Sheep Sheparding Sheep Shearing Sham

I struggle sometimes with opening my mouth, although probably not as much as I should. I struggle with the fact that God chose and entrusted people with the duty and obligation of spreading the Gospel. I have often thought his idea of using a talking jackass in the OT a more fitting and prudent choice than the alternative of allowing us the arduous task of transforming ourselves into the one and same. I'm not espousing evolution here ---- really! After all, we're supposed to be sheep, right. It gets confusing though, what with wolves in sheep's clothing shepherding or sheep shepherding sheep without the shepherd. Why couldn't we be cows ---- religious only when we're in the mooood accompanied with our ever so endearing bull? Actually, chickens are kinda herd-like, like sheep, and we've got the pecking down [note that I did not make a gender reference here as in hen-pecking because I'm especially sensitive in that respect]. Sometimes a good duck is preferable to a branding, although once again that's another area of expertise [I know I've branded my fair share]. I know, I just evolved into a lame duck --- I was just horsing around. Oh well, if the shoe fits and it fits too well sometimes, isn't it all tolerated here on our animal farm? Doesn't diversity suit the times and relevance of the church today, and doesn't it make you feel so good to fit in?  Well, I've uddered enough, I'm off to get my spring shearing done.

I’m afraid I have a tendency towards sarcasm, surely something I need to work on. I was relapsing when I wrote the above. I have this fear that at the end of my blogging days I'll still be referencing this quirk in my personality [quirk sounds better than fault or dysfunction]. I had an older friend say to me once, after I was carrying on about the church, "yes, one church, a lot of ideas". Since that visit I've been trying to have a gentler approach, which the word supports, with the exception of outright heresy [then I'm right back to the Elijah, and our own Lord's rather direct, dead men's bones, confrontational in your face, let's make one thing clear, you're messing with my own and destroying lives approach]. Gosh golly, I still like to picture Elijah's onslaught of ribbing while the priests of baal, hopelessly embarrassing themselves, try to "light their fire". Ooooh! And all that cutting on themselves thousands of years before band-aids were even invented. And it's just one guy pulling the rug out from under this really cool racket that took years to establish. Makes you wonder what happened to their media mud slinging team.

Sorry, I regressed a little again. Anyway, as a sheep, I'm in the market for a good shepherd. I know we live in a small town, but there are fourteen churches here, so why am I the only one who's got it right? I bet a lot of you are thinking you've all ready met me. Seriously, I like people and I don't do the church-hopping thing too well, but the church [in our country at least] is on a downhill slide. Am I wrong? Let me clarify a bit --- I require a church I can bring our son [the boy] to without exposing him to scantily clad females --- I know it's everywhere --- billboards, checkout counters, worship teams, etc. ---- but it's getting harder and harder to leave the house. [My wife and I, understandably, could go to a few of the churches] Why is the church so busy being relevant? I'm always wondering why we aren't setting the standard.  After all, we didn't have to think one up.  God did that already. If we're so worried about being a little stale, I have a suggestion---let's live up to the standards God gave us and watch what happens.  And I have another suggestion for the entire evolving theology crowd ---- think up your own name for your religion and quit sullying Christ's. Actually, I think I know the answer to that one too---it's in the Bible. The best damage is always from within.

By the way I'm a black sheep, not suitable for a good sacrifice ---- kinda blemished and whatnot so please look elsewhere, and besides my wife still loves me and would kinda miss me.

Thomas Jefferson

     There seems to be some confusion on a piece of material Thomas Jefferson compiled. Actually, It was put together twice. It has been referred to as " Jefferson's bible" and has been twisted by both liberals and conservatives unfairly to suit their own objectives. First things first .... His reaction to this compilation of Jesus' sayings being referred to as "Jefferson's bible" would no doubt be responded to with a punch in the nose. Everyone knows of his rejection of the deity of Jesus later in his life, and the influence of the prevailing philosophy of the French, but [ we always forget about the buts ] his purpose was to introduce the teachings of Jesus to the Indians for the sake of enlightenment and the betterment of their lives. There is no evidence of his hostility towards the Bible and if he were living today, would surely be the ACLU's worst nightmare. It's prudent to remember that shortly after moving into the finished section of the capital, one of the first resolutions passed under his administration was to provide use of the building for church services. His personal recruiting of the military band to play for services, the passing of legislation using government monies for the evangelizing of the Indians, his continued presence at the services [ with a seat at the front ] in spite of prohibiting weather circumstances, and his fight in the Virginia legislature overturning the ineligibility of pastors serving in office all seem to uphold a conviction concerning, at the very least, the beneficial influence of Biblical teaching and God's providential covering upon a nation that fears the Lord. So why would a man compelled to excellence of character and honor, and as revealed by his writings, complete honesty, with doubts as to the divinity of any man,  be so arrogantly and dishonestly portrayed by others as presuming to improve upon  God's word in way of personal editor?  Well I guess the means justifies the end and after all he's dead and past caring. I've no doubt he was duped by the " age of reason" slop served up by godless, god of their own, progressives of the age, but I too lived my youth drinking out of the same trough of liberal hogwash and to this day live with regret and the ongoing consequential reminders of my own stupidity. So to say the least, a little grace and sensitivity to our own perverted tendencies to render a person a tool of our own making, should be the foremost of prime consideration as it was in the life of Thomas Jefferson.

Word Games

     I think we all understand the constant tendency for change in the English language. Probably less so, the influences of social engineering [manipulation], foisted upon us [because of the prevailing general ignorance of the populace] through Marx's systematic brainwashing technique of gradualism. Actually, I shouldn't credit this wholly to him. Unscrupulously deceptive acts have always been the signature of the corrupt and morally bankrupt dictators and Godless  philosophers [enablers] throughout history.

     So, lets take a look at some of our current and not so distant transgressions against our English dialect.

Sodomy: Sorry, this word no longer exists.

Gay: Person who commits the completely normal act of perverted unnatural sexual relations with a member of the same gender.

Homophobic: Person [hateful], who despite all the education, provided by every means possible, still insists on continually bringing up supposed contradictions, implying  ridiculous consequences, and worst of all suggesting this could possibly be a behavior. How abnormal is that! Like anyone would believe that thousands of people have just up and changed the way they were born, like it was just some sort of lifestyle.

Radical: Term for person or persons at the wrong end of the politically correct swing of the pendulum.

Fundamentalist: Term for person at the wrong end of the politically correct swing of the pendulum.

Rightwing: Term for person or persons at the wrong end of the politically correct swing of the pendulum.

Pro-life: Term for person or persons at the wrong end of the politically correct swing of the pendulum.

      Just a short pause to point out how very easy it was to produce a population with a working vocabulary of six thousand words today as compared with twenty thousand in the 1700's. Wow! Cool! Awesome! Excellent! Actually, making several words mean the same thing adds to the clarity of definition. It's easier to pinpoint some of our more problem areas in society. It simplifies things further if we just substitute the word terrorist.

Terrorist: Constitutionalist or any of the previous four terms.

Abortion: Legalized extinguishing of human life in a way profitable for maintaining a proper balance between the races and the devotion of pursuit to the supreme menace of inconvenience.

Pro-choice: People choosing to abort [you can't say murder anymore - that would be hateful in the extreme] their offspring in a sanitized and civilized manner.

Planned Parenthood: Organization devoted to the preservation of the above procedure of abortion for our enlightened pro-choicers in the gallant crusade for a eugenically sound species, all at your convenience. And, let's not  forget to arm our children with the best contraceptive protection available with of course, the option  to terminate our little mistakes, all at the most affordable rates [income adjusted], available.

Children's Specialty Centers: Hitler's camps for children where he utilized his, "low calorie diet"[starvation], "with the best of modern therapy"[euthanasia], for a much needed "cleansing of the land"[extermination of the Jews].

Ideological Unity: Get with the program or go to camp.

Value Clarification: This is the governmental intrusion [public schools], of correcting all the mistaken values, inadvertently perpetrated on children, by their parents.

School: Place of education.

Public School: Plank #10 of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto ---- State sponsored free education at astronomical prices to provide scholastically inferior results for the purpose of a more malleable society. Also the home environment of  our "value clarification" as mentioned above.

     "The more enthusiastic they get, the easier are the exams and the sooner they will get a position, a job ... The new generation has never had much use for education and reading. Now nothing is demanded of them; on the contrary, knowledge is publicly condemned."

     "The Youth of today is [notice the Youth presented in the singular --- always equal and inter-changeable with no deviation from the prescribed norm] ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings [as defined by himself] are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing." Adolph Hitler

    If this doesn't sound familiar to you, I'm afraid you may have already bought the farm. The plausibility of re-living era's of unprecedented cruelty are ensured by either omission, or by altered historical accounts, purposely spoon fed to the coming generation for the sole purpose of the realization of repeatedly failed agendas [failure dependant upon what end of whip you're on] perpetrated by insatiable power driven egos.

Democrat: A person sold to the philosophy of democracy despite the fact that they always lead to dictatorships. [ That' why the Founding Fathers purposely chose a republican form of government.]

Republican: A person sold to the philosophy of democracy but choose to hit the wall at a slower speed.

Constitutionist: A person familiar with the history of our country and the form of government instituted by our Founding Fathers [A Republic based on the unalterable principles and guidelines exacted directly from the Bible, God's word].

Socialist: An honest Democrat or Republican.

Socialist Nation: A form of government that steals from working people to give to non-working people in order to form their two class system [Queen bee & worker bee][also known as a dictatorship] using a "Cloward-Piven" [Colombia University Professors inspired by people like Saul Alinski one of Hillary's mentors] strategy of orchestrated crisis to force political change such as overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demand, pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Entitlement: A benefit freely given now to be paid at a later date by enslavement. Absolutely needed by the above to dupe the masses.

Christian Charity: A benefit freely given.

Shame: A deficiency in the psycological make-up of a person that needs removal so as not to be a hindrance in the pursuit of a reprobate mind.

     I'm tired now, so I'll sign off.  May God's will be done ultimately! Watch for the ultimate in government, coming soon, to a world we know, based on the ultimate Truth. He won't need lies and deceit, but not to despair, He's also prepared a place to accommodate those who do.
    
"This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming?  for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  For this they WILLINGLY are IGNORANT of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."  II Peter 3:1-7

One more term: Willingly Ignorant --- or Dumb on Purpose: This is the choice we all have to make, to believe a lie for temporary gratification, a means to an end, or to choose the path of Truth leading us to the destination we were created for. Claiming ignorance is not an option.

Don't Take My Word For It

     In a recent conversation concerning evolution, I was actually accused of reading Christian commentary [ this is another absolute no-no, totally out of bounds in their view, because, well just because we're obviously intolerant and hateful]. I do! I like credibility. I like to know that the authors of the material I read are constrained by an absolutist ideology in which the spewing of propaganda in an effort to recruit a following, or effect a desired result is out of bounds. But it is true, I'm just an echo like most every one else. I prefer to echo the truth so lets see what actually came out of the Founding Fathers mouths regarding the virtue of a nation.

     "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." ------ Samuel Adams

     "Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure, which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free government." -----  Charles Carrol

     "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion .... Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people, It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ---- John Adams

     "Our liberty depends on our education, our laws and habits.... it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers." ------Fisher Ames, framer of the First Amendment

     "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ------ Benjamin Franklin

     "Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give up the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstance, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you. Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to your self, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual. From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death." ----- Thomas Jefferson

     "It cannot be emphasized to strongly that ... this great nation was founded by Christians ... not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." ------- Patrick Henry

     "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of man and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace them all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the  oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?
     And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of the refined on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric? ----- George Washington's [speech upon leaving office]

     Anyone who investigates into the actual writings of our Founding Fathers and espouses the socialist nonsense of separation of church and state, the murder of the helpless, and invasive intrusion of government, is hopelessly ignorant or just a liar like their father. This bears repeating ----- " Where is the security for property, for reputation, FOR LIFE, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, [that's what our politicians and judges do when they swear to uphold the constitution and then laughingly, like Hillary, desert the oath in the next breath] which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?"

     I would say that it's safe to assume the integrity level of the Founding Fathers is miles above what we see in office today. So what's the driving force of  "our end justifies the means crowd?" Let's look at what comes out the horses mouth and fuels our opposing ideology.

     "The magnitude of a lie always contains a certain flavor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity, they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big." ------ excerpt from Mein Kampf --- Adolph Hitler
    
     The fact that groups like ACT-UP [militant homosexual group], boastfully admits this as their model, along with intimidation, is becoming the norm not the exception. The widespread use is simply because it works, immoral as it is, but what the heck, the end justifies the means.

     "I will not accept that [creation] philosophically, because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution." -----George Wald --- Nobel Prize Winner

     "We no longer feel ourselves to be guests in someone else's home and therefore obliged to make our behavior conform with a set of pre-existing rules. It's our creation now. We make the rules. We establish the parameters of reality.We create the world and because we do, we no longer feel beholden to outside forces." ----Jeremy Rifgin ---"Ageny"

     " The goal of this organization is to further communism." ----- Roger Baldwin -----Founder of the ACLU

      Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government .... Patriotism, nationalism, sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because the truly well individual is one who has rejected all those things and is what I would call the true international child of the future." --- Dr. Chester Pierce, Harvard University

     "National socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable." ----- Martin Bormann, nazi socialist

     "Democracy is the road to socialism."
     "The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
     "Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at most time's carcass."
     "The theory of communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
     "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion." ---- Karl Marx

     In my previous post I stated my belief in the ideological playground and freedom accompanying our Judeo Christian heritage. Unless my thinking process is completely skewed, I"d be hard pressed to see the same playground in the socialist camp, and despite the constant reassurances that it's for my own good, despite the fact that millions of undesirables are always sacrificed for their utopia, and that it has yet to produce anything but a living hell on earth, I'm afraid I'm still somewhat reluctant to support another shot at it even if we are using some of the most advanced manipulating and deceptive techniques ever devised by man.

One more excerpt..."Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:  The Lord shall have them in derision.  Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure.  Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.  I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my Son; this day have I begotten Thee.  Ask of Me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.  Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt bash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.  Be wise now therefore, oh ye kings: be instructed, be judges of the earth.  Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.  Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.  Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him."  ---- God speaking from His Holy Scriptures, Psalm 2

While We Were Sleeping

     Where did they come from? Well, although it's not obvious to most  of us, in our country it was spawned in the environment of a free-thinking, CREATED with inalienable rights, Biblically based REPUBLIC, with the ideology of a self-governing people in covenant with a Holy God. While obviously being founded on Christian principles, and in fact a Christian nation, we were not a Christian state where government imposed a forced doctrine. And to the dismay of many, as to freedom of religion, Christianity was the only thing on the menu apart from a remnant of Jews. Our founding fathers, having based our government on precepts pulled out of scripture, built a moral foundation which as Robert Winthrop said "Here, under our own free institutions, it is Religion [Christianity] which must support the State." Just a reminder ---- there were just under 300  of which historians considered Founding Fathers. Yes, There were a few real deists I don't have to expound on as they get most of the coverage, along with the made up deists, in the modern revisionist history books [Remember this is okay because ["the end justifies the means"].  Anyway, my point is this ideological playground was created by the freedoms inherent with the Judeo-Christian heritage we ALL share. This provided the environment for experiments like Robert Owen's, complete with most of the socialist trimmings. Still, his and numerous others, some currently operating today, ultimately fail, or in their eyes, almost worked. If we just woulda, coulda, shoulda. We need to note, at this point, that many of our friends here have the best of intentions and are the result of a long process of conditioning that we need to help them explore. Also, when we get to digging down far enough to see the root of this noxious, odious, parasitic blite on a society already struggling to maintain a virtuous, moral, environment worthy of passing on to our children, it's interesting to note they always seem to be atheists bonded together in the absolute certainty that God doesn't exist.

     So, the question is, how do you overthrow this revoltingly offensive idea that there might be some rules to be obeyed and a God to answer to? Well,on 9-12-1905 Jack London, Thomas Higginson, J.G. Phelps Stokes, Clarence Darrow, and Upton Sinclair formulated a plan to promote Karl Marx's theory of "the dictatorship of the proletariat" using  the well proven method of gradualism [This means a sneaky manner of ensnaring people into something they would never consciously accept].  In seven years there were chapters in 44 colleges, by the mid-thirty's, 125 chapters with John Dewey [ the godfather of progressive education] vice-president of the league. Just a thought, this could be part of the reason people are ever increasingly pulling their children out the Public Sewer System. Of course, this is going to make them targets by our ever so dear diversity [ you know, the end justifies the means ---- my way or the highway ----we respect every one's view, really!] crowd.. As long as we're talking about the propagation of this person's teachings it would be prudent to take a brief look at this person's life [I refuse to use the word man in reference to someone so clearly void of manly traits]. He had six children, three of which died of starvation and two that chose suicide. He died in 1883 with only six attending the funeral. As a Christian, we are compelled into discernment of persons, by scripture, as to their fruit. How thirty percent of the world's population came to be under the bondage of a  person's philosophy who watched  his own children starve is beyond my comprehension. Still his  Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto are revered as such to our deluded dreamers comparably as the Ten Commandment's are to Christians. None of these are surprising to anyone living in America today except in their connection to their authorship. 1. The abolishment of public property. 2. A Heavy or graduated income tax 3. Abolish rights of inheritance 4. Confiscation of property rights 5. Central bank 6. Government ownership of communication and transportation 7.Government ownership of factories and agriculture 8. Government control of labor 9. Corporate farms and regional planning 10,Free education [indoctrination] for all children in public schools. How we got here is obvious. It's called "educational malpractice"[ failure to teach the Fundamentals which under gird living in our self-governing society]. Entrusting education to government controlled indoctrinating centers [ The Public Sewer System], infiltrated by our Godless socialist saboteurs, is disastrous. I've lived long enough to see the devastating results. We all recognize the ten planks as firmly embedded into our laws. Purposeful negligence in the education of our own religious heritage and the unconstitutionally invasive attacks perpetrated by the very same people we elected speak only to the shame of negligence on our part as participants and protectors of our freedoms.

DELUDED DREAMERS

     It would appear I'm somewhat at odds with my socialist friends. Yes, I have a few friends, inclusive of which  I fondly refer to as my deluded dreamers. Actually, I'm quite at odds with their father [He told big whoppers too!] Yes, I believe in that fairy tale out of the Bible about that really, really bad angel. But before the laughter gets too carried away, take a moment to think about my what DD's believe." We came from a rock,[ by blind chance after a huge cosmic burp and billions and trillions of years later][they keep needing more time] and we became homo homosapiens, not to be oppressed and repressed by anything so ridiculous as natural law or a lawgiver when we are smart enough to make our own rules. Wow! Christians are made fun of for the virgin birth while something even more amazing was born, and I've even got to watch it grow up. Here it is folks, no strings attached, based on the best atheistic, absolutlessssss, evolutionary, whatever way the wind blows, humanistic philosophic masterpiece ------------ The Means Justifies the End Crowd!!!! Actually, I don't think they were born by chaos or blind chance. 

     And although it [ the I am god see me bore delusion] does appeal to my more abased,selfish,greedy nature it still runs contrary to reason. This naturally might seem strange to someone not walking under God's covering. Anyway, I need my absolutes as much as you absolutelessers [I made that word up --- cute huh!] do and believe me they have more than their share. I love their logic. I say " Stealing is wrong, period, you know one of those absolutes". They say "What if someone stole because they were starving?" This is a slick ploy. I thought we were talking about stealing, not the motive for stealing. Stealing isn't motive. It's an act not a reason. Motive doesn't negate the act buts allows opportunity for correction. Still, sometimes they don't get it til someone steals their car stereo. And, still not deterred, they charge ahead [this proves they can multiply].When someone does something really bad against someone that's different [I think we're all a little different --- but they have the wisdom to decipher these difficult categories ---- remember they're the homo homosapiens] that's really hateful! This could be triple bad killing someone hatefully. I'm still wondering how you kill someone any other way. So now we've got murder the crime, [I'm going out on a limb and saying that's absolutely wrong --- stupid fundamentalist] motive,[accompanied with a good dose of hate] and our specially designated group of perpetrators carefully chosen by our homo homosapien friends. One law, identical motive, two punishments equates to target practice for our DD friends. Can we all say bullseye! You can if you're in the cross hairs of our DD friends. But then, how can we all be equal under the eyes of the law when the law is just the floating crap table of our DD friends. Apparently, they're the real authorities on hate, therefore the more able to dole it out accordingly. This could all be somewhat disconcerting if we weren't assured that the means will justify the end.

Fundamentalism and Basketball

What I am is fundamental. What I'm not is a writer or a computer addict. My wife set me up with e-mail --- I've never checked it. I'm only doing this now because of the confusion created by an unscrupulous social engineering constituency bent on discrediting the Bible in favor of a relative based socialized indoctrination into a Godless self-indulgent society by a biased, accommodating press. 

Taking your definition of fundamentalist from the newspaper is like hiring a drunk to chauffeur your family through town, daily, as they see to the routine of daily affairs. The word fundamentalist comes from a document in the 1920s called the five fundamentals of the faith. 1. The deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2.  The virgin birth, 3.The blood atonement, 4. The bodily resurrection, 5. The inerrancy of the scriptures. These are what used to be the unifying ties that bonded the Church together, thus making it clear why it is so urgent for these people to discredit this bond. Why this is so hidden from our church leadership is multi-fold, so I'll talk about basketball instead.

Basketball also has fundamentals ---- 1. Dribbling, 2. Passing, 3. Shooting, 4. Guarding, all of which if were tampered with, one would immediately hear the cry "Foul!  These are the fundamentals ----- It's not basketball if you don't have to dribble.'' Well, why can't you shoot at whatever basket you like? Why can't I pass to the referee? Why do we need a referee??? Now that' a good question! Why all the boundaries? It's simple ---- because it wouldn't be basketball without them. All I'm saying is you can reform Christianity all you want, create God in your image [why not return the favor], but don't expect me to call a dead cow anything but what it is. Conformity to an implacable relativistic ideal is not unity, rather it's akin to trying to hold smoke in your hand. Here's a thought ---- restoration [not reformation] on a foundation given us by Jesus alone.