August 13, 2017
Who Really Cares?
As I sit here, it's Sunday
morning. I've had a couple cups of coffee, my son and daughter are sleeping, we
are now past the time of making church service on time...another typical Sunday
day.
The news services this
morning are doing their boringly typical anti-Trump hate screed again. The Washington com-Post's lead story is (drum roll please)
Again, its more of the
same. There is a surge in violence right now in this nation. The violence is
PURELY POLITICAL in nature.
If you would insert the 'same
ole same ole' gun violence of Chicago and Baltimore, most people would quietly
roll their eyes and say "Who gives a shit?" And really, who does give
a shit?
I know I don't.
The thugs in Baltimore
and Chicago are killing each other over turf and drugs. That's been going on
since the 50's in the slums of New York City, if you are looking purely at
ethnic violence. Now if you factor in the Italian/Irish immigrant violence, You
know, the Mob/Mafia etc, then this has been going on for a lot longer.
So, who cares?
Have we all become so
accustomed to the killings that it just doesn't mean much any longer? Has the
Justice system in this nation become a Lock 'em up-Throw away the key, lets
build more prisons type thing?
So, now the violence has
turned political in nature.
Predictably so.
It is understandable that
if you have a belief system in where your 'god' is politics. Then you will
fight, bleed and die for your 'god.'
If your 'god' is nature,
then you might hang yourself in a redwood and dare the loggers to cut it down,
or maybe pound in spikes so the mill workers can eviscerate themselves when
they go to work.
Is your 'god' one without
any borders or restraints? Then protesting a barrier along the US southern border may be a good
thing to get killed for. I mean why would anyone put up a barrier for anything?
Unless that barrier is on
the border of a forest, then we need barriers so as to keep these pesky humans,
not just 'humans', but white Euro-centric humans out of the land.
This is where we as a
nation have come.
It's not a pretty picture.
A day or so ago, a
protest for/against whatever the soup du jour of the day is/was, happened in
Charlottesville Va.
I don't know the intimate
details, and I don't really care....it's political and smacks of Liberal/Right
clashes. Which I find terribly juvenile and boring. So a guy drives his car
into a crowd, kills one and injures plenty. And...he didn't yell 'Allah Akbar.'
Fancy that.
So what's the cure?
Is it Gun Control?
Is it Global Warming actions?
Is it more effective Race
Awareness?
Is it Get Rid of President
Trump?
Is it Russia?
Our national symptoms are,
increased violence, lack of respect for each other-our nation-our standards,
increased drug usage (indicates a tangible withdrawal from society)
The Rx is God thru Jesus Christ.
This also means that our history as Americans needs to be revisited and
studied. our nation was founded on Christian principles. The founding documents
state that each man is a creation of God, and that Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is our core . Our
history wasn't pretty nor perfect...and there was violence.
However, this won't mean much
to those who out of hand reject God and what HE offers to each of us.
