Sunday, December 12, 2010
Democratic Party Appeals to Sinful Nature
According to the principles and actions of the Democratic Party today, even the Biblical account of Jesus’ parable of the talents was inherently flawed. In Matthew 25:14-30, Jesus speaks of a rich man giving his three servants various sums of money to keep for him while he went away. Two of the servants used their innovative skills to double their sums, but one did absolutely nothing. The first servant was given five pieces, and made another five, giving him ten. The second servant had been given two pieces, and made another two, giving him four. The third servant was given one piece, but instead of using it to increase his sum, he hid it in the ground!
When the rich man returned, he was very pleased with the two who had increased their sums of money, but was utterly displeased with the one who merely buried his. When questioned by the proprietor, he simply made excuses, and for his slothfulness, his one piece of money was taken from him, and given to the one who now had ten, giving him a total of eleven. This is the fundamental principle of capitalism and our free enterprise system—hard and dedicated work and effort does have its rewards!
From the liberal view, the traveling proprietor would have scolded the two profiteers and taken money from them for redistribution. In the name of fairness, he would take five pieces from the one who had gained ten, and give one piece to the one with four, and four to the one who had buried his one—giving each of the servants five. Is this what Jesus intended? Let’s lay it in the line…
If a person is diligent in planning their life’s course—going to school, college, making good grades, getting a well-paying job, even becoming a CEO of a major corporation—then they deserve every penny that the market is willing to pay them! It requires the use of one’s own God-given abilities to maximize his or her potential in life. If an individual or even a husband and wife take the risk of starting a business that become very successful, then they deserve to enjoy the fruit of their labor, and the reward for their risk! These people are utterly despised by the socialism-craving members primarily embedded within the Democratic Party, as well as the media complex, civil rights industry, environmental movement and many other left-leaning groups and organizations.
In contrast, suppose a young woman is sexually active and promiscuous during her teenage years. She becomes pregnant and eventually has four or five children, and as in many cases, by different men. She has learned how to live off of the system. She has buried her God-given gifts and now lives in functional poverty with her children, but no man. But what about the man? He dropped out of high school because he thought that he needed to make money right away! He was a man at age sixteen, and thought that he could make the world and the system work for him, but now reality has set in, and the opportunities that were many had gone. Now, both the woman and the man are staunch Democrats, and nothing can persuade them differently. It does not matter what the issues are, neither does morality apply. The Democratic Party is the political machine they are devoted to forever!
But what is the Democratic Party’s appeal to the masses? What makes them so strong and influential? Close and careful scrutiny tells us that they actually appeal to the lowest qualities in human nature, or should we say—the sinful nature! For example, one of the Democratic Party’s primary mantras is to place increasing tax burdens upon the wealthy because they make or have too much money. Is this not envy or even perhaps, jealousy? To simply want the power of government to act as the punisher of the economically successful bears no moral standing, and is a form of oppression. What moral position does one man have to determine how much wealth another man can have?
Then there is the question of how much of another person’s wealth is a person in need entitled to? It is one thing to give to another person in order to help them out, but it is another issue entirely when the recipient acquires the power to demand as much as he or she wants! So there is an appeal to one’s own greed, and when people in power promise to use the force of government to confiscate another person’s wealth is no more than legalized theft! The Democratic Party’s principle of wealth redistribution is quite appealing to those who are the beneficiaries, but the cost extracted not from the providers, but from those who become dependent upon the treasury is immense—it costs them their very souls!
The justification for punishing the successful people stems from the hatred that festers from within—an infection of the sinful soul. The Democratic Party’s strength comes from taking advantage of man’s sinful nature! People who are fed on a daily basis a steady diet of reasons why they are not treated fairly (even though their own choices in life are never examined) will allow the envy and jealousy to turn into hatred. Once the hatred has taken root, there is nothing that can turn it, and like a raging fire, the only way it diminishes is after it has consumed all of the fuel in its path!
So I close and conclude with a question: Is this the reason liberals hate Christianity? Those evil attributes listed actually drive and motivate millions of constituents in America, and our Judeo-Christian traditions work to counter them and inspire us to use our gifts and talents to be successful. It is normal to see prosperity as God’s blessing! To use our gifts and talents to become wealthy is a very common American dream. What the Democrats are encouraging is something strange and alien to our way of life.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
The Truth About the 14th Amendment
For many decades, the claim to right of citizenship based upon this perspective has become an openly contentious debate, as even our own political leadership has waxed weak and opportunistic, cowardly accepting this erroneous train of thought while pretending to be protectors and defenders of our venerable and historic document.
If the previously-expressed version truly expressed the purpose and intent of Section 1, then there would certainly be no argument. All would be as it currently is-- and then some! However, there is a significant part of this section not usually mentioned. The true wording of the opening statement of Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment is...
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The missing clause clearly identifies and defines what personage is entitled to citizenship! It clearly presents two qualifying tests that make any person an outright citizen of the United States. The first is to be born in the United States or any territory claimed such as an embassy or military base. The next is whether the person is subject to its jurisdiction. The jurisdiction portion of the clause ensures that the amendment follows the course of natural law. Without it, there is chaos and confusion, which explains the turmoil surrounding our current "citizenship by birth" dilemma. In addition, the argument follows no sensible logic, nor makes good, common sense. In fact, to accept children born in the United States to parents who enter illegally places an undue burden upon the state and its citizenry. No other nation practices this policy because of its irrational proposition!
Natural law says that since a newborn is not able to choose, then the matter of jurisdiction is inherited from or transferred to them through the parents. Therefore, if the parents are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, then the children are naturally assumed to be as such also. Again, this flows in accordance with the principles of natural law-- a line of thought that has been reflected and practiced by every nation from their various beginnings! On the other hand, if this principle is flipped, where the place of the child's birth becomes the sole determiner of citizenship as well as an opportunity for security for the parents, chaos and social unrest emerge!
So why was this part of the 14th Amendment necessary? Where did it come from and what purpose did it serve? First of all, Section 1 did address the issue of citizenship, but not for the purpose of establishing a "short cut" for those who are simply born here without taking into consideration of which nation's jurisdiction the parents are subject to. Neither should it be considered a "legal loophole" for the circumvention of current law. Our Immigrationa and Naturalization Laws speak clearly on this matter.
Recognizing that there are actually five sections to the amendment, the first one addressed the issue of citizenship for those having been born in the United States under extenuating circumstances. It stemmed from the matter of whether the slaves then recently-freed under the 13th Amendment and the subsequent Emancipation Proclamation were to be considered citizens. In addition, the 14th Amendment was a formal document declaring the protection of blacks in general, in light of an increasingly hostile U.S. Supreme Court of that day.
It is often said that America is a nation of immigrants, but one thing must be clarified. Black Americans are not immigrants! Immigrants migrate from one part of the world to another. This includes even the "Native American" who is believed to have come to North America via the land bridge. However, they came willingly, on their own. Blacks, on the most part were brought to the Americas as unwilling slaves. This made their situation quite different from any other ethnic or racial group, no longer having knowledge of a home land or discernable links to family or kin. With their true ties to any of the African nations, and having been so brutally separated from family through slave auctions and trades for over two hundred years, the freed blacks truly were people without a home-- except for America itself. In contrast, today's illegal immigrant population chooses to come to America, and move back-and-forth to and from their native lands. Victims have no choices.
Therefore, the 14th Amendment's original intent was to clarify and secure the rights of black people in order to thwart the efforts of the southern democrats and northern sympathetizers who were still fighting to preserve an apartheid society. This amendment brought an end to the authority of the "Dread Scott Decision," which held that black people were not, and could not become citizens of the United States, nor enjoy any of the privileges and immunities of outright citizenship. Its purpose was specific and targeted for that reason, and fits no other case, although politicians and others have used the court system to secure the citizenship rights of other groups.
So the conclusion is this: America still is a nation of laws, and not of men. When properly and correctly interpreted and applied, the 14th Amendment serves its rightful purpose. However, to use it to get around our current immigration laws creates chaos and social unrest. When applied correctly and appropriately, the rights of those truly qualified for citizenship are secured, but when applied unjustly, the rights of all are infringed! Section 1 of the 14th Amendment should be viewed in light of its original intent, thus continuing to guarantee the rights of those meeting the real criteria as stipulated.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Why Truth in History?
On the other hand, the work of Booker T. Washington is consistently downplayed and under-reported. For example, most people know that he founded Tuskegee University. Mr. Washington believed in the education of black America and the establishment of a strong infrastructure within the black communities throughout the nation. On a personal note, Eula Johnson, my own grandmother (who died before I was born) was sent from the small farming community of Brazoria, Texas to Tuskegee to learn to be a seamstress some time before 1913.
He appealed to philanthropists like Julius Rosenwald of the Sears and Roebuck fortune. Mr. Rosenwald teamed up with Washington to create an extensive system of community-based public schools in the early 1900’s known as the Rosenwald Schools. With such financial contributions, nearly five thousand of these schools were built throughout the south and parts of the north. In Texas, these schools were also built. In West Columbia, one such building was located and restored. Mr. Washington was a devout Christian and believed that Biblical teaching was just as important as math and science. A requirement of each Tuskegee student was to attend regular church services and meetings on the campus.
So the way textbook authors depict history should always provoke the reader to understand their intention and purpose. It is obvious that each of these men saw things differently. It can be said that Dubois was a liberal, and Washington was a conservative. Dubois is more popular today because he is a hero of the left, who has controlled much of our media as well as public education system. For the same reason, Washington has been all but written out of history. However, I propose that in Texas, the work of Booker T. Washington has had a far greater impact upon its citizens than the Marxist ideology of W.E.B. Dubois.
So the matter before us as Texans today is textbook selection, which symbolizes our future investment: what type of citizens will we produce in the years to come? The content of these books will affect how future generations view our state and nation.
So if the Texas State Board of Education wants to include certain historical figures in the textbooks, first make sure that the entire history of their work and efforts are included. Let their ideologies be known and examined by the students. The objective of Dubois and the liberal left has been to change America into a system that is strange, alien and hostile to true freedom, while the goal of Booker T. Washington and the Christian conservative has been to make it better for all.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Is President Obama More Protective of Islam Than Americans
The ovation and applause is not just an act of courtesy. When President Barrack Obama was making his apology tour through Cairo, Egypt, his words were obviously well-thought out and intentional.
He referred to the "Christmas Airline Bomber" incident as isolated. His Attorney General, Eric Holder has a history of being sympathetic to terrorists, seeking and acquiring the pardoning of members of the FALN, who were captured on video tape making bombs!
President Obama and his entire administration PLUS members in Congress have a hatred for America never before seen so obvious! As far as they are concerned, their enemies are the born again, Tea Party supporting Christians!