Lest We Forget

Since rejecting and being rejected by the church world, this believer has missed only the great hymns of the faith.  Hymns like, “Lead me to Calvary”, remain in my bones.  Published a hundred years ago, the chorus cries out, “Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget Thine agony, Lest I forget thy love for me. Lead me to Calvary.”  We humans are best at forgetting for our selective memories fade so quickly.  The hill upon which Jesus was crucified was a dark unjust place and we, as humans, are prone to try and put such experiences behind us.  The author, Jennie Evelyn Hussey (1874-1958), was an invalid from rheumatism who was forced by her pain to focus inward finding a greater vulnerability, forgetting.  Out of her suffering came the words that will live forever even if they are ignored by today's “pop” religion.

Oh yes, I forgot, this is written for a political opinion page but are not politics and faith close kissing cousins?  Do both not involve trusting into the future?  The question is who do you trust, something greater than ourselves or do we trust government (politics)?  Or, quite possibly, is there a workable partnership?  Most of the framers of the American Constitution believed in such a partnership and their unique experiment in governance sought to give the people control of their own destiny.  It proved to be a success for 250 years despite constant pressure from the top down advocates.  In the last 25 years, we the people have progressively lost any hope of remaining that unique system and the bottom up governance that our forefathers envisioned, how soon we forget our heritage.

The killers of this heritage are the top down progressives who seek to divide and conquer America.  The progressive label has been adopted by such folk because it is less threatening than the labels of the past and present, labels like aristocracies, dictatorships, communism and socialism.  All these forms of governance consider the destiny of the people theirs to control top down.  Even the term democracy can be misleading, most governments like to use the term but the reality is the same old.  Holding an election does not make a democracy, the people who vote must be given a real choice.  The presidential election of 2016 was the first time we the people were given a real choice in decades and the people spoke loudly.  In electing Donald J. Trump, the people remembered who we are.

The praise and gratitude given to Mr. Trump will never be enough but our democracy is not saved with one election, the Trump Presidency faces dangers within and without.  The push back from the without forces, the progressive left, is obvious, they are fighting Mr. Trump viciously with every political trick in the book.  Some of us are bored with their antics but the threat from within the Trump camp is subtler, it is the perceived threat of our moneyed aristocracy.  The rich folk of American have been the only people to benefit from the stock market explosion under Obama and Trump as zero interest rates have propped up the market.  Will this sliver of Americans control Washington to enhance their portfolios?  Lest we forget the economic debacle of 2008, only eight years ago, the people must be vigilant.

Money is not a party issue, the power it brings separated the interests of the people from their elected political leaders of both parties.  It is why nothing gets done for us, only harm.  The Wall Street tycoons and politicians inflicted great pain on the average American in 2008.  No one has gone to jail; the Democrats did not pay a price for their push to recklessly extend credit.  Wall Street was fined pocket change and now it appears that they could be running the country.  The key word is “appears”.

We the people who elected Mr. Trump believe that he and his administration are for the little guy but a healthy skepticism is warranted.  The people have not forgotten.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca       

moral me?

Morality among we humans is a very funny thing.  For starters, each of us has our own pet peeves and we all share an aversion to personally reflecting in our own moral mirror.  Not one of us should feel comfortable espousing attitudes of moral superiority but we do so every day, almost every hour if we are honest with ourselves.  Our presidential election conflict is a case in point.  There is no morally superior candidate for president although each is consuming extraordinary energy to convince we the voters of just that fact.  A rule of thumb, them that claim the moral high ground by disparage others really have none of their own and them that have the moral high ground seem to ignore the moral lapses of others.

 

This rule of thumb may or may not be a truism but it has been suggested by many years of observing human character flaws, both my own and others.  I grew up in the very evangelical church world and witnessed this truism played out regularly from church sinners and church saints.  The mature Christian hearts never dumped lapses of morality on particular people but were adamant about principle.  Those less mature believers used the trashing of people to make a point about a moral principle.  Big difference, whether the trashing comes from the people or the pulpit, this weakness is not a higher spiritual order.

This is not solely a church problem for it is a universal human character flaw that impacts each of our days.  The God of the heavens is now rolling around the clouds laughing hilariously at us and our moral childishness.  We just refuse to get it.  The voters of America are to blame most of all for the morality fisticuffs prior to the election.  Sex sells.  Give the people the opportunity to trash someone else for the guilt they carry for their own struggles and the important stuff gets buried.  Again, it is as plain as the nose on your face, we as humans and voters are so gullible and so easily manipulated.  The Hillary forces have been using this political campaign tool their entire careers and quite frankly, it is smart.

 

The question before us is how long will, we the voters, allow ourselves to be suckered?  How long will we allow ourselves to wallow in this morality play?  When will we get enough satisfaction out of trashing someone else who has more status, more charisma, more opportunities in life and most of all, more money that he has legally earned?  How long will we ignore what are good policies for the people?  How long will we ignore the financial pain that the Obama-Clinton dynasty has inflicted on the people with the current government run economy?  How long will we accept political leadership that betrays and sells the interests of the people for profit?  How long will we be lied too?

The God of the heavens is not laughing, there are tears rolling down his cheeks. His heart is breaking again, how long?

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA.

The Pro-Life Failure

The Pro-life movement in America has always been a failure, the movement has always lost the spiritual and political quarrels with the culture for one simple reason.  The Pro-Life movement has tried a politically correct approach to speak to the killing instead of a spiritual approach.  Sure, we march and carry signs as if to say, aren’t we righteous!  Jesus would scold, you hypocrites!
    

The movement allows the woman who kills her child in the womb to play the victim.  The woman is not responsible, only the doctor who does the killing can be blamed.  The woman is just unlucky to become pregnant when her circumstance are not ideal or uncomfortable.  The religious communities give her a pass and thereby exacerbate the killing.   The greater Church is scared to tell the woman and the culture the truth, the truth that the only relief for the murderess is to accept the responsibility for this action before God.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca  

Notice

The Church betrays the calling of God if it fails to speak the truth of God to social and political power.  With the exception of Pope Francis, the Church is silent and squirms from engaging our increasingly Godless culture.  The pop theology of another time surely applies today if we were to ask, what would Jesus do?  Why don't we ask?  We don't ask the question because we have not the courage to hear the answer.      

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Zygote

To be precise, a zygote is the term used to refer to the cell as a result of the fusion of two haploid nuclei during fertilization until the first cleavage.  When the zygote starts to divide and multiply it is called an embryo.  (as defined by biology on line)

Each one of us were at one time a wondrous zygote.  Everything that is you is sculpted from this beginning when the genes of mom and dad combine in unpredictable ways.  The one celled zygote is a person, a like human being with great potential and possible great liabilities.  This person is within minutes of a dividing process that creates an embryo baby person, then a fetus baby person and after birth, a baby person.  So who is qualified to judge any of these persons without giving them a chance to choose their journey, isn’t that called discrimination?  

The abortion rights lobby believe that they and the mother have that right to judge.  If the mother is at all uncomfortable with a pregnancy, if the pregnancy is an unwanted complication for the mother or the state, it is better for the zygote, embryo or fetus to be killed.  They call it a termination but the medical definition in the Miriam Webster on line dictionary states that an abortion is a medical procedure to end a pregnancy and cause the death of a fetus.  Try as they might, this fact cannot be spun to hide the truth unless we will not handle the truth.

ObamaCare has made the hiding in the bushes tactic of the Church untenable.  Our new unhealthy care system makes everyone directly complicit in the killing because each of us are now paying for all abortions.  This concern was never raised when the Law was being debated or voted upon by the people.  The church has been silent but we can no longer feign ignorance.  Now that the Law is being implemented we have to wake up to the travesty but except for a few Roman Catholic protests and the Hobby Lobby folk, Jesus believers are still hiding in the bushes.

Did Jesus hide in the bushes?  No, He fearlessly spoke truth to religious power.  If we assume that God takes a personal interest in each one of us, how can we condone, either actively or passively, the killing of another person’s shot at life?  How can Jesus believers now stand by and claimed no responsibility before God for these deaths?  We can no longer sing the prison refrain, it wasn’t me Oh Lord!  God is counting the lies, they have totaled at least 52 million lives and lies perpetrated upon our fellow Americans by Americans.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca