The Gelding of America...a Fourth of July Lament

06-29-16 | Bill Randles

[pastorbillrandles]

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.(Lamentations 2:11-12)

The United States of America has long considered herself “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, for she has an incredibly honorable martial history, and has been favored of God through her many confrontations with tyrants from the beginning of her history.

As one of our beautiful anthems goes;

Oh beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life

America, America May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine(America the Beautiful, Katherine Bates)

Since a child, I was nourished on tales of Valley Forge, George Washington, The Alamo, Davy Crocket and Sam Houston, Robert E Lee, General Grant, John Pershing and George S Patton and the D-Day invasion and defeat of Nazi Germany. We Americans have a heritage of valiant and self sacrificial warriors in our history. (I am an unashamed nationalist, but I grieve the state of my country).

Our military was a force for good also, we didn’t rape our way through Germany, or crush our enemies in the dirt after we defeated them, in fact we built up Japan and Germany , making our former bitter foes into world class economies and allies.

I am not under the illusion that we have been flawless, for no nation can field armies and involve them in wars without atrocities, human nature being what it is.

But starting with Clinton, Bush and now well into the Obama years, we are castrating this former force for good, by subjecting our once fine and well trained military to bizarre social experimentation.

Clinton, (the sexual degenerate Caligula President), worked feverishly to “feminize” the military, bringing women into men’s roles and removing barriers to Homosexual participation in all of the units and divisions, regardless of the damage to unit cohesion.

Today Obama announced that “transgender”persons will be allowed to openly serve in the military! This is madness!!! Do they out realize we face an existential crisis? Is this not an impeachable offense? Where are the adults, the Patriots in Washington DC to put an end to this lunacy?

We were also informed that the Marines have removed the word “Man” from 19 job positions to avoid offending anyone. The Roman Emperors in their deepest debauchery didn’t castrate their own forces!

Furthermore the announcement was made that young women would be required to register for the draft.

Lately I have been wondering if there is anyone in Washington DC that is even remotely serious about their constitutional charge to protect this enemy from all enemies, bot foreign and domestic. As an American Christian I am appalled at the utter debasement of the US military by Obama, the commander in chief.

I realize this is the judgment of God, but we must cry out for mercy in the midst of judgment. Shouldn’t these treacherous traitors be removed from office? DO we not realize that we are in a deep crisis , faced with external enemies who don’t cripple themselves with this suicidal political correctness as we have done?

Are they not spitting on the sacrifices of those who bled and died for this once great nations?

Those of you who put Obama in power, do you not realize the profound evil you have brought upon America? Is your hatred of our nation sated yet, or do you want to take us further down the toilet?

America was great… but only because she was good. Alexis Detoqueville , a French researcher and scholar was sent to study the vibrant young nation in the early 19th century and came back with this haunting quote…

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.

In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect [denomination], this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together [Christianity], every one abandons him and he remains alone.

I do not question that the great austerity of manners that is observable in the United States arises, in the first instance, from religious faith… .its influence over the mind of woman is supreme, and women are the protectors of morals. There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated… ~

In the United States the influence of religion is not confined to the manners, but it extends to the intelligence of the people…. Christianity, therefore reigns without obstacle, by universal consent; the consequence is, as I have before observed, that every principle of the moral world is fixed and determinate..

I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America in her harbors…; in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.(Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville)

We have sinned and aren’t good anymore. That breaks our hearts! Dear God we need you! How do we pray for the success of an Obama foreign policy? How dii we pray for the success of a homosexualized and transgendered military? How do we send the very cream of our youth into this very degraded and perverted military?

Would you have your son (or God forbid your daughter) shed one drop of blood so that other nations can have the “freedom of abortion or homosexuality)? Obama had our children bleed and die to set up Shariah constitutions in Iraq and Afghanistan!

I admit I have never served in the military, having come of age in the late 1970s, (the VOLAR) and having married young. But I have always had the utmost respect for the US military and those who have served. But evil men now hold the levers of power here. God help us!

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.(Lamentations 2:19-22)

[MSF BU]

Gelding? Somebody post a picture of pajama boy.

[ichabod1]

Right now I feel traumatized like I did in ‘09. The bombs are falling away and there’s not a bloody thing I can do about it except shelter in place. I only pray that one day we be allowed to fight back.

[jmacusa]

Spot on. I feel exactly as you do. I’m sixty years old and the America you describe is the one I grew up in. That America has vanished.

[Stepan12]

Those of you who put Obama in power, do you not realize the profound evil you have brought upon America? Is your hatred of our nation sated yet, or do you want to take us further down the toilet? The most important takeaway from the article IMHO.

[Fiddlstix]

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[PAR35]

I would cut the National Anthem to one stanza:

“O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”

[Nuc 1.1]

You will know if the time comes.

[Texas resident]

I am about your age. I do not recognize my country anymore.
But I am doing my part. My wife and I taught my kids what our parents taught us. Manners, respect and humility. I live in a small Texas town and the residents are all of the same mindset.

We, as traditional Americans will have to establish outposts where civility and normalcy thrive to counter the self destructive insanity that has become the current American culture.

[WhatNot]

4th of July Fails - Americans don't know why we celebrate the 4th of July

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m surprised at how many snowflakes think we won our independence from Vietnam. Where the heck are they getting that from?

[old-ager]

ditto — same generation as you guys.

[Ezekiel]

God has already set up the rectification for this whole mess. If you think Purim was the quintessential story of behind-the-scenes Divine Providence, watch what happens with America.

All this stuff is going to make sense in the weirdest way.

[pastorbillrandles]

Thanks Ezekiel- I believe you- any details?

[Ezekiel]

Key traditions - premises - taught by the religious establishments (Jewish and Christian) are going to fall flat. When the building goes up on the proper foundation (and with the right general contractor in charge), all will come together finally.

Family isn't going to reunite with one side gloating over the other. "I told you so" attitudes and superiority complexes are going to die of extreme embarrassment.

Isaiah 11

12. And he [the root of Jesse, v. 10] shall set up a banner for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth:
13. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim:

Roots are located in the ground. Most folks are gazing in the wrong direction. And the day starts when and where the sun goes... down.

God gave us a zillion details. They reveal simple answers a child can understand. Talk about irony. "I am who I am"... it's just that basic. It's the whole-hearted love and sincerity that is the perfect nature of David.

The master carpenter doesn't need to read carpentry books. He *is* the books. He doesn't nullify the information in the text, rather he shows us by his work how to build and fix stuff. That's really going to confound and/or anger a lot of people.

What a trip.

[jmacusa]

I hear you. I was raised in a strict American-Irish Catholic family. Went to catholic schools in the hey day of the nuns. I was taught all the values you mentioned. Yes we have to maintain outposts of civility as you say. But the tide is rising and the barbarians are at the gate.

[nascarnation]