Posted on 05/20/2016 7:04:49 AM PDT by raccoonradio
While you were fighting over who should use what bathrooms at Target, we lost our country.
While you were arguing with coworkers over who would leave the country first if Trump/Clinton were elected, the “American Dream” perished.
Don’t believe me? Then perhaps ALL is lost. And I can prove it all to you through the eyes of a child. The screens around our house in the past couple of weeks stand in stark contrast to what’s in front of them.
The television … the laptops … the iPads … the cell phones … filled with images of the attacks around the world. Day in and day out, we hear stories about “refugees” pouring into the United States. Broadcast are the sounds of tone-deaf leaders. Of anger. Of hatred. Of hurt. Of fear.
In front of those screens runs our little daughter. Just over a year old, she’s the greatest blessing a young family can have. She’s filled with innocence, love, joy and our hopes for the future.
But there was a lull in the media noise on Sunday when we attended Mass. Our priest usually preaches about love. Faith. Hope. But there was a different dynamic this week.
There was a different energy.
This time, he talked about the end of times.
Our priest is far from being an alarmist. Just the opposite. But this particular Mass, he spoke deeply and heavily about being prepared. “For we know not the hour … ”
He wasn’t trying to frighten people. But he also understood that he couldn’t be tone-deaf to the deep concerns of his flock.
It’s hard not to be afraid. It’s hard not to have an underlying anxiety. It’s hard not to wonder and pray over whether your children will have the same opportunities you did.
Growing up, I paid close attention in history class. And I’ve always felt a very deep sense of patriotism. I’ve always felt great respect for my country and believed that if, God forbid, we ever faced World War III, America would once again triumph. Perhaps my fear, and the anxiety of so many others, is that we were wrong.
We were wrong because of one simple line that I believe may have been written wrong. It should have read, “One Nation, Divisible After All.”
Have we ever faced a time when our country was so polarized? Have we ever faced enemies so dangerous? Have we ever been on such a precipice that a frightening and painful energy radiated through each of us, tying us together in some disturbing, unifying, powerful and yet simultaneously divisive way?
I’m angered to see that we live in a country where we have gone soft. We’ve become hypocrites, and we’ve become pansies.
We forget that our grandfathers stormed beaches to protect freedom. Instead, we demand that the freedom now come in the form of a shelter from hearing words we don’t like.
We flip out because our $7 coffee comes in a red cup. We cancel concerts and cost people jobs because we don’t agree with a law that the people of the state passed.
We care more about protecting where someone can take a leak than we care about the safety of our children. OUR CHILDREN.
We give out trophies to kids who come in 8th place. Eighth freaking place.
We dig up the graves of people who have been dead for a hundred-plus years because they had something to do with the Confederate flag, and that offends someone NOW.
We say we hate what Democrats have done to the country, so we elect a House and Senate full of Republicans who proceed to also place THEIR heads up their collective asses as well. It seems as if both parties forgot what they were supposed to be doing and whom they are supposed to be representing.
We pick sides and parties and teams and defend them to the ends of the Earth, ignoring the facts, pointing the fingers and hoping someone else will cover the cost of our skyrocketing and borderline pointless health insurance.
We talk about the number of homeless vets who we have to feed and clothe and house when it’s convenient for us to leverage them like pawns in a game – yet tomorrow, so many will forget to feed and clothe and house them.
We ignore the simple facts about our dangerously open borders and the lack of a vetting process for refugees, then we stand in horror as ISIS attacks and we ask our politicians how they could have let this happen. And then, of course, we put a fast lane in for more to cross the border.
We put in place more gun laws to prevent the bad guys from doing bad things. Because for some reason, we believe that bad guys give a damn about laws and that giving them an open shooting range on a military base or school campus will somehow protect our citizens. But then we completely ignore the massive problem of mental health in this country. We’re more worried about the tool than we are the person.
We cry out that police are our enemies … and then we beg them to protect us from the likes of ISIS.
We celebrate court rulings with rainbow flags that speak volumes about how far we’ve come and how inclusive we are as Americans … then we tell our neighbors to remove their American flags and stop saying “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hanukkah” because it offends us.
We send billions of dollars overseas to help the homeless in impoverished and war-torn nations while we cut the funding for our own food banks and homeless programs.
We get into fistfights about “under-inflated balls” while gorging ourselves on beer and wings at football games … while millions of Americans wonder how they’re going to pay their mortgage and put food on the table for their families.
We fight tooth and nail over whether someone dying of stage four pancreatic cancer should be allowed to use medical marijuana while drugs like heroin are running rampant in our schools.
We teach kids that there should be no boys section or girls section at the store, but our kids notice that we won’t sit down with our neighbor for a beer because they have a different skin color and we’re too busy fighting over what is and isn’t racism. We hold massive rallies demanding $15/hour for flipping burgers … but we sit quietly on the sidelines when our men and women protecting our country who make $11/hour aren’t getting paid because Congress is debating their funding.
We change our profile pictures to colors that represent solidarity with a country that was attacked by terrorists … then we attack our neighbors for being concerned that the same could happen here.
We’re terribly focused on what matters to us as individuals. Marriage. Cell phones. Birth control. On and on and on. We’re so worried about what matters to “me” that we forgot that in order for us to have a “me” … we have to first have an “us.” A safe “us.” A unified “us.” An “us” that can at least find some kind of middle ground.
Tomorrow is a new day. So tonight, before bed, we pray … just a little harder, perhaps, than we’ve prayed before.
We put our daughter to sleep and shut off the television. The internet. The phones. The iPads. All screens but the black and white monitor where we can see nothing but innocence. And for a moment, just one fleeting, precious moment, we’re once again one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I don’t expect everyone to agree with everything in this article. But if even a piece of it resonated with you, please share it with others and ask them to do the same. It’s time we start having some very difficult and very real conversations. I hope this helps start that.
When the weavers have all gone on siesta, what do you expect to happen to it?
If Obama is making coed baths and showers why not coed prisons?
Why separate minors from adults?
What could possibly be wrong?
Many on our side are seeking excuse to give up. Stop it.
+1. Don't give up. Stand up! Speak up!
People are starting to wake up. The more the communists/progressives/liberals push, the more they reveal themselves for what they really are.
(Fairness dictates that I acknowledge the concept for the list heading this post originated from a post by fellow Freeper mbarker12474.)
“PROGRESSIVE” GOAL? TO ELIMINATE GOD
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about gay marriage isn’t about gay marriage.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about homosexuality isn’t about homosexuality.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about teen sexuality isn’t about teen sex.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about promiscuity and marital infidelity isn’t about promiscuity.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about no-fault divorce isn’t about divorce.
The NEW “progressive” leftist promoted debate about transgender bathrooms isn’t about transgender bathrooms.
And the NEW “progressive” leftist promoted debate about adult-child sexuality isn’t about pederasty or pedophilia.
The Utopian “progressive” left seeks to replace God with man (or SOME VERY “SPECIAL” MEN!), and God’s universe with one of man’s design.
The “progressive” left seeks to abolish God’s creation of sex, gender, and sexuality.
In another area, the “progressive” left seeks to convince us that man alone controls the universe. When the left claims that man causes climate change and man causes earthquakes (by fracking, water injection, etc.), the “progressive” left is seeking to eliminate God.
“Progressive” leftists believe, or claim to believe, that a junta of wise men – made so by birth to the “right” parents or educated in the “right” universities – can perfect the world. Think utopia or heaven on earth.
To achieve their goal, the “progressive” left must destroy God in the minds of the men they seek to rule.
Ironically, it was the agnostic, humanist, Darwinist commentator H.L.Mencken who summarized the goal of the “progressive” left in these 16 words:
“The urge to save humanity is most often a false front for the urge to rule.”
Taking their cue from George Orwell, they call themselves “progressives”, hoping that the uninformed and ignorant among us would be fooled by this gaggle of Utopian fools who seek to drag us to another of the command societies that have always failed.
Do you remember back the 2008 “election” when the arch “progressive” Obama declared that he would “transform America”? At the time I and many others asked to what would we wish to “transform” – in other words “PROGRESS” – a nation based on these words?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
After nearly 8 years of a “progressive” leftist in the White House, we have our answer: We have been transformed BACKWARD (regressed) from the truths of the Declaration and a “Creator” honoring people to a nation of soon to be slaves ruled by elitist Utopians who, by virtue of their “superiority”, know far better how we should live our lives than we do.
The vernacular for that is TOTALITARIANISM!
There is no room for a “Creator” in such a system.
There is also NO ROOM FOR “..LIFE, LIBERTY OR ...HAPPINESS”.
Yes, we are having idiotic arguments. But, this is what happens when you are having an argument with people who are mentally ill.
Yes, I did just call "transgender" people mentally ill. Think about it, you are born male, you, one day, look down at your naked self and you see a penis between your legs. However, you say: "I feel like a woman today."
There is nothing wrong with the organ between your legs. The problem is with the organ between your ears. You are having a problem with perception, which is causing you emotional distress.
Maybe we should be doing brain scans on these people, asking them questions about how they view themselves, and see what the brain is doing when a man tells you that he is actually a woman trapped in a man's body. It might be helpful.
I will never give up and I reject defeatism in all forms. If you want to go and give up and wait for Jesus to save you, fine. Just stay out of my way.
CW-II will only ‘start’ when the globalists start it, by collapsing the economic system so that chaos, starvation, disease, and mayhem reduce the population to the oligarch’s desired level and neutralize all those guns in the hands of those who can fight against the oligarchy. CW-II will be at first race war, then just fighting to survive the demonic mayhem. The banking oligarchy will not be held responsible for the evil they have wrought for they will use the same tools used through ‘modern history’, brought on by economic collapse into complete disorder, from which these same evil rulers believe they can raise up their utopian rule.
My wife has been taking financial classes this week. Over the last couple of days, she’s repeated to me what her instructor said. In a nutshell (according to him), we’ve got about 2 years at the outside before the dollar collapses. Not only that, when it does, it’ll likely take most of the world’s other currencies with it.
Take about a depressing scenario.
Where will Mr. Reyes’ daughter be educated, I wonder...?
,,,,,,, puff ,,,, bye !
yeah it is ciaosville.
but there is a virtuous silver lining even in that dark cloud. when what can be shaken is shaken, what can’t be shaken will prosper.
It’s even more important to concentrate upon what it is we should LOVE... than what it is we hate.
Just because we hate the bathwater, we should not hate the baby.
Our guesses may be hideously wrong because we may not even know what our own worst sins are.
We will do best to embrace Jesus right here and now into whatever situation we face.
They can’t eliminate God, and to act as if they can, is simply to buy their hypnotic lies.
They can embrace the devil and freeze themselves into a position of perpetually refusing to acknowledge God except for hating Him. Perhaps the fire in which hell is cast is the same thing as the light of heaven, and the difference is in how it is viewed by those upon which it flows. To one, an insufferable torture to be raged against forever, to the other, a pleasure beyond mortal ken.
“We put our daughter to sleep and shut off the television. The internet. The phones. The iPads”
This guy is an idiot. What is with this “we” stuff? His problem is that he has it bass ackwards. Shut off the television, internet, the phones before your daughter goes to bed. Control your environment. Make it loving interesting, innocent, and amazing for your daughter. Your daughter’s biggest problem is YOU. You are not man enough to raise her yourself. You are letting media raise her. You are a bad parent. Enough like you and we WILL lose America
There is a lot of truth to this. Moderns try to raise their children by proxy because it has been made so easy, as if it were another commodity.
The last verses of the Old Testament talk of the one who comes in the spirit of Elijah coming to “turn the hearts of the fathers to the children” and vice versa “lest the Lord strike the land with a curse.”
God doesn’t relate to His children by proxy. It’s personal. He doesn’t ever complain about being too busy in heaven for that.
Undoubtedly. But I don’t recall him counseling retreat in the face of evil. I have nothing but contempt for those who say nothing can be done and sit quietly while evil ascends.
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