CIVIL
WAR
I believe America's next Civil War is also going to come as a
result of various groups fighting for their beliefs: Abortion,
Animal Rights, Capitol Punishment, Gay Rights, Nuclear Power,
Smokers Rights, Free Speech, National Health Insurance, Right
to Die, Street People, E.R.A., Unions, Civil Rights, A.C.L.U.,
Creation vs. Evolution, Drug Testing, Environmental Concerns,
Illegal immigration, and whatever comes along that divides people.
It’s a case of the haves vs. the have nots, the gays vs.
the gay nots and the wants vs. the want nots. I think the problem
will build until some economic trouble triggers a revolt.
It seems that what Communism couldn't do to the productivity of
this nation, environmentalism will. They don't want anyone cutting
the forests, building dams, digging for and refining oil, using
animal products (meat, leather or fur) burning or burying garbage.
They will not be happy until we all are naked, starving and living
in caves, and that, as long as we are not kicking an animal out
of its home.
If you go to San Francisco to Pier 37 you will see that the sea
lions have taken over the pleasure boat docks and slips because
people aren’t to harass them back into the water. It’s
the same way in Washington D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial. If you
want to take a picture of the statue of Lincoln, and there is
a bird on his head, you will be stopped from scaring off the bird
because it is harassment.
I think the thing that is the most interesting about some of the
above-mentioned passions are; that they are in direct rebellion
to gifts and commands that God gave us. Concerning abortion, God
told us to go and populate the earth, be fruitful and multiply.
He is not for a zero growth. There are other facets to the abortion
problem that seem more powerful, like killing babies for whatever
reason, but abortion for the most part is rebellion to God and
His command to populate the earth. Next on the list is animal
rights. God gave us animals to use both for clothes and food.
Leave it to man to reject the use of them both. Concerning capitol
punishment, God said if someone kills an innocent person, that
killer should be killed by a man also. God calls homosexuality
an abomination, certain of mankind call it normal.
God's intention was that man should disperse and populate the
earth but the rebels of Babel thought to make a tower that would
reach to heaven and get a name for themselves (by staying united).
Genesis 11:6 is real scary. "And the Lord said, Behold the
people is one, and they all have one language; and this (vs. 3-4)
they will begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from
them, which they have imagined to do." Look around today;
everything is "One World." The man-made language of
Esperanto that most people have never heard about is just another
example. Just think about it. If every one in the world only knew
two languages (their own and Esperanto) there would be no communication
barriers. We are slowly coming back to that point in history-past,
and with modern technology; everything from genetic engineering
and computers to space travel, we are capable (in our own mind)
of looking up to heaven and shaking our tiny fists in the face
of God and telling him to move over and/or get out of our lives.
The other items on the list are just a few more of the things
that cause a division between mankind. The scary part is we are
seeing more violence associated with the promotion of the individual's
views. For instance, in New York, animal rights activists have
been known to throw paint on the fur coats of women walking down
the streets. I heard a man on national TV say that if he were
in a lifeboat where the choice had to be made whether to throw
out a baby or a dog, he would throw out the baby.
I wish the problem could be taken care of with the vote. The trouble
is that both sides of an issue will go right on doing violence
and causing other problems, no matter what the VOTE says. The
news media seems to be right in the middle throwing fuel on the
flames, either to make money, or, to promote a hidden agenda,
maybe both. My dilemma comes with not knowing whether God or the
devil is giving them license to do so. One thing sure, God is
allowing it at least. You may be wondering why would that be?
It all has to do with judgment on us as a nation and individuals,
and not being the kind of people God would have us be.
On the abortion issue and violence - I can't really blame the
anti-abortion crowd because they are fighting for human life and
especially for late term abortions. They justify their acts of
protest and even violence with Proverbs 24:11-12. 11. “If
thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those
that are ready to be slain; 12. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew
it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and
he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he
render to every man according to his works?” Don’t
get me wrong, God will judge all those that are killing innocent
life.; anybody doing violence, on either side will stand in judgment
for whatever they do or whomever they hurt. It even says in the
Bible that He will destroy those that destroy the earth. If animals
and the earth are that important to God, how much more important
are human lives, created in His image?
I can just about bet you, the people that are against the killing
of animals, for the use of meat and fur, are all for a woman’s
right to have an abortion or should I say, right to choose. They
say it should not be a government decision. What they don't realize
is, God sets up governments and gives them the power to punish
evildoers. The most important thing they don't realize is; that
baby is known to God before he or she is in their mother's womb
and that the baby is a baby and not a mindless numb glob of "pregnancy
tissue" (it does feel pain and even sucks the thumb) and
therefore the ending of that pregnancy is the ending of a life,
and who knows the value it could be to us on this earth? Surely
if they can justify saving a killers life, because he or she could
be of great value to society, (if rehabilitated) the life of the
unwanted baby has to have the same consideration. The mothers
"rights" do not supersede the rights of God, and His
command to populate the earth. We are not our own. Our lives and
bodies belong to God. He gives us every breath of life we breathe.
Today we hear protests in the media about the “religious
right” being involved in politics. If they aren’t
involved in the political process and protect lives of the unborn
in that forum, they most certainly will by necessity have to use
violence to make their point and also stop the killing. The (fore
mentioned) guy in the life boat that would throw out the baby
instead of the dog, will be countered by the people that would
kill the abortion doctors to save the lives of the babies and
adopt them out to people that can’t have children of their
own. I would say that the above mentioned scripture (Pro. 24:11-12)
gives greater justification to the radical religious right to
kill, than it does to the guy in the life boat that wants to throw
out the baby. If it was up to me the guy in the lifeboat wanting
to throw out the baby is the one that should be thrown out.
These killers of babies not only want the right to kill those
babies, but they want the "God given" government to
be in league with them, i.e. Keep Abortion (murder) Legal, and
moreover, they want the government (all the people) to pay for
the killing.
At the same time you are asking, how could civilized human beings
treat the unborn so badly, you have to ask, how could people in
the civil war era treat blacks so bad. They captured them like
animals, put them into horrible transport conditions and when
they arrived in America, were sold, housed and treated as bad
or worse than animals. People in the south thought more of their
economic power than they did about the ethical and moral treatment
of human beings under slavery. They ignored what the Bible said
about how slaves were to be treated, and who indeed should be
slaves in the first place.
This nation is in a low simmer and with all the divisions, could
turn ugly very quickly. It is divisions like this that could boil
over into another civil war. Nowhere are divisions more heated
than in politics, because politics in this day and age include
most of the hot topics that are debated today.
Row houses symbolize the powder keg that could ignite the civil
war. As I drive across this country, I see row houses in the big
cities and even now in rural mid western areas that are meant
to just house occupants enslaved to a work-a-day world. They may
have a deck tacked to the side, symbolizing an attempt to take
in the good life.
Inside these houses are the penned up frustrations of several
generations. That frustration is on two sides. Those that want
any kind of change and those that don’t want any. If there
is a civil war, whoever wins, will probably cause a “French
Revolution” type of backlash.
In the 1996 elections we chose between the Clintons and the Doles
to be the first family of the United States. People that think
the Clintons are corrupt can’t understand how so many voters
can support them in their second bid for the white house in the
face of all the allegations against them. When we consider who
we want in the White House I think a simple comparison of the
people that are running for that office should be looked at and
acted upon.
The Doles have spent virtually their whole adult lives serving
the people of America and not themselves for the most part. Bob
in the senate and Elizabeth serving in cabinet posts and as head
of the Red Cross. You can believe if they had been involved in
sleazy little back room, get rich schemes, you would have heard
about it in the media by now and over and over and over.
The Clintons on the other hand have left a contrail of impropriety
and corruption from Arkansas to Washington, D.C. Bill's affairs
(Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinski), white water
gate, cattle gate, travel gate, Vince Foster gate, FBI (File)
gate, soothsayer gate, immigrant gate, Indonesia gate, and the
latest charge of fund raiser gate.
When Al Gore was in debate with Jack Kemp, he was accused of talking
down to 5 year olds. That - he was doing, as well as talking to
the slow of hearing of all ages, but most important he was speaking
to millions of non-English speaking people living and potentially
voting this country. This tactic was not corrupt but it was "slick."
The choice was ours and to my way of thinking it was an easy choice.
Bob Dole's vast political experience could have served this nation
well, not to mention, he would bring with him what could have
been "The Crown Jewel" of all this nation's first ladies.
In this day and age of the minority rules, the fact of the matter
is, the majority gets the government it deserves. If that is an
ungodly majority, all of us will have to suffer with the appropriate
government. As of 1996 I don’t really hear the term “moral
majority” any more. Maybe brother Falwell finally realized
that it is quite the opposite. This isn’t saying that everybody
is a crook; it only suggests that God’s standard of morality
and righteousness is different than that of ours and is the cause
of the government that is upon us now.
I was watching The Justice Files on A&E on the 17th of December
1997; it was concerning the Murder of the Kansas farm family,
which was made famous by Truman Capote’s, “In Cold
Blood.” The writers of the show seemed to decry the fact
that the defense lawyers really didn’t seem to give their
clients one hundred percent effort in defending their cases. In
other words, they didn’t try to get them off on technicalities.
Why is it that mass murderers seem to pick on people less deserving
of death than others? We need to bring back Hitler and reprogram
him, as well as Charles Manson and Tim McVeigh to take care of
those that file frivolous lawsuits and other such people. Which
deserves to be bombed more: the federal building in Oklahoma City
or the building housing the National Inquirer?
