Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Tylenol Cold and Sinus and Christmas

Christmas has been under attack in our country for several decades of this I have little doubt. From the Merry Xmas signs which look funny anyway which remove "Christ" from Christmas literally and replace it with "X" to the latest craze "Happy Holidays!" instead of "Merry Christmas!" in all the advertisements. The question is how important is that fight and is it the real problem.



Several years ago my throat started aching and I had a headache and a cough. Someone pointed me to the Tyenol Cold and Sinus. Well this stuff was amazing. I took it for over a week and when I would take it the pain would go away and everything was just fine. Then I woke up one morning and happened to look at my throat in the mirror. It was really really bad. I had a serious visible problem and I was quite sick and all that time I had been covering it up fighting symptoms and doing a very good job of it. Instead though, I had gotten more sick and if I hadn't looked in the mirror I never would have seen the real problem.

It could be said that there is now a generation in this country that wants to take Christ out of Christmas and forget the religious aspects of Christmas. Sure I will agree that this is true enough, but I think that this is just the headache that is a symptom of the real problem. I would assert to you that we have far fewer Christians in this country that people believe and that they have raised up a generation in which, there is plenty of protest against attacks on Christmas, truly that backlash is just another in a long list of things that we can do to make ourselves look or feel like Christians. Today its commonplace for all manner of excessive activities to be celebrated: living in sin like(living together in fornication or homosexuality), drunkedness, lying and deceit, profanity, boredome(not being able to settle down), spending(massive credit problems among our common people), and one of the biggest excesses(Christmas time when we eat, drink, and spend in excess) and so called Christians are spending their time protesting about Christ being taken out of Christmas when they do little to deal with any other problems. These protest are superficial when truly God fearing Christians know that the true trouble is that God judges the heart.

What do I mean? I mean that having a generation rise up that allows Christmas to have some of Christ taken out of it is minimally important truly, when compared to the fact that we now also have a generation that in fact does not fear God and his imminent judgement.

Just something to think about :)

Monday, December 15, 2008

My Golden Rule of Conservatism

Whats the Golden Rule? The original Golden rule is: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". This rule answers many questions if you apply it but, it does require thinking and application. You see if you were to think, "I wont steal his money because I wouldnt want him to do the same to me", that is kinda easy and many questions are that simple. On the other hand sometimes you have to think deeper you have to look past yourself and actually put yourself in the other persons shoes. For instance, you might think certain profanity is acceptable and therefore if someone said @@@@ to you it wouldnt bother you but you must think deeper. If I had that persons beliefs would it bother me? Is this a male or a female i'm thinking of?....Perhaps you are trying to decide if you should speak to someone about something? You might ask yourself: Would this benefit me if I were in their shoes? Is it necessary for their progress? and many other questions. Hopefully you get my drift perhaps sometimes you must apply a simple rule more thoughtfully than it first appears.

So my golden rule of conservatism? Dont ask the government to take over your responsibilities or the responsibilites of others.

I hope you will think deeply about this. See if you believe it and if you do? Apply it broadly and thoughtfully.

I have not been blogging recently. I will try to start back and i will try to give some of my own personal rules for my readers to consider.