When Did It Start?

The greatest inner conflict of my life: if every Christian were just like me, what kind of world would my world be?

Returning from the war, young, ambitious, energetic, I simply would not give up. I had limited vision in one eye, kept trying to work, drive, constantly on the move, typical of the alpha male. I could barely see how to drive, all across the sun visor of my car, was about six pairs of glasses, different prescriptions in my attempt to keep seeing and doing. Then as now, I could not criticize others in their spiritual activity, if I were not active myself. It is so easy to criticize others: political, church, business, but the same demands are made of me.

For many years, on every level, civic, church, professional, military, I was extremely active as a giver, speaker and writer. I found that most just did not care, and I slowly lost my zeal, in fact, with each year I saw more apathy and hypocrisy. I have slowly reached the place of not caring too much about what happens to unconcerned people, I have done my part. From the starkest start, giving my eyes for your country, pay more taxes than I ever thought I would make in money, I find that I have created more back-stabbers than followers. Someone has said, “if you become so unpopular with your ideals, that both the good and the evil want to run you out of town. Get at the head of the mob and let them think you are one of them.”

Over and over, friends who hear me on the radio, read what I write, tell me that I am just wasting my time, things will have to get much worse before anyone will care. The two bitterest comments coming to me in recent years, both came from preachers...that I am silly, funny.

One lady came to me for help, she needed to talk with someone, she said, “I am at the brink of suicide. I simply cannot tolerate anymore, what I must tolerate in order to live.” I said to her, “why kill yourself when you are already dead?” (1 Timothy 5:6) I told her, as I have told myself in my state of physical darkness, “you only get life in Christ” (John 14:6) I assured her that in Him she could keep on and never be forsaken. (Hebrews 13:5)

It may not have happened to you yet, but it will, the time comes when we all grasp for deliverance from despair. Corrie ten Boom, WWII inspiration said, “there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, Russian dissident, prisoner, experiencing slavery at the hands of his country, saw other dissidents beaten to death. He was working in the field, weak from hunger and sickness, felt he could not go one minute longer, he went over and sat down on a bench thinking a Russian soldier would come over and beat him to death with a shovel. An old man came over and sat next to him, said nothing, but on the ground in front of him, drew two straight lines, the Cross of Christ. It was these two marks on the ground that led to the conversion of Solzhenitsyn, that gave him a reason to keep going, the same thing that has kept most of us alive and active.

Any human being, aware of anything, must surely know that the world cannot keep going in the direction in which it is headed...When did it start? When did America set sail on the ocean of disaster? This is an entirely different country than the one in which I was reared as a child. Even as a young person, I read everything, studied everything. Of course, in 1950, when I was in college, which at that time was a very normal existence, 25% of the country's population was engaged in agriculture, today only 2%. On the farm, young people learned the basics of life, dependence on the goodness of God, Good Earth (Pearl Buck), sunshine, showers, the innocence and character of animals.

It was in the hippie movement of the 60s that we were first introduced to perversion, that we are supposed to think that wildness is normal. You see, we are supposed to be a god-fearing, civilized people, the essence of western civilization. In Africa, I saw natives, both men and women partially dressed, beating on hollow drums, dancing with frenzied yells, once in awhile, a male would grab a female by the hair and drag her off into the bushes. This was their civilization, this is the reason we send missionaries, teachers, doctors, in order to teach them a better way of life. I have been told that at some of these hippie communes of the 60s such practices prevailed, drums beating out senseless music, unrestrained sex activity. Don't these people realize, then as now, that this is self-imposed slavery.

It was about this time that a new profession came on the scene, psychology. Timothy Leary, psychologist, known for his promotion of psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, preached the philosophy, “turn on, tune in, drop out.” I met a French travel agent in Paris who was in America about that time, hitchhiking across the country, learning about America and Americans. He got caught up in some of these hippie communes, and told me the disgust, decadence and disease he felt in just being around such. He had never recovered in his disdain toward what had happened to Americans.

It was about this time that Saul Alinsky wrote Rules For Radicals, Mr. Obama is his prize student. President George H.W. Bush, Bush 41, was head of the CIA, he was scheduled to speak in New Orleans. Some of the communist protesters, followers of Alinsky, planned to protest outside the building in which Bush was to speak. Alinsky advised, “no, get tickets and go inside.” Anytime he says something on which the American public will agree, that is patriotic, you stand, put on your KKK hoods, hold up your KKK banner, applaud and shout “we support you!” This will incite more interest, get more results than protesting. It is much like another black dissident, OJ Simpson, who told Sports Illustrated, “if I had killed my wife, it would have been because I loved her so much.” This is how irascible, how depleted intelligence has become in American life.

We have learned to categorize, personify everything, the personification lead us to put everything, good and evil, happening between Arabs and Jews, in just one basket: “the Middle East”. It causes us to put everything, Good and Evil, involving forces of freedom and tyranny into one grouping called “mankind”. It causes us to put everything concerning disease, preventative medicine, killing of the unborn, euthanasia of the elderly, into one policy called “healthcare”. The personification labels, leaves government and government agencies to put fake and real foods, aspartame and other toxins, FDA approved drugs, poisons of our water systems such as fluoride and chloride, all into one file called “nutrition”. We are rapidly putting military forces, police forces, border patrols, transportation protection, all under “homeland security.”

Americans have learned to accept the activism of evil, we do not believe in absolutes anymore. Can anything be more absolutely evil than abortion...from the time of conception, right on until partially out of the mother's body. Can anyone think of anything more evil than the homosexual agenda, as if there is not enough confusion in the minds of young people regarding sex, same-sex marriage, 50 admitted lesbian and gay priests in the episcopal church. 1963, prayer taken out of the schools replaced by police officers in the school. 1973, Roe vs Wade, abortion made legal on demand, leading to the killing of 53 million babies.

We are a nation of things, cell phones, computers, everything I own owns me. Never satisfied, always searching for something newer and better, we let our desire for things replace the denial of self for the better good.

I decided to sell my car, low-mileage, almost new. The church secretary, from North side Baptist church, came to look at the car, with her, her husband, who stayed in their truck. She found a scratch on the car which no one else had seen. She wanted me to lower the price because of the scratch which was not there, she, knowing I am blind. Angry, she walked off, saying, “I hope you will find God.” God forgive me, I could not help but retort, “I did not know God is lost.” Perhaps the decline, perhaps the dependence on others for everything, perhaps the taking over of the church by the tares sown in the good grain among us. Government instead of God, nihilism instead of absolutes, and it all got started.

Rules for Radicals

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909-June 12, 1972) published the book Rules for Radicals in 1971. In the original edition of the book, the preface states the following:"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer."

Rule number 1, that perennial question, "Does the end justify the means?" is meaningless as it stands: the real and only question regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and always has been, "Does this particular end justify this particular means?" The remaining 10 rules all substantiate and revolve around rule number 1, 'the end justifies the means'; except rule #10 which states, that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments. This rule, combined with all the others exemplifies more than words can express, what we are seeing now in Washington with the President who made no secret of using this book for his indoctrination into his brand of politics.

Last year, half a trillion dollars were spent on athletic events in this country. This is a large percentage of our national gross product. It was determined long ago, that enthused people go to athletic events, that if they have a good time, they go back again. Different strokes for different folks, some will drive many miles, spend much money, to be involved in a football activity. Some will drive many miles, spend much money, to be involved in a basketball activity. Some will drive many miles, spend much money, to be involved in a baseball activity. Much of the enthusiasm evolves from alumni loyalty and even loyalty to a city. It is difficult to even imagine, the amount of money, time, effort, in the sport of golf. In all these sports activities, the name of the game is 'rules and regulations'.

Completely separated from athletic activities is an almost radical enthusiasm for politics. Millions of dollars are spent in an effort to get someone established in a political office. Often denied, it is a proven fact that the motive for winning politically is future assurance of pay-off. One does not spend millions of dollars to win a political office that pays a few thousand without realizing future rewards. Political radicals more often possess that interior fire in the belly to reform and will attempt anything to get their message and their beliefs into practice. The radical reformer believes he is right, money is a secondary issue.

God help us when we have a politician who is a radical reformer who also loves money and is willing to do anything in and out of the law to get it. Corruption in politics is more stringent than ever in history, simply because the radical reformers, observing the lifestyle of the rich and famous, have decided to use their political clout in amassing tremendous political contribution coffers with power pay-offs leading to future board appointments and advisory contracts.

Morality does not enter into the 'political machines' of political radicals and reformers. With so much money available, who needs God? We have become a profane, not a holy nation. The tares have taken over the churches, sneak thieves, deceivers have taken over government. It does not hurt to been seen in a church on occasion, and as one ex-President learned, carrying a large Bible makes one very photogenic. But, the political radical no longer cares what people think, as long as the money is available to buy advertising and pay for their thinking. The true radical, will cut any corner, compromise on any issue, rationalize any fact, to reach a conclusion acceptable to the 'politically correct', propelled with enough money for a satisfying closure. Vladmir Lenin told us long ago, if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

The charismatic Mr. Obama, who wooed the liberal constituency into his Muslim-Marxist trap, actually believes, since it had not been tried by past presidents and their representatives, that he has the magical, rhetorical ability, the magical oral persuasion to convince the most radical heretics the world has ever known into his way of thinking. Middle East warfare is just deception, from what is happening on our borders, every Arab knows that Obama is a Sunni Muslim, he is using his influence in the Middle East, and particularly the smoke-screen of Iran, in the radical rule for Islamic control of the world.

Maybe he took the Dale Carnegie course at one time (How to Win Friends and Influence People) but, when you are dealing with radicals such as the terrorists in Russia, where at Breslan they killed 186 children (so burned that one could not distinguish males from females) or radical Wahabi extremists such as the Saudi Arabian princes who do not mind chopping off limbs or even heads, in their religious zeal to keep their enslaved populations under control. In Riyadh, perhaps the most styled Michelle (Obama) would take to wearing the Muslim garb, including the full veil, not being able to drive a vehicle, or walk anywhere without male escort. Perhaps, Mr. Obama can persuade the democratic government of India to end the amputation of children's limbs, throwing babies off temples, cow worship, or even religious rituals in the holy Ganges. After all, one of his heroes, Karl Marx, said “Democracy is the road to socialism.” and “Religion is the opiate of the people.” In giving his Reichstag tirade in Cairo (Reichstag speech by Hitler in 1941) he used the usual communist/radical motif; lies and exaggerations. (The printing press was invented in Germany, Algebra in Babylon) As with the naïve Congress of the United States, he follows the mantra of Friedrich Nietzsche, “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”.

What better place could he give this speech than in Cairo, a city of 17 million Muslims, so packed in the city that each individual has just enough space for two footprints. In the several times I have visited Cairo, visited the great Giza plateau, where the Great Pyramid and other pyramids are located, millions of idle people just sitting around waiting for American largess, (the billions from American taxpayers, the only restraints keeping these Muslims from stripping Israel like a horde of locusts) absolutely nothing green, no commercial activity of any sort except trinket sellers. Mr Obama put into the ears of the Muslim hordes pacifiers of cooing words, which would have enthralled Queen Hatshepsut (Hatshepsut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in all probability the Egyptian mother of Moses), first woman pharaoh who like Mr. Obama, loved the stigma of mysticism.

Even in America, Mr. Obama is not afraid of radical associations. Those great Democrat supporters of Mr. Obama, ex-president Clinton and ex-Secretary of torture, Ms. Reno, did not hire aliens from Mars to burn alive 85 women and children at the compound in Waco, Texas. Radical control and the establishment of rules is best shown by the killing of 26% of the population of Cambodia, the Pol Pot Collectivization, to move from urban to rural in order to 'restart civilization'. Previously, Joseph Stalin had killed an estimated 60 million of his fellow Russians to establish radical rule for his totalitarian control. An estimated 300,000 people were killed in Nanking (Rape or Massacre of Nanking) during the communist take over of China.

Every radical I have ever know, every radical I have ever studied; there are no rules for radicals. Their main objective is 'self' and for all others to bow down to them. We see this, much to our horror, in the Congressional houses of power in Washington, DC. There are no rules for radicals and the Congress, the Judiciary, with supposed 'checks and balances' have yielded to the most radical administration in the history of this Republic.

From 1799-1892, the Supreme Court had declared this nation Christian. For the past 125 years, we have seen the steady take-over of the Christian church by Satan's demons, radicals who have force fed every indecency, every decadent idea, every totalitarian ideology, palpable to those who find such pleasure in sin for a season. Look at the recent election, people willing to give up the blood-bought republic for change.

“And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19)