"Entitlement" outrage

A few days ago Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was heard making the following comment:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what . . . he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. . . . I mean that’s what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Liberals everywhere were almost immediately up in arms, claiming that Romney clearly doesn't care anything about the American people.  The sad part is, there were a significant number of conservatives mirroring their opinion.

 Come on people!  Where did you ever get the idea that you were entitled to health care, food, and housing?  And who told you that the US government was responsible for providing these things?

Heads up folks: you are NOT entitled to health care, housing, and food.  All of these things are benefits, they are the result of your work.  The bottom line is, when you work, you eat.  You either pay for insurance, or find a job where a generous employer pays for it, or makes it available to you. You spend your money for rent or mortgage so that you have a roof over your head.  

Where did we get such a skewed view of what our government is responsible for?  Ask your grandparents how they ate 50 years ago.  Ask them what they did when someone needed a doctor, or how they provided a home for your parents.  I'll bet they all say the same thing:  "we worked for it."

By the way, this is not a new concept!  This is God's principle.  Yep, it's even in the Bible.  2 Thessalonians 3:10 states is pretty clearly:  "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat."  I don't know of any higher authority than that.

 

Free Speech...unless it upsets liberals

I heard an interesting item about an upcoming Superbowl ad that is already causing a controversy. That isn't unusual in itself, a lot of them are controversial. But this one is a little different from what we usually come to expect.

This ad, or commercial, is anti-abortion and features a popular college football player (Tim Tebow) thanking his mother for not aborting him, despite the advice of doctors to do so.

So who's offended? Why, the liberals of course!

Their reasoning (?) is that this type of message should not be played during the Superbowl because it divides Americans. According to them the Superbowl is a time when all Americans come together and airing this commercial causes us to divide.

Wait a minute...isn't the Superbowl itself a game between two teams? Is everyone pulling for the same team? Aren't we already divided when we sit down to watch the game? Maybe we need to narrow the season down to one team so we don't disagree on the outcome.

This has nothing to do with anything or anyone being divided. The pro-abortionists don't mind being divided.

What they mind is that this ad will have millions of viewers. Because of our right to free speech, those of us in favor of life will finally have some voice across not only this country, but abroad as well.

Isn't it amazing that the very one's who spout off whatever anti-life, anti-morality, and anti-God message they want, through the very media they're now trying to squelch, don't want free speech.

I'm sure they're still for free speech, as long as it's their speech that's being heard.

I wonder if they've ever asked all those murdered children what they think about it? I guess their free speech rights don't apply either.

Where is the liberal outrage?

Here is just one more example, a blatant one at that, of the hypocrisy of the liberals in this country, particularly those in “Hollywood”.

After being a fugitive from justice for more than 30 years for sodomizing and raping a 13 year old girl, movie director Roman Polanski was finally arrested in Switzerland. He was awaiting sentencing for the crime(s) he plead to when he fled the United States.

While some have termed the encounter between Polanski, then 44, and the victim consensual, keep in mind that she was 13 (unable to give consent by law), and had been given champagne and Quaaludes by Polanski. When he feared that she might become pregnant, he forced her to have anal sex.

The real “shocker” in all of this is the outcry from the Hollywood set, generally considered liberal and all about the rights of individuals, to set him free! They contend that this was a mistake, and that he’s served his time. They even use the fact that the victim, now in her 40’s, doesn’t want to go through any further testimony (which is true).

While listening to a call-in news show, the general consensus of the callers backed what the Hollywood crowd is calling for: it’s been 30 years, forget about it, he made a mistake.

Is this really the message we want to send out, not only to fellow Americans, but to the world, that if you can evade justice long enough, then no crime occurred? Why then don’t we apply that philosophy to everyone? After all, Osama Bin-Laden has evaded justice for 9 years now; let’s just let bygones be bygones.

Maybe this reasoning is why the liberals want us out of Iraq so badly. It’s been nearly a decade since the terrorists attacked New York and Washington D.C., isn’t it time to just let it go?

If that is the mentality of the majority of this country (which I hope to God that it isn’t), then we’re further down the road to destruction than I thought. What with the Government buying out banks and industry, trying to control healthcare, and now the justice system which this country’s laws are based on being worthless, we really don’t stand much of a chance.

May God have mercy on us.

"If I perish, I perish."

If you’re a Christian, then there are some things that you just accept as the truth. And if something is accepted as the truth, it only follows that it is true all the time, making it an “absolute truth”.

We believe God’s word to be the absolute truth; we believe the gospel message of Jesus to be the absolute truth.

Now, if we accept that the word of God, the Bible, is the absolute truth, then we must also accept that there are things that are always right, and things that are always wrong. These always rights and always wrongs don’t leave room for riding the fence. There is no middle ground.

Two issues that Christians believe to be always wrong (an absolute truth) is abortion and same-sex marriage. There are many others but these two are always topics of discussion in today’s media.

If we as Christians know in our hearts that these issues are always wrong, then why are we so quiet about them? Why aren’t we exercising our free speech rights and speaking out against them? Why aren’t we going to our elected officials, or electing those that are like-minded with us. Liberals and atheists have no problem speaking their opinions. Loudly, at that.

Simply put, we’re afraid. Afraid we’ll stand out. Afraid of ridicule. Afraid of losing friends, or even our jobs. We’re afraid of being charged with a “hate crime” (a very real possibility) and being arrested. So we stay quiet, under the radar. “Someone else will speak up, I can’t do it.” We even take the stance that the issue is wrong for me, but if someone doesn’t believe like I do, then its okay if they do it (abort a child, marry the same gender). That kind of contradicts absolute truth, doesn’t it? May God forgive us when we get to that point.

In the Old Testament of the Bible there was a Jewish woman, Esther, who became a queen in the Persian court. Because she was in a position to speak to the king, she was asked to speak to him to prevent thousands of Jews from being slaughtered, because of a decree that the king had issued (he didn’t know that Esther was also a Jew).

When she was asked to speak to the king to prevent this tragedy (something that I think we could all agree would be an “always wrong”), she responded like we do today. “I can’t do that. If I approach the king without invitation, he might kill me.” (Paraphrased). Her own personal safety, the risks she faced for herself, outweighed that fact that thousands of her own people were going to be killed.

She finally realized that what she was doing was wrong, and she did approach the king and thereby saved thousands of lives. Her attitude upon approaching the king was “if I perish, I perish.”

What does this have to do with today’s issues? What if I/we put aside all of our fears and personal concerns and spoke up against wrong? How many babies might be saved if I spoke up? How many people might turn to God if I spoke up?

To put it on a more personal level, how many babies have died because I haven’t spoken out against something I believe to be absolutely, always wrong?

We don’t have to be quiet. If this makes me stand out, lose friends, jobs, get arrested, it would all pale in comparison to thousands of babies dying because I didn’t speak up.

If I perish, I perish.