Dear America,
So the founders built it, so that we may come into a world of freedom and liberty for all, in equal opportunity.
Given we are still discussing nation building, thanks to our dear president bringing up it's importance -- how can we not begin without looking at the very start of it all -- our birth, our early education and environment, how we nurture and teach our children to be of good character, of strong body, of kind spirit, and smart -- really, really smart.
As this sort of thing doesn't just happen by accident, you know.
It takes a village, sure. But how often are we really in, say, "the village?" And, how much of that early life is spent simply at home? And just how stable is that home of ours? These are all really good questions, if I don't say so myself.
This may be leaning a bit off the subject, but here in San Diego, we have had an unusual rash of entire families, parents and children, killed in a homicide/suicide scenario. Three families, in fact, over about the last three weeks, are gone. We talked about the stresses of life just yesterday -- and mostly in jest; but the reality is, in times like these, pressures of raising "good" kids doesn't even get on the top ten list of things to do today, for parents are being drowned, suffocated, buried, in a level of stress that puts just getting food on the table taking over nearly every waking thought.
And in these cases close to home, it all became too much. A parent not only took their own life, but the life of their children along with; and according to Geraldo, at least 1000 kids a year are killed at the hand of their own parent...roughly three a day.
SO our strength to persevere must come from somewhere, right? And to come right out with it, that is usually our faith. See here, a current Gallop poll outlining some of the numbers.
70% of us still believe in Something outside of ourselves; and 41% consider themselves VERY religious, and 29% call themselves moderately religious...while, just 30% put themselves squarely in the NON-religious category. If we were to break out the group of NON-religious: 29% lean towards GOP, 16% lean independent, and a whopping 54% lean Democrat.
So this poll makes me wonder -- how is it possible then, showing a country which leans seventy percent of the time towards believing in SOMETHING greater than ourselves, a God -- how is it that we have grown so anti-God in our everyday life -- say, in the village? What, so as soon as we pop our head out our front door, we are supposed to leave our religion at home now?
Sorry. That dog ain't gonna hunt.
This is not what our founders intended.
Our founders, lived from a place of believing -- a place that fully acknowledged Divine Providence had It's hand in the very making, and the building, and the reinforcing, and the maintenance, in celebration of all good things to come.
Our founders protected us -- we the people -- FROM government telling us what to believe, and controlling us through the pulpit. It was hardly the situation of the other way around; this land, this nation, was built so that we could wear our religion every day, in school, in the grocery store.. at Home Depot, at Cisco..in the town square, in the village...and not be vilified for it.
And even though real Christianity had great influence upon our founders direction, in that Divine Providence kind of way, the truth is, America's religion grew from a place so much bigger than that -- for we are living the dream of people like Cicero, that dates back two thousand years! A chief component of Cicero's politic was based upon "rules of 'right conduct' with the law of the Supreme Creator of the universe...the only intelligent approach to government, justice, and human relations is in terms of the laws which the Supreme Creator has already established." [from The 5000 Year Leap]
Cicero explains this Natural Law in greater detail by saying:
Having said that -- and might I suggest sitting with Cicero for as long as you possibly can here -- just imagine now, how great Thou art. We are made in America from this cloth; our heritage is rich, masterful, resting on the greatest thinkers of all time! But here we all come along this one fine day in Two Thousand and Eleven in the Year of our Lord with every intention to uproot every bit of it. Oh the bloody arrogance and stupidity just blows me away.
Do you think for one minute that the Academia-in-Chief, and the Liberal Organizers for America everywhere, really care about Divine Providence anymore?
Newsflash: IT still lives here. God Is and there is nothing you can say or do to change It.
Just because you wish to extinguish all life, liberty, tradition based on life Under God, doesn't mean the rest of us -- the 70% -- stand to agree. talking to you, King George Soros.
Do you want to live in a world without a living breathing loving soul? yeah, me neither.
Back to the building of a nation: start with each and every baby we bring into this world. And it continues through pre-school, early education, high school, college -- up until they move out and find a village of their own to call home.
So according to the Gallop poll, we do raise our children in a home that lives under God in some fashion -- seventy percent say that we do, anyway. That is the good news.
Bad news: the village doesn't reinforce It's magnificence. Matter of fact, the village is growing quite tired of even mentioning It's name out loud. The village has decided for us, that it is more appropriate to go by way of pop culture, offering a world of fleeting gods and goddesses, an agenda of many names, of organizations reigning supreme to capture our hearts, steal our money, and exploit our every resource for the "common good." Sounds a lot like the Church of England, doesn't it? Who needs God, when we have the church of mother earth to tend to, right?
And if that were not enough -- as we have slowly taken away prayer in schools, replacing character building with community organizing, and after years of indoctrinating our children with far left curriculum going against our free market, avenging capitalism, discouraging critical thinking in every way, NOW, we are up against a whole 'nother paradigm -- the onslaught of a brand new agenda focused purely on redefining love, marriage, sexuality, and family.
Perhaps if we included lifestyle differences without demolishing and discrediting traditional relationships and marriage, our children might have half a chance. But that is certainly not the case, is it? is it?
Truth is, we have taken God, and our relationship with the Creator totally out of school -- one might even say, that It has been expelled for life. Hit the road, jack, and doncha come back, no more no more. The village has decided that we no longer want you, God; that we no longer need you, God; that we got this thing called life totally handled. The village people say, that our children no longer need to give God a second thought.
How can that be when our entire existence as a nation was built upon a belief in Something greater than ourselves -- that Divine Providence led our founders every step of the way -- how can that be?
What is the village so afraid of?
I have a pretty good idea, but that is for you to decide.
But more important, with 70% of the nation leaning to believing in Something, how can it be that our curriculum, that which is responsible for raising our children, allows for this kind of injustice?
How can it be, that all of a sudden, it is totally permissible to teach gay and lesbian relationships, transgender modification, even honoring transvestites and cross dressing 2.0, while curriculum based on building good character, good conscience, critical thinking beyond ourselves -- of what it means on being human, our connection to Something greater than ourselves, and what does God tell us -- is outlawed?
If we believe in treating all people with respect, if we believe in tolerance, if we believe in civil liberties both right and left, then for our children's sake -- then the village must open it's doors to the full curriculum; meaning, the village cannot play God for the rest of us -- and if they insist upon teaching our kids 'that stuff', then our kids deserve a balance of THIS stuff... the stuff that God made...along with it.
The reality is, our children are in the cross-hairs of a political agenda.
The reality is, nearly 1000 children are killed at the hand of their own mother or father; but the real stunner, the one that the front page never talks about, is that hundreds of thousands are dying a slow death in a liberal education.
we made better kids when McGuffey's Readers were used in school...here's a sample:
2. I once knew a little boy, who, after looking
So the founders built it, so that we may come into a world of freedom and liberty for all, in equal opportunity.
Given we are still discussing nation building, thanks to our dear president bringing up it's importance -- how can we not begin without looking at the very start of it all -- our birth, our early education and environment, how we nurture and teach our children to be of good character, of strong body, of kind spirit, and smart -- really, really smart.
As this sort of thing doesn't just happen by accident, you know.
It takes a village, sure. But how often are we really in, say, "the village?" And, how much of that early life is spent simply at home? And just how stable is that home of ours? These are all really good questions, if I don't say so myself.
This may be leaning a bit off the subject, but here in San Diego, we have had an unusual rash of entire families, parents and children, killed in a homicide/suicide scenario. Three families, in fact, over about the last three weeks, are gone. We talked about the stresses of life just yesterday -- and mostly in jest; but the reality is, in times like these, pressures of raising "good" kids doesn't even get on the top ten list of things to do today, for parents are being drowned, suffocated, buried, in a level of stress that puts just getting food on the table taking over nearly every waking thought.
And in these cases close to home, it all became too much. A parent not only took their own life, but the life of their children along with; and according to Geraldo, at least 1000 kids a year are killed at the hand of their own parent...roughly three a day.
SO our strength to persevere must come from somewhere, right? And to come right out with it, that is usually our faith. See here, a current Gallop poll outlining some of the numbers.
70% of us still believe in Something outside of ourselves; and 41% consider themselves VERY religious, and 29% call themselves moderately religious...while, just 30% put themselves squarely in the NON-religious category. If we were to break out the group of NON-religious: 29% lean towards GOP, 16% lean independent, and a whopping 54% lean Democrat.
So this poll makes me wonder -- how is it possible then, showing a country which leans seventy percent of the time towards believing in SOMETHING greater than ourselves, a God -- how is it that we have grown so anti-God in our everyday life -- say, in the village? What, so as soon as we pop our head out our front door, we are supposed to leave our religion at home now?
Sorry. That dog ain't gonna hunt.
This is not what our founders intended.
Our founders, lived from a place of believing -- a place that fully acknowledged Divine Providence had It's hand in the very making, and the building, and the reinforcing, and the maintenance, in celebration of all good things to come.
Our founders protected us -- we the people -- FROM government telling us what to believe, and controlling us through the pulpit. It was hardly the situation of the other way around; this land, this nation, was built so that we could wear our religion every day, in school, in the grocery store.. at Home Depot, at Cisco..in the town square, in the village...and not be vilified for it.
And even though real Christianity had great influence upon our founders direction, in that Divine Providence kind of way, the truth is, America's religion grew from a place so much bigger than that -- for we are living the dream of people like Cicero, that dates back two thousand years! A chief component of Cicero's politic was based upon "rules of 'right conduct' with the law of the Supreme Creator of the universe...the only intelligent approach to government, justice, and human relations is in terms of the laws which the Supreme Creator has already established." [from The 5000 Year Leap]
Cicero explains this Natural Law in greater detail by saying:
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it [G's favorite part] and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws in Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations, and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of the very fact he will suffer the worst punishment." [Quoted in Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p.133, duly noted in The 5000 Year Leap, p. 40]
Having said that -- and might I suggest sitting with Cicero for as long as you possibly can here -- just imagine now, how great Thou art. We are made in America from this cloth; our heritage is rich, masterful, resting on the greatest thinkers of all time! But here we all come along this one fine day in Two Thousand and Eleven in the Year of our Lord with every intention to uproot every bit of it. Oh the bloody arrogance and stupidity just blows me away.
Do you think for one minute that the Academia-in-Chief, and the Liberal Organizers for America everywhere, really care about Divine Providence anymore?
Newsflash: IT still lives here. God Is and there is nothing you can say or do to change It.
Just because you wish to extinguish all life, liberty, tradition based on life Under God, doesn't mean the rest of us -- the 70% -- stand to agree. talking to you, King George Soros.
Do you want to live in a world without a living breathing loving soul? yeah, me neither.
Back to the building of a nation: start with each and every baby we bring into this world. And it continues through pre-school, early education, high school, college -- up until they move out and find a village of their own to call home.
So according to the Gallop poll, we do raise our children in a home that lives under God in some fashion -- seventy percent say that we do, anyway. That is the good news.
Bad news: the village doesn't reinforce It's magnificence. Matter of fact, the village is growing quite tired of even mentioning It's name out loud. The village has decided for us, that it is more appropriate to go by way of pop culture, offering a world of fleeting gods and goddesses, an agenda of many names, of organizations reigning supreme to capture our hearts, steal our money, and exploit our every resource for the "common good." Sounds a lot like the Church of England, doesn't it? Who needs God, when we have the church of mother earth to tend to, right?
And if that were not enough -- as we have slowly taken away prayer in schools, replacing character building with community organizing, and after years of indoctrinating our children with far left curriculum going against our free market, avenging capitalism, discouraging critical thinking in every way, NOW, we are up against a whole 'nother paradigm -- the onslaught of a brand new agenda focused purely on redefining love, marriage, sexuality, and family.
Perhaps if we included lifestyle differences without demolishing and discrediting traditional relationships and marriage, our children might have half a chance. But that is certainly not the case, is it? is it?
Truth is, we have taken God, and our relationship with the Creator totally out of school -- one might even say, that It has been expelled for life. Hit the road, jack, and doncha come back, no more no more. The village has decided that we no longer want you, God; that we no longer need you, God; that we got this thing called life totally handled. The village people say, that our children no longer need to give God a second thought.
How can that be when our entire existence as a nation was built upon a belief in Something greater than ourselves -- that Divine Providence led our founders every step of the way -- how can that be?
What is the village so afraid of?
I have a pretty good idea, but that is for you to decide.
But more important, with 70% of the nation leaning to believing in Something, how can it be that our curriculum, that which is responsible for raising our children, allows for this kind of injustice?
How can it be, that all of a sudden, it is totally permissible to teach gay and lesbian relationships, transgender modification, even honoring transvestites and cross dressing 2.0, while curriculum based on building good character, good conscience, critical thinking beyond ourselves -- of what it means on being human, our connection to Something greater than ourselves, and what does God tell us -- is outlawed?
If we believe in treating all people with respect, if we believe in tolerance, if we believe in civil liberties both right and left, then for our children's sake -- then the village must open it's doors to the full curriculum; meaning, the village cannot play God for the rest of us -- and if they insist upon teaching our kids 'that stuff', then our kids deserve a balance of THIS stuff... the stuff that God made...along with it.
The reality is, our children are in the cross-hairs of a political agenda.
The reality is, nearly 1000 children are killed at the hand of their own mother or father; but the real stunner, the one that the front page never talks about, is that hundreds of thousands are dying a slow death in a liberal education.
we made better kids when McGuffey's Readers were used in school...here's a sample:
About the Stars
1. What child is there,
that has never looked up with wonder at the stars!
2. I once knew a little boy, who, after looking
at them for a long time, went to his mother and said,
"Mother, these bright things in the sky,
you call stars, but I think that is not the right name for them."
3."Well, my child," said his mother, "what do you think they are?"
4. "Why, I think they are God's candles," said the boy.
This idea is at once natural and beautiful.
They indeed seem like lamps set
in the glorious Hall of the Creator,
to show forth its grandeur,
and call upon the universe to worship
Him who sitteth upon the throne, for ever and ever.
5. Whatever the stars seem to be,
we have reason to suppose that they are worlds,
or suns, much larger than the moon, or even this earth.
6.How wonderful then are these shining orbs,
and how great must He be,
who in wisdom and goodness has made them all!
and it continues...
...leading the reader through the rest of the story, right to the end, when it welcomes into the room a full discussion of what are stars -- asking what idea is 'natural and beautiful', etc. etc. Just harmless questions making a child truly think for himself! The child who happens to be of a "non-religious" family, can simply say they do not believe stars are connected to a God at all. I guess, maybe that would be, in this day and age, about 30% of the class. But who's counting, right?
The thing is, we stopped nation building, when we ceased teaching our children a deeper connection to all of life and our inherent duty, to ourselves and each other, to maintain 'right conduct' -- with or without God.
"The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While, on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves." [Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 1:22-23, from The 5000 Year Leap]
We must allow ourselves, and especially our children, to walk with God -- out in the open. What is the harm?
As a parent, as a citizen, as a believer, I know this to be true.
Make it a Good Day, G
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