Lehigh Valley Conservative

It’s been said over and over again, how many whites are sorry about what we did to the blacks over 200 years ago. We hear it from the liberals, especially. We also hear about how we took advantage of the native Americans when we settled this country. Then there is mother earth that we abused, the trees, the rivers, the atmosphere and how we plundered our natural resources. Boo Hoo!!

Yet, we hear nothing about the millions of black babies that are being aborted (killed), in the killing clinics they call “woman’s healthcare centers”, which is political correctness gone amuck! Most of these are within walking distance from the black neighborhoods. Is this a coincidence or planned? If a black conservative brings this up, he’s an “uncle Tom”! 

Everyday I hear about small children being killed or maimed by parents or close associates of the parents. Many are sexually abused by these perverts who have a record as long as a winter in Oregon and then the perverts are let back on the streets (as some have in Vermont for example), by liberal judges and a liberal justice system. Very seldom does the MSM talk about these serious problems of our supposedly civilized society.  Instead we hear about trivial matters like which actor or actress, (liberals of course),  in Hollywood is divorcing who. Do the lawyers and Press care about the effect a divorce has on the children? No! We have become very course in our attitudes about our children and seem to have little love for the ones that will become the decision makers of our future.

The problems in the black communities bother me most. These problems seem to be getting worse and are totally neglected by the media and the Democrats who, in my opinion, are contributing to the problem by telling blacks and other minorities, that they can’t succeed without government help. They discourage self reliance and encourage reliance on government. When will the Democrat party and some in the Republican party stop to encourage all of us to be the best we can be? It would be better for all of America, for every capable person to contribute to society, instead of taking, and having the attitude that we “owe them”.

For this to happen, we MUST change the culture mindset and that must begin at an early age, in the public school system, in our institutions of higher learning and everywhere else. Are the politicians so greedy as to buy their votes with entitlements to stay in power, that they are willing to see the country collapse? I think the evidence of that is overwelming! Our political system is broke and is largely the cause for most the problems we have today. We can also look at organizations like the ACLU for undermining our religious institutions and schools with their Atheist agenda.

All this brings me to the question about who will be the next best leader for our country? Obama or McCain? Who is real and who is a phoney? Who is it that snookered up to Pastor Wright for 20 years until he realized it was hurting him then spoke against Wright. Who buddied around with Jew hating Farakan and other undesirables and is now in the Mideast wearing a scull cap trying to convince the Israeli’s he is one of them? Who is changing positions on Iraq, but still disagrees with General Petreas about whether or not the surge is working? Who was it that changed his mind about where his campaign funds were to come from when it became politically advantagious to him? Is this the man who may be the president someday? I hope not! I am one who stills cares for our children and their future.

Illegal aliens born here in the United States are not entitled to citizenship without stipulations so argued Professor Edwind J. Erler in the “Imprimis” July 2008 issue which is taken from his speech delivered at a Hillsdale College national leadership seminar in Phoenix, Arizona.  Senator McCain’s home state, he should have been there and listened to Professor Erler speech.

There is a big difference between saying “this is a Christian nation” and then saying, “I believe this to be a Christian nation” and then saying, “ If it isn’t a Christian nation it should be” and last saying, “well it was once a Christian nation”.  I have gone from “it is” to “it should be” to “it isn’t”.  Now I ask, which of those options do you think we should adopt or maybe I should say which do you think we are?

I have for years known that we were not founded on principles put forth by the “Puritans” of the 1620 and that a shift from 1620 to 1789 had taken place and the “Constitution” is not a Christian document.  So I wish to say with as few words as possible.  The role of religion within the government based on “Puritan Theology” of 1620 is not what we received with the enactment of the “Constitution” of 1789.

John Locke and “Enlightenment” thinking had so infected the fundamental thinking of the time that we hear this;

 “the care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate, because his power consists only in outward force; but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion of the mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God.”
  John Locke 1632-1704  “Letter concerning Toleration” 1689.

We went from Covenant Theology of the “Puritans” were the church and state had a covenant with God and that religion was a part of the social makeup, Governor John Winthrop explained the covenant in his sermon entitled “A model of Christian Charity”.  To were we have no covenant with God and we have the “Constitution” of “We the people—”.  The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia established an environment in the new republic where in the state would not interfere with the individual conscience of its citizens in religious matters.

So as the church’s apostate from 1789-2008 we have a number of things happening which will have a negative impact on the social fabric.  First we will have less righteous people who understand what truth is, as put forth in the Scriptures.  And most of you will say so what, we have reason as our god, to which I say, we shall see what that god gives you.  Second Emotion-ism within the social fabric that is a by product as people get further from God’s Law and Holy Scriptures.  Third, government will grow to excessive size and tyranny will eventually come about us, ever so slowly, as we now can see it.

Let me not continue, 3 effects are enough and we really need not expand on the cause, people know there is something wrong.  The question is, if the country is not a Christian nation do the people want it to be?  We have a serious problem’s and if people cannot turn to God and His Son Jesus Christ for help why should God help us and I know what most of the people will answer; we don’t need him, but we shall see.  Every knee will bow one day.            

 “There is no word more meaningless nor more eagerly used by philosophers than the word reason.  Once philosophers define the word, however, the irreconcilable disagreement begins.”
Dr. John Robbins “Without a Prayer” 1997 pg. 13

Philosophers and their Philosophies as Nietzsche said in nothing more then “— the love of his own wisdom.”
Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”.

Axioms, presuppositions, and assumptions all can be used interchangeable in are discussion of what reason, reasonable, means.  If reason is the source of knowledge it is necessary that it speak with one voice.  So the question becomes; what is reasonable?  What do we mean to say; we have reasoned through something?

Harry Reed and 90% of the Democrats will tell you there, no drill position is a reasonable position, while the 90% of the Republican will also tell you their position is the reasonable position both saying they have the correct analysis. (Reasoning)  Thereby saying we must be correct in our position. 

My point is not to make you choose one of the two positions but to consider how much of a mess we have within the social fabric.  Reason is to be the means of reconciling our disagreements but as it is being used it is turning out to be a major part of the problem.  Why because reasonable people differ on what reason is.  Let me say in an over simplified statement of explanation; we have one group using the word of God (the Bible) and then reasoning.  And in the other group they are using reason as god with no fixed point of authority. (No god)

As society crumbles and we get further from the word of God we have reason and reasonable men attempting to reason, while the fact of the matter is each fixed point of reference becomes less and less fixed and without the authority of God and the proper use of reasoning.  Now you may not agree with what I just said but that is not important for we have an even greater issue that has surfaced.  Reasoning together is totally without cause if one or both sides are going to Hell and they have not found salvation for their souls. Now you may be thinking; what in the H— is this nut case trying to say.  I am saying salvation for the soul is the more important problem.  Few think of their soul and fewer think of other people’s souls, so why think of saving souls, and it certainly can’t be important issue for now and really has nothing to do with solving today’s problems.  And most think it is reasonable to think they can reason through the (Drill—Not to drill) issue and solve the issue and maybe so but reason will not solve the other problem, which is far more important and unless we understand the starting point of reason, we will not have the one voice of understanding nor solve the pressing problems of the day.  But who am I to say someone is reasoning from a wrong starting point.

Isaiah 1:18 King James Bible
 “Come now, and let us reason together…”

Isaiah 1:19,20 King James Bible
19/ “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.”
20/ “But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

Psalm 14:4 King James Bible
 “Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?  Who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord?”

I had just written an e-mail to a fellow political worker saying we have almost come to the point were issues and situation will not be the point of contention and that we will need to take on the individual as being the culprit and make the fight personal for he/she is to be faulted for their position.

He immediately wrote me back and said they will stick with the issues and will not make it personal.  If that is not a quote the paraphrase is close to the thought and words used.

After thinking on what they had said I thought well maybe I should take that persons convictions and repent and not be a jerk as I usually can be. 

But after thinking on it I would like to say, making it personal maybe questionable but I submit it maybe the only way the issue and/or today’s situation maybe resolved.  And let me also say making it personal does not mean attacking the person’s family or anyone other then the person.  Also with saying the person is to be faulted and the issue would not be were it is had it not been for the persons fault we have another aspect to the issue. And that is the person argumentation of his position.  So we not only have the person’s fault in defending the issue, we have his faulty logic and reasoning that is infecting his surrounding colleagues and possibly extending well out past the political arena into the citizens proper. Political correctness and/or that illogical argumentation cannot and does not support the conclusion.  It therefore voids the position the persons is holding and the illogical thinking that forced that position to be taken in the first place and they must be challenged on his position and his thinking which is being personal. 

Harry Reed according to what I heard on the radio (7/17/08) said oil prices were not going up because of supply and demand but moving up because of oil speculators in the commodities markets.  Now if demand was not there in a Global market would speculators readily create a market value needed in that high-risk market?  Maybe so but they would not be able to sustain the price structure and continue to force prices up, as we have seen them go up in the last year.  The price of oil is reacting to supply and demand and maybe other elements of the market place but not speculation as the driving force for higher prices.  Somebody must increase the supply or we will continue to have higher and higher prices through speculation but not because of speculation but demand.

Now back to what to do.  Should we continue to point out it is supply and demand and not the speculators or do we say; what is Harry Reed doing, he is not correct, why is he taking that position the fool and his position will be the ruin of the country. 

I heard again on talk radio (7/17) that 90% of the Republicans are for drilling and 90% of the Democrats are against it.  So here we go again, collectively to call them fools is OK but to single out Harry as a complete fool or worse a traitor is personal and attacking the jerk as an idiot with evil intention is to extreme and again off the issue and into personalities and personal faults.  To say he is less then a Statesman and he does not deserve to be in charge of the out house is personally attacking his character or the character and intellect he doesn’t seen the have.  But what can we say with regards to these 90% that are on the wrong side of the issue?  Is it OK to call them fools collectively but not individually, are we not attacking the good name of the Democratic Party.  No I say a bunch of fools makes each one just as much a fool as the bunch and should be told that.  But let us be the gentleman and stick to the issue, forget about the corrupt/fool as an individual causing the stand still through motive or ignorance. To drill or not to drill is the issue but what fool cannot see that and that some fool is causing the situation.

Proverbs 1:5 King James Bible;
 “ A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.”

 “Those who call for nonsense,” C. S. Lewis once wrote, “will find that it comes.”

 “ The spokesman for Christianity has been fatally infected with irrationalism.” 
Page 385  Dr. John Robbins “Without a Prayer Ayn Rand and the Close of Her System”. 1997

Is it any wonder we have a problem with the fools leading the parade of government.  The Emperors have no cloth and no one is advising them of that fact.  But let us not say anything to personal and continue to “Play the Gentleman”.         

According to Fox News, Jesse Jackson used the “N” word to describe the African Americans who listened to Obama and seemed to be under his spell. I think Jackson wished all these same people should be under his spell instead, as many were in years past.

I have good reason to believe Jackson is nothing more than a shill for the Democrat party, for the purpose of keeping the votes coming in from the African American community. It has worked for many years and maybe it’s beginning to wear off, thanks to honest reporting by Fox. You can bet the other networks don’t want to bring it up, but feel compelled to since Jackson blasted their beloved Obama.

Doesn’t anyone wonder where Jackson gets all his money? He rides around in Limo’s and wears nothing but the best suits and is surrounded with bodyguards as though he is a senior politician who has his life threatened every day. He also has no real job other than to say he is the present day Martin Luther King fighting for racial justice with his “Rainbow-Push” organization which is a tax shelter for his income, wherever that income comes from. I also notice that he is immune to financial investigation from the IRS and the press.

Is this man supposed to be a Reverend? This is the same man who fathered a child with an associate of his and then paid her off to keep it quiet. I hope the African American community finally wakes up to realize they have been taken for a ride. For more on this subject, please read the following article:

http://www.newsmax.com/us/jackson_n_word/2008/07/16/113522.html

Belief in Jesus Christ is by definition “Christianity” the doctrine and/or beliefs that come out of the Bible by these denominations is what gets to be the confusion issue.  And when the doctrine is so corrupted as to be outside belief in Christ as savior, it is deemed Heretical. 

But I did not say that nor did I say what I believe is the only true positioning of “Christianity” actually only God knows the heart and who is truly His.  What I said was “History” will show the truth and you can judge from those religions as to which one is best and/or was best for man.

Scientists can deny whatever they want with regards to creation and the number of days it took.  How in the heck can they even go there, we are arguing nonsense, I would just as soon they said GOD could not do it at all.  And this nonsense of the big “Bang” were in the heck did the thing that blew-up come from and don’t tell me it was just there.  And don’t tell me nothing can blew-up, and puff life comes into being.  Why I would sooner believe in some kind of god.  Crazy talk, totally illogical and without reasoning but let them believe what they want. 

There is no burden on me to prove anything too Hitchen, let him believe whatever he wish’s.  And as far as rules I get mine from the Bible, I hope where ever he gets his rules they are compatible with mine for I know mine are time tested and true.

Let me come back to the scientist and give you this. 

 “The British mathematician and meta- physician Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) said this:  “In the first place, there can be no living science unless there is a wide-spread instinctive conviction in the existence of an order of things, and in particular, of an order of nature.  Whitehead regarding the middle ages as the most important period leading up to the growth of modern science.”

Quoted from “ Summit Ministries” ‘The Journal’ June 2008 issue page 3 bottom.

The surprising thing to me is we had science accepting Darwin and his theory of change (evolution) were nothing is fixed and now the only thing that is fixed is change itself.  They and O’bama would get along great.  But who I’m I to question them. 

Somehow you and Hitchen have it wrong, God, nor I need prove anything for it is given once to die then judgment, God knows and is sovereign and I shall see.  In the mean time we shall watch the world slip and slide down into Hell.  The fortunate thing for me is because of my age I don’t think I will see the bottom, you may and I wish you and Hitchen well.

As far as defending my/the social compact theory being through God and for man, you need only study the Reformation starting with Wycliff, Hus, Calvin, Luther, the Westminster Confession, English Law and the development of Western Civilization.  And then the Mayflower Compact the first social compact here in America and then the different state constitution and what they used in the development of their set of laws.

Blackstone does quite the job in his commentaries of English law.  And more recently Greg L. Bahnsen in his masterful book “Theonomy in Christian Ethics” (1977) does a magnificence job of outlining God’s law.  Dr. Bahnsen died sometime in the 1990’s.  R. L. Dabney (1820-1898) one of the greatest Southern Presbyterian Theologians of the 19th century said this, one-year before his death and in his last book “The Practical Philosophy” published in 1897.

 “ You may deem it a strange prophecy, but I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.” Page 394

The Social Gospel and Progressive Movement were about to be born in the early 1900’s.  The “Enlightment”, Robespierre, Marx, Darwin, they had all planted their seeds and Communism (Russia) was about to burst on to the scene along with socialism.  Some 100 years later we/you shall see.  We are living in times were History will show us what shall be and I’m afraid it is not going to be good.  So finally, I need not prove anything, death will come, judgment, and I do not worry about that day for I have Christ.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 King James Bible  (one of my favorites)
 
 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

Looks like this “Bonus Gate” problem out of Harrisburg is becomming bigger than many have thought. Read Mychal Massie’s article:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69602

Christopher Hitchens debated Dinesh D’Souza at the Bally in Las Vegas July 10-12 2008.  Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris all have written books and are all Atheist carrying forth this new so called “Gospel of Atheism”.  Hitchens opened the debate with this;

“I don’t think there is any evidence to make us believe religion makes us better.”

He goes on to say;

”If you look around the world, there are Islamic crazies over here, Christian nuts over there, who all fuel at the same holy gas station.”

How can you defend religion as something good and necessary against those types of argument?  You can start by saying what they call themselves as religious people has nothing to do with what they really are. Religion should be first and foremost defined as something were the person is worshiping a deity with the belief that the following of his rules will get that person into a heavenly there after.  Men and there conscience lie, rationalize and deceive themselves into thinking they are doing themselves and mankind good.

Moral Philosophers recently have settled on and put forth a Secular Theory of morality.  The Rational Choice Theory accordingly say people tend to settle on a moral code that fits their needs and leads, or is likely to lead to their desired outcomes.  Rational choice theorists argue that their theory can explain virtually any human behavior, including moral choice.  And that the theory goes on to form a workable social contract but does it?

Minette Marrin in her published report July 13, 2008 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4322604.ece raises some interesting points and shows how Britain negotiated away its common moral commitments.  “— the abdication both of authority and of personal responsibility that began sometime after the war.” (She is talking about WW2)  Jumping from Marrin report to the Rational Choice Theory you can quickly see were morality and social contract is based on having something to lose and without responsibility and authority all is lost. The fact that you have no need that is your responsibility or your authority will lead to nothing. 

Now jumping from what I just said to the political arena you see were needs and big government are tied together to make a perverted, evil connection.  The bigger the government the more the needs of society are taken away and given to and controlled by government and the worse the social order deteriorates. 

Now, to make the last leap, back to the Atheist Christopher Hitchen and his position.  Religion is in mans soul, heart, in his physic, he cannot get away from it.  He will worship something whether Hitchen wants to believe that or not is not important.  What is important is found in History, what religion has done the most for mankind and advanced mankind up the ladder of prosperity.  What god had mercy on the people and showed man a social contract that he could form and live by?  What god gave man the means to cross over death into a heavenly rest and glory through his son?  If Hitchen wants to take that need of God and Jesus Christ away from him self so be it, but I shall not let Him go and continue to need and believe on the Lord and His Christ and my savior.   I am a sinner and in need of Him, Lord save this land, to your glory.

Psalm 10:4 King James Bible:
“The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.”  
Psalms 11:3 King James Bible
” If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”    
  

This comes from our man inside Julian Stolz, you can’t get any more inside.  What a mess, this is worse then a bunch of drunks in a wine cellar.  Read it and weep. 

“Last night (7/14/08) in East Penn we approved $9,845,000 in bond borrowing by an 8-1 vote. Guess who the 1 was?
We approved an 800 student elementary school by a 6-3 vote (Prinzinger, Stolz, and Gannon voting no) at a time when our High School is over capacity and our elementary schools are under capacity by a combined 290 students. This will trigger an additional $15 million in borrowing (debt) added to our current $150 million debt.
That’s just some of the things the East Penn School Board accomplished last night.”

This comes to you from another tireless worker, who gets it, and isn’t afraid to tell Liberal’s or the RINO’s.  We have got to be sick and the fact is the latest poll tells us that.  70% of the people believe the politician are a pack unto themselves, and have their own interest at heart.

http://lvpoliblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/mortgage-bailout-bad-policy-worse.html