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“Judge not, lest you be judged.” Matthew 7:1

Yep! That’s what it is!

If I wasn’t feeling so darn lousy from this miserable cold I have, I’d be ranting about this issue. But I’m just not my wonderfully crabby old self when I’m sick. And boy, am I SICK.

I hate being sick, HATE IT. And I’m too tired to think. My sinuses are about to burst out through my corneas. So instead, I’ll let Greg Laurie do the ranting this time. He does a pretty good job, too!

This is usually said about the time you say something they consider “judgmental.” And what constitutes a “judgmental” statement? It’s basically anything about which you have an absolute opinion, and they happen to disagree with it. It’s a situation where you would dare to say something as controversial and unkind as, “No, that’s wrong!”

The response is usually pretty heated. “Who are YOU to judge ME? Doesn’t the Bible say ‘Judge not lest you be judged’?”

By the way, that verse isn’t saying we shouldn’t judge; it is saying we shouldn’t condemn. And no true believer in Jesus should do that. The fact is, I think Christians are the most loving, the most open and the most accepting of others. You can usually find the most narrow-minded people among the ranks of those who claim to be broad-minded. It’s true, isn’t it? Personally, I have found that those who often claim to be the most accepting are in reality the most unaccepting.

A true Christian bases his or her ideas and opinions on a biblical worldview. Non-believers will also have their opinions, based on a secular worldview. Ironically, they will say that they have no worldview, but they really do. They will say they are open to everything, but in reality they are quite closed.

It boils down to this: Everyone has a right to their opinion today EXCEPT the one holding a biblical worldview. Those with a secular viewpoint would rather we just went away quietly, and didn’t express our opinion at all.

So settle down in some cushy contemporary furniture and read the whole thing. The guy makes SENSE, I tell ya!

I’ll be back when this cold is gone. If I survive that long! Gah!

I’m reading this very good book called Christ on the Jewish Road. It’s a book about an atheist man of Jewish heritage living in Romania during and after World War II, who discovers salvation in Christ. The author, Richard Wurmbrand, then relates numerous stories of the struggles that he and other Romanian Christians experienced after the War– during the anti-Semitic pogroms from the Nazis, the Orthodox churches, and other groups; then he relates the Fascist and Communist upheavals of Eastern Europe (they were all right in the middle of everything). Oh my gosh, what these people went through! It’s scathing, just scathing. Half of the stuff these people go through is so totally and mind-bogglingly (wow, that word passes through spell-check!) foreign. And the other half is all about comminity and love and how these people banded together despite vicious persecution. This mindset of community coupled with the atrocities that Christians and Jews went through (and did to each other) is foreign to an American mind.

The news media here in America rant On and ON about how AWFUL we Americans are: racist, violent, undiversified! (that word did not pass spell-check) But we can’t hold a candle to the nasty, nasty people over there in Europe, especially during the 1930s to 1990s. Good God, for the sake of humanity!! HOW can people be SO wicked to each other?? There was one story where a young, fresh, open-hearted young man by the name of Friedmann (a Jew) became a Christian. He was such a happy young man- a whole fresh life ahead of him– but he was born during an unfortunate time, when Jews and faithful Christians were being crammed into cattle cars to be shipped off for slave labor and eventual murder. Friedmann was with a crowd that had been rounded up, and the soldiers stuffed men into a cattle truck. Young Friedmann peeped out through a little window, and it was told later that his face shone like the face of an angel. But a German soldier spotted him and fired at him, killing the lad.

And it wasn’t just the impersonal soldier stuff, either– Wurmbrand was arrested twice: once for holding church meetings without a license (the governments changed so many times– some gave permits, some didn’t), and another time for refusing to submit his church congregation to the Communist (atheist) regime. He and his wife were imprisoned… for FOURTEEN YEARS. And prisons in Communist Romania in the 1950s aren’t like the slick, Club Med cable-TV-McDonald’s-burgers-3x-a-day prisons of Palm Beach. They were HOLES in the ground. So while the fatcats of Communist Russia secretly enjoyed their Disney vacations and penthouse apartments while preaching “equality” to the peasants, they were devouring and arresting the very people (like Wurmbrand) who brought the message of REAL equality and love: Jesus Christ the Saviour.

The stories go on and on…. it would be too painful to rehash some of them…

This stuff just breaks the crustiest heart, I tell you. WHY must people be so so evil to each other?! Idiots blame God for all the suffering in the world, but you know what? It’s not God’s fault! It’s MAN’S fault! Isn’t just like a man to pass the buck and blame somebody else?? If anything, the mere fact that there is still LOVE in the world amongst all this evil is proof that God exists. The book is filled with many instances of when Christians reached out with love to their oppressors. You can’t tell me that this kind of love just bubbles up out of nowhere.

I bash my head against the wall. WHY oh WHY are people so wicked! It’s one thing to complain, to argue, to disagree, to hash things out while seeking for truth– but to TORTURE and MURDER people because they are different? Or because they won’t do things YOUR evil way? Good God.

By the way, how’s that health care bill coming along, hmm?

I’d like to wish all those who have endured my rants, my whinings, my grumblings, and my brilliant deductions and reasonings:

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And for the rest of you: BAH HUMBUG!

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Did you know that the word “holiday” comes from the term “holy day”? A day that is honored and sanctified above others? July 4th is Independence Day, a “holy day” to us, granted from our holy rollers, the Founding Fathers. They didn’t see it as a time for us lazy, beer-burping baseball spectators to rah-rah the home team or run to grab all the sales at the stores (as wonderful as that is).

Independence Day is about our independence from Great Britain! It’s NOT about immigration! Hello?!

I grew up in the 70s and 80s… and all those stupid TV shows and newscasts were about how wonderful our country is because of all the immigrants we got, and we celebrate it on July 4th, feverishly reciting The New Colossus over and over again. Holy cow, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. July 4th has NOTHING to do with immigration, especially the profligate and unbridled immigration our country saw during the 1800s and late 1990s.

“[Is] rapid population [growth] by as great importations of foreigners as possible… founded in good policy?… They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their number, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass… If they come of themselves, they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements.” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.VIII, 1782. ME 2:118

So while that “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” stuff makes for good poetry, a nation that has not a stable immigration policy with ENFORCED borders isn’t really defined as a nation! And the United States of America does not owe its greatness to the gazilions of immigrants that flooded here from other countries!

P.S. Before you start up on your brainwashed blabber about how xenophobic I sound, please be aware that THIS IS REALITY. So get a life. I’m not xenophobic.

Independence Day is about our independence from Great Britain! It’s NOT about veterans! Nowadays I keep hearing how “We wouldn’t be free without G.I. Joe.” Ummm… sorry, that’s not true. G.I. Joe didn’t go to Normandy or Korea or Vietnam or Kuwait or Iraq to set us free. G.I. Joe went to set Europe, South Korea, South Vietnam, Kuwait, and Iraq free. Oh by the way, the government did a pretty crappy job managing the wars as well as managing the G.I. Joes’ pensions and medical care. :-p Enough said.

Independence Day is about “No King but Jesus.” Yes, a shocker that may come to the brainwashed public school masses, where you learned that the Americans rebelled because our tea was being taxed, and because the patriots were free-thinkers who wanted to be secular humanists and live in a socialist utopia! Ha ha! Have I got an education for you– WRONG.

P.S. Before you start up on your brainwashed blabber about how George Washington was a Deist and etc, please be aware that I am a HISTORY SCHOLAR. Please don’t give me quotes from Thomas Fleming, George Wood, and the other revisionists. Go read the writings of Washington (you can start here), Hamilton, Franklin, Witherspoon, Rush, Webster, and Jay, like I have. You JUST may get an education!

Yeah, I’m feisty today. But there’s something about Independence Day that gets my goat. I have that Patriot blood surging through my veins, and by golly, I hate commie coup d’ etats.

So go out there and eat your hot dog and drink your beer. But remember that it was those God-fearing, Bible-thumpin’, iron-backboned, liberty-loving folks who made it so you could eat and drink in peace and liberty.

Why are some people, like Richard Dawkins and other boneheads, so ready and willing to believe in aliens and yet refuse to believe in God? I watched the movie “Expelled” recently, and during an interview, Dawkins was absolutely convinced that there is no God. Yet he thinks that the theory that aliens came and “seeded” the earth, and that creatures then evolved, is a very possible scenario.

What the?!

I think it just shows what a dunce Dawkins and others like him really are. It just shows where they are coming from– they don’t WANT to believe in God, because God and all His rules and expectations interfere with the “sexual morays” of the atheists.

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that. Thomas Nagel

I have to agree with C. S. Lewis (once an atheist himself), who said (in his book, Mere Christianity):

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

…Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. . .

So some people may not LIKE the fact that God exists. Why can’t they be honest with themselves and others and just confess this? There is no proof that God does not exist; as a matter of fact, there is ample proof that God does indeed exist. But if one already has the determination to disbelieve, then facts will not interfere. But like Lincoln said (I must be really into quotes today!):

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Like a little kid behind the draperies– he thinks because he cannot see his parents, that his parents cannot see him; but the parents can see the kid clearly, whether the kid thinks they see or not.

So back to aliens– I don’t get it. I’m a plain-speakin’, plain-thinkin’ woman. If you refuse to believe in God, in particular as God as the Creator of the Universe, how can you possibly believe in aliens who came to earth and “seeded” the planet with lifeforms? Moreover, how can you swallow a camel to believe in evolution (no evidence) yet not swallow the gnat to believe in the Creator?