What Democrats Want, Day 38, Countdown to Oblivion? CULTURE (Part 2).

 

 

As of today, there are 38 days until the most consequential election in American history. This is what they say about many past elections, but this is really it. For if the Democrats seize power – control of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the Presidency – and doing it by hook or by crook (the justifies the means, you know) America as we know it will be forever changed. America envisioned and created by the Founding Fathers will disappear into the shadows of history.

The ungodly secular-humanists/Marxists slow march through America’s institutions over the last 100 years or so will have reached a crescendo – fulfilling Mr. Obama’s fundamental transformation of control of the masses.

Envision with me what a Socialist Democratic Party, takeover, a bloodless coup, a regime change, would look like. This is one in a series of daily articles leading up to the 2020 General Election

 

YESTERDAY (Day 39) we looked at the church (religious), the family and marriage, education as primary components, characteristics or qualities of a complex society or culture. Today we will conclude the discussion of culture by examining business (commerce), government, media, art and entertainment.

 

Is American Culture Progressing or Declining? (Continued)

Business (Commerce)

An excerpt from the September 2020 issue of the American Family Journal stated, “Marketplace culture in America did not always oppose Christianity. Today, Christian owners receive death threats, but when America was founded individuals were not shamed for publicly following Jesus.”

The above article quotes a Christian leader, “It’s a historical lie to think America was not formed to be Christian nation.  Embedded into our history is the fact that the nation was formed to honor God [and] Christ.”

The article continued, “However, since the founding of the nation, the American culture has changed. When culture drifted, it pulled the marketplace in the same direction. Eventually arriving at a culture where Christians receive death threats

Unfortunately, many of America’s largest corporations have succumbed to political correctness and now support the LHBT agenda, abortion, the Marxist-oriented Black Lives Matter organization. Chick-Fil-A was attacked for its support of true marriage and later compromised its position.

 

Government

Something I heard recently illustrates the drift from the Founders design that aimed at restricting the role of government to an ever-expanding role.  The first 12 Amendments outlined areas in which Congress shall not be involved, while the remaining amendments described areas where Congress shall be involved.

Government is too big. The debt it has accumulated is too big and is unsustainable. Government is bloated and has become unmanageable. It has appropriated powers that belong to the states like education.

Probably the worst offender is the Supreme Court which as appropriated legislative powers through elicit rulings, which no push back from Congress.

 

Media

#FakeNews is an apt description for today’s mainstream media. The operate as the public relations arm of the Democratic Party. There is no more true journalism or objective reporting in mainstream media – TV, cable, newspapers, magazines, etc.. Much of the reporting of the news is nearly all biased in favor of progressive ideology and the Democratic Party..

 

Art and Entertainment

The pornification of art and entertainment has taken place. Even Hallmark is now showing same sex couple in happy romance movies. Eleven-year-old girls are the subject of the movie Cuties which sexualizes them. Young boys perform as drag queens in bars with the approval of their parents. Disney, once producing family G-rated movies now insist on introduction lesbian and sodomites in their family movies.

Even sports have become politically active taking Leftist positions on such issues as the Marxist BLM movement.

 

Conclusion

The American culture is becoming more and more corrupt. Some of it is due to the deliberate incremental infiltration of Marxism which has slowly influenced nearly all areas and institutions in our culture.

The Democratic Party is clearly being influenced almost exclusively by its far-left socialistic base. The Democratic Party seeks power to control all aspects of the citizens lives from cradle (those who avoid abortion) to the grave (natural or premature via euthanasia or assisted suicide).

The Republican Party under President Trump believes in American Exceptionalism and seeks to make America great again, it wants the true history of America to be taught, it wants to restore a respect for life (the born and the unborn).

Voters have a clear choice this November. They can continue to vote for culture corruption (Democratic Party) or they can vote to restore the values, virtues and traditions that made America great in the first place. For me it is no brainer decision!

What Democrats Want, Day 49, Countdown to Oblivion? AMERICAN HISTORY. Part 3

As of today, there are 49 days until the most consequential election in American history. This is what they say about many past elections, but this is really it. For if the Democrats seize power – control of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the Presidency – and doing it by hook or by crook (the justifies the means, you know) America as we know it will be forever changed. America envisioned and created by the Founding Fathers will disappear into the shadows of history.

The ungodly secular-humanists/Marxists slow march through America’s institutions over the last 100 years or so will have reached a crescendo – fulfilling Mr. Obama’s fundamental transformation of America. Never again will the demonic Democratic Party relinquish its grip on political power and control of the masses.

Envision with me what a Socialist Democratic Party, takeover, a bloodless coup, a regime change, would look like. This is one in a series of daily articles leading up to the 2020 General Election

THE past two days,  Part 1 (American History)  and Part 2 (American History) we discussed how the teaching of American History is being distorted in the American public school. We also looked at some things have other factors that have impacted and have moved America off of its historical foundations.

Coach Dave Daubenmire in his September 2020 newsletter wrote, “America’s public schools opened the door to confusion nearly 3 decades ago with the introduction of “moral relativism” into the curriculum of our public schools. This is also known as “situational ethics” which teaches that thee is no absolute truth and that much of what we call sinful behavior is acceptable because of the “situation” you find yourself in. According to this Demonic philosophy abortion is “moral” because a woman ha a right to do what she wants with her own body. Stealing is OK if you are poor. Divorce is ok if you no longer are “happy” in the marriage. As a result, we now have at least two generation of Americans who no longer believe in “ABSOLUTE” right or wrong. Truth has become an opinion.”

Moral relativism together with the fallout from the Vietnam War protests and the sexual revolution of the 1960s along the diabolical teaching of a distorted version of American history have all contributed to the false beliefs, disrespect, ignorance of true American History of many young people today.   

Moral Relativism

I came across this Daily Signal podcast transcript, “Cal Thomas on Threat of Moral Relativism, Anarchy in Streets, which talks about American history.

Can you talk about ways that America can turn this around? Of course, nothing in history is inevitable. There’s no eventual arc of history. Is there a way for Americans right now in 2020 to turn things around, to really start to change the direction of the civilization so that we potentially have another 250 years of greatness in the United States?

 

Thomas: Well, I think there are two ways. No. 1, which I think most people could identify with, is we’ve got to rescue the next generation. You can’t expect to put your children and grandchildren in … progressive schools, where they’re taught that they evolved from slime and their nearest relative is down at the zoo, and that’s why they like bananas on their cereal.

 

They rewrite the history of America. They teach that America is not a unique nation and not a great nation. And then they send them off to universities, where it’s even worse. 

Now, we don’t send our troops to enemy countries like Iran, Russia, China, to be trained there. We train our troops here, and yet we send our children and grandchildren into the enemy’s camp, if you will, to be trained in ideas and ideology that is counter to what the Founders intended and what the Constitution says and undermines not only their intellectual foundation, but also their moral and spiritual growth, and expect them to come out of these places with the same kind of beliefs and ideology that we sent them into.

It’s the most crazy thing I’ve ever heard. And I’ve heard all kinds of excuses on why conservative and Christian parents send their kids into these places, but none of them make any sense. That’s one thing.

The other thing is, as many have said before, that we need a spiritual revival in this country. And for those who are Bible believers, this only comes from God himself. It doesn’t come from the politicians. It doesn’t come from Washington. It doesn’t come from think tanks or anywhere else.

If you look at the revival of 1857, it’s a great example of the thousands and thousands and thousands of people [who] were converted when it happened. And they all started living different lives. And that had a cultural impact. We’ve got it backwards. We think by electing the right people or reelecting the right people, things are going to get better.

In fact, it’s bottom-up. It’s not top-down. When the people, we the people, decide to live by different values and different objectives, then we’re going to see that reflected at the top. But as long as we continue to think that the answer is in government and in politics, it’s never going to work.

Higher Education Institutions are Turning Out Marxists

 

An overwhelming percentage of college professors are Democrats or even hardcore Marxists and have stamped their image on students in colleges and seminaries for decades upon decades. One of the increasingly common occurrences on college campuses is the shaming, cancelling and silencing of conservative and Christian voices on campus. The Democratic Party supports if not openly but by their silence, such disgraceful and unconstitutional behavior. The Republican Party under President Trump has begun to consider defunding those institutions that allow such inappropriate behavior on taxpayer funding institutions.

Many of these colleges and universities literally serve as domestic terrorist training centers. College students, graduates, and college aged young people are out on the streets removing statues, demanding name changes for any historical figures that they consider to be “racists.” They are also either part of Antifa or the Black Lives Matter organization or working under their direction to riot, to commit arson, to vandalize, to harass, commit assault police and innocent bystanders, and even to commit acts of murder. They infiltrate peaceful protests. Creating chaos is one of the major objectives of these Marxist-inspired revolutionaries.

Rejecting American Value

Speaking of the Marxist Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization, they have specifically listed on their website their disdain for and destruction of traditional American values such as the importance of the nuclear or natural family (biological male and biological female with biological or adopted children).

Media & Entertainment

One recent example of distorting history on television is the mini-series, Mrs. America. This production portrays Phyllis Schlafly in a negative, dishonest light, which is typical of characterizing Schlafly founded, Eagle Forum, on its website posted this article in response to the mini-series about Schlafly, “"Mrs. America Is Historical Insult Fiction that Plays “Fast and Loose with the Facts.” The article states, “Mrs. America producers deliberately replaced truth with prevailing (liberal) biases.”

Conclusion

The Democratic Party buys into and fosters a distorted, dishonest view of America and American Exceptionalism. America has not been a perfect nation, but it has been the best that this world ever offered. Socialism, Marxism or communism has never really worked where it has been tried. Why would anyone think it would work here?

A Republican U.S. House of Representatives, Senate and Presidency would give America the best chance of recapturing our history and building on the best aspects of it. America can once again be proud to be Americans. The Democrats give us nothing to be proud of, they only give us something to reject and to detest. Let’s Make and Keep American History truthful, honestly portraying the good and the bad. Let us learn from history and not to repeat the socialist experiments of the past!

 

Don Feder's Ten Pillars of True Patriotism

This the second article that received from GrassTopsUSA, which I chose to reprint. It is a great outline of the important components of Patriotism. I highlight the ten foundational tenets of patriotism according to Bob Feder. The emphasis is mine. These are key elements to the Conservative and TEA Party Movements.

The one thing I see missing from this list, which could easily be included under either "God" or "the Constitution" pillars, is the Right to Life. Abortion is immoral, an affront to any civilized society. It is tantamount to what the ancient pagan Inca people did in sacrificing their children on alters to their gods.

Therefore, I would either elaborate under one or both of the first two pillars the right to life of both the born and the unborn. All of our God-given rights stem this basic right to exist.

TEN PILLARS OF PATRIOTISM
April 3, 2014
By Don Feder

               
       Language-corruption is endemic. Sodomy is an "alternative life style," jihad-murder is "workplace-related violence" and Catholic institutions not providing contraception through their health insurance are part of a "war on women."

       Even patriotism doesn't mean what it once did. A patriot used to be Nathan Hale, Andrew Jackson, Sergeant York and Audie Murphy. Now we're told that it's patriotic to support whatever foreign policy idiocy an anti-American administration dreams up.

       According to the most recent Pew Research Center survey, 52% completely agree with the statement: "I am very patriotic." Another 36% "mostly agree." But what does this mean? Delving a bit deeper, 69% say they're "very likely" to sing the National Anthem, 59% to display the American flag on their home or car and 53% to attend a public celebration of the 4th of July.

       But will America be saved by watching a parade pass by, singing the first verse of the National Anthem off-key or attaching a miniature flag on a car antenna? This is patriotism lite.

       There's something called the True Patriot Network which claims patriotism includes class envy ("The wealthy have rigged the game in Washington, so that we pay the rich to get richer"). Karl Marx, true patriot? One of the Network's founder's, Eric Liu (a White House speechwriter for Bill Clinton) is involved with an anti-gun initiative in Washington state. Think of what men with illegal firearms can do – like Lexington and Concord.

       What does patriotism really mean? If you say you love America, what are you going to do about it?

       Offered for your consideration, 10 Pillars of Patriotism – what the authentic patriot must support to reverse the process of national decline.

       1.  God – We are one nation under God, if we are anything at all. America is no accident. We could not have gone from 13 colonies clinging to the Atlantic coast to the preeminent world power in less than 230 years without the guiding hand of Providence. Rights come from God, not government. ("…endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.")

       The Bible tells us that if a people turn their back on God, He will turn His face from them. During the darkest days of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln charged: "We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." George Washington observed : "Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens."

       A reporter once asked Lincoln if God was on the side of the Union. Our 16th president replied that he had it backward; the question was: Were we on His side. We should strive toward that end.

       2.  The Constitution – The federal government is constrained, and rights guaranteed, by the Constitution, as it was written by the Founding Fathers and later amended, and not as interpreted by activist judges or nullified by a presidential pen.

       The United States Constitution is the best instrument yet devised to protect human rights, prevent abuses of power and ensure orderly government. If the Declaration of Independence is America's birth certificate, the Constitution is its operating manual.

       Elitists hate the fact that the Constitution is impartial – not favoring one group over another – and is concerned primarily with restraining government rather than ordering the affairs of citizens. That's why they're forever telling us that our Constitution is outmoded.

       3.  The Free Market – The free market is as American as representative government. It has brought unparalleled prosperity to this nation and opportunity to its citizens. Supply and demand are the best way to allocate resources. The alternative is ideological rigidity or bureaucratic whim.

       Private property and free enterprise are also bulwarks against tyranny. As the market has become less free, the liberty of the American people has been diminished. Those who get caught up in envy against the successful miss the point. It's not about what any one of us earns relative to anyone else. The genius of the market is that it allows each of us to reach our potential.

       Planned economy versus free economy is the difference between North and South Korea, East and West Germany (before reunification), Cuba and Costa Rica, and the U.S. economy under Reagan and Obama.

       4.  Limited Government – America was founded on the idea of limited government, that the state must be confined to certain clearly defined functions. The choice is limited government or government de luxe.

       The idea that Washington can force us to buy anything, such as health insurance, is repugnant to the system of government established by the Founders.

       Taxes should be limited to paying for the constitutional functions of government. As the welfare state takes more and more of our income (through taxation, regulation and inflation), it robs us of our time, our labor, and ultimately our lives – turning citizens into subjects.

       5.  Fiscal Responsibility – A government that consistently lives beyond its means has a short shelf-life. A people that refuse to restrain their appetites is doomed to extinction. The National Debt is the single greatest threat to our nation's prosperity and stability. Interest on the debt consumes an ever greater portion of the federal budget, crowds out business borrowing and diminishes the value of income and savings through inflation.

       Deficit spending is generational theft.

       6.   American Exceptionalism – For going on three centuries, America has been the greatest force for good in the world. We gave other nations a model of representative government to follow. Our factories and workshops provided the products and inventions that ushered in the modern age. By dint of our sacrifice, in the 20th. century we twice saved humanity from totalitarian nightmares.

       A denial of American exceptionalism is based on ignorance, indoctrination, malice or membership in the Democratic Party.

       7.   Sovereignty – With ratification of the Constitution, the American people agreed to be governed by a system of divided authority and balanced powers. Ceding power to the United Nations, NATO or any other international body is a surrender of sovereignty.

       A nation that won't defend its borders has also abandoned its sovereignty. Immigration policy must be decided by the American people based on the national interest – not by elites and ethnic lobbies, based on political expediency, a misguided altruism or multicultural fantasies.

       8.  English – English is America's language. Along with our common ideals, it's the glue that holds together a diverse people. From the Mayflower Compact to the latest Congressional debates, America's story has been told in English. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt: "We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…."

       With English, we were able to take in tens of millions of immigrants in the past century and a half and successfully integrate them into our way of life, so that their children and grandchildren were as Americans as those whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower.

       As we move from being an English-speaking people to a polyglot nation, we become fragmented along ethnic and racial lines. If it continues, the fate of the Austro-Hungarian Empire could be ours. Look at how well bilingualism works in Canada – where the majority is resentful and a separatist minority always wants more. After "press one for English," it should be "press two for national suicide."

       9.  National Security – Defending America is a sacred trust. We live in a world of predators – terrorists and barbarians with weapons of mass destruction. Liberty is guarded by men with guns who walk the ramparts.

       Liberals have consistently robbed the defense budget to pay for welfare schemes and buy votes, trusting in "multilateralism" and international agencies for our security. In reality, guns trump fantasies every time. Thanks to Obama and his allies, our armed forces are now smaller than before Pearl Harbor – another of which we could be headed for.

       Today, our foreign and defense policies are determined by those who have no faith in America and want to see the Republic too weak to act on its own.

       10. The Family – Families keep America strong. The family is the cradle of civilization and incubator of civic virtue. Fatherless families are more of a threat to our long-term survival than international terrorism or rogue states.

       Anything that undercuts the family weakens America. Divorce, cohabitation, voluntary childlessness and deconstructing the family by bestowing the designation on diverse living arrangements are an attempt to turn the family into a free-form institution and ultimately make it obsolete. Men fight to protect their families, not to advance abstractions. A society made up of atomized individuals is ripe for conquest.

       More than displaying the flag or singing the first verse of the Star-Spangled Banner (ersatz patriotism), the authentic patriot understands his country's history, appreciates its uniqueness and is committed to its defense by supporting the forces of unity and fighting those of disintegration.

       The patriot is far-sighted. Like the Founding Fathers as they prepared to put pen to paper, the true patriot is instilled with a sense of destiny. Patriotism is a pledge to the past and a promise to the future.

       Ronald Reagan spoke of "a rendezvous with destiny." Our greatest president of the 20th century said in his historic 1964 speech: "We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."

       Have we?                    

 

Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website, DonFeder.com.
                  

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Comment on Those Who Reject the Truth About America and Science

 

The  online Leftist website, Alternet.com, posted an article titled, "5 Christian Right Delusions and Lies About History, They're not just delusional about science!" The author is Amanda Marcotte, who is obviously a very biased liberal. I refute her five points in my comments to her inaccurate and deceptive article. I post those comments here:

Isn’t it ironic, the Left calls what is evil, good and what is good, evil! author Amanda has the gall to write that Christians perpetrate lies. Sorry Amanda, you are obviously missing one factor, the truth, in the drivel you spew.

1.   Joe McCarthy was a patriot and a hero. He called a communist a communist! How dare he expose the fact that Communists were infiltrating the government! Are you blind dear Amanda?

2.   Most of America’s founders believed in God and were Christ-followers. To claim otherwise is itself revisionist. Only a few of the founders were not Christians, but were Deists, yet they too concurred with the majority that religion and religious values were fundamental to this new nation. Many escaped from the persecution rampant in Europe at the time. The leftist definition of diversity and the perverted concept of political correctness were never the values of this nation. Most founders rejected slavery.

3.   God has blessed America since its inception because she wittingly or unwittingly followed biblical principles and standards.

     That blessing is being removed as we reject what God approves. We have removed Him, prayer and the Bible from our schools. We have ‘legalized’ the murder of innocent babies to the tune of 50+ million since 1973. We have gone into debt to the tune of $17 trillion. We are encouraging the normalization and acceptance of homosexuality and the perversion of marriage by granting ‘marriage’ certificates to homosexual and lesbian couples.

     With the outright rejection of God’s standards we will surely become a third world nation, which is the transformation that our President apparently is carrying out. That is, if we even survive as a nation!

4.   It was when the Roman civilization embraced the welfare mentality and sexual immorality including homosexuality as a ‘normal, natural, healthy’ lifestyle that finally toppled that once ‘great’ nation.

5.   The French Revolution was godless and secular. The American Revolution was God-honoring, and biblical based.

 

The author implies in her article's title that Christians are deluded in regard to science and not only in regard to America's history. I take umbrage with this false  accusation as well. Let's look at three of the topics with which most secularists and most true Christ-followers disagree: Life, Evolution, and Global Warming. 

The consensus among so-called secular scientists is that life begins when the baby takes its first breath, evolution is the sole accepted basis for the origins of life, and global warming is man-caused. On the other hand, most true Christ-followers and many conservatives believe that life begins at conception, that evolution is just a theory and that Creationism or Intelligent Design is just as reasonable and believable (if not even more so) an explanation of origins than that flawed theory of evolution, and that global warming is not solely caused by man, but is mostly a natural phenomenon.

The Battling Boys of Benghazi, A Poignant Poem for Memorial Day

It is good to remember all of American fallen heroes this Memorial Day. Benghazi, Libya is one such place where America suffered the loss of brave men. There were three calls for reinforcements during the Islamic terrorist attack in Benghazi, but all such requests were denied by a yet-to-be-identified someone or someones in the State Department, the CIA, the military, or the White House. The following poem expresses the valor of the two American heroes who though abandoned by their government, yet fought despite the odds to the death to preserve the lives of fellow countrymen.

Hat tip goes to Front Line Magazine, which featured the poem below  in one of its articles today.

The poem below was written by an anonymous Marine Corps officer. It gives us pause today to pray for our wayward nation and its wicked leadership, which has strayed so far from America's founding principles, values and everything that has hitherto made it exceptional.

We the People to President Obama

Hat tip goes to TeaParty.net for this YouTube video by Nos Populus. Transcript follows the video.

 
Dear President Obama,

“We The People” have stated resolutely we reject your vision for our country. You claim you have not heard us.

“We The People” have assembled across America resisting your efforts to subvert our constitution and undermine our liberty. You claim you have not seen us.

Since you have not acknowledged our message, let us here present it once more for if as President Wilson said, “a leader’s ear must ring with the voices of the people,” the time has come.

Our greatest treasure is freedom – the absence of restraints on our ability to think and to act. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility. We believe in the power of the individual.

A few years ago President Bush said, “History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart.” Let us add that we will preserve it only as long as devotion to freedom is expressed in the heart of our actions.

When President Lincoln dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery he declared, “It is for us the living to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced.”

That unfinished cause for which our soldiers willingly go to battle and for which so many have given their lives is a free United States of America. It has been nearly one hundred fifty years and the work President Lincoln spoke of is not finished. In fact, that work will never be finished.

Freedom is the capacity of self-determination. It is not an entity but a condition and conditions change. Freedom can expand, yet so can it contract.

You promised change when you took office, Mr. President, but subjugation is not change we wanted or will accept.

You have

·         expanded government,

·         violated our Constitution,

·         confounded laws,

·         seized private industry,

·         destroyed jobs,

·         perverted our economy,

·         curtailed free speech,

·         corrupted our currency,

·         weakened our national security, and

·         endangered our sovereignty.

By compromising our nation’s cultural, legal and economic institutions, you are ensuring that our children will never achieve the same quality of life as we enjoy today. Through generational theft you are robbing the unborn of opportunity.

This is not acceptable. Not in America. We did not become a strong nation through hope but rather through self-reliance.

No one better understands the relationship between individual achievement, dignity and strength than our armed forces. Through every war our soldiers have held this nation’s destiny in their hands. They have not failed us. They cherish freedom enough that they are willing to die for it.

Our duty to them and to ourselves is to treasure freedom enough to live up to it.

We accept the challenge, Mr. President. That is why we are assembling across the land to deliver our message to you as often and in every way we can. Dismiss us at your political peril.

Our great nation is a Republic. We will not accept tyranny under any guise. Your policy to redistribute the fruits of our labor is Statism and will not be tolerated.

By our honor, Mr. President, we vow forever to resist coercive government in America. Patriots will not stand silent as you attempt to dismantle the greatest nation on earth. “We The People” will defend our liberty. We will protect our beloved country and America’s exceptionalism will prevail.

God Bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

We The People

American Exceptionalism

Ever since B.O. said that America was exceptional to Americans the same way the Greece is exceptional to Greeks and England is exceptional to the British, people have been talking about this idea of American exceptionalism and what it means. 

America’s history is certainly exceptional.  The U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence are revolutionary.  To me American exceptionalism means that these documents are by far superior to anything since the Bible.  They are not perfect, but they are more than just a step of progress toward some ideal society.  For the first time, a People established a government which recognized the rights of the people and threw off a tyrannical government without replacing it with another.  This would not have been possible without God-fearing men and the help of the Almighty.

But all this certainly does not mean that America is exceptional today.  A nation can lose its exceptionalism more easily than it has gained it.  Americans have murdered 50 million of it’s our children.  America has put its trust in our government to provide for our every need (healthcare, jobs, education, etc.). She has also put her trust in its military might and has killed a hundred times more people in the current wars than all those killed in all terrorist attacks between 1993 and 2004.  She has forgotten that the Bible says, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and LIFE FOR LIFE.”  She now thinks that it is the inherent ability of her citizens to develop technology and her possession of the raw materials to utilize it which makes her exceptional.  But if she has any real exceptionalism left, it comes from the fact that she was founded upon biblical principles of justice and liberty.

American can take a lesson can taken from the Israelite nation.  The Israelites thought that they were special people.  They were right, but that did not mean that God was going to protect them no matter what they did.  God sent the prophet Ezekiel to warn the people that the destruction Jerusalem was coming.  God wanted the people to know that it would not be because the gods of the Babylonians were stronger than Yahweh.  He told them through the prophet Ezekiel that the Babylonians would be victorious over the Israelites because God himself would make it happen on purpose.  “Then you will know that I am the LORD,” Ezekiel told them.  The reason why God did this is because of sins of the Israelites.  These included the sacrificing of infants and the worshipping of idols. 

But that we must be a just and moral people was not the only thing that the Founders of the American Republic warned us to do in order to maintain our freedoms.  They also said were must be a religious people.  They said we must be vigilant against tyranny.  They said we must want freedom more than comfort.  They said we must want liberty more than security.  They said that we must recognize that power tends to corrupt people, even ones with the best of intentions.  These are the things which Americans need to hear in order to regain our exceptionalism.  If America will hear this message and take it to heart, America can be even better than it ever has been.

Christmas Spirit Caught at the Mall Food Court

Unsuspecting shoppers in mid November got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch. There were over 100 participants in this awesome Christmas Flash Mob. Check out this must see YouTube video below. This flash mob was organized by http://www.AlphabetPhotography.com/ to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas … H/T goes to nrahat who posted on the Cleveland.com Politics Forum the link to this video.