Intimidation

In the 1959 movie adaptation of The Mouse That Roared, Peter Sellers expends the limit of his talent in depicting royalty with a British attempt to invade the United States in a time of economic woes. The plot is based on the basis of intimidation, the easiest way to win a war or an argument. The American citizenry has been captured through the process of intimidation, citizens scared to do anything on their own.

The once buttress of freedom, the church, the pulpit, the very essence of freedom of speech, pastors so intimidated to say anything for fear of losing their tax status. The threats against the church, mostly underground whispers have gone on for many years. There are 370,000 churches in America. With all the pretended threats against the church, loss of tax status, not one church has ever lost its tax exempt status. One did have difficulties with the government for a period of 24 hours, but all was restored.

Most intimidation is just a matter of talk, like the bully on the schoolyard, talk is cheap. When threatened, just smile, this is the best disarming tactic, when someone says, “I am going to sue you”, just smile and say, “don't scare me like that”. Only one who has been through legal recourse knows the horror story involved...never-ending, deep pockets. Finding courageous people is not easy. I believe that 90% of Christian faith is just raw courage. Christ did not die for groups: the women's circle, the men's brotherhood, youth activities, but for the individual, who, while alive and in death stands alone in a relationship with him. Find fellow Christians who are sold out, new creation in Christ, more and more real Christians are worshiping in private homes, tired of large, some even mega, churches, painted with proud pretension.

I note that Obama and Hillary Clinton for the first time in history are using freedom to worship instead of freedom of religion. Freedom of religion involves every place, the public square, the streets, freedom to worship involves just inside the personal home or house of worship. You will note that liberal Democrats are doing everything possible to remove freedom of religion from every public place. Dr. Michael Newdow, physician-lawyer who has led the fight to remove God from our money, pledge of allegiance, everything, says, “ [he] is not against God in worship, but God in the public arena.” He wants God off the streets, the liberals are willing to intimidate, threaten in every way possible, to get their way with religion, healthcare, speech, sex and education.

Anyone who objects to anything in the liberal agenda is now called a racist. The liberals have found that racism is their most effective weapon. We have always had racism, the history of the world is marked by conflicts between tribes, races and civilizations....between the haves and the have-nots. Christ told us that we will have the poor with us always (Matthew 26:11, Mark 14:7). I am convinced that Christ gave us the great commandment, to love our neighbor as ourselves (Matthew 22:36-39). God had a reason for different skin colors, different racial characteristics, this is just one of the many tests. It is easy to love God, because God does not intimidate. The real test comes in loving a neighbor as yourself. Most of our neighbors are so unlovable, I come into contact with people of a totally different value system: smelly, incorrigible, callous, listening to pagan music, using heathen language, and God expects me to love them as myself. (I note that most Ph.Ds now use the f-word as a noun, verb, adjective, etc. in polite conversation, just to intimidate.) He does not specify neighbor qualities, but, you can be sure that it is God's business whom he loves, just as it is God's business whose offerings he accepts (first family, Abel's offering was accepted but Kane's was not). He is Boss. We are put here to glorify him, and to obey.

In my lifetime, I have seen every freedom in human endeavor and responsibility taken over by government. You cannot do anything anymore without a permit or license. Just wait until Obama's socialized healthcare takes over, your very last freedom. Start now to detox your body, build up your immune system. One of the best cartoons I have seen recently, a family standing, watching a casket put into the back of a hearse. One family member said to another, “we told mama that healthcare is rationed.” Healthcare will be rationed and those who are too old to be producers, too young to be taxpayers, the disabled who can no longer support the system, will get little care.

77 million baby boomers will depend on social security and socialized healthcare, both federal systems are broke and getting more broken each day, with a national debt increasing at the rate of 3.87 billion a day. Remember, young people, the national debt is now 14 trillion dollars (A trillion dollars is a million million dollars). Since January 1 of 2010, your parts of this debt, thanks to Obama's bailouts and spinouts, has increased from $40,000 to $45,000 for each man, woman and child in America.

I have known some mixed up people in my time, the most mixed up young man I have ever known worked for me for a while. He had been reared by his lesbian mother and her lesbian lover, yet just this week we find a researcher, Charlotte Patterson, from the University of Virginia, who states that same-sex married couples should be able to adopt children. Instead of a researcher, she is a propagandist, having written several books about lesbian marriage. Children are intimidated enough in the very sensitive years of sex identification, and sensitivity, why are we bringing these traumas on societies, and for a country supposedly interested in children, on our children. Have we not betrayed their innocence sufficiently? Have we not intimidated their thought processes completely?

Satan has his own methods of intimidating every life, with me, a child of poverty, product of loneliness, Christ having occupied the inner man, I had my “spiritual Waterloo” sitting on a stone fence behind Wilson library at UNC Chapel Hill. I was discouraged beyond words to express. For the first time in my life, I had found happiness in learning, enjoyment in the fulfillment of my “Mensa” mind. This was a time before scholarships and grants, I was trying to carry a full student load yet work my way through the university. I did not have money for food, I was hungry, I must make the decision to go back home, whipped, where there was food, or try endure, try to find some way to conquer the education which the holy spirit of God demanded.

God whispered to me, “in the medical school library, the school where you work, there are large leather chairs, money falls out of pockets into the chairs.” That night, I retrieved enough money from those chairs to keep me going until the next pay check. Do not be intimidated by the world, the flesh, the devil, where there is seemingly no way, God will always make a way. Do not be intimidated by family, your worse enemies are your family. Those who have so much of this world's things, learn not to love the world and the things of the world (1 John 2:15). Learn not to be intimidated by the big deals of the world. No matter how far you climb up the ladder, there is always someone above you. Just make sure your ladder is leaning on the right structure.