Rainmaker of Liberty

(A Veteran's Day Tribute)

"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

This old veteran, old warrior (84), was chosen by God, not only for salvation, but to see the world... a world for which men have fought and died.

Ancient pagans as well as terrorists of the 21st century, axis powers of evil (Nazi and Asian Armies of WW2), and even the progressive Atheist in America, all think that the smoke from warfare, the sounds from warfare, have put so much smoke in God's eyes that he cannot see the horrors of war, that he has not turned up his hearing aid so he can hear the horrors of war. Men have always lived in a world where breeds of badness move in. Explaining the horrors of war is like explaining red to someone who is colorblind. And yet, we expect our young, sensitive children to return from war unscathed after having seen their best friends picked up piece by piece on the battlefield. There are more suicides among veterans than any other group of Americans. Across America, more people die from suicide than from car crashes... most of these are veterans. In the state of Oregon, where suicide is legal, over 1,000 people buy the suicide packets of prescription drugs each year. The suicide promotion campaign in America is called "Compassionate Choices".

Studying the history of wars, I have found that most start because people and nations are trapped by acceptance, sometimes without question, of the value system of others. In warfare, we invest in the enemy, strengths which they do not possess: 

16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. - Isaiah 59:16 King James Version (KJV)

In warfare, as in daily life, we often forget the real, thinking only of appearance. Pride is the beginning of every sin, nation or individual. Satan laughs when we plan, trembles when we pray. As we find in this marvelous verse Isaiah 59:16, God must "WONDER" why mankind, especially believing Christians, do not use the awesome power of prayer. All of my long life, I have heard people talk about "they and us". We are so afraid of the "theys" of this world. The "theys" are the tears which God sowed amongst the wheat... the weeds, destructive sinful forces of the world. I still remember the day my Daddy showed me the root structure of a weed... how it would choke the good plant. Many of us saw the destruction of weeds-munitions of warfare. AND, many, those who did not give the supreme sacrifice, came back to live with warfare. 

My Daddy's brother, called to the war in WW2, left a young wife on their farm. I can still see she and her younger sister hitching up the mules, bringing in the harvest; corn, beans, cotton. He was gone to war, there was no one else to do it. After the war, as well as while he was in the war, she worked in a hospital. Coming home, he, a disabled veteran, laying at home, she would take her lunch hour from the hospital and go home to feed him... get him to the bathroom etc.

To the uninitiated, everything is obscure, even war, even the Democratic way of life. In one of Stalin's Five Year Plans, Joseph Stalin, who slaughtered 50 Million fellow Russians to establish Communism, was at a Farmer's house on one of his trips through Russia, the farmer complained of controls, government regulations. Stalin said to the farmer, "Bring me one of your chickens." He took the chicken, jerking out all the chicken's feathers, then threw the chicken on the floor. The dazed-bloody chicken began to wobble around. Stalin said to the farmer, "Watch." In his hands, Stalin offered the chicken some grains of corn. The chicken gratefully ate the corn from Stalin's hand. The Russians, Chinese, Cubans, others, have fought for this way of life! This writer was asked to speak at an old veteran's funeral, I had known this truck driver for many years, a committed Christian, who left Christian tracts, a printed Christian message of salvation, across the Nation. The funeral was at Saint's Delight Holiness Church, a very large white clapboard church in a tremendous grove of oak trees out in the country. The church and the yard were filled with a tremendous crowd. I remember saying, unlike the person in the Jefferson Starship song, popular on the radio at that time, "This fine veteran knew from where he came, what he was fighting for in the south pacific."

When our Blessed Lord was laid in a cold, dark tomb, the enemy rolled a great stone and placed a seal. They paid soldiers with money to guard, making sure he would not escape. You see, often unbelievers know more than believers. His disciples, even his friends, were surprised at his resurrection... that first Easter morning. Even after the large sums of money paid the guards, pessimists-Atheists have said that the guards were asleep, certain death awaited any Roman soldier who slept while on guard duty. 

Many of us remember how little soldiers were paid in historic wars. Many of us remember the "pounding" of preachers (church-members bringing food for the pastor). Defending our Christian-Democratic way of life today, too many preachers on the golf courses, too many warriors using robots... and we think we will stay free. God's greatest gift, our redemption through his son, REAL liberty.

Living close to my own beach house (Wrightsville Beach, NC), my accountant and his wife were dog-sitting for his sister in their beach home. My accountant, graduate of the Naval Academy, retired naval officer, one of the finest men I have ever known. The dog acted up, Jane took the dog outside, a distraught woman ran down their pier. A woman had fallen into the sound near the ocean from their boat. My accountant, Michael Brown, grabbed his flashlight, at age 67, ran down to his kayak and went paddling out into the water, searching. Law enforcement rescuers had not arrived. The tide was moving out. Michael, almost totally deaf, with his flashlight, spotted the floating body. He could not get her into his kayak, but jumped in the water and swum to the shore with her. After the rescuers got there, she was revived and is still alive. GOOD NEWS, THERE ARE STILL REAL MEN WHO MAKE REAL DECISIONS.

St. Patrick's Day

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Today is St. Patrick's Day, celebrated more in America than any other part of the world. St. Patrick, like St. Valentine or St. Nicholas are probably best known to non Catholics because all are occasions for celebration of a holiday, although St. Patrick was the patron saint of Ireland, 387 A.D.-461 A.D. You do not have the extremes in Ireland of green beer, green rivers, green cookies, green parades etc. that you have in America.

St. Patrick was taken as a slave from England to Ireland where he spent many years in hard work before escaping Ireland and returning to England. The Irish at that time were mostly barbarians and after his return to England, obtaining a Catholic education and ordained as a priest, he decided to return to Ireland as a Catholic missionary. There is lore about snakes and other things but from everything we can learn he was, in every respect, a real, tough, compassionate man. He said, because of the paganism in Ireland, he expected to be killed each day but this did not bother him because he knew he would be in heaven that much quicker.

Today, as never before, the Catholic church, as does all churches, need real men in leadership. God chose heroic men of character...Noah, Abraham, Moses etc. Just this week, we find that the Episcopal Church has now elected a woman as Bishop, having already disgraced this ancient denomination by electing a homosexual male as Bishop. Christ did not choose a woman for a disciple. Only two books in the Bible have women's names, Esther and Ruth, both in the Old Testament. God is not even mentioned in the book of Esther. It would take a shade tree theologian, unable to read, to be able to justify a woman preacher, woman priest, and certainly woman Bishop of any church in any denomination. Women have their place in God's work but, God called men for leadership in his church. We find a stadium full of so called “promise keepers”, gesticulating and singing in an effort to cleanse their vows to God, family and country...particularly vacating their roles of leadership in the church.

Most Catholic churches have mens groups named for St Joseph, earthly father of Christ. In America, Christian business mens groups and Gideons have been active in God's work for a long time. The Gideons, an organization placing and giving Bibles, was founded in 1899. This organization of Christian businessmen admitted it's first professional man at it's convention in San Francisco. I was the first professional man to have membership in the Gideons. The early churches of our nation were presided over by men, women had their mission but as in the home, women submitted to the men for leadership in the church...as was established by God, carried out by his prophets, Christ, his disciples, and the early church. It is only within my lifetime, that we have seen leadership in the church usurped by females. I can say without fear of contradiction, that any time there is confusion or division in a church, you will usually find the beginnings of such with a female. The black church, in particular, has been the victim of the liberated Christian female takeover.

My mother, grandmothers, and some of the finest women I have ever known were active in the church but they knew that preaching and speaking from the pulpit was within the parameters of the male. I am convinced that Moses problems, Joseph's problems, most of the problems found in the early church and even today's church have arisen because real men of God did not have the gravitas to establish themselves as the leader of the church. I am convinced that while Moses was on Mount Sinai, it was probably women who persuaded Aaron to let them throw their jewelry into a fire from which emerged a golden calf. It is like these evolutionists who think that from a big junk yard of old machinery including vehicles, a 747 airplane will emerge and, as always, in sinfulness they were all dancing around the golden calf naked when Moses came down from his meeting with God, bringing with him God's commandments for their lives. The two and a half million Jewish slaves who had been delivered from Egypt, who had even witnessed the parting of the Red Sea so they could walk over on dry ground, who had seen pharaohs Armys and chariots drown, like so many of this present day church history, could not and cannot understand plain language.

I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. (Ex 20:2) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Ex 20:3)

Could it be more plain? He tells these millions of people that he is the one that has redeemed them and that they are to have no other Gods before him. Why do human beings find obedience so difficult?

I heard Dr. Baker James Cauthen of the SBC missions department say many years ago, “the greatest area for Christian evangelism is among the black race in America”. Black preachers and black church leaders have told me that today's black churches are dominated by women...that the black male church members just sit aside and let females run things...even the preaching. Today's young black male should have direction from real Christian, black men...in the church, in the school, on the athletic field...everywhere.

Traveling the world, I have seen much of the world's beauty, the great cathedrals of ice sculpture at the Antarctic, the Grand Tetons in Western America, the majestic Alps or Europe, but the most beautiful vision I can remember, when I still had sight, as a child, was a large group of real Christian men in the humble Christian attitude of washing one another's feet. I love to hear the voices of men singing in a church. When young boys are reared observing the lives and living testimony of real Christian men we will see attitudes of Christian compassion in law enforcement (not bullies and thugs), Christian businessmen (not guided by greed), Christian politicians (not gilded by corruption), Christian professionals, doctors, lawyers, engineers (constitutionally correct opposed to politically correct).

It is no secret, it has been broadcast, written and forecast, the gay agenda is to make homosexual converts of your fathers, brothers and any other male or female they can so afflict. For a long time, the retarded in institutions, youth...even to children, were the sexual objectives of the gays and lesbians. Today, enabled by a state controlled, politically correct media, everyone is a target.

In the world wide effort of the eugenics and environmental coalition to limit population expansion through abortion and homosexuality, the Catholic church is willing to shut down it's Catholic hospitals, schools and social service facilities, rather than to submit to the dictates of homosexual government authority. When will the Protestant institutions and Baptist institutions do the same? When the Christian college is no longer different than secular college...just to get government funds, many will say “enough is enough”.

Just as St. Patrick was fearless as a Catholic missionary in the face of Ireland's pagan barbarians, so real men must stand up and defend our God given heritage of church purity and national liberty.

First Vanguard

As I have discussed in previous commentaries on my blog, I worked my way through two universities, many years of schooling, selling books in the summer (door to door) mostly in eastern NC. This, almost as much as my religious faith, prepared me for life, especially the life of a totally disabled person.

I still remember her name, an ancient black woman, working in her vegetable garden, Lila Haynes. In Fayetteville, NC, where one of the world's largest military installations is located, where as an Army medical officer I spent much time at the Army hospital there, the old Slave Market still exists in the center of the city. The Market, dating back to 1831, was used for many things including the seat of government for NC. More notorious, if that is possible with NC politics, it was used as a slave market where black human beings were bought and sold. Lila's grandmother was purchased as a slave from one of Brunswick County's leading plantation owners. She had continued to live in the area long after her forebearers were buried.

It was from Lila that I first heard of a relative, Junius Wilson. Junius, a deaf black man, as a young man had been accused in Wilmington, NC of rape. He was taken to the NC Asylum for the Negro Insane at Goldsboro. Because he could not understand language, he was considered insane. There, as was the case with most black convicts of his day, he was castrated. Even after law enforcement, and the judicial system, had found he was not involved in the rape, the state kept him there. As I saw many times as a child, when my own father would visit a friend working at this despicable place now called Cherry Hospital (named for Greg Cherry, drunk democrat governor and white supremacist). Junius was there until his death at aged 92. A book has been written on this pitiful episode of NC justice if one chooses to look for it. Of course, he was just one black man caught up in the vulgarities of the NC judicial system where even, until this day, many D.A.'s will manufacture evidence (think of Nifong, also from Wilmington, and the Duke Lacrosse disaster). Even so, the blacks, in lock step, break their necks to get to the polls to vote for these democrat elitists, white or black.

On CSPAN, almost every defender of abomination Obama is of black color. One said recently, “The CIA problems and the Islamic problem is all the fault of Dick Cheney.” Can you even imagine such? The big problem, in America, is that men now refuse to be men. The poet, Gilbert Holland, said, “God give us men.” In the 20^th century, the two worst decades were the first and the last. In the first decade, the IRS system and Federal Reserve system got it's start. Marxism, with the assistance of Marx and Engels, got its start. Roger Baldwin founded the ACLU and, of course, WWI started and ended with all the problems of that war still unresolved. In the last decade, one of the nation's richest families, the Bushes, reigned in the White House...the father and his retarded son. Until the last decade of the 20^th century, little had been heard from the homosexual community. With the help of the Clintons, the gay agenda, in which gay marriage, gays in the military, gays in the pulpits, pedophilia, a contrived effort to effeminize the male population got a head start. Now, the first decade of the 21^st century, is seeing the reaping of the whirlwind started with the satanic forces of the 20^th century (Hosea 8:7).

Many scientists blame the effeminization on males to the chemicals in the water supply, fluoride and chlorine, both poisons and both having a direct effect on the male endocrines. I have written to every scientist responsible for water purity. I am convinced that the dumping of treated sewage into rivers (like Raleigh, Fayetteville, etc. dumps their sewage into the Cape Fear River and then a city like Wilmington takes their water out of the river and again runs it through a chemical treating system before public consumption) is a matter of crisis because of the compromising of the immune system from every disease and the chemicals which debilitate many metabolic functions. I ceased my membership in AAAS some years ago when I found that today's scientists are more interested in government grants than the governed scientific methods of research. Recent, pitiful, Copenhagen, pseudoscience “slop” only clarifies my suspicions. Follow the money, there you will find the scientists, the politicians, many pastors, standing in line at the trough for the gravy train of bail out, sell out, sold out, satanic government.

In 1970, 90% of all children had a father in the home. Today, many children have never seen their father (37% of all black children are born to single mothers). Nearly one half of American children are shifted from one parent to another...parents having remarried, sharing custody, fussing and fighting over child support...who is surprised when young blacks, more so than young whites, drop out of school and spend their time on the streets, in trouble. Plus, a black population (nationally 13%) are numbered 75% in prisons. Black children, on tax paid buses, are loaded from housing projects, driven many miles through affluent, white, attractive neighborhoods to a predominately white school in a white community where they are marched off the bus, to the cafeteria, where they are served breakfast and lunch, and even meals on summer vacation, and they think they are not able to learn unless sitting between two white students.

In my lifetime, starting with “Father Knows Best”, we have seen fathers portrayed as little more than buffoons. Women, wanting to be liberated (recently I was asked why most women smoked cigarettes, my answer: they have been liberated...tattooed, pierced, sexually active without the benefit of marriage, unashamed of single pregnancy or abortion) are now in the military (this is a matter of great concern to the military) and many have taken on a greater responsibility of financial support for the home. Recently, one after another, I hired two recent veterans of the Iraq war. I don't know what they were like before the war but both are mental cripples now. On radio and T.V. talk shows, I can easily recognize hen-pecked, political and female-corrected males who call. In my youth, doctors, lawyers, pastors, even “blue collar” workers, looked and acted like men. A man would not think of going to a woman hair dresser for his hair cut, he enjoyed the esprit de corp of the barber shop. The diminished, silenced, Apostate church is a direct result of male capitulation to the female interference in God's work.

Every time I hear a discussion about the holocaust of abortion, some liberal, democrat woman, usually black, will call complaining that only men are concerned about abortion... those who do not have the responsibility of bearing of the child or rearing the child. Unless you have been raped (there are severe legal penalties against rape), the female has the choice of allowing the male to impregnate her, whether in the back seat of the car, under a tree in the pasture, or in the marriage bed. The legal system is concerned about the child, after birth, the judicial system does not seem to be concerned about the child in the very safest environment, the mother's womb.

Anyway, most fathers, even though having a love for the golf course, his employment opportunities, or even the dirty book store, has a deep-seated affection for his own child, the child which bears his ancestral genes (each cell of his child's body controls thousands of pages of information about the ancestry of each parent). The crucible of life, contaminated by our inept education system, is responsible for laxity in all parental decisions, mother or father.

I have covered every continent, my passport has been stamped in 157 countries. In every country, every city, every crossroads, one thing is definite, regardless of nationality, regardless of skin color, regardless of religion, the home is the nexus of society. Every home needs the character of a good father. How can any child know the love of a heavenly Father, without knowing the love of an earthly father...solid, a real man of character?

God, give us men! A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; -Gilbert Holland