Reblog: 6000 to 1

Here is a great blog post from Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children dealing with Obama’s fundamental transformation of America. 

6000 to 1

There is a tide of evil that is overwhelming our nation.  We need to have the moral courage to stand against it.

Below is my comment on the post:

Great post.  One thing missing, however, is a discussion on the righteous use of violence.  Our Second Amendment was not intended to give us individual hunting rights, nor was it a guarantee for personal self-defense.  The principal purpose of the Second Amendment was to place an arsenal in the hands of the sovereign people so they could be an external check and balance on the abuses of government. 

The Second Amendment secures our God-given right to alter or abolish a tyrannical form of government.  But that right MUST be exercised righteously.  Individuals do not have a right to commit violence against government authorities.  Rogue, unregulated militias do not have a right to exercise violence against government authorities.  Violence must be used under a civil authority.  The Continental Army was regulated and accountable to the Continental Congress.  The state militias were accountable to the state legislatures and governors.

Governors need to make sure their National Guard units are sufficiently independent from federal entanglements.  Local governments need to have plans in place to call up minutemen for the defense of liberty against federal tyranny.

See my articles:

Calm Righteous Indignation

The Second Amendment and Rebellious Government

Liberty In Peril

Gun Control Cloaked in Christianity

And don’t forget my exceptional article published at American Thinker:

Gun Control and the Paradox of Liberty

Police States of America

http://joemiller.us/2013/05/california-cops-break-into-house-without-a-warrant-tase-man-who-complains-about-police-state-and-its-all-on-video/

Responding to a phone tip from a neighbor that there was an “argument” inside the house, police violate private citizens’ constitutional rights to be secure in their homes.

The Fourth Amendment guarantees us the right to be secure in our houses from police power.  Only a warrant (based on probable cause) or consent grants the police permission to enter a home. But the Bill of Rights is only a paper barrier when government officials do not punish abuses.  These police are nothing but jack booted thugs.  The breakdown of our adherence to a higher moral law is being demonstrated in arbitrary abuse of police power.  The biggest problem with these police thugs is that they believe they are within their authority to violate the law.  They ought to be disciplined, jailed and never allowed to be Mall security guards let alone police officers.

Obama’s Justice Department illegally taps phones.  Obama’s IRS illegally targets Christians and conservative 501(c)(3) groups for harassment.  Obama’s Homeland Security releases criminals simply because they are illegal aliens.

The abuse of power at the federal level is spawning abuse of power at the state levels.  If these abuses continue, the people have the right to alter or abolish such despotic government.

Don’t forget a decorated Army vet arrested for “rudely displaying a firearm.”
Army Vet Harassed By Police

See also The Second Amendment and Rebellious Government.

Religious War on the Military

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/pentagon-religious-proselytizing-is-not-permitted.html

I’ve been in the legal world in the Air Force for a while now and I have yet to come across the Air Force needing to punish a Christian “fundamentalist” through a court-martial or Non-judicial punishment for their misconduct.  What I have seen are hedonists, secular humanists, atheists, nominal Christians who get in trouble by getting drunk, having indiscriminate sex, beating their wives, stealing from other airmen, snorting cocaine, selling drugs, smoking weed etc.  Their moral compass begins and ends with themselves, so they are more likely to justify their behavior.

What Mickey Weinstein is uspset over are the “fundamentalist” Christians who take their relationship with God seriously.  But, those who take their faith seriously are less likely to engage in misconduct.  If Weinstein is able to strike God from the military, we can expect to see an undisciplined rabble rather than an orderly military force.

I have always heard of religious persecution from a distance. I believe we are all on the verge of living it here in America.

Recipe for Evil

With Kermit Gosnell’s abortion butcher house getting no attention from the media and Obama throwing his approval behind giving the morning-after pill without a prescription to 15-year-old girls, it is clear that the United States has superior technology with third-world morality. That mixture is a recipe for great evil.

Watergate or Al Capone’s Vault?

http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/04/19/glenn-%E2%80%9Cafter-what-i-have-learned-this-week-im-a-changed-person-%E2%80%9D/

The scandal of Watergate took down a president.  The initial event was nothing but a third-rate burglary of Democratic National Headquarters.  What took down President Nixon was the abuse of his authority and the cover up.

Today, April 21, marks the 27th year since Geraldo Rivera’s infamous live television program where they opened a vault in Chicago believed to be once owned by Al Capone.  On live television the vaults were opened to discover…an old stop sign and a few empty gin bottles.

Glenn Beck is set to make a revelation tomorrow, April 22, 2013, that he claims will expose something sinister in the Obama administration.  Will his information be something to take down a president, or will it be Glenn Beck’s Al Capone’s vault moment? (Or the more likely scenario, Beck will reveal something that would make ordinary presidents resign but the media will treat it as if it were Al Capone’s vault.)

We will soon see.

A Call To Anguish

Our republic is unraveling because too many people lack the virtue for self-government and Christians are too distracted with college football, Downton Abbey, and every other idol they worship instead of God.  We are so worried about offending people and being offended that we water down what we say and believe.

It is time for Christians to stop telling themselves the lie that “It’s ok to have a little fun once in a while.” Christians aren’t entertaining themselves every once in a while.  We are worshipping entertainment while our republic burns.

The problem with Christians is that we are merely concerned with the blaspheming of God, the moral decay of our culture, the tide of evil that invades our land. We are not anguished over it. We are not anguished over it because we are not close enough to God’s heart.

All true passion is born out of anguish.

Watch the full sermon here.

So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance

Scientists have determined that there are 122 properties that are necessary for life to exist.  The chances of all 122 properties to exist on a planet to sustain life is one in 10 to the 138th power.  That is a 10 with 138 zeroes behind it.  Here is the visual:

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Those are the odds to win the cosmic lottery.  I don’t know about you, but that at least borders on the impossible.  But, arguing the impossibility of something out of nothing, order out of chaos, life out of nothing but chance is not good enough for some people.  Take this guy for instance:  Quine’s Queue.  He doesn’t offer any biographical information about himself so it is a little hard to get a read on his biases.  With his flimsy arguments in Cosmic Lottery I can see why he chooses to remain anonymous.  If you chance to read his arguments, just simply skip over his first paragraph.  He simply raises cheap strawman arguments to ridicule theists (just the way Dawkins taught him.)

The entire thrust of his argument is that theists are illogical in arguing improbability.  To him, because multiple people win the lottery, therefore, it is not impossible for life to have randomly come out of nothing.  He then makes a religious statement: “There is just no way to get the human mind around a couple of billion years of molecules bouncing off each other trying to guess the lottery numbers.”  This religious conclusion sounds a lot like “God is infinite and we are finite.  Who can know the mind of God?”  Quine is not an atheist.  He is not a “non-believer.”  He doesn’t even believe in “no gods.”  He does believe in a god.  The god he believes in is “time plus matter plus chance.”

His argument is silly from the start because he equates two unequal things: the odds at winning the lottery versus the odds of life coming from nothing.  You saw the odds above for life to exist.  The odds for winning the lottery are slightly less impossible.  For the popular Powerball lottery, the odds of winning is one in 175,223,510.  In one lottery, the jackpot drew over 189 million tickets.  So, the attempts to win the lottery were greater than the odds of winning.  It is entirely logical to assume someone would win.

So, Quine’s characterization of the impossibility argument as simply illogical religious apologist retrenching is nothing but the blind faith of an obtuse fool.  The following is pretty much akin to Quine’s argument.  Enjoy this:

Let’s put the two numbers next to each other:

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

175,223,510

So, Quine, you’re telling me there’s a chance?  Yeah!, I read ya’.

I think Quine is trying to argue apples with oranges.

Ministers of Reconciliation

I was reading II Corinthians 5 today.  I came across verse 10: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”  That verse got me thinking.  We are not going to face punishment or loss of reward because of our sins.  Our sins have been washed away, forever.  But, we will be judged on our works for Christ, whether many or few, good or bad.

What have I done for Christ?  Part of a poem kept running through my thoughts. “Only what’s done for Christ will last.”  I couldn’t remember it all or who had written it.  I searched the internet and found the poem was written by Charles Thomas Studd.

“Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

I don’t remember ever reading about him but in my research I came across the video above.  C.T. Studd’s words resonated with me.  Our church has been feminized to the point of obscuring the masculine attributes of God.  Too much emphasis is placed on nurturing, caring and loving.  Not enough is placed on courage, heroism, daring, sacrifice, confrontation, pursuit, warring, and building.  Oh, that men would return to a masculine holiness, a manly resolve to live and preach nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified!

I read further in II Corinthians 5:18-19 that “All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”  God has not called us to deal in death and judgment.  Our ministry is life and reconciliation.  Our priority should be in preparing people to be reconciled to God.  Too often we look at people like Lady Gaga, Obama, Sean Penn, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins and see their wickedness and the evil they promote.  Like Jonah we too often want God’s judgment to fall on them.

Today I listened to Family Talk.  Diet Eman, a holocaust survivor gave her testimony.  God brought her to a place of love and pity for her Nazi captors.  If she can love and pity them, then I can certainly love and pity the wicked destroyers of our culture.  God wishes they be reconciled with him, not destroyed in judgment.

I hope that I remember in all my interactions with those who are lost that God wants to be reconciled with them.  I hope in my writing and speaking that reconciliation is my priority.

Evolution to Madness

“The man who begins to think without proper first principles goes mad.”
-G.K. Chesterton

In an interview with a Phoenix television station, a reporter asked Congressman Matt Salmon his views on same-sex “marriage.”  The Congressman has a son who behaves homosexually.  I don’t doubt the reporter and producers thought getting the support of the “staunch social conservative” Congressman for same-sex “marriage” would help break down the defense of marriage among conservatives.

They may be closer to that goal than this story would lead you to believe.

The article on azfamily.com is titled “Gay son doesn’t change congressman’s view on gay marriage.”  What it should read is “Gay son doesn’t change congressman’s view on gay marriage, yet.”

This “staunch social conservative” did not come down strongly against the radical redefinition of marriage.  Instead he said “I’m just not there in believing in my heart.”  He’s just not there.  He’s travelling down the road, but he just hasn’t arrived yet.

From the Fox News article:

“…he isn’t ready to support gay marriage.” (When will he be ready?)

“…he still believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.” (The word “still” implies that his belief can be changed. That is what sin advocates are counting on.)

“…he doesn’t consider homosexuality a choice.” (What is it?  A disease?  A mental disorder?  An inevitability? We may not choose what type of sin entices us, but we certainly can choose how to behave.)

When it came right down to it Congressman Salmon equivocated. “It doesn’t mean I don’t have respect.  It doesn’t mean I don’t sympathize with some of the issues. It means I haven’t evolved to that station, Rob Portman* apparently has.” There you have it.  Salmon simply hasn’t swum far enough up stream yet to support same-sex “marriage.”  But, really, with the seemingly inevitable tide of same-sex “marriage,” he is actually swimming downstream, with the flow. 

Without the first principle of a Creator-God whose word establishes the law for us to live by, we soon go mad and our beliefs evolve on the issue of sin. Just like Obama did, the “conservative” representative in this article will go mad and evolve to a position of support for same-sex “marriage.”  When you base your governing style on the shifting sands of populism you end up rejecting truth as your standard.

First principles are an immovable foundation. They are not ornamental, rearrangeable furniture.

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*Sen. Portman is the “conservative” that recently came out in support of same-sex “marriage” because he, too, has a son who behaves homosexually.

Good Friday Post

Below is what I posted in 2011 and 2009 for Good Friday.  Since then, I have noticed that the Church is plagued with many members worshiping idols.  These idols may not be made of gold or sit upon the fireplace mantel, but they are idols nonetheless.  Whether sports, relationships, social status or even American liberty, the Church is infested with idolatrous church members. The day of Christ’s return is drawing near.  Does the cross still make us weep?  Does the suffering of our savior still fill us with regret?  Does the shed blood of Jesus compel us to put away our idols or is our entertainment, our relationships, our reputations more worthy of our worship?

What is it in your life that needs to be nailed to the cross?  Jesus waits with nail-scarred hands to welcome you.  He’s not forcing anything upon you.  He simply beckons, “Come.”  His calling is not only to non-believers.  He wants you, the one who has claimed his name to come and die, that you might live.

It’s Friday, but Sunday Is Coming!