Dear friends and readers,
Every day that goes buy I feel a sense of increasing outrage. Why? Because my Bible is under attack, my free speech is under attack, my ability to speak my mind about Biblical taboos is under attack, My beautiful UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is under attack. OLD GLORY is under attack and so is both the pledge of allegiance and the National Anthem. Not to mention the 10 Commandments!
I am not a political writer but enough is enough. Where are the voices of outrage that our great nation is being torn down brick by brick by many who have never served in uniform and somehow think that a Democracy has become something bad. That free speech (by conservative voices) should be silenced. That Christian business people must violate their Biblical beliefs by catering to people who are living well outside Biblical tenets.
America was founded by very gutsy people seeking religious freedom and the country representing "Uncle Sam" has always been a JUDEO CHRISTIAN nation. Having said that America is a place that not only allows but encourages people from all over the world to worship as they choose and whomever they choose. UNLESS of course you happen to be either a follower of Christ or a person of Jewish ancestry. Boy those two classes of people are now considered really bad, dangerous haters and have simply got to go. I DON'T THINK SO but if we allow that kind of garbage to continue without raising our collective voices, it will happen.
On another level, I do realize that with human beings involved, there will always be those who are prejudiced. Would that it were not the case. But I am also extremely tired of hearing how insensitive male white men are; Somehow we are being portrayed as anti women? Anti black or any other among many other colors of peoples? Somehow we should be "ashamed" of the fact that we we're born white? And lets not forget "anti child" because people are running the boarders "willy nilly" and to say that it should not happen is somehow a white supremacist dialog? NO!
I spent much of my ministry life building thousands of free houses for poor brown people. Way way back in my lineage there were some red people in my own ancestry, some of my best friends are considered to be yellow people and black people and guess what? I have never owned a slave in my life and as far as I know neither did any of my ancestors.
Yet for some reason "white folks" are labeled ever increasingly these days to be considered sexist, radical Klux Klux claners in disguise who want to mistreat kids, keep black Americans "down on the farm" and deny women equal rights. BALONEY! And I for one don't mind saying so. Much of this is nothing more than whipped up (to a large degree) prejudicial pandering in the name of political correctness, which by the way is nothing more than a very thin veneer covering an extremely left wing liberal political agenda.
Well I for one am tired of that kind of ridiculous abusive rhetoric. Oh and here is a news flash for you, during my earlier law enforcement career, I never personally one time ran into another cop who hated peoples of other colors and some of the best police officers I ever knew were black, brown, yellow or red, white and oh my goodness, by the way---WOMEN!
NOT EVERYONE sees color! Personally I don't give "a fig" about my neighbors color, origin or ethnicity is as long as that person shakes my hand and keeps their word! As a white man and an American I have always treated everyone with respect as have millions and millions of others. And we "non prejudiced" folks, regardless of our own color, do not owe an apology to anyone!
And while we are on the subject I am sick and tired of hearing the Civil War refought ad infinitum! While I understand that most people believe the Civil War was all about slavery (an extremely important part---slavery in any form is horrible), still in my opinion the over arching issue during that war was states rights. Furthermore that tragic war ended 153 years ago and it's high time we put it to bed. Most Union and Confederate army ordinary soldiers had zero idea what the war was actually about. Most Confederate soldiers were extremely poor and never owned a slave in their lives. The rich plantation owners did but here is another fact not remembered today. They were almost ALL DEMOCRATS politically and yet today somehow Republicans are viewed as the ancient enemy of black Americans. The question is, who is trying to change the history books? And why?
And as far as black Americans of yesteryear are concerned? When is the last time you saw a Civil War movie with black soldiers in uniform? Well, the facts are that roughly 10% of the entire Union Army were made up of 179,000 black men not to mention another 19,000 naval personnel, the total of whom 40,000 died to preserve our nation. Both white and black Americans died to keep this nation from being divided and it's high time some voices are raised against those who are trying to keep us divided.
Finally on the issue off race relations; There are some very well qualified and decent people working on both sides of the political isle to level the playing field of race relations and discrimination. Kudos to them. BUT there are also several well known civil rights leaders/advocates who are sowing the seeds and the flames of hatred for the sole purpose of personal enrichment and garnering the black vote. Shame on them!
As far as our religious freedoms are concerned AND our right to speak our minds, they will remain in tack ONLY as long as we tell the world, loudly and clearly, DON'T TOUCH MY BIBLE and take your hands off the 10 Commandments.
America today is not the America I grew up in. And I am sickened by it. It may not be perfect but having traveled fairly extensively, it is still far far better than whatever is in second place. As Christians today we claim to be 180 million strong in America. Our votes count BIG TIME and our voices would drown out all hatred, self serving political agendas and animus towards ANYONE, if the world saw and heard OUR COMBINED VOICES of outrage!
But where and when will that begin?
God bless,
Pastor Rance.
