Whistling in the Dark

C.S. Lewis was an Irish born writer and author of such greats as The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia. He was a “cradle catholic” but fell away from his faith during his early years and became an atheist, but came back to his faith while on the facility at Oxford. He said, “My faith is now my faith.”


In 1940 Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters. This was a series of letters he wrote portraying letters between two devils – the mysterious way people have in denying the Christian religion, which, as he said, was a mystery to the devil and more a mystery to God and “how far is too far” and “when is enough enough”?


As a contemporary of Lewis, although he is dead, in my eighty years, I have seen life take a complete 180 degree turn. Every promise and every prophecy in God's Word to this moment has been fulfilled, and it is certainly true that we now find evil called good and good called evil. The truth is now called a lie and a lie is now called truth.


Not just the theologians but the early scientists would never have been convinced that human beings would accept the radical practice of homosexuality, an abomination to God and to everything which we believe to be decent. How any sane person can study human anatomy, genetics, and anything else pertaining to biology or sociology and defend homosexuality, gay marriage, and certainly the placing of practicing homosexuals in the pulpits of God's most precious bride, His church, in direct defiance of every “God-directive” found in His book, such as the first chapter of Romans, is beyond human comprehension. It is a perversity and stench in the nostrils of almighty God - repugnant to every thing that human beings call decent.


Christ, now on the outside of most churches, looking in, must say, “What is wrong with those people?” That powered and puffed church people can sit on padded pews, smiling and smug, while most of those around them, and certainly those unreached at home and abroad, are on a “fast track” to hell, is probably a mystery to a sovereign God. IF Christians, who believe in God's Word, who have the spine to live the Christian life, believed in God's power, you could not keep them out of the church house every time the door is opened, because they would be there seeking the greatest power in the world, the power received through prayer, worship and giving. Their lives at home before their most precious possessions - their children - would be totally changed. As one young girl, whom her mother heard praying by her bed, “God help my mother to be as nice at home as she is at church.”


Mary Bethune, black educator (Bethune-Cookman University), advisor to FDR, said, “Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”


I have been in many places where the Queen of England was visiting: Cicily, Mexico, etc. There is always much cleaning, painting, many preparations. Once, when she was about to visit Chicago and all the preparations were being made, the mayor called the Blackstone Hotel (where I have stayed) and asked the manager if they were ready for the Queen's visit. The manager said, “We are always ready for royalty.” In our homes, in our churches, in our lives (the temple of God), we should be consumed by the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.


Thomas Paine, signer of the Declaration of independence, and writer of Common Sense,

nor Adam Smith, nor any other economist in the fore front leading this nation into economic greatness would believe that the American people would elect anyone to the highest office who would in eight month's time almost totally destroy every vestige of American economic power that has made this country an example for the world. (I have traveled through 157 countries.) Who would have believed that Americans who have fought a cold war against communism, who have witnessed what totalitarianism has done to human rights in many countries (Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, etc.) would elect a communist to the presidency?


To show how dumbed down the American education system has become, we believe we can follow a decadent and corrupt leadership in accumulating more debt to pay off debt. We have elected people into government - local, state federal – who believe you can put sewage treated with poisoned chemicals into our national waterways and then take the water from our rivers, treat it again with poisoned chemicals, and pipe it into homes and industry for consumption. We support a health system who raped our citizens with a needle by putting untested chemical poisons into their systems when religious groups such as the Amish, Mennonites, Muslims, etc. have shown that people live well without such.


Even Margaret Mead, world famous anthropologist in my lifetime, or Jane Addams, Nobel Prize winning sociologist, would never have believed that technological advances would lead to the complete destruction of the American home through the funneling of pornography from the dirty streets and dirty bookstores of your town into your clean living room where your children are subjected to every sinful act and imagination Satan has to offer. Even the earliest evangelists and Christian crusaders who founded the hospitals and colleges in our country, who brought the “Good News” of salvation to every cross roads, which led to the building of churches for worship, would have believed that homes and schools would become not breeding and feeding grounds for spiritual development but filling stations for degradation and degeneration.


In 1803, President Jefferson and Congress appropriated $2,500 (about the price of a first class air line ticket today) for Lewis & Clark to begin an expedition for a route to the Pacific Ocean. After years of trauma in finding this route, can you even imagine the joy in their heart on the Columbia River when they saw and heard that great expanse of ocean. Likewise, can you even imagine the joy in the heart of David Livingston when he discovered the noise and spray of the Great Victoria Falls in Africa? (As I stood at it's edge, heard the great resounding noise, and felt the spray, I could only imagine the joy in David Livingston's heart.) Think of the joy, we as children of LIGHT will know one day when the great gates of pearl of LIGHT open to us (even those of us who have been blind most of our lives) and we know the joy of redemption, the faith we have, that we lived in these times of repugnance and unbelievers thought we were just whistling in the DARK in defending our Savior, our country, our family.

Who's Fooling Who?

Those who have sight have told me that many in the Washington demonstrations on September 12^th were carrying signs. Some of the signs read, “You work for us.” How ridiculous can you get? I have heard the same thing on radio talk shows, that the public actually thinks they hire and pay the politicians who represent them in Washington. The chief interest in elected politicians locally, statewide and nationally, getting re-elected. They get that Potomac virus whether Congressman, Senator or bureaucrat. When looking in a mirror, they see a future president of the United States. Regardless of future elections, they see a great retirement system. In 2006, the average annual pension for retired senators and retired representatives was $60,972.

One of my friends served one term as a US senator and this is the amount he has received ever since. They see a superior health care system. They see a future as a lobbyist or member of a conglomerate board which pays more in salary than they ever made in political life. They see memberships on university boards. They see great speaking engagements and fees. (The Clintons have made $109 million since they left office. Former President Clinton said recently, “"I never had a nickel to my name until I got out of the White House, and now I'm a millionaire.”)

To these people that think that Congress works for them and that they hired the Congress, it is like the Hebrew slaves saying to Pharaoh, “We hired you. You work for us.” It is like the thousands of black slaves before the Emancipation, saying to their slave master, “We hired you. You work for us.” It is like today's slaves in Africa, Asia, even the military forces of the US, saying to their commanders and political leaders, “We hired you. You work for us.” It is very much like the average citizen who thinks he owns his house, his vehicle, even his kitchen table. Try not paying your taxes. These political assessors will take your belongings because you are just a slave to their tax assessments.

Today's headlines refer to the overexposed President Obama on television almost constantly, after appearing on 5 television morning shows on Sunday. On last night's Letterman show, he reportedly gave a self-deprecating joke, “I was black before the election.” We all are aware of his skin color. For those of us who went through the civil rights struggle, his skin color is not important anymore than he is half white. He self-deprecates himself with his utility of the truth.

Joseph Goebbels, was one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, eventually succeeding him as Chancellor of Germany, an office he held for only one day. He was well educated, with a Ph.D at Heidelberg University. He perfected the understanding "Big Lie" technique of propaganda, which is based on the principle that a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses. We see this technique employed everyday, because it is the essence of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals which President Obama follows totally.

The Obama administration and the democrat followers are intent to enslave with the technique of the lie. It has taken 50 years of consumed, consecrated passion of liberal activists; but the conquering of the news media, the academic community and the commercial interests of the country is completed. We now have state controlled news both printed and electric, as well as the absolute control of all universities and colleges and the complete takeover of commerce. The general public does not pay any attention to ideas from anyone except news media, academics, or corporate executives. (Think of the corporate executives, their boards of trustees, even their union members who sat back and watched industry move offshore. Universities do have a disproportionate number of liberal instructors. A 2007-2008 study in the Chronicle of Higher Education found that 43 percent of full-time faculty classified themselves as “liberal,” and 8 percent called themselves “far-left.” When looking at only public universities, the number of liberal professors jumps to 59 percent. No one can watch the alphabet news sources, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC, and not realize that news and news talking heads are all absolute communists.)

Pray that God will give the American people the intelligence, the resourcefulness, the encouragement, not only to have sound minds ourselves, but to seek leaders and opinion molders with sound minds. Roy Masters, Jewish talk show host, once said, “The Christian should have no fear of Satan's control in the world. If I were a Christian, I could defend the Christian faith, better than most Christians.” For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)

David Livingstone, the great missionary to Africa was the first European to see the Victoria Falls, to which he gave the English name in honor of his monarch, Queen Victoria. He was found dead praying by his bed, May 1873. His heart was removed and buried in his beloved Africa. His followers walked for 1000 miles to take his body to a port, and his body is buried in the floor of Westminster Abbey (where I have stood many time) along with other greats of the world. The natives put a note on his body that said, "You can have his body, but his heart belongs in Africa!" Livingstone's heart was buried under a Mvula tree near the spot where he died, now the site of the Livingstone Memorial. Livingstone said, “The only thing you do in life that is worthwhile is what you do for the Kingdom of God.”

Where are today's martyrs of the faith? You will not find them in the seeker-friendly, those that preach soft gospel. Where are today's martyrs of patriotism? Like those 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, who risked everything, all their possessions, for this country. Compare the patriots of our ancestry with the cowards who run today's government. Think of the Pigford farm scandal... black farmers who supposedly were denied federal benefits, Mr. Obama pushed through legislation to give these black farmers, each $50,000 in compensation. One of the many contrived thieveries of the nation's capital. Black people, who never had a farm, barely had a backyard, some claiming to have flowerpots, all claiming to be black farmers, getting checks for $50,000, no questions asked. Look the situation in the face, online or material from your congressperson. Compare today's patriots and martyrs with those of yesteryear. Who's fooling who?