DUMB DOGS

The set of laws Moses received from God in no way defined a new national structure but in it, as personal adherence to it followed, allowed a societal cohesiveness which provided God’s people the opportunity to organize into the nation of Israel. At the founding of our nation a standard was set forth to limit government. Our Constitution was put in place to be the foundation and guideline for all law thereafter. Under both mantles, your attention is drawn to God. On the tablets, the first command is; Thou shalt have no other gods before me. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin urged his fellow participants to call upon the “God [who] governs in the affairs of men”.

In “Twilight of the Idols”, arch-atheist Fredrich Nietzsche makes the observation that breaking one’s faith in God pulls Christian morality right out from under your feet. “Christian morality is a command; its origin is transcendent; it is beyond all criticism, all right to criticism; it has truth only if God has truth--it stands or falls with faith in God”, he wrote. Nietzsche went on to profess, “no God, no moral imperatives; no “thou shalt”, and no “thou shalt not”. Only, “I will”. To bad that today’s atheists are not as honest or consistent as Nietzsche, enjoying the peace and tolerance derived from Christendom, all the while denying the existence of the Rule-giver.

Today we are faced with the ever-deluding definition of what is acceptable as moral behavior. Moral relativism runs rampant. There is one important factor that has promoted this problem. As individuals, assisted by the world wide web and technologies that further separate us from each other face to face, we have been pushed into a scenario of “one” and not community. This leaves each one of us as gatekeepers of our own values, without the guidance or checks and balance found in the “fear“ of God. Fewer find the importance of fellowship in the pews of Christian chapels and the seeking out of good advice and leadership. The allure to the guidance of a secular nations political class that promotes “I will” has allowed each of us to become the dumb dogs of Isaiah 56: 10-11. While we put on a good show at times (why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say? Luke 6:46), our actions show us to be in defiance of the First Command. Whoever or whatever might take God’s place determines the laws by which that individual or nation lives by. But Christ said, “If ye love Me, keep my commandments”. (John 14:15) He does not refer to some new age idea (Oh, it’s all about love, man) interpretation of the Ten Commands.

Our quest today should be to restore God’s law to its legitimate place on our nations mantel. To do otherwise would be to succumb to the direct assault on the Christian religion, the only belief system that puts limits on government. The dumb dogs lay sleeping, allowing biblical law to be reinterpreted, relegating God to some distant corner of the universe, or worse, redefining Him in the image of the politically empowered, emboldening government to act without any regard for a fixed moral foundation, which is, “Thou shalt have no other gods”. Will you wake the dogs, or lay down with them? B.C.

A NEW MOVEMENT

You might not have had the opportunity to tune into a telling debate between democratic political hack dog, Bob Mulholland, and Mark Meckler, private businessman and organizer of the Sacramento TEA party. It occurred on KTKZ 1380, during the Capital Hour, hosted by Eric Hogue, this past Friday at noon. If it gets archived you should hear it. It is a perfect example of leftists who don’t like to discuss their vial statements and critical labeling and distain for voters. At the end of the debate, Mr. Mulholland called Mr. Meckler, and by association, all TEA party participants, an idiot. Mulholland and big spending socialists like him, say and insinuate “you all”, irrelevant Neanderthals from the hinterlands. IT SOULD BE YOUR CALL TO ARMS!

We are a movement agreed on tax cutting and against the tsunami of taxation gimmicks, ie. cap and trade, and nearly tripling of the debt. We are disgusted by the repressive, insane penalty on productivity, and suggest that the first national conversation after we lose our entire legacy to bailouts and “stimulus” should be the tax code.

We are a movement, not practiced at the art of protest, but a silent majority finding its voice.
TEA “party goers” knew as we gathered on the streets that we would be mocked and ridiculed by the “unbiased” media and friends of Bob Mulholland. Having not been deterred, we stand in opposition to the transformation, no founder envisioned, of the “greatest nation on God’s green earth”! B.C.