Marriage is for Culture, Not Individuals

Marriage doesn’t serve individuals’ or couples’ needs for equality and justice before the law. It serves the cultural need for social norms for how we channel sexual energy in socially beneficial ways. Marriage is the way we socialize men, protect women from the exploitation of unattached males and ensure every child grows up with a mother and a father. This is driven by nature, and it is why we find it in every know society and the major world religions.

Glenn Stanton, Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, pg.46

How To Destroy People

 

Homosexuality is NOT Analogous with Race

No academic institution in the world nor any U.S. court has ever established that homosexuality is given at birth and is a permanent feature of an individual like race, nationality and gender are. There are no former Blacks, Whites, Hispanics or Asian folks. But there are hundreds of people documented who have happily and successfully left homosexuality. Homosexuality and race are clearly two different things and therefore should not be treated as similar.

Glenn Stanton, Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, pg. 38

Restricting Critical Examination?

The instant that any person or ideology is considered off-limits for critical examination and even ridicule, freedom of speech has been replaced by an ideological straitjacket.

Robert Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pg. 13.

What Television Does

TV makes people physically lazy, intellectually uncritical, emotionally insensitive, psychologically confused, and morally disordered.

Understanding the Church, by Joseph M. Vogl and John H. Fish III, pg.51

Psychology is the Antithesis of Christianity

Why is psychology taught in seminaries and Bible colleges? Because the modern church has abandoned the Scriptures as the final authority for faith and life. How ironic that even secular critics of psychology are being ignored by seminaries even though “there is a growing band of psychologists and psychiatrists warning the churches that they have bought tainted goods, and urging them to reappropriate a peculiarly Biblical wisdom about mental and spiritual health.”

Rather than heeding the warnings about psychological infiltration, seminary leaders react with defensive hostility. They have not only allowed the camel’s nose to sneak under the tent, but they have welcomed the entire double-humped beast into their dwelling with open arms and a warm kiss.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.222

Conservatives Need To Take Control of the Government

 

God Is the King of America

Do The Moral Thing

We Are Now Living in 1984!

 

People ARE Responsible For Their Actions

But choices are mental and spiritual matters. The unproven psychological theories of unconscious drives over which a person has no control are simply mechanisms for excusing irresponsible, immature, and undisciplined behavior and thinking.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.114

A Lie of Psychology

Psychologists are in error to state as fact that humans use less than a given percentage of their total mental capacity. It is misleading for psychologists to claim that they scientifically examine minds, emotions, beliefs, values, and behaviors. A major writer [Judi Striano] of integrationist materials admits that “it is difficult to use scientific standards to study emotions like love and hope, the behavior of street gangs, the religious experiences of churchgoers or the effectiveness of psychotherapy.” Still, he believes that psychology is scientific.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.51

One Piece at a Time.

 

Government Health Care?

 

Psychology Makes Nothing Better

Psychological studies have not shown that mankind is mentally healthier since the introduction of psychological theories and therapies. To the contrary, there is evidence that society has become more psychotic rather than better-adjusted. The increase of “mental illness” may someday be found to be in direct proportion to the number of psychologists and psychiatrists who set up practice.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.28

Beware the Lack of Reason

To Become a Christian Means to Change

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions—if he continues to be just as snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before—then I think we must suspect that his “conversion” was largely imaginary; and after one’s original conversion, every time one thinks one has made an advance, the is the test to apply. Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in “religion” mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better; just as in illness “feeling better” is not much good if the thermometer shows that your temperature is still going up.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 207

Building Compound Interest of Good and Evil

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparent trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 132

The Monstrosity of Fornication

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 104

Study History

He who forgets his own history is condemned to repeat it. If we don’t know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “Why Study Church History?” Christian History, 25 (1990), pg.41

Questions for Husbands and Wives

Husband—What would happen in your marriage if you devoted yourself to loving, honoring, and serving your wife in all things? What if you determined that the preservation of your oneness with this woman was worth every sacrifice and expression of love you could make? What would change in your home if you took that approach to your relationship on a daily basis?

Wife—What would happen if you made it your mission to do everything possible to promote togetherness of heart with your husband? What if every threat to your unity was treated as a poison, a cancer, an enemy to be eliminated by love, humility, and selflessness? What would your marriage become if you were never again willing to see your oneness torn apart?

Stephen & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare, pg.148

Lust vs Love

Lust is in opposition to love It means to set your heart and passions on something forbidden. And for a believer it’s the first step out of fellowship with the Lord and with others. That’s because every object of your lust—whether it’s a young coworker or a film actress, or coveting after a half-million dollar house or a sports car—represents the beginning of a lie. This person or thing that seems to promise sheer satisfaction is more like a bottomless pit of unmet longings. 

Lust always breeds more lust. “What is the source of the wars and the fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?” (James 4:1). Lust will make you dissatisfied with your husband or wife. It breeds anger, numbs hearts, and destroys marriages. Rather than fullness, it leads to emptiness.

Stephen & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare, pg.117

"African-American"?

Let's stop with the stupid, condescending, divisive, insulting term "African American." I am an AMERICAN who is Black. Congress banned importation of new slaves in 1808, 212 years ago. Why do I have a descriptive for the continental origin of my ancestors but whites who came to America later do not?

Larry Elder, Random Thoughts On and Around Election Night

DANGER!!

Circular Reasoning is Endemic to Evolutionism

When an evolutionist looks at human DNA nucleotides, how does he know which ones are the results of mutations and which ones have remained unchanged? Obviously, to answer that question he must know what the original or ancient sequences were. Since only God is omniscient, how does the evolutionist get the information about those sequences that he believes existed millions of years ago? He uses as his guide the DNA of the chimpanzee. In other words, the studies that seek to prove that human DNA evolved from chimp DNA start with the assumption that chimp DNA represents the original condition (or close to it) from which human DNA diverged. That is circularity with a vengeance.

Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, Pg.174

Evolution Lies

It was not until the mid-1970s that the Field Museum [of Natural History in Chicago] removed their old display of the apish Neandertals and replaced them with the tall, erect Neandertals that are there today. What did they do with the old display? Did they throw it on the trash heap where it belonged? No. They moved the old display to the second floor and placed it right next to the huge Apatosaurus dinosaur skeleton where more people than ever—especially children—would see it. They labeled it “An alternate view of Neandertal.” It was not an alternate view. It was a wrong view. So much for the self-correcting mechanism in science as far as Neandertal is concerned.

Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, Pg.55

Evolutionism is Nonsense

[Phillip E.] Johnson [in his book Darwin On Trial] concludes that: (1) Evolution is grounded not on scientific fact but on a philosophical belief called naturalism; (2) The belief that a large body of empirical evidence supports evolution is an illusion; (3) Evolution is itself a religion; (4) If evolution were a scientific hypothesis based upon a rigorous study of the evidence, it would have been abandoned long ago; and (5) Since atheism is a basic supposition in the evolutionary process, it cannot be drawn as a conclusion from it.

Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, Pg. 3

Evolution Can’t Be Proven

It’s hard to believe that Sagan delivered his lecture with a straight face. He believed, like others in the scientific establishment believe, that evolution is “science.” No one it that establishment is allowed to challenge evolution. Evolution is no observable. Evolutionists often appeal to the authority of the scientific community regarding the fact of evolution. And there are no repeatable experiments that are able to confirm evolution.

Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, Pg. 32

The Duties of Wives and Husbands

Wives—you have a role as protector in your marriage. You must guard your heart from being led away through novels, magazines, and other forms of entertainment that blur your perception of reality and put unfair expectations on your husband. Instead you must do your part in helping him feel strong, while also avoiding talk-show thinking that can lure your attention away from your family. “The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands.” (Proverbs 14:1)

Men—you are the head of your home. You are the one responsible before God for guarding the gate and standing your ground against anything that would threaten your wife or marriage. This is no small assignment. It requires a heart of courage and a head for preemptive action. Jesus said, “If the head of the house had know at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broke into” (Matthew 24:13). This role is yours. Take it seriously.

Stephen & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare, pg.113

To Love Is to Be Vulnerable

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves.

The Worst Enemy of Blacks is LEFTISM

“The worst enemy that the Negro [has],” said Malcolm X, “is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal. It is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems.”

Cited by Jason Whitlock, American Sports Are Letting Down America.

American Sports Is Immersed in LEFTISM

The entire American sports world—a culture that traditionally celebrates victors, meritocracy, colorblindness, and patriotism—has suddenly immersed itself in black victimization and left-wing radicalism. This immersion threatens to do permanent damage to American culture as a whole. It has certainly undermined national pride. A country that no longer believes in its founding ideals cannot prosper and survive.

Jason Whitlock, American Sports Are Letting Down America.

China Controls the NBA

Look at how China, with its 1.4 billion consumers, rules the National Basketball Association and its de facto parent company, Nike, the same way it rules Hollywood. Access to China’s consumers and Asia’s cheap labor (even sometimes slave labor) is the key to Nike’s economic growth. The Portland-based shoe and apparel manufacturer generates $40 billion a year in revenue. Its global reach, agenda, and revenue streams dictate the strategy of the $8-billion-a-year NBA. Many are unaware that Nike, and not the NBA, controls basketball. One could make a fair argument that the NBA is nothing more than the in-house marketing department of Nike.

Jason Whitlock, American Sports Are Letting Down America.

Modesty

It is because our sexuality is a gift from God that it must be protected with God’s own guidelines. This is precisely why modesty is important. We veil our sexuality behind modest attire and behavior, not because our sexuality is ugly but because it is beautiful.

Robin Phillips, The Way of a Man With a Maid, pg.146

“Emotional Purity”?

Just because a person feels an attraction that will not culminate in marriage does not make those emotions impure. “Emotional purity” is therefore a bad term since it presupposes that there is something impure or wrong about these emotions, as if to have such feelings defiles a person in the same way as sexual promiscuity.

Robin Phillips, The Way of a Man With a Maid, pg.77

NOTE: “Emotional purity” is the buzz-phrase for Bill Gothard and others of his ilk which promote the “courtship”  and “betrothal” models rather than allowing dating.

Choices in Marriage

A man who falls in love with a woman quite effortlessly will find the love destroyed if he constantly acts selfishly rather than choosing to act charitably towards her. Thus, in marriage a couple’s intimacy is either maintained or destroyed by the choices made in the area of life.

Robin Phillips, The Way of a Man With a Maid, pg.24-25

Don’t Be a Snowflake

If passive objects bother you, it’s because you let them bother you--and that’s on you. It is not your fault some racist back in the 1930s paid for a statue of Stonewall Jackson because he wanted to intimidate black people. But it’s your responsibility to keep it from affecting the things you want to do to be successful.

By taking responsibility for your own state of mind, you abandon the idea of victim hood, the concept that other people are capable of holding you back and that society is fixed to prevent you from succeeding.

The victimhood mentality is completely incompatible with the sense of responsibility that creates success. It’s a handicap, but unlike a physical or mental disability, it’s avoidable. …

The victimhood mentality is like black mold in the basement of a house--once even a little bit takes hold, it starts to spread and eat away at structures. And there is only one person who can really protect you from its deleterious affects: you.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.235

Advice For a Wise Husband

A very important part of communication is to sit down with your wife as the very first thing upon arrival home from work. She has had a long day by herself, especially when there are children. It really helps her to be able to talk to you immediately. Just sit her down where you can be reasonably private (with small children this can be somewhat difficult) and ask her to tell you about her day. Always let her talk about her day, and listen to her, before you tell her about yours. It was many years before I learned this and it changed things drastically when I applied the technique. It tells her that you care about her.

Anonymous, found handwritten on a slip of paper stuffed in a book.

The University is at Fault for Our Rotten Society

So higher education has been teaching self-absorption and narcissism for some thirty, forty, fifty years, and now all of a sudden we’re surprised? We’re surprised to find a self-absorbed and narcissistic populace? We’re surprised to see students acting selfishly on the campus green and in the classroom?

We taught them to behave that way. We taught them that it doesn’t matter what you believe as long as it works for you. We have been pedaling this pablum of value neutrality for decades, and now we’re shocked that they have no values and they have no virtue? Of course they’re going to think this way because we told them so. Higher education is responsible. The university is at fault.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.227

An Unraveling Democracy

Show me a democracy in which people deride and denounce and devalue public conversations, I’ll show you a democracy that’s unraveling and on its way to authoritarian rule.

John Dewey, cited in No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.224

What a Free and Democratic Society Needs

The pursuit of knowledge and the maintenance of a free and democratic society require the cultivation and practice of the virtues of intellectual humility, openness of mind, and, above all, love of truth. These virtues will manifest themselves and be strengthened by one’s willingness to listen attentively and respectfully to intelligent people who challenge one’s beliefs and who represent causes one one disagrees with and points of view one does not share.

That’s why all of us should seek respectfully to engage with people who challenge our views. And we should oppose efforts to silence those with whom we disagree—especially on college and university campuses.

Robert P. George and Cornel West, “Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression.” Cited in No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.223

To Make Schools Better #3

Every school should be re-oriented toward academics and away from politics. Schools should stop expending efforts on issues like racism, sexism, Islamophobia,  homophobia, global warming, tobacco and gender identity; they should devote no more classes that teach students how to wear condoms and treat sexual relations as nothing more than a health issue. Most importantly, there should be no more attempts to convince anyone that he or she is a victim because he or she is not white, male, heterosexual, or Christian. (Conversely, students should not be told they have an unfair advantage because they are white, male, or Christian, either)

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.216, 217

To Make Schools Better #2

End all programs that superficially build self-esteem. Despite what their promoters would have you believe, self-esteem can truly be achieved in only one way: it must be earned.  Programs that seek to instill self-esteem in any other way are trafficking in falsehoods. And schools should have one valedictorian, not seven.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.216

To Make Schools Better #1

No principal should promote clubs that divide students based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or whatever other characteristic becomes en vogue. Clubs like these promote narcissism; if you join a club based on your own demographics, what you are really saying is that little interests you outside of you own self. Since the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself, school clubs and activities should instead be based on common interests and passions--clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you don’t already speak, and more.

Prioritize the English language. Every student should leave high school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. Any school that doesn’t ensure students leave with excellent English language skills is remiss in its duty to prepare graduates for the job market.  … 

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.215

Identity Politics

Smearing opponents as homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, racist, sexist, bigoted, or otherwise misguided is becoming as common off campus as it already is in the identity politics that dominate higher education. Leftists reduce people to their membership in groups based on superficial characteristics like race, gender, or sexual orientation. Those characteristics are assumed to determine what people believe, and how they vote.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.186-187

Color Supremacy is Wrong

Victimhood

Speech vs. Violence

These [college] kids that equate speech to violence, that could be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life. You know what you use when you don’t want to be violent? Speech. And you know what you use when you can no longer speak? Violence…. You want people speaking bad things because it means they’re not blowing people up…. The second you stop speech what do I have left? I got to beat you up…;. You don’t want violence, let people talk.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.172-173

How to Make Ignorant Snowflakes

Schools erase Shakespeare from their English curricula and America’s Founding Fathers from their history classes for the same reason youth sports leagues stop keeping soccer scores: they don’t want anyone feeling hurt or left out. And in both cases, handling the children with such over-the-top care and attention creates an unearned sense of entitlement. If you try to prevent students from dealing with difficulty, soon they begin to expect (nay, demand) that level of comfort.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.127-128

Bulldozer Parenting

You’ve heard of helicopter parents who hover over their children, eager to rescue them from the slightest misfortune, haven’t you? That’s nothing compared to another recent trend: bulldozer parents. Bulldozer parents clear the way for their children, pushing aside any obstruction. When their precious little snowflake angel gets a D in algebra, these parents rush to the school and demand to know why. They blame the teacher instead of encouraging their own child to study harder and get better at math. These are the parents who bark at umpires at Little League games. Delightful.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.126

College Indoctrination

Professors have looked at their classrooms and seen political activists in training, rather than citizens in training. They have quit teaching how our institutions work and imparting history’s significant facts. They choose the literature they teach based on what the author looks like. Meanwhile, there are more college graduates in our population than we’ve ever had before.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.91

Disenfranchisement

“Hate Speech” Hypocrisy

Many on the left love hate speech if it’s directed against Jews, against Israel, against Christians, against conservatives. That is their modus operandi, hate speech. But if it is directed against them, even if it’s minimally critical, it’s hate speech, it’s white supremacy, the new code word. If you say anything controversial, you’re a white supremacist, you’re a sexist, you’re anti-Muslim, and you’re homophobic.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.83-84

Intersectionalism

Intersectionalism is a euphemism for anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity. It’s simply a way of saying, “We’re the victims. We’re gays, we’re women, we’re blacks, and we all have the same oppressors. Our oppressors are the Zionists, the United States of America, capitalists, imperialists. We’re the victims, and we have to hang together, and we need safe spaces, but we’re not going to give you any safe spaces because you really have no right to express your views.”  That’s the basic core belief of the hard Left on American campuses today--and they’ll tell it to you directly, that certain views should not be allowed to be expressed on campus.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.81

“Safe Space” is Phony

Of course the safe space rationale is a total phony. The last thing that these intersectionalists want to do is have safe spaces for Jewish Zionists, or for Christians, or for conservatives. They want the university to be unsafe for them, not only intellectually but physically.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.81

Feminist “Choices”

Campus feminists talk a big game about choice, and about respecting all women. But they lack patience for women whose choices include building a family, or who don’t share their left-leaning political views.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.61

Ignorance Destroying Civilization

Fatherlessness Ruins Lives

In the black community, two-parent households are becoming an endangered species. Census data reveal that about 40 percent of all Americans children (regardless of race) are born out of wedlock; that number jumps to 53 percent for Hispanics and 71 percent for blacks. The Great Society programs of the 1960s, which did nothing to cut the poverty rate, implemented rules that inadvertently punished two-parent households, creating a disincentive for families to stay together.  As a result, black children today are less likely to grow up with their mother and father than black children born during the time of slavery.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.4

Victimhood

Victimhood mentality blames “white privilege” for the plight of American minorities. Privilege does indeed exist in America today, but it is not white privilege. It’s “two-parent” privilege.

Study after study has shown the long-term socioeconomic benefits children enjoy when they come from a stable two-parent household. Kids who grow up in a home without a father are four times as likely to end up poor as kids in two-parent homes. Kids who grow up in a two-parent household have a lower risk of teen pregnancy. They do better in school, and they commit less crime. And according to the Brookings Institution people who finish high school, hold down a full-time job, and wait until they are at least twenty-one to get married and have kids (in that order) avoid poverty at a 98 percent clip—regardless of race.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.43-44

College and Identity Politics

The whole point of college used to be expanding the mind. Academia gave you the opportunity to think about things in brand new ways. And yet today, walk onto many of America’s most prestigious university campuses, and you’ll find a culture that is the complete antitheses of open-minded intellectual inquiry.

Identity politics and political correctness have taken over. Leftist mobs are enforcing a strict code that defines acceptable speech and thought, and rules anything else out of bounds. “Trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” shield students from any concepts the might upset this delicate construct. Dissenters from the new orthodoxy are ostracized, vilified, threatened, and even physically attacked. Opposing viewpoints are shut down; visiting speakers are shut out. Faculty and administrators, whose job it is to help enlighten younger minds, act as hapless enablers, giving free rein to student activists whose passion outreaches their emotional maturity.

The values that supposedly define academia—the pursuit of knowledge and the open exchange of ideas—have become sad casualties. Free thought is not allowed if it broaches concepts deemed “problematic.” When you enroll at a college or university today, you can expect four years of being told what to think—and precious few opportunities for critical thinking.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.6-7

Education Has Been Weaponized by the LEFT

Education has been weaponized by radicals and used to chip away at what this country used to be. Under code words such as diversity, inclusion, health, equality, sex education, tolerance, white privilege and wokeness, most schools proudly promote anti-Christian and anti-American ideas.

So who has this very influential weapon been used against? Jesus, the truth, biblical morality, conservatives, the church, America’s founders, Republicans, and the Judeo-Christian principles this country was established upon. I’m not saying there aren’t some good teachers out there, but their hands are tied and their frustrations are at a tipping point – just like our culture.

David Florazo, Anti-American “Education” and the Collapse of Culture

LEFTIST "Tolerance."

The Real Division in America

The Evil of Violence

The "Systemic Racism" Lie

When Truth is Hated

Work vs. Family

No matter how much a man may be concerned with his work in the world, he cannot normally care about it as much as he cares for his family. This is because we have, in the life of the family, a bigger stake than most of us can ever have in our employment. We can change business associates…we can leave a poor job…but we cannot change sons. If we lose the struggle in our occupational interests, we can try again, but if we lose with our children our loss is terribly and frighteningly final.

Elton Trueblood. Quoted by Alexander Strauch, The New Testament Deacon, pg. 142

Good Leadership

Good leaders always distinguishes themselves by their ability to skillfully confront troublesome issues and to be decisive. In fact, confronting problems is a major part of leadership responsibility. Fearful leaders who refuse to confront problems have demoralized many churches and organizations. Running away from problems creates worse problems.

Alexander Strauch, The New Testament Deacon, pg.18

War May Be Necessary for Freedom

In his essay "The Contest In America," 19th century libertarian philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

It is that "decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling" which accounts for why so many "miserable creatures" have downgraded Memorial Day to nothing more than a date to exploit for commercial greed and avarice. While America's Armed Forces stand in harm's way around the globe, many Americans are too preoccupied with beer, barbecue and baseball to pause and recognize the priceless burden borne by generations of our uniformed Patriots. It is also why such "miserable creatures," are found in abundance today among leftist cadres on college and university campuses, in the leftist halls of the Capitol building and in the slums of their Leftmedia echo chambers.

The Patriot Post, Memorial Day.

That World Is Now

Memorial Day Denigrated

Today, Memorial Day provides a stark contrast between the best of our nation's selfless Patriot sons and daughters versus the worst of our nation's selfish culture and consumerism. Astoundingly, some businesses actually promote a "Memorial Day Sale." But Memorial Day is NOT for sale. Millions of Patriots have already paid the full price.

Amid the reverent observances honoring the sacrifice of millions of American Patriots who defended Liberty in accordance with their sacred oaths "to Support and Defend" our Constitution, it is unfortunate that too many venders have commercialized Memorial Day. Indeed, Memorial Day has been sold out, along with Washington's Birthday, Independence Day, Veterans, Thanksgiving and Christmas Days. And no wonder, given that government schools now substitute grossly adulterated and revisionist history for the civics courses which used to inform young people of their duty as citizens.

Further eroding the meaning of heroic sacrifice, the word "hero" is ubiquitously applied, and often grossly misapplied, to anyone serving others in any capacity — most often by those who have little context for genuine heroics. I spent five years in law enforcement, serving and protecting others, but I am no “hero."

The Patriot Post, Memorial Day