of the fairer sex and a Democrat.  That, in her mind, was inexcusable and clear evidence that he was the epitome of evil and must be eliminated.  She was not alone and ignored the realities that disparaging epithets were launched from both candidates and others during the campaign cycle.  That is not unusual in presidential elections but the reaction of the Democrats to a Republican pushing back has been incredibly revealing.

It was 19 short minutes after Trump was sworn in that the Washington Post announced, “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.”  Wow!  What took them so long?  That effort has been nonstop for over three years and the 24/7/365 barrage of innuendo and allegations have flooded the airwaves. 

The Russian collusion collapsed because to all full exposure of what transpired would be to indict Hillary and the Democrats and they could not risk that.  New allegation after new allegation has arisen and each of Trump’s associates and appointees has been treated with less civility than a mass-murdering pedophile terrorist cannibal human sacrificing devil worshipper.  It has been treacherous for those supporting the president.

The Democrats are poised to continue their objective although some of the Democrats desire to shifting from impeachment to recall or censorship of the president, continue they will.  The Constitution demands that impeachment be for ‘treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.’  They have no verifiable evidence of quid pro quo, bribery, treason, or endangering America in any of the president’s actions.  Even in the Ukraine phone call, the Ukrainian president has insisted there was zero quid pro quo.  The witnesses produced by Shifty Schiff have been hearsay, opinion, dislike but nothing factual or verifiable.  It has been a political campaign effort paid for by you and me, the American taxpayers.

Our first president George Washington and our founders feared the auto-renewal policy of present-day politicians.  They gave repeated warnings against allowing those in power to co-opt the political process and use federal money for their personal purposes.  They would be appalled at the use of special interest money, playing on incumbency and name recognition, and the ultra-partisanship engaged in today.  They did not believe that elective positions should be ‘life-time appointments’ but ‘temporary engagements’ in public service.  Today, we have a political class and the members have never held jobs outside of the political arena.  That needs to change and change swiftly.

Voting all the corrupt members of Congress out of office is virtually impossible so fixing this issue may be beyond the realm of possibility.  However, we must somehow seek to regain the views expressed by our first president George Washington.  He said, “The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.  It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can and undoubtedly will be recalled.”

James Madison concurred as he wrote in Federalist 39: “[T]he popular consent upon which the Constitution’s authority rests was “given by the people, not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong.”  It is imperative that we realize that this is nothing more than a partisan effort to overturn an election that they did not like.  If we fail to resoundingly dismantle their consortium of corruption, we will witness the destruction of our Republic.

The GOP members of the House of Representatives have definitively rebutted the claims of the Democrats on a point by point analysis of the Schiff proceedings.  In their rebuttal, they declared: “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system.  This impeachment inquiry and the way the Democrats are pursuing it sets a dangerous precedent.”  It is true that security assistance was delayed but was ultimately forwarded to Ukraine. 

The Ukrainian president has denied any quid pro quo and said: “I never talked to President Trump from the position of quid pro quo.  That’s not my thing, I don’t want us to look like beggars.”  The Democrats have, at this point, engaged in a clearly partisan predetermined course of action where the desired conclusion was formulated and then the investigation to validate that conclusion pursued. 

Impeachment is the tool the Democrats are using for settling political scores and re-litigating election results with which they disagreed.  If that is the course for America going forward, our Republic is destroyed and consensual governance we give the elected officials will be irreparably altered.  We will become an oligarchy at best and a despotic socialist tyranny at worst. 

America we must begin the process of praying for our nation and our president.  I suggest that we not just pray for him and the Republic but ask God what our role in this is to be.  “Lord, what am I to do?”  Next, we need to study, investigate, examine, vet, and determine the truth as best we can.  Then, we need to articulate those realities to everyone who will listen.  Finally, we must become engaged and, VOTE!

It has been reported that there are over 3.5 million more voters registered than there are qualified voters in America.  That could only mean one thing, the Republicans and the president are behind that many votes before the voting begins.  I am not concerned about Russian interference in our elections, they have always meddled.  I am concerned about systematic and orchestrated voter fraud in America.  It is in our hands to fight this fight to the finish.  If we become complacent, we lose!

God bless you and God bless America!

WHAT KIND OF WORLD DOES THIS?


What kind of world treats animals better and with more sanctity than unborn babies?  What kind of world regards convenience and preference justifications for terminating a pregnancy and snuffing out that life yet to be lived?  What kind of world abandons another human being simply because they do not have the skin color, hair color, eye color, or has a physical deformity?  What kind of world?  Our present world!

Before you protest and scream at me wanting to inflict bodily harm on my person, think about it.  How much do you value your own life?  How much do you value your own convenience?  How much do you value the perception others have of you?  How much? The proof is in the pudding for many because since Roe v Wade we have aborted almost 62 million unborn babies in America. 

In America, we spend about $70 Billion on our pets each year.  I am not contending that we should not care for animals, but should we care more for pets than our children, the homeless, the elderly, and our veterans?  I love animals and never want to see one subjected to cruelty.  I also recognize that certain animals are a source of food and given to us to fill that need.  Some will trash me over that and insist that we should be vegan or vegetarian and that it is inhumane to eat the flesh of an animal.  I disagree but if you prefer a carrot to a steak, that’s your choice.

Human life, all human life including the unborn life that is growing in the womb should have no less concern than our pets.  I hear those on the Left howl over conditions of the illegals at the border and insist that we are in violation of basic human dignity and human rights if we do not immediately provide their every need.  That same group has no remorse in sucking a living child out of the womb in a horrendous act, abortion.  That life that was never allowed to see the light of day and experience what each of us enjoys daily is valued less than a broken toy or used gum wrapper.  What kind of world does that?

The move by various states to restrict abortion on demand and the ‘heartbeat laws’ are being called the vilest of names by the pro-choice proponents.  Many, including some previous and current presidential hopefuls, view abortion as a right.  They ignore the rights of that unborn child developing in the womb.  They are strong advocates of caring for animals and will commit acts of violence to save the whales, seals, or any other creature, but not the human baby.  What kind of world does that?

The lies of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry send chills down my spine.  I keep expecting the Hand of God to come down heavily on America as the blood of 60 million babies cries out to Him.  

I read a published article by one abortionist, Katha Pollitt in the New Yorker.  Her essay titled, “How the Right to Legal Abortion Changed the Arc of All Women’s Lives.”  If the title does not cause you moral trepidation, then maybe her words will.  She said, “I wonder if women who have never needed to undergo the procedure, and perhaps believe that they never will, realize the many ways that the legal right to abortion has undergirded their lives…Legal abortion means that the law recognizes a woman as a person.  It says that she belongs to herself…A woman could plan her life without having to consider that it could be derailed by a single sperm.” 

That is beyond disheartening to this father and grandfather.  Naturally, she avoids what could have been done to avoid the woman’s life being derailed by an unwanted pregnancy.  She does not consider the progress that women have made during the last 100 plus years which has absolutely nothing to do with abortion.  The progress that was won by some real feminists who abhorred abortion.  She focuses on the thought that abortion gives legal status to women and recognizes them as humans.  What about that baby growing in the womb?  How did it suddenly become non-human?  What kind of world thinks this way?

The abortionist and Leftists believe that there is no standing for any opposing view and those of us who object find ourselves branded as worse than deplorable.  Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) believes that any change to the abortion law is unacceptable.  She suggested that anyone who believes otherwise is “racist, homophobic, or suffering from some other psychological and moral malady.”

Her own words: “I think there’s some issues that have such moral clarity that we have, as a society, decided that the other side is not acceptable…I believe that for all of these issues, they are not issues that there is a fair other side.  There is moral equivalency when you come to racism.  And I do not believe that is moral equivalency when it comes to changing laws that deny women reproductive freedom.”    She envisions herself as a legitimate presidential candidate.  Silence, censure and lock the opposing voices out of the debate.  That’s what we need in a president, right?  What kind of world thinks that way?

It has been documented through most polling data that at least 50% of Americans consider abortion morally wrong.  One of the latest polls produced by NPR/Marist reported that only 18% of Americans support third-trimester abortions.  I am reminded of George Orwell’s observation: “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.  Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism.”   Calling abortion reproductive freedom is certainly euphemistic.

Dr. Ingrid Skop, an obstetrician-gynecologist from San Antonio, Texas disagrees with the Senator and those sharing her views of the freedom afforded women.  The doctor wrote that abortions are frequently not freely chosen but are encouraged by outside sources including the sperm donor (sex partner) who threatens to abandon them if the pregnancy is not terminated. 

A survey of post-abortive women reported that 58% said they had their abortions in order to ‘make others happy.’  Just over 28% said they had an abortion because they ‘feared their partner would leave them’ if they did not abort the fetus.  One of the most staggering statistics in this report was that 66% of those having an abortion said they knew in their hearts that they were making a mistake when they underwent the abortion. 

I am a Christian and I value life, all life.  I am disturbed beyond description when those who cannot defend themselves become the targets of harm and destruction.  Who in our world is more defenseless than that unborn child developing in the womb?  I know some women who have had abortions and none of them are happy or at peace with their choice.  Each of them has suffered deep emotional trauma and some still have difficulty forgiving themselves.  Does that sound like reproductive freedom?  Does that sound like the wonderful Utopian world being suggested is embodied in abortion?  What does the devaluing of human life say about us as a society? 

You may disagree with my views, but they are mine.  They are rooted in the value I place on human life and my faith in God.  If you disagree that is between you and God.  I will work to overturn Roe and keep trying to show people the value of human life.  Psalms 139:16 – “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that they were formed for me when as yet there was none of them.” (ESV).

God bless you and God bless America!