Highway to Heathenism

In traveling the world, I discovered a culture of employment which I had never considered previously. It was a cadre of travel guides, mostly men, mostly bi-sexual, mostly attractive, always multi-lingual, always well-traveled, well-educated and of upper class who spent their lives just taking travel groups, from one country to another, mostly on world wide tours. Most were acquainted with one another and would causally salute one another as they passed in crowded airports. They had the travel business down to a science, knew how to run the gauntlet of borders, knew which guards to bribe, and knew how to weasel out of any political, financial or social situation. Since I was almost totally blind and traveling alone, I always had one of these as a eating companion. They shared with me many things that they did not share with the average traveler, because they knew they could trust me; and after all, I would never be able to identify them, in case of illegalities.

The most memorable of these world famous travel guides, I met in Tunis, Tunisia. He was Dutch and originally from the Hague. He despised Americans mostly because Americans are so gregarious, loud, classless, uninformed and predictably obnoxious and arrogant. To show you how long ago it was, Yasser Arafat was still in Tunis at the time, accompanied by his covey of blond, German boys. My guide told me that he had just put on the plane to make their return to the US, the most impossible group of obnoxious Americans he had ever led. He said, “After I got them on the plane, I was so exasperated from being with them for several weeks that I just went into a stall in the men's bathroom, sat down and cried for a while.” He said, “These impossible people think that their money is all important. But they are totally classless.” Of course, when he told me of the thousands of dollars that he received from each group in tips, I could understand why he was tolerant. These guides are not only paid well by the companies that employ them, but live really well on the trip. The hotel for the group, always provides the guide, as a bonus, a room filled with gifts and liquor. These guides know the best shopping places in the world, the most economical places in the world to live and have picked out a retirement area, long before they expect to retire. One, took me in a boat on the gulf of Siam to a most picturesque village, beautiful beyond compare, where he had already purchased a hilltop vista where he would eventually build his retirement home.

You cannot force people to love you anymore than you can force people to hate themselves. In visiting the Colonial countries on the west coast of Africa, such as the Ivory Coast and the central African Republic, where the French were in power for so long, the Belgian Congo or even the British controlled India and Pakistan, you find that the natives hold onto their culture. In British controlled Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and in Burma I noted the fine homes owned by British nobility had been destroyed and actual trees were growing out of some of them. The golf courses used by the British nobility and their bureaucrats had grown up. The 48 Muslim countries in the east and in North Africa, were separated and their borders decided by British authorities. I learned that these people had no loyalty for their colonizers. Even the English names given by the British to the cities in these colonies, had been changed. Most had returned to their customs and culture. This is the great problem we are encountering in Iraq and Afghanistan. They simply do not want to be Westernized. Even those who cross our borders illegally want to keep their own identity.

Slave masters learned long ago that they could not force slaves to love them. The hack politicians practicing nepotism, thought those wanting special attention would have a special admiration for them. Just the opposite is usually true.

The cotton mill owner – employer – slave master, who employs people who could not possibly find a job anywhere else thought that these hungry, God-fearing, down trodden, employees would so appreciate economic opportunity that they would have absolute loyalty. As one employee at the Borden Cotton Mills in Goldsboro told me, they never could understand why their looms did not work most of the time. It was a matter of internal sabotage. Most officers in Vietnam were killed by the fragging of enlisted soldiers who so resented the authority and so resented their military service.

When selling books, as a college student, on the dirt roads, on which tenant farmers lived in Eastern NC, I heard many stories about burning down the land owner's barn because the owner had been so cruel to his tenant worker's hardworking parents.

Patriotism in this democratic republic has been virtually destroyed by this authoritarian, totalitarian control. It is now a matter of government manipulation and exploitation. Most Americans regard the government as the enemy and not a friend. Does it bother the elected politician to know that the younger generations of Americans are maturing, despising the very country for which they may be called on to defend? I once asked a travel guide why there were so many children in each family in India. He said, “Most parents in India just hope there may be one or two children who will provide for them in their old age.”

Enslaved people always fight back. We are expected to pay our taxes willingly, to register for military service willingly, to go to the polls to vote willingly, to march off to war willingly. Go to a VA hospital and see how many veterans you can find who have anything good to say about the country or government which they defended.

For one who has spent most of his life in absolute darkness, a 100% disabled, service connected, totally blind veteran, I weep when I hear on the news of the waste and corruption of government. It kills my very ambition for life to know what is happening to my country. The elitists, both here and abroad, who have only lived their lives for personal gain, who expect the veterans and other hard-working, tax paying, God-fearing citizens to eat the scraps from their table of abundance, will surely not escape the wrath of a God of justice. (Psalm 98:9)

After 2000 years, Satan has so penetrated and taken over the Christian church, that the church is no longer effective in the affairs of men. After 230 years in the life of this once great republic, Satan has so penetrated the halls of government and justice that God and government is no longer appreciated or effective in the lives of citizens. Character determines destination. We have tainted character which is testing our destination.