Posted on 10/01/2018 3:10:20 AM PDT by servo1969
Watching the Kavanaugh hearing, it's obvious that Leftists who don't believe in eternal damnation have no internal brakes stopping their evil behavior.
In 1954, Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, something it did as a direct rebuke to Godless communism. I never really focused on the "Godless" part of the phrase "Godless communism." To me, communism was the scourge, and the Godless part was almost akin to a verbal twitch or perhaps a clear identifier. They're not just communists! They're Godless communists!
Thinking about it, though, the phrase "Godless Communist" has a deeper meaning than I first realized. To the extent that America was founded as a nation beholden to God (even though the First Amendment thankfully) ensured that the federal government could not impose religious values, rituals, or doctrines on people, communism was not only an economic threat, it was also cultural threat.
Communism's war on God undermined everything America stood for: A nation that took directly from the Creator Himself the self-evident truths underlying its ideals. Without a Creator, those self-evident truths become mere wishful thinking. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as meaningless and ephemeral as any garden-variety slogan.
"Now, more than ever!" "Just Do It!" "Does she or doesn't she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure." "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- on sale now until supplies run out if you vote for your local Democrat politician."
Looking at the Kavanaugh hearings, though, I can see an even deeper implication to the dangers lurking behind Godless Communism. God is a moral brake. Without God, one may have rules, but they are simply man-made strictures with which men comply or avoid depending upon consequences from . . . other men.*
After all, there is no moral imperative regarding right turns on red. In some states, you can; in some states, you can't. And in those states in which right turns on red are barred, what stops us isn't any moral sense of wrongness, it's the fear of getting caught and having to pay an expensive ticket. Some of our rules look back to the Bible ("thou shalt not murder," "thou shalt not steal," but we enforce them from a civil, not a religious perspective.
Again, I'm grateful that our First Amendment keeps the judge from intoning that, not only are you going to prison, but you're also going to Hell. Having said that, though, I prefer a population that thinks Hell is part of the mix to one that doesn't. Again, government can be scary, but only if it catches you. An all-seeing, all-knowing, ethical God always catches you.
I've mentioned before in connection with the hearings that Kavanaugh is an openly devout man. His faith is an integral part of his life. I think his is a true and deep faith, rather than hypocritical posturing. (I can't help think of Obama "not really listening" in Rev. Wright's church as the latter excoriated America.) If I am correct, Kavanaugh truly believes there is a God.
Given that Kavanaugh believes in the Christian God, he also believes he has a soul, an eternal, existential part of himself that will return to God after he sheds his physical being. The extension of this thinking is that Kavanaugh also believes that his behavior on this earth has consequences extending far beyond his short mortal time.
This belief system means that Kavanaugh, when he determines on a course of action, isn't just thinking about whether he's breaking a rule and might get caught. He has greater concerns than fines, imprisonment, or even death. Earth is only a short part of the soul's journey. The longest part is afterwards, when the ultimate reckoning comes.
In that ultimate reckoning, while God probably discounts illegal right turns on red, Kavanaugh knows that he will have to answer to his God for bigger things: Did he try to rape a girl? Is there evil behind his decision to coach his children's basketball teams? Did he lie under oath? If he made the wrong choices as to any of those questions, it's not just a Supreme Court appointment or basketball coaching on the line; it's eternity.
Kavanaugh, of course, is imperfect, as we all are, but I believe (and this is my bias showing) that his true faith means he will not commit evil acts. For that reason, I do not believe that he tried to rape a girl, or that he's a nasty pedophile sneaking peaks under little girls' basketball uniforms, or that he would deliberately lie under oath. As to all his behaviors, his soul is at stake and, as a believing man, he's not going to play games on earth and thereby risk all eternity.
The opposite is true if you're a Godless Communist. For communists, the only Heaven is the one you create on earth. Moreover, because this earthly Heaven is so important -- it's the only one they're going to get and they want it in their mortal lifetimes -- there are no brakes to their behavior. If bringing about Heaven requires lying, cheating, defaming people, destroying reputations, or even killing, it's okay. If these tactics succeed, they've got their statist Heaven right there in front of them. Indeed, if they're a Mao or Castro or any other communist dictator, they not only get to create that Heaven, they get to reap the rewards of unlimited wealth and power. Woo-hoo!
And what about what happens to the Godless Communist if he fails to achieve this Heaven on earth? He certainly doesn't have to worry about eternal damnation because, if you're a Godless Communist, your acts -- the lying, cheating, defaming, killing -- are a problem only if you're caught and punished. God isn't a brake on your immoral, unethical, cruel behavior . . . because there is no God. Woo-hoo! All you need to worry about is those man-made rules.
But here's the cool thing if you're a Leftist in America: The man-made rules never touch you!
Drunkenly drive a car into a river and leave a woman to drown? No worries. You'll become the lion of the Senate.
Be a Grand Kleagle Beagle in the black-lynching KKK? No worries. You'll become the conscience of the Senate.
Routinely sexually harass women, possibly rape a woman, sell access to the White House and technological secrets to the Chinese, have an utterly indecent relationship in the Oval Office with a woman young enough to be your child, and routinely fly off to an island known as "Pedophile Island" without your bodyguards? No worries. You'll become your party's revered elder statesmen.
Engage in insider trading, sell access to the White House, destroy women who try to speak up about sexual assault and rape, sell access to the State Department, load all of the State Department's secrets onto an unsecured private email system, and vanish when an American consulate is under siege? No worries. You'll become the famed martyr who should have been president.
Allow a Chinese spy to drive you all over the place for 20 years, even as you and your husband make bank off of business with China? No worries. You'll still be seated in the Senate until you're a nonagenarian and have to be carried out feet first.
For American Leftists, there are no consequences. None. For the most powerful of them, if they succeed, they've created their Heaven on earth, complete with wealth and power for themselves, never mind all the little people who get destroyed. If they lose, no matter how many laws they've broken or lives they've destroyed along the way, they still create wealth and power for themselves. There is no punishment on earth and they're never worried about facing eternal damnation.
Some may pay lip service to God, but it's pretty clear that their God is government. That's how Obama could hear Wright preach hatred for 20 years without turning a hair. That's how Nancy Pelosi, who is ostensibly Catholic, can call abortion "sacred." And that's how Chelsea Clinton, who's the political equivalent of a mafia princess or Hugo Chavez's daughter, can earnestly tell people that it would be "un-Christian" to end the mass slaughter of American babies (especially, one must add, minority babies). Their Christianity, like the "official" Russian Orthodox church during in the Soviet Union, is in service to the state, not in service to the Judeo-Christian God.
While Leftist foot soldiers don't get all the perks their leaders get, the same calculation holds true for them. In service to the god of government, they have repeatedly proven that they have no stopping points. Lying, cheating, defaming, verbally and physically attacking people -- it makes no difference. If they're successful, they shut down speech, destroy men, intimidate people trying to eat or shop or sleep, get flakey Flake to back away from his teeny outburst of principled behavior, and generally run riot in the public square. If they're arrested, they consider that a badge of success, especially because they'll never actually have to serve time for their lawless activity. Across America, prosecutors wait until the dust settles, and then either decline to prosecute at all or extract meaningless fines, no matter the havoc these foot soldiers wreak.
If you are a person whose guiding principle is that the ends justify the means, you are dangerous. You're even more dangerous, though, if you believe that there will never be any reckoning for your conduct, whether here or in the hereafter.
Dennis Prager likes to say that he believes in God in part because without God he would have no hope. There is so much injustice on earth -- not petty little things like microaggressions but real injustice, such as the mass slaughter of children and subjugation of women in Africa and the Middle East -- and so often that injustice receives no punishment on earth. He says that the only thing that allows him to get up in the morning is knowing that, in the afterlife, justice will be served. The good will receive their everlasting reward and the evil their everlasting punishment. It would help if more people believed that.
Incidentally, I know that there are highly moral atheists and self-styled pagans. However, their morality is a personal choice. They can walk away from it. Crystals, Gaia, and the great Nothingness that is atheism do not make moral demands in the same way that the Ten Commandments do. Believers, however, always know that something greater than they are is watching over their shoulder.
I believe, incidentally, that Hinduism and Buddhism also make moral demands on the faithful although I know too little about those belief systems to understand either the demands or the post-life consequences. As for Islam, its imprecations are too tied in with punishing unbelievers for me to have much hope that it reliably functions as a moral brake on evil behavior. Rather, as my cousin the prison chaplain said of prisoners who "convert" to Islam,
It is not a contradiction to be a Muslim and a murderer, even a mass murderer. That is one reason why criminals "convert" to Islam in prison. They don't convert at all; they similarly [sic] remain the angry judgmental vicious beings they always have been. They simply add "religious" diatribes to their personal invective. Islam does not inspire a crisis of conscience, just inspirations to outrage.
Substitute socialist for Muslim and government for "religious," and you've pretty much described every Leftist too.
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* I hope it's obvious that I'm using the terms "man" and "men" here in the old-fashioned, generic sense of "humankind," which is too awkward a phrase for my preferred writing.
What Ford's Democrat entourage dont know is that WE are not finished with them....not by a longshot.
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LINDSEY GRAHAM ON THIS WEEK: "We'll do a wholesale investigation of what I think was a despicable process."
<><> Who in Feinstein's office betrayed Ford's trust?
<><> Why didn't Ford know Judiciary was willing to come to California to depose her?
<><> did someone on the Judicial Committee send Ford's confidential letter to the media causing the hearing to be delayed?
<><> who referred Dr. Ford to Ms Katz, a lawyer who is a Democrat activist?
<><> were Ford's lawyers representing her or Democratic interests?
<><> was Ford coached to say things that advanced the Democrat agenda?
*ping*
How wrong that man was.
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God " They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good. The LORD has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men To see if there are any who understand, Who seek after God. They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.
Psalm 14: 1-3
EVERYTHING we see wrong about the Democrats and the nation is rooted in godlessness.
Everything.
“Obama Executive Order Unleashes “Behavioral Science” Squad to “Nudge” You
by Alex Neman Sept. 18, 2015, The New American
“Under the guise of better “serving” the American people through government, Obama signed an executive order last year calling for federal agencies and departments to deploy emerging “behavioral science” techniques against the public. The Obama order also establishes a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team charged with applying psychological research to manipulate the beliefs and behaviors of Americans under various pretexts, and guide the vast federal bureaucracy as it hones its abilities to manipulate the public. “ --SNIP--
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(HAT TIP ANIMA MUNDI)---they command people to believe the absurd----(a) a total acceptance of gay marriage, (b) global warming tagged climate change, and, (c) Hillary looking into the camera, admitting to lying and betrayal, yet, she still is supported. NOT TO FORGET (d) Muslims are peaceful, (e) Mexico is our friend, (f) illegals violate our borders looking for a better life, (g) The Clinton Foundation is saving the globe.
ANALYSIS Behavioral Sciences and psychology are dismissed by our side is being USED by the other side. Psychology is not just “counseling” or some frivolous study. It is a weapon when used in certain ways to strategically position image, words, feelings of large groups of people.
Trayvon Martin becomes a moral cause, his name on everyone’s lips....fund-raising as a bonus.
Kate Steinle killed by an illegal in San Francisco??? Well, “things happen.”
Benghazi? “Well, so long ago”, etc.
We had better start paying attention to this and grab the language: stop using their terms, stop giving into their demands, stop apologizing for offending them, stop changing team names and acting as if their complaints are real when they are not.
All of it is connected and goes back to manipulation of public opinion. These tools are available to us as well. Reframe arguments, never let anything go unchallenged just to be popular.
learn NLP
Judicial Watch obtained the DOD documents in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) filed on April 8, 2013. The FOIA requested “Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force.”
Included in the 133 pages of lesson plans and PowerPoint slides provided by the Air Force is a January 2013 Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute “student guide” entitled “Extremism.” The document says that it is “for training purposes only” and “do not use on the job.” Highlights include:
•The document defines extremists as “a person who advocates the use of force or violence; advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive individuals or groups of their civil rights.”
•A statement that “Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publically espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
•“[W]hile not all extremist groups are hate groups, all hate groups are extremist groups.”
•Under a section labeled “Extremist Ideologies” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”
•In this same section, the document lists the 9/11 attack under a category of “Historical events.”
•“[A]ctive participation…with regard to extremist organizations is incompatible with military service and, is therefore prohibited.” [Emphasis in original]
•The document details the “seven stages of hate” and sixteen “extremists’ traits.”
•The SPLC is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide.
•Of the five organizations besides the SPLC listed as resources, one is an SPLC project (Teaching Tolerance) and one considers any politically or socially conservative movement to be a potential hate group (Political Research Associates).
•Other than a mention of 9/11 and the Sudan, there is no discussion of Islamic extremism.
Besides demonstrating the agency to be little more than an opportunity for those who are quick to feel threatened to run away even further from the process of growing up, doesn’t it seem terribly wrong that the CIA could have been involved in trying to stop Kavanaugh?
At a convention Democrats denied God three times - then Bill Clinton crowed.
Right now there is a guy in California who was FILMED during acts of attempted MURDER who got 3 years lose probation. Eric Clanton. Let that sink in (again).
>>Again, I’m grateful that our First Amendment keeps the judge from intoning that, not only are you going to prison, but you’re also going to Hell. Having said that, though, I prefer a population that thinks Hell is part of the mix to one that doesn’t. Again, government can be scary, but only if it catches you. An all-seeing, all-knowing, ethical God always catches you.
Today there is a “permanent record” on file about you at the NSA, Google, Facebook, DNC voter database... take your pick and “stay in line”
>> (I can’t help think of Obama “not really listening” in Rev. Wright’s church as the latter excoriated America.)
Obama claimed to subscribe to the tapes. That did didn’t really listen to? His excuse about the GDAmerikkka rhetoric didn’t pass the smell test.
Even Oprah left that church (before Obama’s campaign) because the rhetoric got to be a bit too much
BUMP!
•“[A]ctive participation…with regard to extremist organizations is incompatible with military service and, is therefore prohibited.” [Emphasis in original]
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Denial and Belial -the twin evils.
To deny the existence of God is to turn back on the one salvation available to troubled and rebellious souls.
To belie is to misrepresent or to act unworthily according to the standards of (a tradition, one’s ancestry, one’s faith, etc.)
The existence of one is to imply the existence of the other, though the two traits could be applied independently.
The brilliant Dr Sebastian Gorka---a Fox contributor---summed up Democrats when he described Obama and Michele : "They don't believe in objective truth. They're post- secular modernists. They believe in cultural relativism......that all cultures are equal..... except America, which (in their minds) is worse than everybody else" (applies to all Democrats).
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ANALYSIS The spoken truth is what THEY say it is.....it must be stripped of any concept of 2000 years of man's knowledge of right and wrong.
2008 candidate Obama’s calm cool voice of reason was supposed to prevail. Remember when Obama calmly assured America that once he was elected all Mideast “hostilities” would cease. A confident Obama would make sure America was once again “respected” around the world. And who could forget Obama’s “Arab Spring” when all of the terrorists would suddenly become sap-happy humanitarians, weaving daisy chains while frolicking around the May pole?
2012 Ohaha used the same conniving 2008 strategy patented by PR honcho Anita (Mao) Dunn---to manipulate voters, to downplay his hady bgrnd, his destructive policies ....and his scary plans for his next term. Remember, Dunn said back then, that THEY and only THEY decided what the media and the voters should know about 2008 candidate Ohaha.
The Democrats/Obama strategy is to play the innocents---the "don't worry--we're harmless" act.
If anyone has questions, they should strongly consider takeing a look at this.
http://www.abcsalvation.org
I’m no scholar but I’ve read the Bible extensively and don’t remember reading that ‘being good’ is a requirement. In fact it says something about all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. According the the Bible, you can’t have be good enough to get in nor bad enough to be kept out if you accept the fact that Jesus raised from the dead and you call upon his name to take over your life.
Today, its Kavanaugh.
If, err, WHEN the leftists regain power, it’ll be every “deplorable” they can get their hands on.
Im talking you and me, friends.
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