socialism

a bit off from what I normally blog about but I think it needs to be said


Socialism
Lately I have paid close attention to the actions of our current administration. The more I observe them, the more concerned I become, because of their movement towards Nationalism, and their association with confessed communists; such as Van Jones. I see that our current administration desires to move us down the road of socialism, and with all the failed attempts of this form of government I must say, if we head down that path there is a dark road ahead of us.

To begin, I’ll explain what I mean by Socialism. “Collective ownership, democratic control of the material means of production by the workers and the people. I realize definitions are boring, but for the sake of my argument I must use another quote from a socialist.

“Basic economic decisions, as well as political decisions, must reflect the common good. The entire economy should operate for the good of the entire society, with no one left behind.
No private concentrations of capital or other wealth, and no other types of private concentrations of power.
The end of money's domination over society. The end of the priority of property and private greed.
Socialism will complete what democracy began-- the transfer of sovereignty in all spheres from elites to the people.
"Communal ownership of land and capital." “
--Bertrand Russell in Roads to Freedom.

In essence, Socialism may sound like a good thing. Every child, mother, and grandpa is taken care of. Poverty is eliminated and all people, no matter their race, are considered equal. Everyone has a job and each person is given the same thing. In theory, this makes a perfect balance between every person. In practice, it caused The U.S.S.R. to have the highest production in recorded history. It allowed countries such as England, France, and Canada to nationalize their health care and education programs. It would seem to reason that sharing everything and causing everyone to work as one body towards one common goal, would cause all of these things to work flawlessly together to form a successful economy. With that well-built economy, it would increase the ability to meet the people’s needs, and create a very stable nation.

The problem within this idea is it only works in theory. You could think of it as an ant colony. Ants are directed by one head - the queen. That queen can represent the government that has centralized power with the supposed goal of caring for the nests health, by producing more jobs. Everyone else is the people, each with a certain dictated job by the queen. Only so many of a certain ant can be around or there is a build up of laziness so the work must meet a high enough level that every worker has a job.

For the ant this is very easily done due too the lack of actual thinking in comparison to the human. It is much easier to control and cause mindless pawns to roll together into one super organism, than to force many individuals into the same position for one group of representative’s or dictators, as they should be called, ideals. If you believe that humans are nothing more than a resource, and the main thing is the survival of the whole over the individual’s rights, then Socialism may appear as the perfect form of government, but I disagree.

Socialism argues for all things to be ruled by the people for the people, sounds like democracy like we have here in America, doesn’t it? However, there is one major difference. America is a republic democracy. Yes, the people have the power, but there is a set law that must be obeyed. The reason for this is the protection of the individual; to make the one with an opposing view to the popular view or goal has an equal standing amongst that majority. That way the individual is not expendable, but an equal and needed part of society.

In the Socialistic view, the opposition in the minority is nothing more than a disease that prevents meeting the highest standard of production for the common good. There is no room for debate, or liberty. You only have such things if you fall under the same dogma as those in power.

With the ideal that all people should work towards the common good of the whole , it leaves open the “moral” decision to eradicate anything that may go against or resist that common good, no matter what it might be.

Now if you look at what Socialism teaches, you will not hear such statements as genocide, or destruction of opposition. They will claim that, by leaving free speech, and the press without restrictions, it will actually help socialism to work in the way it was intended. Perhaps that is true, but what the Socialists of the past said, and what they did are entirely different things.

We have people, such as Chairman Mao, who killed millions of his own people in his several decades as a leader of China, Hitler, from the nationalist socialist party (Nazi), wiped out close to ten million people, from the Jews to school teachers of his own race. Then you have Mother Russia, the panicle of all socialism, where it transferred into communism, just as Karl Marx theorized in his manifesto.

I bring up so many cruel persons, with the ideology of centralizing power for the common good of the people, to show how vile socialism becomes in practice. It is nothing more than conquest of a nation into the hands of the few under the name of the many.

I cannot stand for something that rips out the very heart of the person, ridding them of their unique attributes, to make them nothing more than ants that are expendable resources for the good of everyone else. This idea justifies the genocides that have taken and are taking place. All that has to be said is the death of this class will enhance the survival of this class. It is not the elimination of the class system that the socialist fights for, but the living, breathing beast of a cast system all over again, except it is in a far more destructive form than can be imagined.

Ask the prisoners of Mother Russia, and Red China to see how equal they are in comparison to their keepers. The prisoner has no rights; he or she is treated as if they are sub human. They become nothing more than a screaming ragdoll for their oppressors amusement.

With all these negative and grotesque acts done in the name of the common good that is never truly defined; our current administration is heading down that road. They wish to gain control of 40% of the GDP. They have already nationalized industry with policies in support of unions, and taken control of the automotive industry. They have taken control of several banks and dictate their every move, and now they want to control health care.

Where will this end? Will it be when they physically place the chains of slavery upon you? Is it then that you will finally rally against this atrocity? I cannot wait that long, and neither can you. We are coming to close to the line that must not be crossed or the America that we know the land of the free and the home of the brave will be no more.

There is a place at the top of waterfalls that if you go past it, there is nothing anyone in the world can do to prevent you from going off of that cliff. By the time the chains come we will be falling off that waterfall, but we can still stop ourselves from crossing the line of no return.

Perhaps you think I’m crazy trying to recreate the red scare, or the witch hunts for communists but I’m not. I only desire that our politicians stop what they’re doing and think of the oath they took to protect the constitution. If you follow their current course of action, word, and philosophy the constitution is nothing but a floor mat and a hindrance to their revolution.

Perhaps, this is why they were elected, because the people of America laid down their will to be independent and free, and desire to be entirely cared for by the government. They don’t care about the rights they have, and believe all the blood that was shed in the past two hundred years was a waste. If that is what America, believes then let us push on to become socialists, ridding of the individual, and destroying the minority in the name of the common good. Let’s strengthen the central powers so they control our lives, and decide where we work, what we eat, how we raise our children, and every other facet of our lives. Let’s allow those in power to treat everything as a statistic and believe they are playing with numbers instead of people like themselves. If this is what the American people want then so be it.
However, I doubt that is what America wants. We didn’t elect people so they could trample down our rights, but so they would protect our rights and represent the people. Not ruling over them, but acting as a humble servant to the people. Putting forth the constitutes agenda, and not their own. That is the Job of the Senator. Not to force things down our throat and use scare tactics. Like it must be done now or everything will fall apart, as they did with the TARP Bill, Stimulus, and now trying to do with the health care plan.

At this point you are probably wondering what you can do about it. How can I stop them from moving down this road that doesn’t express who I am, and doesn’t add up with my values or beliefs? You think that you are only one voice, and by yourself there is little you can do. Thanks be to God that isn’t the truth. Here’s what can be done, become informed, if you don’t know what is going on how can you speak out for or against it. You must look at every source, and check it out see how it adds up and ties together. There are a giant slew of resources such as the internet, the news, and talk radio to get informed and make an educated opinion.
The next step would be organizing. Look for other people with similar opinions and work together to protest and stand against what you don’t want happening in your nation. Finally take advantage of every right from the constitution; you still have to speak out and let your representatives know it. Call them, send them letters with your complaints, and if they don’t listen vote them out and put in someone who will do the job!

I must say again that Socialism has a dark record of brutality and always morphs into something far worse than what was intended. We cannot, as free people, allow something like this to become a part of our country. We cannot allow one groups ideology have so much power that everyone must bow to its will. We must stand against these tentacles of tyranny, and like a faithful guard dog, we can’t stop snapping our teeth until the intruder has left.

I didn't understand it

I don’t know how to explain it. I just know that I have a feeling that I use to battle with. It had to do with my salvation. It wasn’t about being saved, for I knew that, but understanding how God was able to forgive me. My sins have always plagued my mind. My regret for such actions was almost defeating. It made me feel so terrible deep within myself. This emotion, if it can be called that, was the source of my trouble. At least I thought of it that way. I felt like I was thinking to much about what I was forgiven for. Thankfully I was wrong.

One night I sinned in such a way that it made me want to die. I felt so terrible about it that I couldn’t see how God would let me live after I performed it. In the midst of that sea of sorrow that My actions caused, I found something. I found a Joy, yes A Joy in the realization of my fallen state. I had always known this but it hadn’t meant as much to me as it did that night in quite sometime.

The Joy that I found was so peaceful. It gave me just enough strength to make it through the night and the next couple of days. This Joy came because I saw once again the Grace and Favor that God had placed upon me. To see that with all that I have done, he still loved me. I felt like every sin I had ever done was before my eye’s that night. I saw them all.

The list is so large, I could name them all in detail and write several books off of it, or I could go into a vague description and still come to pages, like I did the night I prayed to God, for what seemed like an eternity to me. I was completely overcome by sorrow and completely renewed by joy, while being swallowed by the presence of God.

I wish I knew how to form that feeling into words so that you could understand. Yet I have no way. I’m unable to explain it plainly because it was such a heavenly thing. Perhaps that was the feeling that Isaiah had when he was in the presence of God and felt so unworthy yet so blessed to have Gods favor upon his life.
IT was like seeing everything I have ever done wrong all placed in a giant pile that was placed upon me. Then having it slowly removed from me as I confessed it to God once again. As it left piece by piece it was replaced by a heavier feeling.
This feeling but a sample of the weight of God. That weight was greater than my sin, as if I was placed at the very bottom of Mariana Trench. However this amazing pressure was so wonderful to be it as it was the very presence of God that has freed me and many others from their sins.

However this feeling, this wonderful weight that is so unbearable but so desirable to me wasn’t enough to rid me of the feeling. It still kept nagging at me. How Could God forgive me of all that I have done, all that I repeatedly do. That thought waged war within me. IT made me feel like the greatest hypocrite of all time. To be someone who has been in the presence of God, to know his word, to have became his child, and still sin. That drove me nuts.
I don’t know how to explain this either but I found that my sensitivity to my sin, that revealed my unholy ness to me, even in areas of my life that are hidden from myself, was the greatest sign of Gods Grace in my life. For him to show me that I am so worthless, to humble me, and show he loved me was such a wonderful gift. I still feel such a pain, such a sorrow, like none I’ve ever endured within me. It is sharper than any blade, faster than any bullet, more powerful than any bomb, or military force. It make’s me want to crumble.

In the mist of such regret and revelation I find myself saying things that psychologist would relate to chronic depression. Yet I find them to be my greatest Joy. To find that I am utterly worthless and unable to do anything to please my God within myself was wonderful. It shows that nothing I do will ever make me reach him. It also shows because I can never reach him on my own, I can never loose him on my own. Only By me wanting him and God reaching out to grab me am I saved.

I find myself hating my sin so strongly and when I do it, I crumble because I feel so unholy and worthless to God. Yet he always comes and lifts me back up. I just humble myself before him when This happens or some terrible event occurs in my life that seems to overtake me. To my knee’s do I fall at my fathers thrown, where he smiles and tells me that I can endure and then gives me just enough strength to make it through the day, while constantly using it to make me grow.

Oh how wonderful God is. The only God, and the only one deserving of my worship. The One who is the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, High Priest of High Priests, The prince of peace, the hope of my salvation, and my Father. Not only a loving father who wants the best for me, but a wise, just, and all powerful God who looks at me with Compassion.

why

Why? (Part 1)
Have you ever wondered why God had to bring salvation in the way he did? After all Jesus, his very son, said “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” (John 22: 42) He also said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14: 6) If there was any other way for God to free men from Sin why didn’t he take it. That means that every claim of Buddha, the Hindus, Muslims, Atheist, or Agnostic throws out is either a Lie, or what we believe is a Lie, and I assure you that is not the case. That means God has no tolerance for any other belief system, because if those could lead to him, then he wouldn’t have tortured and killed his own Son. He wouldn’t have put him through the worst pain imaginable if there was an alternative. I know this because God says Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and The father are one and the same. (1 John 5: 7) There is no logical reason for God to torture himself if there is any other way.

Another question would be why Did God even care to free us from our Sins. We know there is no other way that we can be saved except through Jesus Christ, (Acts 4:12) but that doesn’t explain why he did it.(this is must be understood to understand the first question) The only reason I can find is Love (John 3:16). I find no reason why, but only the effect of it. You see we disobeyed and rejected God from the beginning, many of us have cursed him, and forgotten him in most every area of our lives, but the fact still remains God loves us. (Psalms 103: 11, 17).
The only way that it makes since is God is Love, God is the author of Love, Gods very nature is love. In fact the two greatest commandments that fulfill all the law are built on the foundation of Love.( Matt 22: 37-40), and all the law is fulfilled by the law (Rom 13:10). Then In Gal 5:22 is describes the Fruit, or Character of The Holy Spirit (God himself), and the first on the list is Love. There is no other reason for Why God would go to such lengths to save those who would reject him, who would curse him, who would ignore him, and place other gods in his place, other than Love. “Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” God was willing to Die for those he loved, for those who would come to him, for he calls them friends. He didn’t care that they weren’t his friends yet, but he knew what would happen if he went through with his plan.

So back to the original question Why Did God have to bring salvation in the manor that he did? Some have said its because “Sin is so strong that God couldn’t speak it out of existence” and others have said “So we can choose”, but both answers are wrong in essence. For one Scripture says that God is capable of doing most anything so long as its not against his nature. (Jer 32:17,27, Heb 6:18) So why couldn’t he just speak it out of existence. We know that Sin causes all suffering because Sin leads to death ( James 1: 14-15) So Since God is loving (Psalms 103: 11, 17) Why doesn’t he just take the easy way out and stop having us suffer?

The answer to that is God is just (Deu 32:4), but that within its self probably doesn’t make since. First off lets define what the word Just means. “To receive what is deserved”. That means If I’m owed 100 dollars then I get 100 dollars nothing more and nothing less. That is perfect essence. So lets apply that to another every day situation. Say a man is caught speeding at 55 MPH through a blind children’s convention at the park with a set speed of 15 MPH and with it there is a 25,000 Dollar fine, and there is no way you can pay that fine. Well if the Judge is doing his Job then he would say sorry buddy, but you have to pay the price, and we would have to pay that 25,000. If the Judge just says well ok I’ll let you off this time, or change it at a whim then he is no longer a good judge. We would say to him he deserves to pay the same price as that the murder, rapist, or who ever else he let off should have Got because he’s just as bad as that person.

Of coarse God is merciful and Mercy means to be given more than we deserve in a positive way For example you’re a snot nosed brat who doesn’t respect anything, but your daddy buys you a corvette for your 16th birthday. Well you don’t deserve it at all, but its given to you, and that is a simple form of Mercy. The thing is were not only unworthy of mercy, but to give us Mercy would be unjust and wicked if our price, that has done so much, is not paid for.
God being both Merciful and Just in nature he must fulfill both properties. So how in the world Can a Just Person be merciful to a wicked being and still remain true to their character, because to turn from that character would make them a liar and God is no liar. (Heb 6: 18) So Before the world began, knowing that everything would Go wrong he had it planned out how he could be merciful to those who were wicked and remain Just himself.( 2 Tim 1: 9-10)

It goes kind of like this. A boy is brought before his father, who is a judge, for the crime of involuntary man slaughter, and the price is 10 years in prison with no bail, or 100,000 dollar fine. The boy looks at his father and says “Well, there is no way I can pay that Pa”. He and his father both know that the Judge has to do the right thing and that means the fine or the time must be paid. If The father doesn’t do as he’s supposed to then he’s just as guilty of the crime as his son. So with the great love and mercy of a father he comes down from his place of authority and coming before his Son he say’s “I can pay it son” and the son accepts it. The debt is paid, the law is kept, the father is still just and merciful, and the wicked receives that mercy. It all works out.

The same thing had to happen with us. The price for Sin is death, and the consequence is Eternity in Hell. I’m sure your aware of this, so please understand I’m not pushing that fact beyond need. So we can either pay the price which is an innocent life, or pay the time which I have already mentioned. The problem is the price is death and so to pay that price we need to live innocently but we only have one life and even if we had an eternity worth of lives we would never come out as innocent, our only option is to pay the time. God knows this and says I’ll pay the fine. I’ll take your crimes and have them paid for, I’ll blot out your transgressions so that you can have eternal life. God gives his life for us, knowing that he himself is innocent he takes the price of the guilty and pays it with his own life. (John 3:16)
It is for the fact that God is the perfect Judge, and is perfectly just, while being perfectly merciful, and the author of love that God has no other way that he can remove our sin.

Glory

Father, how I mourn for you. You are the sovereign God worthy of all praise, and all Glory. You deserve it more than anyone, and receive it not. The angels sing to you, but the creation, made in your image, denies you of the honor you are due. This weakens my heart Lord. As I write this, humans give their worship to everything in this world accept you; placing their mind upon everything that appears right in their own eyes; Worshiping other Gods, Idolizing self image, and the works of man. You allow this for now out of your great mercies, giving them one more breath to possibly accept you. Then you have your children here on earth who shame you; who allow the dammed to remain as they are without speaking the truth that can free their soul. How you must weep, my Aboni, at the sight to behold when you look at this oasis in the midst of a dangerous land.You have made everything as it should be, to protect us from hostility of are seemingly limitless environment. How the heavens show only a part of your glory! we look at them, and are marveled by what we find, captivating our mind. These celestial bodies are only your creation, and yet far beyond human comprehension. God, how worthy you are of so much more than I could give. Then you raise it further beyond our imagination by giving yourself to us. How unworthy I am to even speak your most indirect name. This wretched body of death, worthy only of hell in you presence; attempting to praise you in the only way it finds its self able; by relying on his pathetic excuse of literature that you have allowed him.Thank you for pardoning my unworthiness of such an act that many take for granted, not showing proper reverence. Humble us lord, and show us how to worship you in spirit and truth.

2 Tim 3: 1-7

This post will also be short. I only have ten minutes left at this moment. Anyways I have to say I'm agitated beyond all need because of my first hour class today. There I am trying to do my home work and the only thing anyone wants to talk about is what their doing their senior year. Well that’s all fine and dandy until they start talking about all the wonderful Vices that they all are swallowed up by, without a second thought. It made me so sick to think that people I have known for the last few years are so consumed by their own lusts. That the same kids who go to church every Sunday are the same kids who are described in Verse 4 "Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God."

I don't see how they can be so short minded and forgetful of everything. How they can claim to be something and be everything but that Monday through Saturday.I know I'm guilty of my own sins, my own vices, but they seem to take pride in them, or as the verse say "High minded" over their sin. I curse myself for the crimes against God that I have made, because I know that by such things I placed my king upon the Cross.Thanks be to God that I'm not guilty of the list that is in these seven verses of the activates "in the last days perilous times shall come", I just don't comprehend it.

What is it that sets me apart from all of them? We all claim to believe in the same God but I don't have any of the same desires of sneaking into Kansas to get drunk and then going to Las Vegas because of legalized prostitution, or making a Joke out of who's going to be the first person to have a Kid in our class. Its all vanity and they are all consumed by it.Don't they understand that this life is just a vapor, its here and then its gone. Then as we pass away we enter eternity. Why should I waist my life pleasing myself, and in reality destroying myself, causing myself more hardship than I need, all in the name of Fun. When I can do things the way they are to be and receive the blessing that come with it.

Reflection

My first post in this blog will be rather minuet. I apologize for that, but for the sake of time I must make this quick.

2 Cor 13: 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Je'sus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

This verse is saying stop and take a look at yourself. Are you really what you claim to be? Are you really a child of God, a servant of the most high, or a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Such questions might offend you and you'll say "who is this boy to question my devotion to God?" The truth is I am no one, and you'll probably never meet me, but I’m not the one questioning that fact. I want you to question that fact, because I would rather have you come to the conclusion that your dieing and going to hell while you still have a chance at repentance, than to believe you have "fire insurance" and end up separated from God.

I know such a saying is harsh, but look at the reality of it. Jesus Christ himself said "...It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."In essence to see if you are not a reprobate which means "one who fails the test" look at the scriptures.

Look at the words of Jesus, and see if you bare fruit (john 15). Look at Galatians 5:22 and ask yourself if any of those traits are evident in your life. Read over 1st John and be entirely honest with yourself. For it is better to check and make sure than to be naive and die apart from God.