Consummate Hypocrisy

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"Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not love" (one of the blessed graces of the Spirit), "I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal." 1 Corinthians 13:1

There may be the gift of utterance--and no spiritual life. Balaam, and Judas, and multitudes beside have had this--and yet have been dead in trespasses and sins.

Men may offer fine prayers before others--men may preach eloquent sermons--and yet, like Judas, be far from God!

The most wicked man, the most consummate hypocrite I ever knew--was one of the most gifted preachers, and could electrify an audience by his persuasive oratory!

"Many will say to me on that day: 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'  Then I will tell them plainly: 'I never knew you. Away from Me, you evildoers!'" Matthew 7:22-23

            The word not allowed in speeches before the US Congress, the word hypocrite.  Perhaps this is because those in Congress so recognize the hypocrisy that goes on there.  Washington, D.C. leads the nation in consumption of alcohol and it costs the taxpayer drastically for it's consumption.  We hear the babbling of politicians in political debates attempting to rise in power.  We hear about the monstrous defiance of integrity in government monopoly.  It is an insult to every veteran, and should be an embarrassment to every citizen that hypocrisy has taken over the nation, it's government, news media, every foundation of education.  In 1963, with an innoculous 23 word prayer, we took Bible reading and prayer out of the classroom to be replaced by police patrolling the hallways of the schools, some parents cared, more and more choose to home school their children.  Perhaps there is no place for hypocrisy is more rampant, the school house, courthouse, your house but the church house.  The church house has become a masquerade party...pretenders, wearing the mask of concern.  This writer, world traveler, Muslim countries particularly in the Middle East where war now rages/where the third world war has probably already begun, 5 times a day Muslims go to their prayer rug in prayer pointing toward Mecca. We heard little in our country about the 1,453 Muslim's killed in a stampede in Mecca.  This was just 100 less than those who went down on the Titanic... all human beings, made in the image of God. 

            This blind veteran shutters when he thinks of the sacrifice so many warriors have given to this Nation.  The parents who presented their best for service, after having gone through the trauma of raising them.  This writer stood on the battlefield of Normandy for the 25th Anniversary of that bloodshed.  I still think of the 160,000 American's buried on foreign soil.  I still remember standing at the great cemetery in the Philippine's where 18,000 are buried.  Those of us who are disabled come home to a Nation unconcerned about our future.  The disabled veteran loses his future, his financial security, and then lastly, his dignity.  In the American experience, next to slavery, the greatest shame of this Nation is it's treatment of handicap citizens and disabled veterans.  The crippled and blind, veteran or not, would not choose this manner in which God has dealt with us.  But, we would choose a Nation that gives us the same opportunity/responsibilities of those, like the illegal immigrants who come in through the cracks mostly to enjoy the benefits of this Nation.  This writer does not sit in judgment of anyone.

We will all face the same judge but, it does disturb me that politicians have so polluted and even poisoned the great American spirit.  I will never forget, one of my best friends, (Robert Futrell, now deceased from an airplane crash) Chief Assistant to our Congressman from the NC 3rd District, he said, "Tom, our day in Washington was punctuated by "free" food/parties/entertainment by the lobbyist, the lobbyist determine everything, and there is always something free for us to attend. he said, "the only time I ever saw your Congressman excited about a letter from a constitutes, a black man had written him a letter on, the only paper he had available, a brown paper bag".  It is far too late for this blind veteran, the VA, most inept agency in Government never even furnished me with a white cane.  In this age of a bottomless ocean of technology, when the very poorest American lives better than wealthy citizens in other countries, I would like to think that America will not be severely judged by Almighty God... judged for flitting away the great wealth of this Nation, judged for putting to death 56 Million babies in America's Abortion Holocaust.  Judged for allowing the homosexual agenda to destroy the American Family and the American military.  Of course, I get so tired of hearing the montras involving patriotism. 

            Evil, deceit, has been with us since the Garden of Eden.  My old, hard working/God fearing/tax paying parents, in their last years, would sit on the front porch of the home for which they had worked so hard.  Two men in a pick-up truck came by saying that they were painting roofs of houses.  There was a building, several hundred yards down the highway which my father used for storage.  The roof needed painting and so he paid them to "paint" the roof.  They put something on the roof, got their money and left.  Then, each time there was rain, my parents watched the "stuff" they had put on the roof slowly wash away.  These two old people knew that they had been deceived.  Hypocrisy is the clearest form of counterfeit, Satan's currency.  When will American's realize that their hard won heritage is being washed away?