Folks.....if you have Sirius/Xm.....you can go there right now and skip back on the programming a little bit to 6AM....and listen to Breitbart radio's guest host of the day....Monica Crowley. Breitbart radio in itself is bad enough....with their dozen or so resident experts....and carefully chosen callers....but even though I research this stuff every day....as a longtime conservative radio listener....(is fifty years long enough)....this program today is hard to listen to. We evangelicals have been sucked into a world of revenge. I am generally not a reader of fiction but was walking briskly through Walmart three days ago and my eye spotted one paperback book....James Carr's....The Terminal List. I picked it up because the streaming series of the same name has been in the news.
The author this morning....in defense of the criticism of the film being right-wing conservative revenge oriented said this...."We don't mention right, left, conservative, liberal; none of those things are even mentioned." I can't speak for what is in the film but it was obvious in the book that this was for us....meaning the 'right'.....conservatives. At the top of the list of enemies are a husband and wife....he a womanizing congressman....and she....the dominant one....the Secretary of Defense in line to become President. The author stated that it was for military members and veterans....granted....but there are not enough readers there to make this a successful series of books....(he's working on his sixth in the series right now) The chapters are short....75 of them....in this 2018 book....making it easy to get through quickly. It seemed fairly well written....I'm not an expert here....and probably fits nicely into the genre.....but it is for conservatives....more correctly labeled today....'the Right'.....the talk radio and Tucker Carlson crowd.....and it is nothing but revenge.
Back to Breitbart radio today. If you have the capability....please go back and listen to this show. Maybe you will say....'What's wrong with this....it's all true?".....or maybe you will be unnerved as I was.....and see that this is definitely not a place for Christians to be.....this ever expanding political media....that has one and only one purpose for the moment....incite and keep us all angry.
For those graybeards out there like myself.....you remember the 1966 Paul Revere and the Raiders hit....Kicks Just Keep Getting Harder To Find....it was a profound principle....and warning.....one bad habit leads to another worse one.....always having to be a greater high. Well that is where we conservatives and evangelicals are today....the conspiracies have to keep getting more horrible to keep our interest....and to keep us boiling mad....and this Breitbart radio program today should be evidence enough to the Christian with any discernment at all....to cause them to flee these people who have us in bondage....and return to the Word of God.
Addendum: After posting this I listened to John Piper's Sermon of the Day titled....I have other sheep not of this fold. This sermon was from August of 2011....and his concluding prayer contained these words...."Father....strip us from all nationalism." So I am recommending the sermon to you. You can just Google Piper's name and the sermon title.
