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Monday, January 30, 2012

Give Newt the Boot, Again



A funny thing happened on the way to the primaries; a man who once held the second most powerful position in the land and was forced to resign from it, is, if the people of South Carolina have their way, going to be rewarded by being given the most powerful job in the world; he was voted to be the Republican candidate for the next President of the United States. He couldn’t do the job of Speaker of the House, so let’s make him President. It’s the Peter Principal on crack.

If that doesn’t have you scratching your head, try this: Newt, who accepted millions of dollars from Fanny Mae for ‘nothing’, who is known to have committed chronic adultery over two marriages, was selected in the most evangelical Christian state in America. What? What’s more, they voted for Callista, his third wife and former mistress for many years while he was married to his second wife, to be the potential first lady.

That tells us more about post-modern, western Christians than it does about Newt Gingrich. What would the founding fathers of the republic think? Did they not lay out principals for keeping the republic strong and free? They did! And some of those principals are:

Principle 2 - A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.

In other words, a morally bankrupt society cannot survive as a republic. Does that scare the daylights out of you? It should! We’ve seen that morality has given way to unbridled greed in the marketplace and unbridled ambition in our politicians over the past several years. How’s that working for us?

Principle 3 - The most promising method of securing a virtuous people is to elect virtuous leaders.

It’s strange that a country so fixated on freedom is so willing to risk it all by putting two people with known moral issues in the most powerful office in the world. What will that say to our children? Certainly, there can be nothing wrong with cheating on your wife or sleeping with someone else’s spouse if Newt and Callista can do it and still get elected to the Whitehouse.

Evangelical Christians are supposed to be family oriented, protective of the nuclear family; indeed, Newt is campaigning on family values – go figure. Meanwhile, they would seem to be fine with marital infidelity having no serious consequence. They want to replace a virtuous, family man with a man who claims to be a Christian, but has been a chronic adulterer, and they want to do it for the sake of family values? And they think this is God’s will? They think this will bring God’s blessing back on the good ol’ USA. Surely this will lead to society hemorrhaging virtue and becoming even more morally bankrupt. Indeed, perhaps this primary is an indication that it already is.

Numerous polls from numerous pollsters reveal that 89% of Americans, who say they are ‘born-again’, are statistically indistinguishable from the rest of society on a moral basis. 89% have just as high a rate of adultery, abuse, racism, divorce, pornography use, etc., etc., as the rest of the country. Didn’t God call us to come out of that muck and be separate? Is there no ‘fear’ of God in America? Oh yes, our seminaries changed that to ‘reverence’; terrifying fear has no place in our feel-good, romantic, post-modern aberration of Christianity. But it is still in the Bible for anyone who cares to look.

Principle 4 - Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.

This kind of contradicts the ‘separation of church and state’ theory. By saying that the ‘government cannot be maintained without religion’ the fathers suggest that religion must be an integral part of the government, that is, the people who make up the government. But that would mean true religion, not the hypocritical nonsense of politicians trying to get elected. They will say whatever the herds want to hear to get elected. Their real attitude toward God must be determined by their lives. Are they virtuous, or even close? No-one is perfect; people make mistakes, make bad decisions and often regret them, learn from them and grow in character. Others, those who are hypocritical, continue in their mistakes and repeat them without any fear of God or man.

 We Christians have been listening to too much hatred from the greatly over-heated right-wing media commentators. Too many talk show hosts are there just to make money, to sell you a product. They are verbal prostitutes. They claim to be Christian but what comes out of their mouths is hatred, pride, and evil. There is nothing of Christ in them. The Bible tells us to dwell on things that are lovely, not things that are putrid. I am convinced that much of the vicious rhetoric in the media today is racism disguised a political comment. Christians listen to this crap because they talk Christian values, and some may indeed be good Christian people, but in among them are those who sow only hatred because they can't stand the fact that a black man is the President of the United States. Turn them off until they can learn to talk with respect and dignity about the President, until they learn to speak the truth, and until they develop humility and a real fear of God - for our God is a consuming fire.

People realize that you cannot be a bastion of freedom and yet legislate morality. Outlawing gay marriage and abortion has not happened under several Christian Presidents, and, if it did it will not make America a moral country again. We’ve gone too far down that road. We should be witnessing to Americans not trying to legislate morality; but we’ve completely destroyed our witness to those in need of Christ. We’ve alienated those to whom we are called to witness, to glorify God. How do we glorify God? By revealing His character through our own character. I have a hard time seeing the character of Jesus Christ in most prominent Christians in this country, indeed, most non-Christians see only hatred, greed, intolerance, egotism, and anger.

God forgive me, but I am getting more and more embarrassed at being a Christian in this country; for while the leaders of the Evangelical church endorsed Rick Santorum, if Newt wins the nomination, they will vote for him. In South Carolina they already voted for him who appears the least moral because he seems to have a better chance than the more moral candidates to replace the moral family man in the Whitehouse. Should Newt win the nomination many Christians will vote for him and they’ll do it in the Name of God to save America. If that’s what it takes to save America, I think it’s already too late.






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