Tuesday, April 15, 2014
WILL THEY KILL INNOCENTS?
We will soon have the answer to the question, "Will police and military fire upon American citizens in the name of "Just doing my Job Man"". The result of this test will lead to either peace in the cold civil war or a hot civil war. This is too big to fail -- or succeed if they should begin massacring people in the name of "Justice"..
I don't know if those in Washington (Reid, Obama, Holder) have any idea of the nature of the tinderbox they are dealing with. There are millions of well armed people with itchy trigger fingers who would love to take this on. I am not one of those itching for a fight. Lets hope the big shots in Washington are as itchless.
Balance in all things
“Work hard. Be realistic. Don’t fall for simple pitches that cloud your
thinking — don’t let all these motivational speakers and self-help
coaches block out warning signs that something bad might be on the
horizon,” she says. “Things aren’t going to get better just by wishing
for it.”
Monday, April 14, 2014
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Obama tries to get other countries to stop texting while driving
Alert the press and all ships at sea. This is really important.. while Putin invades Ukraine.
US pushes fellow UN member states to ban texting while driving | Ars Technica
US pushes fellow UN member states to ban texting while driving | Ars Technica
Why The Feds Chickened Out On A Nevada Ranch
Let me obliterate a bit of confusion here: the Obama administration attempted to go to war with a rancher in Nevada. Let me amplify a little bit of truth: They tucked tail and have returned home. And let me add a bit of clarity: they had no choice!
As the nation began to become familiar with the plight of the family of Cliven Bundy, many of us harkened back to another standoff in which the Federal government attempted to bully it's outcome: Waco, Texas and the Branch Davidian massacre.
It is telling that in the Nevada case the feds pulled out so quickly, given all they had indicated they were willing to do to resolve the matter to their satisfaction. They had set up a perimeter around the Bundy's family land, ranch, and home. They had brought in extra artillery, dogs, and snipers. They were beginning the process of stealing more than 300 head of cattle that did not belong to them.
They did so--or so we were told--for the reason of protecting the desert tortoise. But then it was revealed that the Bureau of Land Management had shot far more desert tortoises than the Bundy cattle had even possibly destroyed. We were told they did it because the Bundys had broken federal laws by not paying what amounted to retroactive grazing fees to the federal government. But the Governor of the state of Nevada told us that Bundy had paid every ounce of state tax, met the state requirements, and their family had been improving the property more than 100 years previous.
Finally we were allowed to know the connection between a communist Chinese wind/solar power plant and its connection to that senator named Harry Reid. Evidently a plan had been hatched to use the Bundy property for a solar farm and instead of paying the Bundys, someone, somewhere in the administration believed it was easier to just take what they wanted. Read the Whole Thing Why The Feds Chickened Out On A Nevada Ranch - Kevin McCullough - Page full
As the nation began to become familiar with the plight of the family of Cliven Bundy, many of us harkened back to another standoff in which the Federal government attempted to bully it's outcome: Waco, Texas and the Branch Davidian massacre.
It is telling that in the Nevada case the feds pulled out so quickly, given all they had indicated they were willing to do to resolve the matter to their satisfaction. They had set up a perimeter around the Bundy's family land, ranch, and home. They had brought in extra artillery, dogs, and snipers. They were beginning the process of stealing more than 300 head of cattle that did not belong to them.
They did so--or so we were told--for the reason of protecting the desert tortoise. But then it was revealed that the Bureau of Land Management had shot far more desert tortoises than the Bundy cattle had even possibly destroyed. We were told they did it because the Bundys had broken federal laws by not paying what amounted to retroactive grazing fees to the federal government. But the Governor of the state of Nevada told us that Bundy had paid every ounce of state tax, met the state requirements, and their family had been improving the property more than 100 years previous.
Finally we were allowed to know the connection between a communist Chinese wind/solar power plant and its connection to that senator named Harry Reid. Evidently a plan had been hatched to use the Bundy property for a solar farm and instead of paying the Bundys, someone, somewhere in the administration believed it was easier to just take what they wanted. Read the Whole Thing Why The Feds Chickened Out On A Nevada Ranch - Kevin McCullough - Page full
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Obama
Report: Emperor Obama Arrives To Celebrate Racist Warmonger LBJ - http://www.infowars.com/report-emperor-obama-arrives-to-celebrate-racist-warmonger-lbj/
His Lord and Majesty Barack Obama arrived moments ago.
His Lord and Majesty Barack Obama arrived moments ago.
Howard Dean, Democrat Who Seems to Speak for the Party is an idiot.. the WSJ listed things he said.. this one is funny sad about NOAH in the WHALE
"God knows I'm no theologian, but I preferred the
original New Testament version, where Noah strikes a match inside the
whale and builds a fire and it coughs him out onto the island. It's a
powerful message about man being able to control his own destiny."
In God He Trusts - WSJ.com
original New Testament version, where Noah strikes a match inside the
whale and builds a fire and it coughs him out onto the island. It's a
powerful message about man being able to control his own destiny."
In God He Trusts - WSJ.com
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Death of the Middle Class
This is the essence of this good blog. It didn't link well. Yet it's so important... I am taking this chance - I hope for forgiveness for cut and paste
The Fed sacrificed the foundation of middle class wealth--stable housing values--to boost bank profits.
Lest you think the
phrase "death of the middle class" is hyperbole, please examine these
two charts, keeping in mind the middle class by definition must be in
the middle of income/wealth distribution--conventionally, between 40% and 80%, i.e. the 40% between the bottom 40% and the top 20%.
See that little red wedge? That's the bottom 80%--the entire middle class and everyone below the middle class.
Here's another look at the wealth distribution: the
middle class's share of wealth is modest, unless you define the top
slice of households just below the top 1% as "middle class." But since
the top 19% cannot be in the "middle," attempting to boost the wealth of
the middle class by including the wealthy is truly Orwellian.
Why has the middle class eroded? We can start by looking at income. As noted yesterday in Fed to the Sharks, Part 1, household income for the bottom 90% has stagnated for 40 years.
The next chart shows how
financialization boosted asset valuations in waves of boom and bust.
Some of the first two waves of financialization leaked into wages, but
the Fed's bubble-blowing since 2009 has failed miserably to increase
incomes: disposable income fell off a cliff in 2009 and has continued
falling, despite the Fed's blowing new bubbles in bonds, stocks and
housing.
So what does the Fed have to do with the death of the middle class? As noted in What's the Primary Cause of Wealth Inequality? Financialization (March 24, 2014), the short answer is when investment returns exceed economic growth, the rich get richer, increasing inequality.
And when do investment
returns exceed economic growth? When the Federal Reserve makes credit
very cheap for financiers and speculators, which drives up asset prices
as everyone with access to cheap credit bids up assets.
Low interest rates and free-flowing credit inflate bubbles. We
can discern an implicit agenda in the Fed's policy of making credit
cheap and abundant: since income for the bottom 90% is stagnating, the
only way to boost consumption and debt is to inflate an asset owned by
middle class households: housing.
Unfortunately, credit-driven speculative bubbles inevitably burst and housing valuations crashed.
The Fed responded to the housing crash with an unprecedented policy of buying over $1 trillion in home mortgages (mortgage-backed
securities), roughly 10% of all existing mortgages in the U.S. In
conjunction with the Fed's other policies (purchasing Treasury bonds and
relaxing banking rules) and the opening of the loose-lending FHA
spigots, housing recovered nicely--until the Fed slackened the pace of
its purchases of bonds and mortgages. Housing immediately began trending
down.
In response, the Fed restarted buying Treasuries and mortgages in enormous quantities. And sure enough, housing recovered.
But asset bubbles do not replace income or savings. The only way to benefit from bubbles in housing is to trade: buy in at the bottom and sell out at the top.
In essence, the Fed's bubble-blowing forced every homeowner into becoming a speculator.
There's another agenda at work of course: increasing debt and bank profits derived from debt. What
better way to insure banking profits than to spark a speculative bubble
in the core asset of the middle class--housing. Rising prices created
temporary (and enticing) home equity that could be tapped with a loan
(HELOCs--home equity line of credit), and the temptation to selling out
and moving up the food chain to a bigger home and bigger mortgage was
equally compelling.
Even better, banks and Wall Street had perfected the securitization of once-safe home mortgages. Banks
had no need to take on the risk of holding mortgages--the big money was
in originating the mortgages, packaging them into securities and
selling the tranches to investors.
The much-ballyhooed "ownership society" turned out to be ownership of debt, not equity. Debt is profitable for banks; people owning homes free and clear is not.
In effect, the Fed sacrificed the foundation of middle class wealth--stable housing values--to boost bank profits. Take
a look at what happened to financial profits in the 2002-2007 housing
bubble: they skyrocketed to new heights. And look what happened when
housing and the banks' securitization scams blew up: financial profits
completely collapsed.
Middle class wealth was Fed to the sharks. As
the current housing bubble deflates, the investor-buyers who fueled the
rally are exiting en masse: what's the value of an asset when the bid
vanishes, i.e. there's nobody left who's willing to pay today's prices?
The Fed has failed to restore middle class wealth with its latest housing bubble, and
the costs of the bubble's collapse will fall not on the Fed but on
those who believed the recovery was more than Fed manipulation.
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Monday, April 07, 2014
From Seth's Blog a good one
Meandering toward nowhere special
Five behaviors that often come clumped together, each conspiring to lead you toward disappointment:Big dreams: The goal isn't consistent impact or meaningful work, it's a huge hit, the star turn and the ability to change the world. It wouldn't be enough to have 1000 true fans, the big dreamer wants a stadiumful in every town.
Poor work habits: Flitting from project to project, waiting for inspiration to arrive, stalling, not taking lessons, repeating the same early steps over and over...
Shortcut seeking: Why bother with the long route when you can find a shorter, faster path? Get-rich-quick schemes, insider access and the quest to get it right now.
Lottery thinking: This is a variation of shortcut thinking, but it involves getting picked. One person, one organization, one Wizard of Oz who will magically make it all happen.
Lack of self-awareness: The self-delusion that your stuff is in fact world-class, and that the critics, all of them that you've managed to interrupt, are wrong.
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Why the integrity of the story in the Movie Noah isn't important
First, a disclaimer, I haven't yet seen it. I will. Probably in 3-D. I like a good action movie and this appears to be that. I did go and reread the whole story again in the Bibles I own. I wanted to not miss a nuance. What is clear is that much of what people don't agree with isn't clear.
It's a little like the Ken Ham Arks and all that. Or the theories of is it possible. Jesus alluded to the story, I know Jesus and even if I don't know all the details... I believe it.
Yet, trying to gain concreteness thru archeology and architecture is not far from my earlier post about relics. IF our faith is so weak we require proof or fidelity from a godless filmmaker, we are really lost.
PLUS some of the events noted in the film (which I have not seen) are a pretty good interpretation. What DID Adam and Eve look like before the fall? IF my Bible Scholarship is of any merit, they are bookends and looked like we will look in heaven.. new Eden.
Look according to my Friend Pastor Phil Ressler many many many unbelievers have once again re read the story of Noah on line via things like Bible Gateway. They are being exposed, perhaps for the first time, to the raw truth of the Word of God.
Holy Spirit is very capable of using this pagan movie to call people to himself. He used Jesus Christ Superstar to call me. You don't go fishing for tuna using strawberries as bait because YOU like strawberries.
It's a little like the Ken Ham Arks and all that. Or the theories of is it possible. Jesus alluded to the story, I know Jesus and even if I don't know all the details... I believe it.
Yet, trying to gain concreteness thru archeology and architecture is not far from my earlier post about relics. IF our faith is so weak we require proof or fidelity from a godless filmmaker, we are really lost.
PLUS some of the events noted in the film (which I have not seen) are a pretty good interpretation. What DID Adam and Eve look like before the fall? IF my Bible Scholarship is of any merit, they are bookends and looked like we will look in heaven.. new Eden.
Look according to my Friend Pastor Phil Ressler many many many unbelievers have once again re read the story of Noah on line via things like Bible Gateway. They are being exposed, perhaps for the first time, to the raw truth of the Word of God.
Holy Spirit is very capable of using this pagan movie to call people to himself. He used Jesus Christ Superstar to call me. You don't go fishing for tuna using strawberries as bait because YOU like strawberries.
Good Move ...
His Pope influenced him to do right.. Now if our evangelical
friends who spend money like water (of course all from book and cd sales
revenue) would hear the same message. Fasted lifestyle... Don't get
stupid... people are watching you... you are all the Bible they may read
today.
Evolved to the Enlightened Dark Ages - a new dark age conspiracy - The rigid dogma of secular liberalism
We’re so lucky we live in such a tolerant, enlightened society.
There are backward parts of the world where women are stoned to death
for wearing the wrong kind of dress. There are some backwaters stuck in
the Middle Ages where gays are publicly hanged. These actions are to
punish the “perpetrators” for their deeds. But another purpose is to set
an example to others: if you don’t follow our established laws and
norms, there will be consequences, and you will suffer. This mentality
is stuck in the Dark Ages, where thought is monolithic, where conformity
is demanded, and where punishment is swift, public, and extreme.
Good thing we don’t live in a place like that!
Good thing we don’t live in a place like that!
We’re
so lucky we live in such a tolerant, enlightened society. There are
backward parts of the world where women are stoned to death for wearing
the wrong kind of dress. There are some backwaters stuck in the Middle
Ages where gays are publicly hanged. These actions are to punish the
“perpetrators”...
RedState
Friday, April 04, 2014
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Amusing the Devil
The father of lies is amused when we make all kinds of proclamations about things that are true but without foundation in our lives. I see them all the time on Facebook and in Churches. Declarations about freedom from poverty, about prosperity, about healing, about a mate, about a job and a dozen other things. The problem isn't that these proclamations aren't good to make, but UNTIL the strongholds in our lives that have been built up to cause or restrain these things are torn down, nothing changes.
The spirit of poverty isn't broken by proclamation. The stronghold known as the spirit of poverty must be destroyed. That is painful. It's a change of mindset. It's a repentance from dead works, a turning around. Most of what people believe or were taught is wrong and it requires a complete reprogramming.
Jesus said, "The poor you will always have with you". Those poor are not always people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.. those people need to get out from under poverty imposed by flood or famine. It's the poor among us when there is abundance all around. Cultural poverty. Poverty of the mind. The spirit of poverty.
My experience has been that when I have tried to help people come to grips with the demon that oppresses them... they not only resist, they love their victimization too much to let it go. So they embrace the lie and remain in poverty.
Same with Sickness. I read Praying Medic's book Divine Healing. The stories of people who have accepted a life of illness over health was heartbreaking.
Abraham Lincoln said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be".
Still true.
The spirit of poverty isn't broken by proclamation. The stronghold known as the spirit of poverty must be destroyed. That is painful. It's a change of mindset. It's a repentance from dead works, a turning around. Most of what people believe or were taught is wrong and it requires a complete reprogramming.
Jesus said, "The poor you will always have with you". Those poor are not always people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.. those people need to get out from under poverty imposed by flood or famine. It's the poor among us when there is abundance all around. Cultural poverty. Poverty of the mind. The spirit of poverty.
My experience has been that when I have tried to help people come to grips with the demon that oppresses them... they not only resist, they love their victimization too much to let it go. So they embrace the lie and remain in poverty.
Same with Sickness. I read Praying Medic's book Divine Healing. The stories of people who have accepted a life of illness over health was heartbreaking.
Abraham Lincoln said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be".
Still true.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
SMILE
What do you call a cheese that isn’t yours? Nacho cheese
Where do polar bears vote? The North poll
What sound do porcupines make when they kiss? Ouch
What happened when the lion ate the comedian? He felt funny
Why did the chicken cross the road? To show everyone he wasn’t chicken
What did the buffalo say to his son when he went away on a trip? Bison
What did the spider do on the computer? He made a website
How do bees get to school? By school buzz
What do you call a bear with no ear? B
How can you tell the ocean is friendly? It
waves!
What was the most popular dance in 1776? Indepen-dance
What did the computer do at lunchtime? Had a byte
What does a baby computer call his father? Data
Why was the computer cold? It left its Windows open
Why are dogs such bad dancers? They have two left feet.
What did the bean said to another bean? How’ve ya bean?
What did the doctor say to the midget? You just have to be a little patient.
Why do the French like to eat snails? Because they don’t like fast food
What do you call a peanut in a spacesuit? An astronut
A duck walks into a drugstore and asks for a tube of ChapStick. The cashier says to the duck, “That’ll be $1.49”. The duck replies, “Put it on my bill."
A grasshopper hops into a bar. The bartender says, “You’re quite a celebrity around here. We’ve even got a drink named after you!” The grasshopper says, “You’ve got a drink a drink named Steve?"
“Doctor” jokes
Patient: “Doctor, I have a pain in my eye whenever I drink tea”.
Doctor: “Take the spoon out of the mug before you drink”.
“Doctor, will I be able to play the piano after the operation?”
“Yes, of course!"
"Good I never could before!"
A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, wherever I touch It hurts! When I touch my shoulder, it hurts. If I touch my knee –OUCH! When I touch my head, it really, really hurts!” The doctor replied, “Man, you have a broken finger!”
Where do polar bears vote? The North poll
What sound do porcupines make when they kiss? Ouch
What happened when the lion ate the comedian? He felt funny
Why did the chicken cross the road? To show everyone he wasn’t chicken
What did the buffalo say to his son when he went away on a trip? Bison
What did the spider do on the computer? He made a website
How do bees get to school? By school buzz
What do you call a bear with no ear? B
How can you tell the ocean is friendly? It
waves!
What was the most popular dance in 1776? Indepen-dance
What did the computer do at lunchtime? Had a byte
What does a baby computer call his father? Data
Why was the computer cold? It left its Windows open
Why are dogs such bad dancers? They have two left feet.
What did the bean said to another bean? How’ve ya bean?
What did the doctor say to the midget? You just have to be a little patient.
Why do the French like to eat snails? Because they don’t like fast food
What do you call a peanut in a spacesuit? An astronut
A duck walks into a drugstore and asks for a tube of ChapStick. The cashier says to the duck, “That’ll be $1.49”. The duck replies, “Put it on my bill."
A grasshopper hops into a bar. The bartender says, “You’re quite a celebrity around here. We’ve even got a drink named after you!” The grasshopper says, “You’ve got a drink a drink named Steve?"
“Doctor” jokes
Patient: “Doctor, I have a pain in my eye whenever I drink tea”.
Doctor: “Take the spoon out of the mug before you drink”.
“Doctor, will I be able to play the piano after the operation?”
“Yes, of course!"
"Good I never could before!"
A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, wherever I touch It hurts! When I touch my shoulder, it hurts. If I touch my knee –OUCH! When I touch my head, it really, really hurts!” The doctor replied, “Man, you have a broken finger!”
The number one lie of the enemy:
#1. YOU ARE NOT READY YET! Do not listen to this voice.
Remember - if it's the truth that sets you free its a lie that holds you captive. The lie you must overcome is that you need more preparation, money, time, experience, confirmation. Look at the business graph I attached. The dotted line is your track and the solid line is the opportunity. 1. At first you sense an opportunity. Your spirit get's a glimpse of something.
2. The moment arrives where you need to take action, see what works and what does not work and make adjustments.
3. You are over thinking, waiting to be certain, looking for confirmation. Over analysis has led to uncertainty and the state of uncertainty opens the door to confusion as you entertain too many voices and ideas.
4. Failing to take action you come down into a wait and see position and watch for the moment to step into action...and miss the window.
What you needed
to do was assess the situation and the opportunity and TAKE ACTION: run a
pilot, test your assumptions, get in the game, take some sort of action
and adapt and increase engagement! You will never feel fully ready
because where you are going is always larger than where you have been.
Learn this - GOD REWARDS RISK MORE THAN CAUTION! The parable Jesus taught about the talents is often misunderstood. The servant who feared making a mistake was punished and the servant who was aggressive about increasing market share for the Master was rewarded. Faith involves risk. BEWARE the confusion that breeds uncertainty when the time comes to ACT!
Learn this - GOD REWARDS RISK MORE THAN CAUTION! The parable Jesus taught about the talents is often misunderstood. The servant who feared making a mistake was punished and the servant who was aggressive about increasing market share for the Master was rewarded. Faith involves risk. BEWARE the confusion that breeds uncertainty when the time comes to ACT!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
John Lennon was no Atheist - and you Don't have to Imagine what the world would be like without Faith in God... we have examples in real life and it's not pretty
In a series of interviews published after his death, the man who famously called for imagining a world with ‘No religion’ also jettisoned his anti-theism, Jordan Michael Smith quotes John Lennon:
Not only did Lennon reject atheism, he also rejected extreme forms of evolution. He instinctively knew that there was something special about humans and different about the animal world even if he did not how the theory of evolution is argued.(1):
What happened to Lennon? Why did his views change? He grew up. He matured. He was willing to look reality in the face without blinking and say, I was wrong.” The man who imagined a world with “no religion” and “no possessions” left an estate of more than $275 million, “not bad for one who referred to himself as an ‘instinctive socialist,’ for one who believed in the abolition of ‘all money, police, and government.’”(2) His early flirtation with the theory of socialism was naive.(3) He knew that sending money to poor nations was counter-productive.
It’s time that atheists and liberals follow Lennon’s lead and also grow up. Atheism and socialism are literal dead ends. They are destroyers of people and societies. If there is no God, then Lennon’s death at the hands of Mark David Chapman was the result of the survival of the fittest, the fittest being Chapman.
We don’t have to imagine what our world would be like without religion. Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) gives us a window into such a world:
Our propaganda necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. . . . We shall now probably have to follow the advice Engels once gave to the German Socialists: to translate and widely disseminate the literature of the eighteenth-century French Enlighteners and atheists.(4)
The French “enlighteners” worshipped reason. “[T]he success of the physical and other sciences in England in the seventeenth century,” Robert Conquest observes, “gave the French intelligentsia the idea that everything could be determined by Reason—in whose name the Revolution was made—with the ‘Romantic’ input from Rousseau as part of the meld.”(5) What was the result? The guillotine and blood in the streets. All together now, “Imagine no religion. It’s easy if you try.”
The atheism that spawned Communism was very reasonable and led to the deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century. When I made this statement in response to an email I received, I was met with this challenge: “Who are these high priests of atheism exactly? Name them and quote them. Then I want to know how many people were killed in what country during what period exactly and who killed them, within a million or so. I need you to account for all 100 million Gary, or close to it. I have history books in three languages and they don’t mention a word about atheists killing anyone.”
Lenin, Stalin, Cambodia’s Pol Pot (remember the “killing fields”?), Romania’s Nicolae Ceauşescu, China’s Mao Zedong, North Korea’s Kim Il Sung — all atheists and Communists — committed well-documented atrocities that led to the deaths of mega millions. The authors of The Black Book of Communism (1999) offer the needed documentation that the e-mailer demanded me to produce. Tony Judt of the New York Times writes of the book:
An 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, recorded and analyzed in ghastly detail by a team of scholars. The facts and figures, some of them well known, others newly confirmed in hitherto inaccessible archives, are irrefutable. The myth of the well-intentioned founders — the good czar Lenin betrayed his evil heirs — has been laid to rest for good. No one will any longer be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal nature of Communism, and those who had begun to forget will be forced to remember anew.
From The Black Book of Communism he can move on to Robert Conquest’s Reflections on a Ravaged Century (1999) and The Great Terror (1990). Conquest writes:
Organized irreligion in the twentieth century committed atrocities on a scale that the fiercest religious wars never approached. The scientific racism of Nazi Germany killed forty million and attempted genocide against Europe’s Jews. The scientific socialism of the Communist countries killed a hundred million (and still counting) people around the globe. As the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has noted, people in the West routinely invoke the Spanish Inquisition as an example of religious horror. And they are right to do so. But the Inquisition, in the course of three centuries, and after legal procedures of a sort, killed fewer people—probably around three thousand—than the Soviet Union killed on an average day.(6)
It is significant to note that “after 1949 when the communists took control of China, the first new text introduced to all the schools was neither Marxist nor Leninist, but Darwinian.”(7) With Darwin, all things are permissible. For a fleeting moment, Communism was seen as the new god that would save the world. But even here, disillusionment set in as the logical extension of its materialist assumptions were worked out consistently.
- See more at: http://americanvision.org/4776/john-lennon-republican-theist-anti-evolutionist/#sthash.0Qo9b6CY.dpuf
“‘People got the image I was anti-Christ or antireligion,’ he said. ‘I’m not at all. I’m a most religious fellow. I’m religious in the sense of admitting there is more to it than meets the eye. I’m certainly not an atheist.’”
Not only did Lennon reject atheism, he also rejected extreme forms of evolution. He instinctively knew that there was something special about humans and different about the animal world even if he did not how the theory of evolution is argued.(1):
“Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way,” he insisted. “That’s another piece of garbage. What the hell’s it based on? We couldn’t have come from anything — fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don’t believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren’t monkeys changing into men now? It’s absolute garbage. It’s absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists. That and the monkey thing are both as insane as the apes standing up suddenly.”
What happened to Lennon? Why did his views change? He grew up. He matured. He was willing to look reality in the face without blinking and say, I was wrong.” The man who imagined a world with “no religion” and “no possessions” left an estate of more than $275 million, “not bad for one who referred to himself as an ‘instinctive socialist,’ for one who believed in the abolition of ‘all money, police, and government.’”(2) His early flirtation with the theory of socialism was naive.(3) He knew that sending money to poor nations was counter-productive.
When it was pointed out that a Beatles reunion could possibly raise $200 million for a poverty-stricken country in South America, Lennon had no time for it. “You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn’t mean a damn thing. After they’ve eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles.”
It’s time that atheists and liberals follow Lennon’s lead and also grow up. Atheism and socialism are literal dead ends. They are destroyers of people and societies. If there is no God, then Lennon’s death at the hands of Mark David Chapman was the result of the survival of the fittest, the fittest being Chapman.
We don’t have to imagine what our world would be like without religion. Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) gives us a window into such a world:
Our propaganda necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. . . . We shall now probably have to follow the advice Engels once gave to the German Socialists: to translate and widely disseminate the literature of the eighteenth-century French Enlighteners and atheists.(4)
The French “enlighteners” worshipped reason. “[T]he success of the physical and other sciences in England in the seventeenth century,” Robert Conquest observes, “gave the French intelligentsia the idea that everything could be determined by Reason—in whose name the Revolution was made—with the ‘Romantic’ input from Rousseau as part of the meld.”(5) What was the result? The guillotine and blood in the streets. All together now, “Imagine no religion. It’s easy if you try.”
The atheism that spawned Communism was very reasonable and led to the deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century. When I made this statement in response to an email I received, I was met with this challenge: “Who are these high priests of atheism exactly? Name them and quote them. Then I want to know how many people were killed in what country during what period exactly and who killed them, within a million or so. I need you to account for all 100 million Gary, or close to it. I have history books in three languages and they don’t mention a word about atheists killing anyone.”
Lenin, Stalin, Cambodia’s Pol Pot (remember the “killing fields”?), Romania’s Nicolae Ceauşescu, China’s Mao Zedong, North Korea’s Kim Il Sung — all atheists and Communists — committed well-documented atrocities that led to the deaths of mega millions. The authors of The Black Book of Communism (1999) offer the needed documentation that the e-mailer demanded me to produce. Tony Judt of the New York Times writes of the book:
An 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, recorded and analyzed in ghastly detail by a team of scholars. The facts and figures, some of them well known, others newly confirmed in hitherto inaccessible archives, are irrefutable. The myth of the well-intentioned founders — the good czar Lenin betrayed his evil heirs — has been laid to rest for good. No one will any longer be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal nature of Communism, and those who had begun to forget will be forced to remember anew.
From The Black Book of Communism he can move on to Robert Conquest’s Reflections on a Ravaged Century (1999) and The Great Terror (1990). Conquest writes:
Organized irreligion in the twentieth century committed atrocities on a scale that the fiercest religious wars never approached. The scientific racism of Nazi Germany killed forty million and attempted genocide against Europe’s Jews. The scientific socialism of the Communist countries killed a hundred million (and still counting) people around the globe. As the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has noted, people in the West routinely invoke the Spanish Inquisition as an example of religious horror. And they are right to do so. But the Inquisition, in the course of three centuries, and after legal procedures of a sort, killed fewer people—probably around three thousand—than the Soviet Union killed on an average day.(6)
It is significant to note that “after 1949 when the communists took control of China, the first new text introduced to all the schools was neither Marxist nor Leninist, but Darwinian.”(7) With Darwin, all things are permissible. For a fleeting moment, Communism was seen as the new god that would save the world. But even here, disillusionment set in as the logical extension of its materialist assumptions were worked out consistently.
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