Posted on 03/29/2009 2:24:53 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Imagine waking up one morning prepared to do your daily Bible study and discovering that Exodus Chapter 20 had been completely erased. The Ten Commandments were missing. Of course, you would wonder what possibly could have happened.You then become panicked as you quickly turn to the New Testament, only to discover that the Sermon on the Mount had vanished as well. The verse about loving one's enemy was gone. Even the Golden Rule had disappeared. Upon closer examination, you discover that every guideline concerning living a better way of life was gone.
Non-believers suggest that humanity is on its own, and that's all right with them. They believe they are justified in finding their own way. They feel comfortable that a sense of "the collective good" (which keeps them from becoming destructive to one another) will prevail, without the need to rely on God.
It's undeniable that horrors and hurts have been inflicted upon the world in the name of religion, including Christianity. Some misguided men within the ministry have perceived their actions as God's will. In eras long past, persecution was wrongly justified. Innocent people were literally destroyed by those who didn't agree with them. These shameful acts will never be forgotten.
On the other side of the fence lies the question: What are the results when God's Word is totally rejected and the Almighty's laws are distorted or ignored? Do we fare any better?
When there is no moral authority
If you're not a religious person in any real sense, then you reject the authority of a loving God. If so, what stops you from acting in a manner that is morally wrong?
We live in a country where some of our politicians can be bought and paid for — those who possess little or no sense of moral obligation. There is a big problem when our nation's Treasury Secretary is a tax cheat.
Timothy Geithner is the Obama administration's embarrassment. The fact that Geithner is a law-breaker does not seem to bother those who voted for President Barack Hussein Obama. We've obviously become a nation of foolish people who no longer see right and wrong in clear, bold, and distinctive colors.
"Thou shalt not steal" is a commandment that is uniquely germane to the culture in Washington, D.C. Soon, those who earn $250,000 or more will be paying higher taxes. This president seems to believe it is noble to redistribute wealth — but Obama merely wants to rob from those who have and give to others in order to shore up his own political capital.
The entitlement trap
Americans are generous people. In down times, our country has always made provision to lend a helping hand when our fellow citizens need lifting up. But social programs were intended, at best, to be a temporary fix, not a way of life.
Actually, it is cruel to facilitate this type of entitlement mentality. People who live on government programs lose their dignity. They fall prey to their own insecurities. Many of them never become successful achievers and accomplish the American dream. The Democrat Party can be blamed for this dilemma. They see people as nothing more than a voting bloc to be manipulated.
Caring conservatives are saddened when they see what is happening within the black community. Too many lives are broken. Too many live in the past, continually looking backward, instead of acknowledging America's noble achievements and their own God-given potential. Some are willing to blame all of their cultural problems on slavery.
Christians must focus on Obama's liberal social agenda. They need to continually point out to those living in the inner cities the dire effects that an ever-expanding welfare-nanny state will have on poor communities. Traditionalists and people of faith understand how religious beliefs encourage personal responsibility, as well as civic pride. If Europe, with its overwhelming welfare rolls, is a reliable indication, it just might be that Obama is willfully taking the United States down the path to hell.
Deceiving the undiscerning
It is obvious that Evangelical and Catholic Christians were purposely targeted during Obama's campaign. He went out of his way to attract churchgoing Americans. Obama spoke about his faith when he took part in Pastor Rick Warren's special forum held at the Saddleback Church. Obama managed to fool naive and trusting God-fearing voters. Obama lied about himself — while his campaign downplayed his outrageous radical social views. He continued lying by putting an emphasis on a contrived commitment to tolerance and civility toward those with whom he disagreed.
Let it be understood that it was Obama's purpose to exaggerate the ways in which his progressive policies and positions were consistent with biblical faith. Unfortunately, his beliefs are far from the gospel of Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. "You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act" (Matthew 7:16).
It is most unfortunate that Obama's efforts were successful. Inroads were made among traditional religious people with a "self-inflicted guilty conscience." If Christians would have heard God's still, small voice, they would not now be crying over their lack of better judgment.
Outright fraud
It's too bad that Pastor Rick Warren delivered his inaugural invocation and gave credence to a pandering fraud. Obama has suckered the faithful into believing that his administration is not an adversary of full-gospel, Bible-keeping Christians.
It is a shame that many in our country are not paying attention to the egregious effects of Obama's stimulus plan, which will encourage more people to depend on the government. People who support more social entitlement programs don't understand the consequences of Obama's overextending hand of socialism.
"We The People" are not interested in being led down the very same secular progressive path as the European countries. It is becoming clear that Obama's ambitions might finally bring Americans out in droves demanding to take their country back.
I have absolutely no intention of playing down my personal disdain for this usurper who sits in the White House. I do question the sincerity of Obama's religious experience. Black Liberation Theology espouses racism and is definitely Marxist. Obama is a devotee of this bigoted, quasi-religious system. Although he chose to walk away from Trinity United Church of Christ, I believe his heart remains with Revs. Otis Moss and Jeremiah Wright.
Excerpts from "Obama's New Pastor Club" by Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com:
"While Barack Obama has not found a new church since he left Jeremiah Wright' den of anti-American, socialist hate-mongering, he has assembled a new club of pastors for 'private prayer sessions on the telephone and for discussions on the role of religion in politics.'
"The Times tells us none of those Obama sought out are affiliated with the religious right, but 'the group can hardly be characterized as part of the religious left either.'
"Oh yeah?
"One of those selected by Obama is Jim Wallis. Show me an issue in which Wallis is not in lockstep with the religious left and I'll eat my hat." Full article
False hope
Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs. History records the hard reality of those nations that tried to separate God's rule from their laws and culture. They never lasted, disintegrating into tyranny and horrifying persecution. The drive-by media never tells the American public the truth, however. When the game of "class warfare" is played out, bad consequences ensue. What is happening to our country is not by happenstance.
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levi used to be a Marxist, but later in life found his Christian faith. One of his memorable quotes is very honest and telling: "Apply Marxism in any country you want, you will always find a Gulag in the end."
It is very strange that progressives say they have brought us hope and change. How can that be? America was founded on our Constitution. The primary danger associated with the rise of the nanny state is that when government assumes the moral responsibility for others, people are less likely to do so themselves.
In countries like Sweden and Denmark, the large increases in welfare spending over the last half century have ended up eroding the moral fiber of families, and have disrupted civic institutions within these societies. Sound familiar? People have become dependent on the big government Sugar Daddy to meet their basic needs.
The problem with welfare dependency is that when people take the welfare state for granted, they are less likely to attend to the emotional, social, and material needs of their family and friends as earlier generations did. As the resultant social pathology deepens, crime, drug addiction, and similar ills begin to stifle lives. With government taking on an ever-expanding role, and with an ever-increasing rise in tax rates to support this growth, taxpayers can easily lose their sense of altruism and feeling of moral unity toward others.
Socialism then becomes self-fulfilling — as it destroys society's voluntary support system and fills the void with a police state.
Do we want our government to penalize hard-working citizens because they are high earners? A good work ethic should be rewarded because earned wealth creates jobs and promotes healthy, productive capitalism. Why should legislators demand that anyone be forced to share their wealth?
Take America back by using your activist tools.
Besides living a life that invites the guidance and gifts of God's Spirit — that thereby we might be a blessing to our country and to those persons we encounter — it's also vital that we become acquainted with effective tools for political activism, so we might fulfill our God-given duty as citizens and significantly multiply our influence for good.
Among the many grassroots resources is —
Related Reading:
The blind faith of America's statists
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
AIG ACORN bus tour mob touts socialist agenda
AIG exec resigns in open letter on NY Times op-ed page, says he'll donate bonus to charity
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
Listen to the Brannon Howse interviews on the Cloward-Piven Strategy here
© Marie Jon
But when I try to relate to my college kids, they blow me off and tell me I'm crazy. They got "liberalized" and now they see the church and God as the enemy and not O, where as only a few short years ago it was the exact opposite. The only thing that will set them straight in the impending judgment coming upon this nation from God Almighty. I hope they finally see the truth and turn back before it's too late.
Or when they see their first paycheck, and see what the cost of an "O" government really is...
Rules For Radicals, Saul Alinsky
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Chapter 2 Of Means And Ends
“The tenth rule... is you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.... It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in creating the circumstances at any given time... Who, and how many will support the action?... If weapons are needed, then are appropriate d weapons available? Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly...” p.36
Chapter 6
6. In the Beginning: The Process of Power [Notice the compromise needed to build the power base. Yet, since pragmatism has eroded all values, it’s simply a matter of ends justifying means. It’s not unlike churches that attract members through the world’s entertainment — then continue to soften or hide Truth in order to keep them happy and lure more. ]
“From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues....
Until he has those means and power instruments, his ‘tactics’ are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals.”
“Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.” p.113
“The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.” p.116
“An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent... He must create a mechanism that can drain off the underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. Out of this mechanism, a new community organization arises....
“The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an ‘agitator’ they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict.” p.117
“Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a continuum.... Process is really purpose.” p.122
7. Tactics
“Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. ... Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.” p.126
Always remember the first rule of power tactics (pps.127-134):
1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time....”
8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and ‘frozen.’...
“...any target can always say, ‘Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?’ When your ‘freeze the target,’ you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...’
“One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.” (pps.127-134)
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Remember how he was laughing on 60 mins, and Steve Kroft asked him if he was punch drunk? I found this interesting in Alinsky’s teachings:
4. The Education of the Organizer
“To the organizer, imagination... is the dynamism that starts and sustains him in his whole life of action as an organizer. It ignites and feeds the force that drives him to organize for change....
“The organizer knows that the real action is in the reaction of the opposition. To realistically appraise and anticipate the probable reactions of the enemy, he must be able to identify with them, too, in his imagination, and foresee their reactions to his actions....
*** “The organizers searching with a free and open mind void of certainty, hating dogma, finds laughter not just a way to maintain his sanity but also a key to understanding life.”pp.74-75
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And this .. it dawns on me it’s why we we’re seeing the shock and awe treatment from him on every part of our lives, every segment of society:
“...the organizer must be able to split himself into two parts — one part in the arena of action where he polarizes the issue to 100 to nothing, and helps to lead his forces into conflict, while the other part knows that when the time comes for negotiations that it really is only a 10 percent difference.” p.78
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Go for 100% drastic change, know you’ll get much less, but start out demanding it all.
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
What a completely twisted outlook... totally anti-American values and traditions.
The fact that Geithner is a law-breaker does not seem to bother those who voted for President Barack Hussein Obama.
I guess my one argument with this article is the premise of “suddenly tyranny”, because the changes this country has been going through has been anything but sudden. I remember a old talk radio guy named Chuck Harter who used to give the “cooking a frog” analogy about our country and what is happening. If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water , he’ll jump out. The way to cook that frog is to turn the water up slowly, so he hardly even realizes the temperature is changing. By the time it the water boils, that frog is half cooked and can’t jump out of harms way anymore.
I want my country back, and am throughly disgusted with what is happening!
Chuck jumped the shark with the Alien Autopsy, other than that he was pretty interesting.
Chuck Harder was piece of work,had a huge audience once but never understood the need for major league adv. to back his philosophy. He used to live in North Fla. don’t know if he is still there not. He was light years ahead of his time.
I laugh when the administration makes an anouncement that we should “have faith” in it’s ability to revive the economy. Suddenly they are asking for faith from a faithless generation.
Excellent post!
These ‘techniques’ of the neo democrats and marxists are so calculated and subversive, that the only name you can give it is: ‘PURE EVIL’!!
Great post!! TY
BTTT
Dear Lord, I pray so. This totally lifted my spirits: the crowds at Mark Levin’s book signings for his new book, “Liberty and Tyranny ~ A Conservative Manifesto,” which debuted at #1, and has had to be reprinted a couple of times since last week.
Watch what’s building. Scroll the top several videos ... just look at the thousands of people coming out for this book.
http://www.youtube.com/results?uploaded=w&search_query=mark+levin+book+signing&search_type=videos
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“This is the kind of book that people will read in the bathroom with a flashlight on college campi. This is the kind of book that people will send with no return address to their parents, boyfriends and girlfriends.
This is the kind of book that’s going to spread like wildfire through the underground. People who read it won’t admit to having read it, they’ll just claim what they’ve learned from it as their own knowledge. It will be passed around in various places in a plain brown wrapper, with whispers, “Read this. Don’t tell anybody where you got it.”
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_032409/content/01125110.guest.html
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Amazon non-fiction best seller list
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/53
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I’m praying that the worm is starting to turn.
Really makes you miss Reagan doesn't it?
Dunno, she’s buying into the “sharing the wealth” message that O espouses. I fear I have lost her to liberal lies. But she’ll learn the error of her ways soon enough, one way or another.
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