Cross-posted another blog. As it seems the wingnut that attacked Congresswoman Giffords and kllled several people was a Hitler enthusiast who listed "Mein Kampf" as one of his favorite books. The "Blue-Dog" Congresswoman, the wife of astronaut Captain Mark Kelly, may have been targeted as a "Jew" to the shooter. More information about Loughner and the shooting:
"Police say the shooter was in custody, and was identified by the FBI as Jared Loughner, 22. He was described by friends as a pot-smoking loner who was rejected by the Army when he tried to enlist in 2008. He dropped out of a local community college after having five contacts with campus police for classroom and library disruptions last year.
His motivation was not immediately known, but Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described him as mentally unstable and possibly acting with an accomplice.
Authorities said Giffords, 40, was targeted at a public gathering by a man with a semiautomatic weapon around 10 a.m. Saturday outside a busy Tucson supermarket. Fourteen people were injured."
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The following was previously posted on Radaractive blog. Ideas have consequences...
I had not intended to write on this subject today, I had intended to post some pictures and documentation to expose the continuing Darwinist propaganda machine. Lies are a large part of Darwinist teaching. Falsified fables are prominently displayed in museums and included in science textbooks. I owe my readership such a post.
But I do understand that inspiration is a force to be respected. It just so happened that the TCM movie channel began showing the
"March of Time" series of newsreels that began to be produced in 1934 and were shown from February of 1935 until 1951. In the days before television, people got their news through the radio and the papers but only newsreels could bring the reality of sight and sound together from places around the world to their local theaters. The newsreels would play at the beginning of a film that would be the main attraction or perhaps be part of a combination of newsreel and the newest episode of various series like "Zorro" or "Flash Gordon" and cartoon episodes called "shorts" starring Popeye or Mickey Mouse. The Three Stooges were featured as short films long before becoming staples on late night television or Saturday morning programming. There was no television and no internet.
It was instructive to me to watch the "March of Time" to see the movie producer's views of the beginning of the Third Reich from the viewpoint of the people of Poland. To see the development of the Nazi propaganda machine and the conversion of the German nation into a completely Statist environment with all emphasis on the future of the German people and the future success of the German state at the expense of individual freedom and one's own life. To see how factory owners used mercenary armies to break strikes. To see the Southwest converted into a desert, The Dust Bowl. during the Great Depression. How the American people viewed from afar the beginning of the War in Europe and the potential dangers of the expansion of Japan throughout the South Pacific and their stated intentions to dominate as far South as the borders of Australia and as far East as Hawaii and Westward, where they had already captured China.
If you are a student of history, you know that WWI was not a sudden surprise outbreak of war caused by the assassination of a nobleman, but rather the result of years of conflict between ruling "royal" houses who, through intermarriage, might have been related but nevertheless had long-standing clashes concerning expansion and power and the control of seaports and certain portions of Europe that more than one ruling family believed should be part of their empire. You also know that WWI didn't actually settle things and while the war was the beginning of the end of royals acting as heads of state, the conflicts between peoples had not been resolved. Poland, for instance, has always been a nation that other nations have coveted and annexed. Vikings invaded and controlled it, Russians captured it, Germany overran it and yet today it exists as a nation yet again. You might not know that Poland was the first European democracy, but frankly Poland has never had the military might to withstand conquest by bigger and more powerful neighbors.
So when WWII was not yet, the American filmmakers saw Poland as a possible pawn in a looming game of chess that had not yet committed to one side of the board. The film boasted of the great increase in miltary power of Poland and claimed one-third of Poland's assets had been committed to building a military that could protect its borders. We all know how that worked out. It was quite obvious that German propaganda went before it into Austria and the Saar region and the port city of Gdansk and captured the people before one boot of a Swastika-bearing Brownshirt German officially strode down the sidewalks.
Here is the testimony of Kitty Werthmann. Such testimonies are rare, because the generation that remembers the time before WWII is dying off now. The generation that knew the famine and poverty and government excesses that brought about and prolonged the Great Depression is dead. The myth is that FDR's regime helped America fight off depression. The reality is that by promoting big government and regulation the goverment made things worse. Do you recognize a similar situation today? The Federal Government's executive branch is headed by a man who does not think FDR went far enough and is determined to convert America into a Socialist nation. The sciences are ruled by propagandists who blatantly lie as a matter of course and ruthlessly seek to destroy the career of all scientists and teachers who do not jump on the Darwnist bandwagon. Here are the words of Kitty as relayed from Patrice (and thanks to Patrice to sharing this):
After America , There is No Place to Go"
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.
Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.
The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.
We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria .. We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.
We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.
After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.
Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.
Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education.
Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.
My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.
Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.
Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.
Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.
We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.
We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
"Mercy Killing" Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.
As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.
The Final Steps - Gun Laws:
Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.
No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.
Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria .. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.
After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians.
This is an eye witness account. It's true...those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.
America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World.
Don't Let Freedom Slip Away!
"After America , There is No Place to Go"
Please forward this message to other voters who may not have it.
IN GOD WE TRUST
When the people fear their government there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson
". . . I give them eternal life and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand." John 10:28
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he words in blue were from Patrice, who had passed the testimony along.
Frankly, here in the USA when Dad went off to war and Mom was at the factory building fighter planes, kids were left on their own or found themselves being in daycare, involved in government-sponsored or private organizations and a lot of them went astray. A 1943 newsreel emphasized the importance of family oversight, that children needed affection and guidance and moral/ethical training. People were shown going to church and to faith-based organizations and private youth organizations that had often been founded by people of faith. Did you know that the President of the United States has just ended any federal funding for faith-based organizations that house and feed and clothe people? Barack Obama has ensured that federal dollars are being spent to fund abortions. Millions of dollars have been given to ACORN to encourage the worst possible behavior and help destroy the mortgage and housing industries. But no money to help a homeless shelter that dares have a cross on the wall?
I admire the "Greatest Generation" for stepping up and risking their lives to stop the totalitarian states like the Socialist Germany and Italy and Imperial Japan from taking over the rest of the world. Could the Americas have remained free if the rest of the world was under the thumb of a small handful of dictatorships? Men like Robert Squires, for whom my first born son was named, who both fought and was wounded and lived through prison camp. Men like Jimmy Stewart, famous actor who managed to talk himself out of training duties to be able to actually fly bombing runs and, once his quota of runs ended, kept on flying anyway. When Jimmy Stewart was made commander of his unit? He kept on flying anyway. Men like these defeated Hitler and those of his ilk.
However, we knew that the Communists were going to keep the land they ran over in the race to Berlin and by the end of the war in Europe we were racing to reach Berlin in time to save it from being overrun by the Soviets. No one had the stomach to turn their guns towards Russia, even though we knew that Stalin would be replacing German Nazi dictatorship with Communist dictatorships. It was not long before that decision would bring about long-term consequences. Soon Communist regimes would rule half of Europe and about half of Asia as well. Eventually some South and Central American countries became Communist dictatorships and Islamic or Tribal totalitarian governments are more rule than exception in Africa and the Middle East.
So what? Hasn't human history been one long string of big dogs dominating little dogs? Didn't Spain and France and England dominate the world by empire building conquests of distant lands? Didn't China do it, didn't the Mongols do it and the Romans and Greeks and Medes and Persians and on down through history?
Giant ruling entities take over large parts of the globe and rule them until some stronger power takes over and/or they collapse from within because of lack of vision and wisdom and discipline. Charismatic leaders get replaced by less competent and inspirational leaders who eventually get deposed.
But this is where God enters the picture. I maintain that the Bible was the first book to be printed and the book that helped make the common man literate. The Church, often quite fairly criticized for excesses, did establish Universities and help spread all kinds of knowledge, including scientific, throughout Europe and eventually the world. All European rulers eventually acknowledged God while at the same time claiming His will had put them on their respective thrones. Inevitably the common man rebelled against rulers who ruled by fiat in opposition to what seemed to be the clear teaching of scripture. All throughout Europe in the 17th Century and afterwards various clubs and organizations and non-government approved churches sprung up.
England, at war with France and Spain off and on for much of the colonial period, was also a land of internal strife during the 1600's and 1700's as Protestants and Catholics, those for free rule and those for royal rule clashed, for awhile overthrowing the crown entirely. England was where, in 1215 King John signed the Magna Carta, a document limiting the power of kings. It was in 1689 that the Bill of Rights was passed in England. That England established a colony in 1607 in the New World and provided so many of the early settlers was necessary for the formation of the United States, because England did not oversee their colonies with the iron hand that France and Spain and Portugal used. In the Colonies, there was soon a great deal of refreshing freedom.
From those who opposed ungodly rule and sought for freedom of worship and the pursuit of a life of free choices both to succeed and fail came what would become the United States. Jamestown. Plymouth. Toes stuck in the water of freedom. With the 18th Century came more seeking freedom and the American Colonies grew like weeds. Here an attempt at maintaining a Theocratic commune (Salem) of sorts failed. Here many colonists came to see themselves as English citizens living overseas but free from the constraints against freedom of worship. But the English Crown sought to increase taxes on the colonists and it was primarily the greed of England who saw the colonies as a resource to use in helping to pay for ongoing wars against other powers while at the same time having little actual oversight of the colonies that provided a Petri dish for actual freedom to grow. Credit to the Masonic Lodge as well must be given, which in the times of the founding of America was primarily a club of men who sought to provide a fair and representative government that would allow for religious and economic freedoms beyond what had been known even in England.
We know that the founders of the United States were mostly men who would have been willing to remain English citizens but felt betrayed and beleaguered by a King who taxed them heavily while offering them no actual representation in government. We know that these men wrote a Declaration of Independence, a Constitution and an American Bill of Rights using the Bible as their primary source and basis. These men, all but two of them churchgoers and many of them classic Christians, put together a government where all could be free to pursue happiness. Not guaranteed happiness. There is no "right" written into the Constitution to be free of sickness or to have a guaranteed income or to have housing provided. The idea was to provide freedom for all people to go forth and make their way in the world without government interference. The idea was to allow people to worship as they wished. The idea was to promote a country that would be friendly to families and faith and freedom of speech so that no ideas would be forced upon society and yet no ideas banned unless they were immoral or obviously dangerous to others. My freedom ends just before the tip of your nose.
There is no separation of church and state written into the Constitution. What was meant was that there would be no official government religion. Benjamin Franklin would be both alarmed and yet unsurprised to see what has happened to that baby birthed in 1776. We have grown up to be a Statist government. The Supreme Court has become a body that writes new law by fiat. The Federal government has taken over large parts of society. Our education system is primary run by the government, so we ought to call them "government schools" rather than public schools. We have regulatory agencies that have overextended their bounds. We have "progressives" who are actually regressives in that they wish to make a society that resembles that of Austria during the Hitler years. The socialist agenda of liberal progressives is a plan to trade more and more personal freedom for more and more guaranteed subsistence. Did you know that, in San Francisco, homeless people line up to get paychecks for being homeless?
The government has sought to take over the entire Student Loan business. The government has taken over part ownership of automobile factories, all or part of financial institutions, has taken more and more of your paycheck to support the only growth industry that is booming these days - government! While Christianity is under constant attack, our government has adapted Secular Humanism as our state religion and teaches it to our children. Furthermore, regulations have choked our ability to harvest our power resources. If Americans cannot drill our own oil and natural gas and mine our own coal to produce power, we must import it at a higher cost. As the cost of energy goes up, the cost of EVERYTHING goes up and therefore inflation devalues every dollar you own. Regulations under the purview of the President have stopped drilling and mining and the building of atomic energy plants while seeking to tax the producers of CO2?! Insanity! Plants require CO2 to grow. CO2 is not a contaminant, it is a life force that allows trees and crops and lawns to grow and convert the energy of the Sun into energy we can take in as food or feed to animals we grow to provide food. Did you know the primary source of "greenhouse gases" is the ocean? Do you suppose we should tax it?
The Obama plan seems to be to bankrupt privately owned businesses and take them over in order to increase the size and reach and power of government. The elites of government can afford a depression and terrible inflation. If you have five billion dollars and inflation turns it into two billion, you can still keep your house. If you have 50,000 dollars and it becomes 20,000 dollars, there goes your rainy day money. Many of us had pension monies invested in bonds and securities and found that we might perhaps have ten cents left of every dollar invested. The continued recession being encouraged by this current administration is largely caused by laws pushed and passed by Democrats and knuckle-headed "me-too" Republicans, laws and so-called "stimulus" packages that were little more than a few bandaids on a gaping wound when what was needed was to take away the knife that caused the wound in the first place.
Anthropic Global Warming has been shown to be a concocted bunch of BS using doctored data and faked charts and complete fraud. Wikileaks released a series of emails from the CRU that proved that there was a conspiracy to fake the data in order to get the desired charts and graphs and fool the public into thinking AGW was a problem and therefore that government (drum roll) needs to step in and "help." Are there any of you commenters that do not realize AGW was a complete scam? How many of you had to shovel your cars out of a foot or two of "global warming" in the last week or two? In the year 2000 AGW scientists were predicting that snow would be a rarity by 2010 and that sea levels would rise precipitously and glaciers would rapidly shrink. Polar Bears would be dying in droves. The world would be in crisis from a rise in temperature.
The truth is that the year 1934 remains the hottest year on record using modern instrumentation and that we are in a cooling period at the moment. As Florida's crops are threatened with destruction from frost damage, we are reminded that when the Earth has been at its warmest that crops will grow in more northern territories and crop yields in general will rise, not fall.
But today we live in a world where science is driven by political correctness. This is because the concepts of Anthropic Global Warming and Darwinism are both driven primarily by religious or metaphysical concerns rather than science. Thus, when a Mary Schweitzer uncovers flesh remains along with the fossilized T Rex she was examining there is widespread propaganda trying to minimize the significance of the find along with no small amount of criticism from her fellow scientists for proclaiming the find. Thus, when Wikileaks publishes leaked emails that prove that the CRU was involved in a plot to present false data the New York Times doesn't issue a peep. Thus when scientists and academics mention Intelligent Design they are hounded and fired and ostracized. Thus scientists who are not believers in Naturalism/Materialism have found that the only way to continue to research and publish papers that will be peer reviewed and to have groups of scientists who will check and recheck their results is to band together.
If you live in the United States you have been propagandized from the time you first went to public schools or watched television or read magazines. There is a constant drumbeat of "evolution" and "millions of years" and "the organism adapted..." and in recent years the global warming and greenhouse gas emissions have been added to the mix. CO2 is not a contaminant, it is a part of a normal ecosystem and beneficial to plants. The Law of Biogenesis has NEVER been broken even after hundreds of years of testing. The Laws of Thermodynamics have never been observed to be broken. The Big Lie is the tool that is used by the various sects of Secular Humanism to indoctrinate and control the populace.
It worked for Hitler. He convinced people to give up their freedoms and their moral code in order to become part of a new world order in which they would be the favored citizens. Hitler was a perfect example of Darwinism applied to society. Social Darwinism in the form of Eugenics remains in the midst of various governmental agencies and UN agencies. In politics it fits nicely into the socialist mantra. How many freedoms have Americans abandoned in the last century? Do you think that the US government, in its present form, is superior to that of the government under Ronald Reagan? Reagan sought to shrink most federal government agencies and give more power and authority and money to the states and individuals.
We are in desperate need of Reagans right now. Socialism always fails. People are promised a Utopian society and instead find themselves waiting in long lines to buy shoes. Government-controlled health care has failed miserably everywhere. European countries are beginning to back out of such programs. Doctors in the USA have vowed to quit medicine or move elsewhere if Obamacare is implemented. Our society is in danger right now. If we become a Venezuela North it will be our own fault, because we are the ones that vote the Obamas and Barney Franks and Nancy Pelosis into office.
I maintain that an American citizen has a duty to himself to seek to know the truth about political candidates and their agendas to the best of our ability and be informed voters. We should have seen right through "Hope and Change" and understood that repackaged Communism was being sold to the average voter more interested in getting home from work and putting his feet up than to research the issues of the day.
I also maintain that the thinking man needs to examine everything concerning his beliefs, his morality and all knowledge. I believe that anyone of normal intelligence and of a sound mind can investigate the claims of Darwinism and find that they are false. Check out the barriers to abiogenesis at every level of science from the molecular level on up. Do a little research on the rock layers and fossils. Investigate the Darwinist worldview and compare it to that of the Christian worldview and even the simple concept of an Intelligent Designer. For years you have been indoctrinated. Go ahead and check out my links list and investigate the claims and information available at ICR and ARN and Creation.com and Creation-Evolution Headlines and Answers in Genesis and similar sites. Subscribe to Ian Juby's newsletters. Give your mind a chance to investigate the evidence for a Created Universe. Allow this to impact your worldview.
Anyone can just be like cattle and go with the flow and simply believe whatever you are told. Anyone can take their history and science in fast-food style and then go watch a football game or go out with buddies or whatever else. But you do yourself a disservice when you do not pay attention to your personal freedoms and the depth and breadth of your knowledge of philosophy and science and history. What if the average man listens to the commercial jingles and buys the steak because the sizzle is so good? You do not have to follow their example. Think about this, if Darwinism were true, would Darwinists bother to establish an NCSE whose purpose is simply to stifle dissenting opinion? Nobody has to try to hide lies. Lies are easy, you simply expose their untruthfulness. When people work hard to suppress ideas, it is because those ideas have power and they have the most power when they are true.
Look at it this way. If your child was trying to hide the contents of a box from you, you would know that you had better get a look inside that box to make sure nothing harmful was inside! Parents have a responsibility to raise their children responsibly. But we also have a responsibility to ourselves to try our utmost to know and live according to truth. I personally believe that anyone who honestly seeks truth will find it. But the media and academics and standard issue scientists are like a bunch of carny barkers, trying to get you to put a dollar down to win a doll for your girlfriend. Do you get your philosophy from comic books? Do you get your wisdom from horoscopes? Then you are abrogating a responsibility to yourself.
If you are able to live out a full life, you will have many joys and many woes. You are going to take a lot of hard knocks and have a few wonderful opportunities. Then you die. What is the meaning of your life? Are you willing to cross your fingers and just live that life without seeking truth and meaning during your time here on Earth? Will your life be primarily a search for comfort and happiness and pleasure focused primarily upon yourself and your own needs? Or will you be able to honestly say that you did your best with the life and time you had been given while on this Earth? No one is perfect and we all fail to attain to ideals we might hold. But every day is a new opportunity to be useful and wise.
Faith, free enterprise and freedom of speech and research and thought is the foundation of this United States of America. As we reject any of these freedoms we thereby enslave ourselves. Be free and never be afraid to question and learn as life goes on. For this new year of 2011 my hope and prayer for all who read this that you will not accept the fast food science and history and morality of Secular Humanism and their warped and borrowed morality. Give yourself a chance to know God and know truth.
