Posted on 06/09/2018 7:30:41 AM PDT by bray
Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
We are now having a rash of suicides just as many have been predicting knowing suicide is an outcome of secular atheism. When a person has no hope or future there is any reason for living. The atheists have convinced America they can become good people if they live a certain lifestyle they have designed. This lifestyle is earth friendly existences where you judge everything you do by how little impact you have on the dirt. In the end Mother Eart becomes your god as you repeat various incantations to show how much you care about your earthen gods. With this religion, rather than all paths leading to heaven in this one all paths lead to Marxism.
You can see this every day as people lead a meager existence outwardly showing everyone how much they are willing to lead a life of selflessness to society. They dutifully tote their recycle bags to the store showing everyone they really care about the environment as they have their bags which take well over a thousand plastic bags to make ship and market so that they can turn their nose up to one of those thousand bags. When they walk out of the store with their organic kale they know they are a better person than you since you do not have reusable bags.
Once you cross the threshold of worshiping the dirt you are then asked to do more and more for your god or gods to make you an even better person than just those who do not use reusable bags. You may want to start biking to work or purchasing an electric golf cart…err….car. Never mind a bicycle is unpractical for bad weather or raising a family, it shows that not only do you care about the environment by not burning any evil fossil fuels, but you care about your body and are going to live forever in perfect health, except when you have the flu or pneumonia from riding in the rain.
So then you step up to the earthen prize, the electric car. Of course you end up buying a hybrid since you never know when you may need to drive more than a hundred miles in ideal conditions on new batteries and have to switch over to evil fossil fuel. As you drive that first fifty feet on electric you know you are doing the earth good and not spewing any of that evil CO2 so you are one with nature. You ignore the fact your car has a ten times larger environmental impact than the SUV passing you if you were to factor in the hazardous materials to make the batteries and power generation plants to recharge your little statement to others of your caring about the dirt.
You drive your little hybrid with freedom knowing although you cannot get it past 50 on battery; you are a really good person and care so much more about the climate than those evil gas driving people. You are a better person as you ignore the hazardous waste you are creating when in five years you have to replace those wonderful batteries full of lead and every deadly material known to man, you are a caring good person.
By now you are a hardcore Marxist wanting everyone to care about the world as much as you do. You now think you have to really do penance for the world so you become a vegan. You go down to the Whole Foods store in your hybrid on only battery and take your three recycling bags out of the trunk and saunter into the store with the smug look of a superior human being. After all you are now someone who the eart loves and you love her. You load up with a bushel full of vegies and lentil beans and buy a couple more recycle bags as you never realized how much space carrots and lettuce take up in the backseat of a hybrid.
Now the real suffering begins as you spend every waking moment trying to make vegetables taste good. You know bacon fat or beef drippings would do it, but you trudge on eating your garbanzos and salad pretending you are doing something for mother dirt as you ignore the fact organic foods take far more water, ground and fertilizer than regular vegies as well as costing about double, you feel good about yourself as you shove another fork of empty calories into your joyless mouth.
The next time you walk through your vegetable section proudly picking and smelling the next awful meal you are going to enjoy, you look around and notice all the pale lifeless people surrounding you. You laugh it off as some anomaly although they have as big a bushel of organic vegetables as you do with their five recycle bags waiting to be refilled. What a strange thing you think as you see their thin weak bodies smelling and caressing the tomatoes as they smugly walk past the meat section with disdain just as you do. Of course they like you ignore the studies which show a vegan diet takes an average ten years off a life expectancy and shows serious damage to brain and nervous system functions, you are sacrificing and being pure for Mother.
After all this change and voting straight Democrat ticket and despising President Trump you notice there is no joy in your life. Your life has become a series of trials you have to accomplish every hour of every day. There is no hope, only another trial to prove you are a good person to society and ultimately the earth. You ignore all of your own hypocrisy as you switch over to gas knowing you are hurting your own perfection, but you have to get home? There is no hope for a better life and certainly no heaven since there is no God, you are your own god and living every awful minute looking forward to every terrible meal.
You start getting depressed realizing you can never reach your perfect lifestyle. You begin hating people who are not caring about the dirt as much as you do and the cycle becomes more and more empty. There is nothing to reach out to and the depression becomes more real while you live as perfect a vegan earth friendly life as you can. In the end there is only one way out as your brain screams about your hypocrisy of living a symbolic life when in reality you are making a greater impact on the environment than any of your unenlightened neighbors. That is when the thoughts of suicide enter your mind and the path’s end reveals itself.
This is where liberal America is and a major reason suicide rates are at an all-time high. We are training our kids and people to lead this Godless life where there is no hope and no Salvation. Jesus does not require you to try to work your way to happiness or heaven, he has done the work for you and is the pathway directly there and this simply becomes a journey to being with him for eternity. There is hope in that every minute of every day. No matter what the challenge or what the trial he is there to carry you through and you can go back to enjoying your life and all of the wonderful gifts God has blessed this planet with.
America was built on the Bible and the belief in Jesus Christ. Only he has a path of hope and joy that things will get better if you continue to follow him. Only his path leads you to doing what is right in every situation which you may fail at, but you continue to live your life striving to be more like him and have mercy on your fellow man. With his help you make it through the depression and leave the thoughts of suicide behind looking forward to eternity in a place of no pain and only happiness worshiping the creator of this world. That is the difference between an empty life of secular atheism and living a new life with Jesus and his joy.
Pray America woke
enough brayin
A big part of leftism is manipulating guilt, and then offering themselves as absolution.
bump
We are now having a rash of suicides just as many have been predicting knowing suicide is an outcome of secular atheism
Who predicted? Does a rash mean that people in the public eye are killing themselves (ie Anthony Bourdain, the Spade woman etc?).
What are the statistics?
Perhaps the leftists are killing themselves over the Trump presidency? One can only hope.
In a world where the Christian God and Savior are ridiculed and scorned, life has no value - even to oneself.
The Wages of Sin......
I agree.
Falling on the sword at the alter of secular humanism
Suicides that have links to “The Deep State” are questionable.
No need to invoke veganism or even Marxism. There is nothing necessarily Marxist about being an ecofascist.
Christianity gives people a single central principle around which to organize their lives. Actually, if we were truly becoming more Marxist then we would probably see fewer suicides as Marxism is a single central principle around which people can organize their lives. It will ultimately lead to failure, but people will be fully engaged until they go over the cliff.
The only hope that atheists have is if they are smart enough they can fill their lives with scientific discovery, or if not they can become existentialists. They can decide to choose their own set of values and centralizing principle around which to organize their lives.
However, science is dissolving into mysticism with the weirdness of quantum mechanics and relativity. And existentialists will always have that nagging suspicion that the centralizing principle they happened to choose might not be a very good one.
What I believe we are seeing is the final phase of a failing American empire. People are retreating into hedonism, epicureanism, and stoicism. The good news is that most people are OK with just getting by without any overall meaning or purpose to their lives. They are OK with life being a set of sometimes converging, sometimes conflicting duties and entertainments.
We will see many more suicides, but most people will soldier on regardless.
I buy many greens, vegetables, salad fixings. I watch them rot in my refrigerator.
I do eat Zucchini and Yellow squash casserole, but it has ricotta and mozzarella cheese, sausage and pasta.
Thanks as always Mr. Bray.
Love the cynical biting humor.
Agree we need spiritual morals and values as the twentieth century showed beyond any doubt atheism/communism kills in brutal fashion. But these newbies have been inundated with secularism since birth and their version/vision of a utopian society has been rooted in Howard Zinn and others all society and all people are just brutal individuals except them of course. Until we place God back in schools and mental hospitals the suicide rates will continue to rise.
After all what is the point of life when moral relativism teaches you are but a dirt clod on the evolutionary scale and the solution is to basically kill yourself because humanity is the problem?
Whatever Jesus requires of you He requires ONLY thay. It never changes or morphs. Often, the people described by the author contradict themselves over time.
“The good news is that most people are OK with just getting by without any overall meaning or purpose to their lives. They are OK with life being a set of sometimes converging, sometimes conflicting duties and entertainments.
We will see many more suicides, but most people will soldier on regardless.”
Good summary! I think deep down most people are agnostics. They’re not sure about God or an afterlife, but subconsciously hope there’s something there, and they tend to behave as though there is. Most people try to act according to the Golden rule as best as they can because at the end of the day, it’s in their self interest.
Add to all this the cognitive dissonance: deny you’re a man, or a woman, even having surgery to fake the illusion; if you have reproductive organs, go to pussyhat marches and declare it obnoxiously and yet, if you find yourself pregnant, reject the child and kill it; work furiously to destroy the traditional family, but fake “alternative” families as if they are the same thing. Hand your children, if you are inclined to “want” them, over to ruthless government social engineers to make sure they become good little social activists rather than productive, responsible citizens.
Try your best to wipe Christianity from the Earth while submitting to a new religion (Earth worhip, enviroweenie discipleship, whatever). As chaos unfolds and mental illness spreads like a plague, double down on your hatred of common sense and the basic rules of reality. Disassociate from thousands of years of lessons learned because you have to be morally and spiritually void to be this stupid.
Then attend the endless hysterical gatherings to protest all the natural consequences of such behavior: the sociopaths, the suicides, the shootings, the mayhem.
I’ve known too many(7 if you want to know) people that have done the ultimate selfish act. Those they left behind are hurt big time. Do I know the ultimate reason for them to carry it through? Only in a couple of them.
A young person may be able to fill some of these with money and power or success, but eventually, when you have thought of your position in this life, you inevitably ask "Is this all there is?" Young people will ask "If it's this bad now, I don't want to get older".
Jesus represents hope. We run to Him when we can't see the answers. We believe Him when He makes promises to us. Spiritually speaking, we believe when we went under water at baptism, our flesh died and we rose as a new creature. If you believe you have already died here, there is no fear of the future. We live our life with the assurance that if our body dies, we get a new one.
Atheists have no faith. They see the end coming and are petrified with fear. They try to convince themselves that they are just worm food on the hoof. Romans 1 speaks of this folly. We say there is no Creator, so He give us over to a reprobate or a debased mind. We think we are wise, but are really fools. This is where evil becomes good and good becomes evil. It is a form of insanity that overtakes society to the point that we cannot decide who is a man or woman and animals have more worth than people. If this mental illness is not treated, eventually you will take your life or someone else's.
I think most of us can admit that a person that commits suicide has some mental imbalance. Many that have lived through suicide attempts say they were crying out for help. If they believe Jesus is there to help them, and that He loved them enough to give His life for them, these thoughts flee from their heads. Living for Christ means "Living for Christ". If we are more concerned with doing His will instead of ours, our brains are bulletproof. If we rely on whatever Christ wants for us he will provide for us, then we can't dwell on the lack of money, relationships, or whatever else the enemy has put in our mind.
The two celebrity suicides recently are perfect examples of money and fame not making you happy. If a woman living alone in a ghetto can love God, that right there should show that another woman in the same ghetto taking heroine to forget their troubles does NOT have to happen. When multimillionaires and TV personalities are self destructive, the answers have to be spiritual, NOT physical.
IMO, Marxism, eating veggies, and the other things are just manifestations of believing you are on your own. When we believe God created the universe, then He can fix the climate, economy, or whatever else, even our love life. Nothing is too hard for God. I've seen it with my own eyes.
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