Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

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You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Galatians 3:1

You can spend your life attempting to get people to understand something they don't want to understand; trying to plug up the holes in your mind with stuff, toys, girls, sports, trash from a talking box. The greatest distance in most lives, the true and the almost true. The track record of truth, everything you hear from government is a lie, the "go-go" market of liberalism, an actors studio of ambiguities a masquerade party of deceit, to which the uneducated citizenry is addicted. Anti-social behavior has become the norm, this writer finds that young people no longer recognize normality; what it means to be truly free-what it means to be enslaved. 238 years after our constitution, after my ancestors landed on the shores of New Jersey, (1677, from the good ship Kent, founding Morristown). This totally blind, Medical Officer Veteran knows that his ancestors are turning in their graves about what has happened to their country. 

We must stop time on the brink before the worst rushes on. The most difficult part of my thinking, seeking normalcy in a very abnormal world; Satan's greatest victory, sabotage of decency (killing of the unborn, destroying the family with same sex marriage, gay agenda in the Military). Studying the atheists, the unbelievers, the one thing that sticks out, they just seek the low road of life. Unbelievers do not want the high road because they must choose the absolute of right over wrong, decency instead of indecency. What bothers me, a committed christian most, the awe-envy with which so many pretending Christians hold them... Wanting to talk-dress-party with them, not wanting to be different, but popularity on their level; not realizing that unbelievers are already dead. The believing child of God is already enjoying eternal life, and wants to be separated from the dead. Not believing, that according to the scriptures, they are already dead. Believers are already enjoying eternal life.

Someone asked this writer the simple definition of a Christian; a Christian behaves, at midnight in a city where no one knows him, the same as he does at midday in his hometown where everyone knows him. 

In 1964 there was a movie, Dr. Strangelove, in which the memorable expression was used "us and them". There was a time when Americans enjoyed good movies, memorable television programs such as the Lawrence Welk Show, sensible music. One song, we will never forget, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered Am I". The greatest problem in the world today: Technocracy and the centralization of power. No matter your age, wealth, education, I have found that mans greatest dilemma, the hesitation to take care of a problem, always thinking that problems will take care of themselves. Almost as stupid as recognizing an unusual noise in your vehicle and thinking it will resolve itself. Civilized people have always been encircled by enemies, always "wrestling" (Ephesians 6) with powers of the air, temptations, basic sinful instincts. With the priest of Judaism (Old Testament), ceremonial law, were sacrificing animals (bullocks, sheep, goats), a priest probably saw a nice liver in an animal and thought that liver would be good for supper. The sweet savoir of the sacrifice to God, perhaps smoke was in Gods eyes and he would not see the missing liver. God does not want a "liver-less" sacrifice. If god wanted 28 quarts of flour in a sacrifice, he would not settle for 27.

This writer is bewitched that after so much progress, particularly in America, (world traveler, I have seen the extended bellies-spindly limbs of poor children all over the world) a nation from a bottomless ocean of technology, hospitals-universities-foundations and we are willing, 21st century, to settle for mediocrity. Our education systems have become entertainment-indoctrination centers. We can hardly recognize the difference in the two large political parties, each trying to out "Santa Clause" one another with entitlements, with political correction. 

Can one even imagine how bothered this old veteran is? Thinking about those wonderful warriors who gave their lives (up until recently buried in foreign soil) thinking that they were defending the "Land of the free and the home of the brave". Face it, we are no longer free, no longer brave... Not brave enough to stand up to crooked politicians, planned parenthood, or brave enough to confront political correction. 

This old veteran (85), is bewildered that young parents, trauma of raising children in today's world, will actually see their sons and daughters go out to face the atrocities of modern warfare. This concerned christian is bewildered and so anxious to hear pastors-religious leaders pray for the sanity of world peace. We so recklessly glance over the atrocities of impersonal drones dropping bombs on helpless-scared-women-children-old folks. When did you last hear a religious leader pray for peace?