Shortcuts or Being Shortchanged

So much has changed in my seventy years of life. Responsibility for our actions, pride in our flag and country, prayer in school, claiming the Bible’s truth as absolute, believing that the Constitution of the United States guarantees our rights: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to bear arms. They were immutable and that Americans had inalienable, God-given rights. All of this seems to be whittled away by politicians who only want power at the expense of “We the People.”

The founding of the United States was taught as history. The problems we had in gaining our independence from Great Britain have all but been eliminated. Americans have shortened that war for independence to the Fourth of July, often burying the importance of that struggle. We celebrate it because our ancestors gave their lives to be free.

We’ve lessened the meaning of Easter to a bunch of eggs, chocolate bunnies, and jelly beans. We’ve lost the reason that Christians celebrate the holiday. It’s because of the resurrection of Christ and his triumph over the grave.

Christmas is another holiday we celebrate to recognize the birth of the Messiah; the redeemer that Israel and the Jewish Nation had been promised. Today, Christ is being replaced with an old fat man in a red suit who judges good and bad. We’ve mutilated the day by calling it X-mas, happy holiday greetings, sparkle season, light up night, or a myriad number of meaningless replacement words. Why should Atheists be given a day off from work. They don’t believe in the virgin birth of Christ the Messiah? Shouldn’t they be required to work?

Leftist Socialistic politicians are attempting to remove the very foundation upon which our nation was founded. Their main objective is to destroy the Constitution and not teach its tenets and to alter history. Each new law or proposal is an attempt to weaken or remove rights for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to bear arms. They also feel it necessary to destroy our God-given and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

They twist the phrase of “all men are created equal” into a warped outcome of all men will be equal at the end of the race by taxing all into poverty. In the past Pilgrim groups tried a communal system that failed utterly. Eventually, each family was assigned a plot of land for their own consumption. They found that following II Thessalonians 3:10-12 worked much better. “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.  Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.” Happy Independence Day.