Demonic America

Original Material | 4/6/2016 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

Rudyard Kipling wrote a prescient poem in 1919, called "Gods of the Copybook Headings.". This is, simply put, a must-read poem.

Copybooks were texts that allowed British schoolchildren of the time to practice penmanship, and the phrase they would copy -- often a phrase of a sermon, or some wise aphorism -- would be featured on the copybook heading. Kipling was appalled by the counterintuitive modern thoughts of the day, and wrote the poem to point out how eons of wisdom and experience of humankind were hard-won, and he urged us not to embrace the depraved 'shortcuts' we began to take.

Like Kipling -- though lacking his talent -- I, too, urge us to take stock of where we are. Are we in open rebellion with morality and common-sense? Are we in a pitched war with reality? Have we become a Demonic America?

1. Companies, and now the Obama administration, are now punishing states that pass laws that demand that men stay in the men's bathrooms and locker rooms, and that women do the same.
2. Planned Parenthood, a company that performs mass abortions, are selling the body parts of their victims.
3. Lawmakers on both sides see the carnage, rape, and murder in Europe from the introduction of millions of Muslim "refugees", then promptly seek to emulate, here, the policies that allow them to come.
4. On college campuses, free speech is shouted down and censored, so that a few 'snowflakes' are not offended. One may not say gender-specific pronouns, or state that "America is a land of opportunity", lest one be censured. This lawless administration intends to prosecute companies and individuals who seek scientific clarity on 'manmade global warming', essentially outlawing true scientific inquiry.
5. Our President lies constantly about everything, even when the truth would serve him better. Obama and Hillary Clinton conspired to send advanced military arms, through Libya, to Muslim terrorists and extremists.
6. A racially-aligned group -- Black Lives Matter -- have pointedly decried anyone who states that the lives of any other racial group also matters. Is this not racism in the truest form? Is this not racial superiority writ large?
7. The TSA, a Federal Agency, routinely gropes the genitalia of American travelers, and we have grown desensitized to this horrific level of personal intrusion.
8. Then there is the freedom to kill infants, codified in 1973 by a bizarre Supreme Court decision.

Take yourself back ten years, and (except for the last item, which is older) ask if you would have physically struck a future-you that claimed that any of the above would come to pass.

I know I would.

There can be no doubt. We are in the clutches of great evil. Common sense has been thrown aside for bizarre and absurd conclusions that fly in the face of 2000 years of civilization, and the ideals of decency that surrounded us.

I have not even discussed other forms of evil, such as the Administration's betrayals of Israel -- including an implied threat to shoot down Israeli aircraft that would have struck Iran's nuclear facilities. There are so many other examples, too numerous to list. It all comes together to inform us that this is Satan's time, a time of unbridled evil.

Back in the 1970's and 1980's, I used to listen Iran call us the 'Great Satan' with a combination of derision and bemusement.

Now, I actually wonder... is that what we have become?

[Louis Foxwell]

We passed the crossroads to HOPE and CHANGE a while back there. We have selected the road most taken, the greased slide to oblivion.

[Tax-chick]

“You have got” ??? Holy cow.

Yes, that was clunky. I often tell the children not to use contractions: I should take my own advice!

I did not mention every improvement that could be made to the original, only a few ideas.

[Tax-chick]

Thank you. I will pass on the kind words!

[sport]

Good job as usual Laz. And ,in y opinion, right on the money. I read Kipling’s poem and made a copy of it. Did you know that the parts, “The dog returned to his vomit. And the sow returns to her mire”, came from the Holy Bible? Keep up the good work.

[sport]

Even Jesus could not please everyone. I am happy with your editorials.

[sport]

We went over the slippery slope some time ago. We are now in free fall.

[exit82]

There is only one way to overcome this evil.

We must pray to God to defeat it and to restore our land.

It this goes on much longer, God will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

[sport]

I know. I am not one of them, but I have read their responses. In my opinion, the woman and doctor should be tried for first degree murder. The woman is a danger to society. If she can murder her own flesh and blood, well, her flesh anyway. What would she do to someone she does not know?

I have a son, he is a grown man now. When he was an infant and then a child, I can picture me dying to protect him from harm, but I cannot picture me murdering him.

[sport]

Thank you for the information.

[Madame Dufarge]

We seem to be occupying a Potemkin Village, don't we?

The facade is still standing, but the rot is seeping into even that.

Our history has been rewritten by our enemies who gradually took control of education, government and the culture. They've disappeared our original blueprint and persuaded millions to vote themselves into slavery.

They've achieved a great victory and only a dwindling number of us see the evil and resist. Without a great awakening, can we succeed?

I think there are signs that we can win this war.

Great piece, Laz.

[Carthego delenda est]

“Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.”

Wow. Very sad, yet wise words.

[citizen]

I realize that other cities and countries do qualify but for quite a while now I’ve thought of Washington, DC of something of a political version of a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. Copy that for Hollywood, too.

Our nation and much of the western world is defined by these two places where arbiters of all things political and social abound.

If such places will someday be consumed by burning, cleansing sulfur I submit that these seats of the world’s political and social ills deserve high rank on God’s to-do list.

[DallasGal]

Free fall and no parachute in sight

[MileHi]

Are we in open rebellion with morality and common-sense? Are we in a pitched war with reality?

Yes

[tuffydoodle]

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[Churchjack]

Thanks.