What do John Lennon, Glenn Beck, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn all have in common? The answer (and question) appears to be something no major political party in America appears able to grasp. While the GOP is looking for the leak in the roof, selling out conservative values to include more in the “big tent”, the big tent (the new and improved fiscal responsible one of course, sans “social values”), is swiftly being washed downstream, heading for the perilous cliff.
Splash, crash, there goes another one!
9-9-09 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A Republican state lawmaker from Southern California was ousted Wednesday from two legislative committees after he was caught on tape bragging about having sex with female lobbyists
The short answer of course, is an attempt to save man from himself. The only ‘revolution’ that will ultimately matter is the one fewer and fewer Americans understand. It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with morality.
All of America’s problems are rooted in immorality; a consequence of course of throwing out God from the public square; a loss of conscience.
Being that morality is rooted in conscience, it would behoove us to remember Chuck Colsen’s “Cop and Conscience law.”
Colson’s Law states that the only alternatives to conscience are cops or chaos. If the inner shield of a community is lowered, the outer shield must be raised to stave off chaos. Therefore, a community, especially a free democracy, that loses its conscience, will necessarily become a police state.
It’s worth noting that no secular society has ever survived more than 72 years, the former U.S.S.R. being the best example. America will be no exception.
Even John Lennon saw it coming. He might have been misguided, and may not have ever personally found his own inner piece, but even in his ‘Maharishi TM altered state’ at the height of the radical 60’s, Lennon inherently knew that ‘peace’ was more than the absence of war, that the “real revolution” was within. Imagine!
“You say you want a revolution.
Well, you know,
We all want to change the world.
You say you’ll change the Constitution,
Well, you know,
We all want to change your head.
You tell me it’s the institution,
Well, you know,
You better free your mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right.”
Here’s a piece of little known Beatle Trivia regarding ‘Revolution’:
Lennon really wanted this song to be the ‘A’ side of the single instead of “Hey Jude,” and kept changing it around to come up with something that would make Paul see it his way. He basically wrote the song because he felt like he was being pulled in so many directions by different people, all of whom wanted his backing, politically. It was also him questioning his own belief in the revolution that was going on… whether he was “out” or “in.” In truth, he was writing about a revolution of the mind rather than a physical “in the streets” revolution. He truly believed that revolution comes from inner change rather than social violence.
If Lennon doesn’t resonate with you, how about Solzhenitsyn? After all, who could know better than an intellectual Nobel Prize winning Russian Novelist who personally experienced horrors of communism? As I’ve written many times, the Harvard elite booed “the prophet” after he dared to go beyond literature and into the realms of morality, not to be ‘out ousted’ by the NY Times, who condescendingly dismissed his “hectoring jeremiads.” In all the reviews I’ve read since the death last year of Solzhenitsyn, Dinesh D’Souza nailed it better than anyone; ‘The Prophet at Harvard’. Here’s an excerpt:
On what has happened to the rule of law: “People in the West has acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting and manipulating law….If one is right from a legal point of view, nothing more is required, nobody might mention that one could still not be entirely right and urge a willingness to show restraint or sacrifice. Everybody operates at the extreme limits of those legal frames….A society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed, but a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”
On the rights of criminals: “Legal frames especially in the United States are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved leniency with the support of legions of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists’ civil rights. There are many such cases.”
On the abuses of freedom: “Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror…Such a tilt of freedom in the direction of evil has come about gradually but it was evidently born out of a humanistic concept according to which there is no evil inherent to human nature.”
On freedom of the press: “The press, too, enjoys the widest freedom. But what use does it make of this freedom? The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, and without any verification? Thus we see terrorists made into heroes, or secret matters pertaining to the national defense publicly revealed, or shameful intrusion into the privacy of people under the false slogan: everyone has the right to know everything.”On the atrophy of the spiritual life: “Mere freedom does not in the least solve all the problems of human life and it even adds some new ones….We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.”
How many more sex scandals, how many more tax cheats, traitors, communists, and porno kings within the White House; how many more radicals, hidden agendas, corrupt ‘no accountability czars”, and how many more lies from our “elected by the blind’ sophist, elitist, “I really don’t care about you America” President is it going to take before America wakes up to the fact that it’s all an illusion? Isn’t the only ‘problem’ not the act but getting caught in the act? Imagine how much we DON’T know; how much gets suppressed by “the thugs.”
Sex, lies, greed, thieves, tax cheats, thugs, Marxists, phony Christians, sycophants, and cowards; the sins of our elected, (to name a few). How is it that Glenn Beck (and Sarah Palin also to be fair) is the only one with an audience big enough to matter, has the guts to yell, “STOP, wait, at least ask the bold questions.”
It takes being in the light to see the light, and right now, America is looking pretty dark. How can a country that calls itself “Christian” remain so “voiceless” while infested with the sins of pornography, homosexuality, abortion on demand, euthanasia, easy divorce, and embryonic stem cell research? How can this same “Christian” country not know the perils of pseudo new age “Christians” like Oprah and feel-good evangelists, who have hijacked Christianity for “Christ without a cross?
How can that same country remain for the most part silent while the mainstream Protestant Lutherans allow “homosexuality within the clergy?”
9-21-09 After an emotional debate over the authority of Scripture and the limits of biblical inclusiveness, leaders of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination voted Friday to allow gay men and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as members of the clergy.
To not know the consequences of homosexuality on the family and society is simply not to know God. It certainly isn’t Christianity (or Judism). Congrats to the Lutheran Church of America for also joining the ranks of the illusionists.
Isn’t it a bit strange that the same MSM that turned this country upside down over the Catholic Sex Abuse scandal, which was for the most part a “gay problem”, not only has no problem with gays within the Protestant clergy, but celebrates the gay lifestyle?
Where’s the “equal outrage?”
Sexual perversion destroys lives, undermines civilization and ultimately wounds us all. The problem that unfolded in the Roman Catholic Church has its roots in homosexuality, not pedophilia. It is an important distinction. If Pope Benedict XVI can’t bring moral clarity on this issue to a world rapidly descending into homosexual acceptance, then who can?
(Since this article, Pope Benedict DID change and address homosexuality; details outside the scope of this post-another time)
If we allow ourselves to see outside of the illusion, it’s not a stretch to understand two things: God and family are the two big obstacles to Marxism/Communism taking hold; a concern we just might want to take seriously if we can ever get beyond the rose colored glasses.
Why do you think Obama is encouraging “moms” to go school, homosexuality and transgender is the new “norm”, and the Catholic Church is the last acceptable prejudice in America? For any real “truth seekers”, you might find it interesting to understand how and why the Catholic Church is under so much attack (recent article in American Thinker).
That too is another topic, another time, except to say that the “Divide and Conquer Catholics in America” has proven most effective, much thanks to George Soros and friends. After all, it was the Catholics who put Obama into office. Had Catholics voted like Catholics, Obama clearly could not have won
And that brings it all back to Glenn Beck, the Mormon (although, like Sarah Palin, does have the seal of an indelible Catholic baptism).
It’s my belief that God is using Glenn Beck in his all of his brokenness, as God himself has revealed to us that He will use the “weak to humble us.”
Besides, the Catholics, especially those in high office, have failed him. I would argue that Beck is more “Christian” in his Mormonism than most Americans are in their “feel good Christianity.”
Never under estimate who God might use in his “fly swatting”, especially in courage and humility. This last thought can only best be summed up by the great American Philosopher, Dr. Peter Kreeft.
Who are the fly-swatters? Not censors, but saints, the heroes who embody Colson’s Law. Love makes more waves than hate. Wicked men will hate and fear you more for loving them than for hating them. They will forgive you for being wrong, but never for being right.
Saints always go into the ghettos, especially the moral ghettos. They make waves. Moses made waves. Jesus made waves. Muhammad made waves. The waves make the garbage come to the surface, and the waves of garbage often drown the saints and make them martyrs, white corpuscles that give themselves up to fight an infection. Saints are society’s white corpuscles, society’s saviors. If nobody wants to crucify you, you’re not doing your job. Or else your job isn’t His work
St. Glenn? Who knew!
Great article!
It is my view that the Left saw the “wave” that Sarah was creating, and put up a tidal-break as soon as they could. I don’t even think they knew what is was enough to put words to it, but what they saw building toward a crest, scared the hell out of them.
-That wave is building once again, and I can only hope it’s “tidal” in it’s nature.
Every major problem we have in this country, is a result of the failure to commit to morals. It does not necessarily need to be strictly religious-based (but it helps), because even Ayn Rand saw the need for honesty and integrity as well.
-There IS truth, and there IS right and wrong, regardless of what the moral-equivalence bunch would have us believe, and what they have deluded themselves into.
Hasn’t America always grappled with issues of morality? From its inception it wrestled with slavery, the slaughter on Native Americans, internment camps and much more. What is acceptable changes over time and certainly morality is a compass that provide guiding principles, but if America survived the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement, I’m not concerned about her ability to survive gays being allowed to marry.
Now, where I agree with you that standards are needed and it is sad how so many of our political leaders have fallen. The question that I have is, how far do with go this idea about God when we live in a free society where people are allowed to worship, or not worship as they please? You cannot legislate God or morality.
James I’m certainly NOT suggesting “legislating religion or morality. “ That would be both impossible and unconstitutional. I’m also not purposing that we all become ‘religious’, only that we wake up to the fact that Christianity in America is not only under attack, but greatly destroyed.
We have gotten ourselves into moral bankruptcy largely by allowing God to be thrown out of everything from schools to Christmas. How many even know that “political correctness” is right out the Communist Manifesto? I suspect about as many who don’t see the perils of same sex ‘marriage’, 50 million abortions, legal euthanasia, and a sex obsessed culture. And that’s just for starters!
Indeed James human nature will always have corruption, but the good thing about a religious society, is that it can only spread so far. Eventually, a society of moral people simple revolt. In a moral relativistic society, which is pretty much what we have become, there is no longer any “standard” (which of course is based on natural and God’s laws); consequently, “anything goes.”
While I agree with you that America isn’t new to corruption or moral failures, we are for the first time in unchartered territory. Biotechnology, for the most part, is totally unregulated with potential horrors (if MISUSED), so horrendous, most are probably best not knowing. We’ve done everything from manipulating human life to creating it ourselves (at least in theory), to deciding when and if to end it.
We send our hard earned money off to tax cheats and a corrupt manipulating Federal Reserve, and “blindly trust” that what they tell is the truth. In the meantime, we are about to financially collapse as a nation as a result of their greed and insatiable need for power.
As for your ‘no big deal attitude’ for allowing gays to marry, you make my point James. From all I can gather, you are one of the good guys James. Yet, you don’t “see” it. You, like many, don’t or can’t see the consequences of gay marriage upon family and society, chalking it off to “changin’ with the times”, which in reality, is simply false compassion.
That’s why a society needs God. He’s immutable, and saves us all from our own “changing selves.”
PDill,
I get why some would be against same sex marriage and I have no issue with people having that opinion based on religious beliefs. And I agree that in today’s society we are far too accepting of questionably moral behavior and have lowered a lot of moral standards under guise “to each his own”. I’m not cool with seeing seven year-old girls dancing like Beyonce but some think its cute.
The easy part is identifying some of the issues but I think the hard part is where to draw the line. I support a woman’s right to choose but would never make that an option for myself if I were in a situation with a woman and she became pregnant. How far do we go in having God play a larger role in our society? We don’t allow cursing on network television but that line is now blurred more than what I’m comfortable with. We see openly gay people on shows all of the time now… should we move to ban those characters?
Is displaying the Ten Commandments in school enough or should it be a part of the curriculum? How much of the curriculum and where do you draw the line so you do not violate the rights of parents with children of different faiths?
I believe the line should be drawn that allows for the most freedom for individuals. Sure, that wrecks havoc on our moral sensibilities but that’s the price we pay for living in a free society.
When it comes to marriage, I believe the divorce rate has a far more devastating impact on families than does the idea of gay marriage. Mike Duvall is opposed to gay marriage but he was having an affair. That is his moral failings, not two guys living in a loft in San Francisco whom he’s never met.
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Maybe we should start there. If we reverenced God more and esteemed ourselves less, we would be at least headed in the right direction.
“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land”. 2 Chron 7:14.
Are you called by His name? It doesn’t say if “those others” humble themselves. It starts in our own house and then we clean up the rest. Be salt and light. Be different. Walk you talk. Then yell it from the roof tops.
Compelling article…thanks for writing.
After monitoring King Barry move up the Chicago/National political ladder, coupled with demonstrated blatant favoritism of companies, nations, and control/$ giveaways to the Unions, I have posted thoughts that Barry’s restructure America plan may be rooted in — Syndicalism. I never saw a response or could convince any like minded acquaintences of my theory.
Then I saw this article…link below..a compelling theory is made that Syndicalism has evolved to NeoSyndicalism…under King Barry. The proposed Health Care Exchange is but one possible example of Barry’s master plan.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/obama_and_neosyndicalism.html
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Syndicalism, a political philosophy originating in the late 19th century, aspires to place industry, businesses, and government under the control of a conglomeration of labor unions (for the benefit of the “worker”) – by force, as necessary – employing tactics such as general strikes, manipulation, and sabotage.
Syndicalism has influenced Facism, Communism, and Socialism — and attracted interest from notables such as such as Marx, Hitler, Mossolini, AND SAL ALINSKY.
Forewarned is forearmed…
Morality in it’s most raw form has been Legislated. Federal, State and Municipal Statutes address all manner of criminal acts that folks can commit against others. The Bill of Rights clearly addresses Freedom of Religion.
Where America seems to be falling short is in the belief that Freedom without Responsibility is acceptable. Responsibility or lack of it is learned from the early years of life from Parents. Most religions reinforce that. Most cultures drive that message in the form of punishments and rewards in the form of Laws. All of the “isms” mentioned in previous posts rely upon changing values through ideologies that control behavior but the State removes freedoms from individuals in the process that pushes punishment for the many but do little to foster individual responsibility.
I see America drifting away from the values of the Founding Fathers as the State takes more liberties away but promises security and social programs in return. There is where the danger lies.
Individual responsibility goes away when individual liberties are removed. A Federal Government that is too large and controlling, over regulating and over taxing to pay for bread and circus programs is happening right now.
With responsibly exercised freedom, the Individual is mighty. When Government over reaches your liberties just go away and We the People is just gone. The Founding Fathers had it right.
That’s why the Tenth Amendment was written into the Bill of Rights and ratified on December 15, 1791.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The Spartans practiced enforced homosexuality, had a strong moral code (such as it was) and were the feared military power in their domain. In fairness, they would by today’s standards be considered an unpleasant, possibly evil culture, in the way they treated other human beings.
I think the far left is blatantly guilty of hypocrisy in their protests to “legislation of morality”, as they are quite eager to force their own particular brand of morality on everyone else.