Slightly abridged and expanded upon as this situation intensifies:
This is one of those 'bear with me' comments, for I do not have cable television beyond the basic channels package so there is no Fox...no Morning Joe...no CNN....no this and no that and a thousand other no(s). So if I have ever seen Dana Perino it would have been a decade ago when she was the White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush. Apparently she has called for the firing of Steve Bannon. I do remember this though from ten years ago....very clearly....we talked politics quite a bit at work....after reading some of the comments in the news at the time from Perino, I commented to my conservative friends that this woman is bad news....just a first impression.....had the same one when I heard that Fox replaced Sean Hannity at night with Megyn Kelly.
I tuned in late today to Breitbart radio in the middle of a woman demanding that President Trump get rid of Steve Bannon. She talked fast, ran her words and sentences together, and sounded like a valley girl trying to unload her mind of all its accumulated knowledge in 30 seconds so as to get back to blow drying her nail polish. It was Dana Perino. Don't they teach enunciation in broadcast journalism school anymore? I listened to Steve Bannon the entire election campaign prior to his leaving. These attacks on him are absurd. They want him out bad because he's a thorn in the side of their communist/globalist agenda.
Just thinking out loud here....so to speak....they're taking down statues of Robert E. Lee and thinking about the same for Thomas Jefferson. Much of this nation....in its essence....as it stands right now....is not worthy of the likes of Robert E. Lee, or Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, or most of these men. As for Jefferson...to these people.....to be consistent to their ideological ignorance....they should petition to replace with a statue of Joseph Stalin.....for that's their leader.
There's another way to look at this. There is a particular statue in our town that I have passed thousands of times over the years but have not actually considered what it stands for in a decade or so. Such is the negligence brought on by familiarity. So if you are in an area where this communist purging of statues is taking place....take advantage of it.....really think about America's heritage.....every single time that you pass the scene of these moral and intellectual scandals. Thank God for bringing us this far before He took His hand off of us.....use this obvious judgment upon us to renew your faith.....use this warning to awaken....use this chaos to see God's order, and plead for His mercies. Turn the tables on these people....get stronger as they continue down the rabbit hole of ideological delirium. Get closer to your Lord and Savior as they demonstrate the folly of abandoning the coming "King of kings and Lord of lords."
Diabolical.....February 2017:
There is a dynamic occurring in America at this time that should be very disturbing if and when detected and I'm having difficulty grasping exactly what it is. The intensity of it is something new in America, not unprecedented but new in the scope of it and the powers behind it. It is a sinister mentality that brings to my mind anyway the November 1938 Night Of Broken Glass in Germany also known as Kristallnacht. Nothing of common sense explains it. It is not politics although it operates within or around the sphere of politics.
Let me give you an example in the backlash to President Trump's temporary halt to immigration from seven Middle East nations. Something like this has occurred before as recently as with Barack Obama... a problem develops and a temporary ban is instituted to address imminent dangers. It should be no big deal. The difference in this is that a powerful, large and varied segment in America rushes the broadcast airwaves with righteous indignation.....as if fighting on principle....only there is no principle!!! This is the crux of the concern for neither was their principle involved in any of the pogroms against the Jews of the past or the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of French Huguenots or murderous raids by the Ku Klux Klan. These actions were swift and deadly emanating from the darkest part of man with no principle involved and no rhyme or reason to it other than loathing for another man. What possible explanation can there be for otherwise intelligent individuals to be totally blind to our enemies and at the same time work against our own government opposing these enemies? There is no explanation apart from outside interference that is diabolical in nature.
Right now there's no terror involved in the actions of a Federal judge or a crazy celebrity or a waiter in a fast food restaurant who won't serve a policeman. It's rather the haunting feeling of an embryo of terror that accompanies it that is discomforting, and this because there is no rational explanation for it....you can't reason within this type of phenomenon, it's as in an epidemic where doctors can find no bacteria no virus no anything other than destruction of cell tissue. Another unusual aspect of it is that it seems to be infecting just about everything....the National Football League....simple television commercials for a product....threatened boycotts against a product line of the President's daughter! No...this is something that demands that every clear thinking American put away their toys for a time, set out sentries and attempt to at least recognize what is happening.
This is but part of why I have consistently urged pastors to warn their sheep on what may be ahead. This is uncharted territory for Americans on the scale that it has a potential for. Knowledge may have increased in the past century but discernment has decreased while dangers and deception have skyrocketed! Scriptural warnings are very clear....stay vigilant....be alert....be on guard! There may have been arbors of time in the past.....where Christians could concentrate solely on building....I grant you that...but this is not one of those times!
God has blessed His church mightily through the ages with scholars such as the Apostle Paul, Luther, Calvin, Edwards and J. Gresham Machen but I don't believe that He is impressed by how many letters a man may have have after his name. He can and often does give more theological wisdom to the common man than Dr. High and Mighty Professor of Every Big Word You'll Never Hear in Your Lifetime. On the other hand a lifetime of scholarly work attempting to be the best teacher one can be is more than honorable and deserves great respect. That's all we're asking of you....keep an open and humble mind to God's leading....because if you don't then God is able to, and often has, speak more through the man who unplugs your basement floor drain to subsidize his pastor's income than you with your beautiful building and busy staff.
This is one of those 'bear with me' comments, for I do not have cable television beyond the basic channels package so there is no Fox...no Morning Joe...no CNN....no this and no that and a thousand other no(s). So if I have ever seen Dana Perino it would have been a decade ago when she was the White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush. Apparently she has called for the firing of Steve Bannon. I do remember this though from ten years ago....very clearly....we talked politics quite a bit at work....after reading some of the comments in the news at the time from Perino, I commented to my conservative friends that this woman is bad news....just a first impression.....had the same one when I heard that Fox replaced Sean Hannity at night with Megyn Kelly.
I tuned in late today to Breitbart radio in the middle of a woman demanding that President Trump get rid of Steve Bannon. She talked fast, ran her words and sentences together, and sounded like a valley girl trying to unload her mind of all its accumulated knowledge in 30 seconds so as to get back to blow drying her nail polish. It was Dana Perino. Don't they teach enunciation in broadcast journalism school anymore? I listened to Steve Bannon the entire election campaign prior to his leaving. These attacks on him are absurd. They want him out bad because he's a thorn in the side of their communist/globalist agenda.
Just thinking out loud here....so to speak....they're taking down statues of Robert E. Lee and thinking about the same for Thomas Jefferson. Much of this nation....in its essence....as it stands right now....is not worthy of the likes of Robert E. Lee, or Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, or most of these men. As for Jefferson...to these people.....to be consistent to their ideological ignorance....they should petition to replace with a statue of Joseph Stalin.....for that's their leader.
There's another way to look at this. There is a particular statue in our town that I have passed thousands of times over the years but have not actually considered what it stands for in a decade or so. Such is the negligence brought on by familiarity. So if you are in an area where this communist purging of statues is taking place....take advantage of it.....really think about America's heritage.....every single time that you pass the scene of these moral and intellectual scandals. Thank God for bringing us this far before He took His hand off of us.....use this obvious judgment upon us to renew your faith.....use this warning to awaken....use this chaos to see God's order, and plead for His mercies. Turn the tables on these people....get stronger as they continue down the rabbit hole of ideological delirium. Get closer to your Lord and Savior as they demonstrate the folly of abandoning the coming "King of kings and Lord of lords."
Diabolical.....February 2017:
There is a dynamic occurring in America at this time that should be very disturbing if and when detected and I'm having difficulty grasping exactly what it is. The intensity of it is something new in America, not unprecedented but new in the scope of it and the powers behind it. It is a sinister mentality that brings to my mind anyway the November 1938 Night Of Broken Glass in Germany also known as Kristallnacht. Nothing of common sense explains it. It is not politics although it operates within or around the sphere of politics.
Let me give you an example in the backlash to President Trump's temporary halt to immigration from seven Middle East nations. Something like this has occurred before as recently as with Barack Obama... a problem develops and a temporary ban is instituted to address imminent dangers. It should be no big deal. The difference in this is that a powerful, large and varied segment in America rushes the broadcast airwaves with righteous indignation.....as if fighting on principle....only there is no principle!!! This is the crux of the concern for neither was their principle involved in any of the pogroms against the Jews of the past or the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of French Huguenots or murderous raids by the Ku Klux Klan. These actions were swift and deadly emanating from the darkest part of man with no principle involved and no rhyme or reason to it other than loathing for another man. What possible explanation can there be for otherwise intelligent individuals to be totally blind to our enemies and at the same time work against our own government opposing these enemies? There is no explanation apart from outside interference that is diabolical in nature.
Right now there's no terror involved in the actions of a Federal judge or a crazy celebrity or a waiter in a fast food restaurant who won't serve a policeman. It's rather the haunting feeling of an embryo of terror that accompanies it that is discomforting, and this because there is no rational explanation for it....you can't reason within this type of phenomenon, it's as in an epidemic where doctors can find no bacteria no virus no anything other than destruction of cell tissue. Another unusual aspect of it is that it seems to be infecting just about everything....the National Football League....simple television commercials for a product....threatened boycotts against a product line of the President's daughter! No...this is something that demands that every clear thinking American put away their toys for a time, set out sentries and attempt to at least recognize what is happening.
This is but part of why I have consistently urged pastors to warn their sheep on what may be ahead. This is uncharted territory for Americans on the scale that it has a potential for. Knowledge may have increased in the past century but discernment has decreased while dangers and deception have skyrocketed! Scriptural warnings are very clear....stay vigilant....be alert....be on guard! There may have been arbors of time in the past.....where Christians could concentrate solely on building....I grant you that...but this is not one of those times!
God has blessed His church mightily through the ages with scholars such as the Apostle Paul, Luther, Calvin, Edwards and J. Gresham Machen but I don't believe that He is impressed by how many letters a man may have have after his name. He can and often does give more theological wisdom to the common man than Dr. High and Mighty Professor of Every Big Word You'll Never Hear in Your Lifetime. On the other hand a lifetime of scholarly work attempting to be the best teacher one can be is more than honorable and deserves great respect. That's all we're asking of you....keep an open and humble mind to God's leading....because if you don't then God is able to, and often has, speak more through the man who unplugs your basement floor drain to subsidize his pastor's income than you with your beautiful building and busy staff.
