Callousness

At least forty years ago, when my son, my only child was in high school, I took him to Washington DC and we walked all over the important historical parts of the city. I wanted him to have an appreciation of the monuments, the capital building, Arlington National Cemetery, his historical ancestral heritage as an American citizen. The patriotism he should know from a descendant of early patriots. One night, we went into the Watergate to eat in the dining room. Like the Kennedy Center and many other landmarks, I wanted to be very careful in my description, I remember saying, “the half has not yet been told about what went on in this building, the Nixon presidency.”

With the publication of the Watergate Expose () we will learn just how rotten our nation's capital really is...how and why the gay agenda has gained such a foothold, if the gestapo or MAFIA had designed our government, the corruption could not be any more disabling. With absolute callousness, the powerbrokers, the reporters, the historians, have refused to recognize the inevitable.

Have we reached the place where we just don't care? I noticed that in Russia, every park, there were signs posted which read “dogs not allowed.” One would think that this would just be common sense. I noticed that in most of the large botanical gardens in the world, gardens where much time and money is spent on preservation and presentation, there were signs everywhere which said, “stay on the walkway.” I noted that in wonderful museums, palaces, fine homes of the world, open to the public, there were always signs which read “stay on the plastic runners”, “don't sit on the furniture”. One would think that people visiting these places would know that everyone could not walk on the fragile, old carpets, sit on the delicate, ancient antiques.

I heard the pastor of a large baptist church on the radio, they had just moved into a new, multimillion dollar building. They were having a homecoming service with food. The pastor had to say from the pulpit, “do not bring food into this new building.” I heard the same pastor (I listen to the services from this church each Sunday) say, “parents please keep your children under control in our church.” Dr. Gene Scott, pastor at University Cathedral, Los Angeles, did not allow children into the church service until they were 12 years of age, from 12 until marriage, children were instructed to sit with their parents. In many orthodox churches of the world, there are no seated pews, the people stand for the entire service, just as did the children of Israel, the early Jewish congregation in the wilderness and elsewhere. They stood as the parchments were read or the prophets or psalms recited.

Today's church attendees, carpeted floors, padded pews, mocking God with their smiles and indifference, smiling as they walked the aisle in “repentance”. Card signers, many of whom never entered the baptistry and most never partake of our Lord's supper. Absolute pretenders, deceived and naive, gullible enough to think they have been saved by the grace of God. Even with a new body contortion, is there really a new heart creation redemption? Make sure that the holy spirit of Jesus Christ has changed your heart. That Christ lives in your heart, that you are a living epistle, to be presented as a living sacrifice. (2 Corinthians 3:3, Romans 12:1-2)

It is a callous pastor, callous parents, callous people, who will allow someone to stay deceived. Your eternal security is much too important. There is not one picture of sin which is not horrible. The most horrible picture of sin, is the deception of sin. Every graveyard, every prison, every newspaper, tells us about sin, if not for sin, there would be no death, no prison population, none of the corruption which we face everyday of our life. It is essential to be forgiven from sin. Jesus Christ paid the supreme price for our forgiveness.

We were told today, that 600,000 people die each year just from smoking cigarettes. We were told today, that a city, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil where one of the largest Christian crucifixes in the world stands (Christ the Redeemer), there is so much drug crime among the barrios, that military vehicles go into the poverty-stricken areas, blazing away at the people, killing/maiming, an attempt to control sin.

Most of the world's population just does not care, callous, careless, condemned, sin always pays with counterfeit. One girl who worked for me, and her husband tried the Jehovah's witness religion. There is evidently a reason there are no windows in Kingdom Hall, I do not have a computer which can even give a figure about how much she stole from me. Blind, in another part of the house, she took my things to the front door for her husband to put in their car. All of my coin collection, foreign money collection, boxes of Stirling silver. Often, I ask people, do you expect to go to heaven when you die? It is not if you die, the mortality rate is still 100%, never have I had the first one to say that they expect to go to hell...all expect to go to heaven. God does not allow any unforgiven sin in His heaven.

Jesus was either the greatest hoax of the world, or He was who He said He was: the way, the truth, the life (John 14:6) He did not die for callousness, he does not need cowards.

First Things

“First Things”, a wonderful Catholic magazine was founded by the late Father Richard John Neuhaus. Neuhaus was one of the most prolific minds of the 20^th Century. Only a sightless person, such as your writer, can know the importance of first impressions. The sighted person, analyzes others with an almost cruel measuring stick.

Have you ever considered the first time for the first things in your life? In this rapid moving world of technology, we get a very accurate perspective. I remember the first time I went into a self help store, where you push a cart around and pick up what you want. It is hard for young people to realize that until about 50 years ago, there was no such thing as a self help store. I remember my first self help service station. Until then, someone came out to put gas in your tank, check your oil and most of the time, would wash your windshield. I remember the first time I ate pizza. I was in the military service. I had pie my entire life; but had never heard of pizza pie. What a loss! As a young doctor, I remember the first time I encountered human body odor and the first time of the odor of death, and the first time I saw an obese woman's body. I thought, how in the world could any man on earth get excited over that? While on this subject, the best diet in the world, is to eat each meal for one week, with five fat people......naked!

I remember the first time I realized abject poverty. I was just a child. A man in the community who I liked, a house painter, Mr. Bargie, died; and my mother told me I should go to the funeral. It was at his house. He was in a cheap casket, already bloated, in his white overalls. The casket was next to the bed in the small house. As I looked around at the poverty stricken people, I knew poverty more than I have ever known it before and probably, after traveling through the world, since.

Seventy years ago, the poverty in eastern NC was astonishing. Only God could understand it. I have very little patience with today's spoiled children and the parents of these spoiled children. They do not know what it is like to go to the table and there is a bowl of potatoes on the table. They have never seen their mother or grandmother darn socks, seen patches on clothes, seen their mother pick out hog feed sacks for her dress, seen entire families riding in a wagon with a mule pulling it to town or to church.

There may be a first time for today's “bloomers” to know hunger and to know walking. I'm advising families as the value of the dollar sinks every day to buy canned food and to buy comfortable walking shoes.

I remember the first time I was cheated by a store. I had saved my money from working in green tobacco and purchased a beautiful shirt from Leader Bros., Smithfield, NC. The first time the shirt was carefully washed, it faded into a gray morass. Of course, the store told me it was not washed correctly and refused to refund my money. I remember the first time that this 100% disabled, service connected, blind veteran went to a VA hospital. My military career had been spent as a medical officer in a military hospital. When I was decorated in Washington, D.C. I was told that I would be cared for. The usual liberal mantra is, “You have nothing to worry about.” Those of you who believe this slop, are as misguided as was the writer. If only the poor, deceived public, knew what awaits them with the government socialized health care. The VA hospital was a mockery to everything we hold dear as citizens. It makes no difference, that I am a doctor or even a field grade officer. At the VA facility, you just take a number, get in line, and take whatever abuse is shoveled your way. It will be the first time for many of you to know the callousness of Obama Communist care.

Capitalism is not that much different from Marxism. The peasants just get in line in both systems and take whatever the bourgeoisie master drips down to them. I am convinced that the world's repudiation of God's mercy has resulted in decadence almost beyond comprehension. It is not just in America, but world wide. The fastest growing HIV/AIDS population is in Russia, growing faster there than even in Africa. One million Russians now have HIV/AIDS. In America, 690 people were arrested recently in a child prostitution ring. There were 52 child prostitutes and 60 pimps. Most of these children will wind up with HIV/AIDS. From 300 to 600 thousand of the 2 million prostitutes in the US are under 18. More than one million children in Asia including Thailand, Philippines, and India, have been sold to brothels or street pimps for sexual exploitation. Juarez, Mexico on the border of the US, is the most dangerous and corrupt city in the world, with 2000 murders this year.

It is reported that the brother of the president of Afghanistan, Karzai, is the #1 drug dealer in the world and is a partner with the CIA. Think of this when you see the caskets of killed American sons and daughters returning from those battlefields. It is reliably reported that America in Afghanistan, like America in Iraq, is now paying your tax dollars to the enemy soldiers for conversion. Do we really believe there is any abuse or atrocity engulfing America that was not on the rampage in Sodom when the fire fell on that sinful city?

For my entire life, I only wanted the opportunity to work and worship. I have taken my life as a responsible venture. Come out of your slumber. Help rescue us all before all hope is gone.