I'll Take That as a Compliment

By Ray Rogers

It is very important to come to this country through proper channels. Why you might ask? Because we already have 47% of Americans who don't care about our constitution or our country. We have approximately 40% who do, and approximately 13% who are undecided or so it would seem. This country doesn't need more people who don't care about our constitution. Of course these numbers are a guess based on how the last election played out.

So I'm reading an article by Michelle Malkin and I get to the part where 300 illegal immigrants were protesting outside of the doorstep of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. They were waving their fists and proclaiming Kobach “king of hate” because of his work with border security activists and border patrol agents. Well he is the "king of hate?" Who's waving their fists and calling names here?

Former Tea Party activist now state representative Amanda Grosseroade was attacked on Facebook with name calling and death threats because she stated that the behavior of the demonstrators was disgusting. Some commented that they should start killing the Nazis referring to politicians, cops, and judges among others. Probably meaning anyone with an opposing view. So who are really the Nazis here?

I'm amazed at the boldness of anyone who comes to a country illegally then are allowed to stay here illegally and make demands on our government to give them amnesty. Our generous government gave them 4 billion dollars in government assistance and continues to give to them. Then they have the courage to protest on Kris Kobach’s front lawn calling him the “King of Hate" because he has the audacity to stand with the border security activists and border patrol agents. People should enter at the authorized border entrances, not over fences or swimming the Rio Grande. There should be border patrols only allowing people in who come here legally. Our visitors should not be allowed to overstay their visas either, but they do.

Where is this courage when it comes to dealing with the government of their home country for rights and freedoms there? Are they truly protesting in order to live in a free republic or to take advantage of what can be gotten for free? Are they such cowards they are afraid to stand up to their own government. 

Our forefathers risked everything…including their own lives to give us this Republic. Are we willing to give our Republic away in the name of Amnesty to anyone who wants to come here rather than fight for their own rights and a Republic of their own?

We are not Nazis. We are not the ones who are threatening anyone with physical harm or death. We are just trying to protect our Republic. Our forefathers fought hard and sacrificed much to give us what we have here in America and we Americans don't want to see it taken away from us. We think of it as something worth fighting to keep. Freedom is very expensive. It cost the lives of many of our patriots. People do not belong here who cannot respect the fact that the price paid by our patriots is what made this country the desirable place that it is.

Looking into the history of immigration the laws were created to curb the loss of jobs and decent wages of American citizens caused by cheep labor of immigrants coming into the workforce. The American public was also concerned about communists, criminals, and other undesirables settling here. So this resulted in the immigration act of 1881. This act was created to protect our constitution, and the rights of its citizens.

We have classes for immigrants to become naturalized citizens that teach them about how our country was created and how it works. Hopefully this will give our new comers a greater appreciation of our country and they will want to protect and defend it as we do. Sadly some immigrants who have taken these classes and have become citizens know more about our country than we do.

We conservatives don't have a problem with immigration. Our nation was built on immigration. Our country is truly a melting pot of people from all over the world. We do, however, have a problem with immigrants coming here illegally because many of them are already showing a total disregard for our laws. I also fear that amnesty will have a very negative impact on our already floundering Economy.

All immigrants are welcome here. All illegals are not. Please: to all of our politicians, don't betray our country in the hopes of making yourselves look good or gain more votes. This country has already been severely damaged by political good intentions. And a saying thought to have originated with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who wrote in 1150ad. “Hell is full of good wishes and desires.“ An earlier saying also occurs in Virgil’s Aeneid: “It is easy to go to hell.” That seems to be where the expression "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" So think Mr. Politician, don’t use your political ambitions to send our Constitutional Republic to hell.

Just Whose Side Are You On Anyway

THE THEN SENATOR BARACK OBAMA DISPLAYS HIS DISRESPECT
FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. 

I was watching television that day back in 2008 and I though there was no way this man could be elected president of the United States displaying that much disrespect for our National Anthem and The Flag of the United States. Oh, How wrong I was, not once but twice.

From Sunday, September 7, 2008, televised 'Meet the Press' Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag. 

Sun, 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, General Bill Ginn' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain why he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.

The General also stated to the Senator that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171... During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. At the very least, 'Stand and Face It'. 

Senator Obama Explains his stance on the flag and America in general, “As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides, Obama said. There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it. We should consider to reinvent our National Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our enemies hope an love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people, should conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace prevails. Perhaps a state or period of mutual concord between our governments. When I become President, I will seek a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation have placed upon the nations of Islam an unfair injustice. My wife disrespects the Flag for many personal reasons. Together she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past, many years ago. She has her views and I have mine'. Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put aside my hatred. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path of hope. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to OVERWHELM the United States of America.”

He does not want to be perceived as taking sides? Just what country is he the president of. If he ran for the presidency of the United States of America he surely chose to take sides. If not, then he should not be president. The president of the United States of America should be on our side!

  

I spent eight years in the United States Air Force and was proud to face the flag and salute during retreat every evening at 5 p.m. I have no respect for people who don't respect the flag for whom hundreds of thousands of men have died fighting our and our allies enemies from the revolution of 1781 to the Wars we are presently conducting in the middle east against those peace loving, suicide bombing Islam, Christian Killers and Jewish Killers. Peace loving....the north end of my plowing mule when he's on a southbound row.

Rage, Rage against the dying of the light

By Ray Rogers

Because I love the light my hearts sinks as I look across the twilight sky and see the darkness coming.

Then there are those who love the darkness. They yearn for it, they can't wait for it because it hides their sins. The lovers of darkness feel so much bolder when darkness covers the world. They rejoice together feeling confident in their ungodliness.

Yet still we lovers of the light become angry at those that rejoice in the darkness. Being angry doesn't mean that you hate someone. Quite the contrary, it is those that you love that make you the most angry.

We who have been led by the Spirit of Truth know what is good and when we see the goodness being taken over by the status quo it breaks our hearts and makes us angry.

Another Christian institution has fallen to the darkness of the world. I'm of course talking about the Boy Scouts of America. An institution that was created to help build a child's character. What I want to know is why would an 11 year old boy be obsessing over sex and whether he was gay or not when he should be learning about first aid and earning merit badges. 

I'm sure that it wasn't a child who made being gay in the scouts an issue. It had to be someone who had a beef with the fact that they can't stand anything in this world that is pure and wholesome.

God's word does tell us that there will be those that will call good evil and evil good. Light darkness and darkness light.

Those who love darkness become angry with us because we who love the light get upset at the dying of the light. They say hateful things, they laugh at us, and mock us when the courts choose their side.

Dylan Thomas said it best with the poem he wrote for his father at his death bed that states: Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

As we watch our country fall into darkness in our government, our schools, and our sacred institutions. We begin to shout out against it. Seemingly to no avail, nevertheless we will always rage against the dying if the light, but remember at the end of every darkness there comes a new light.

Knowledge comes from study, but wisdom comes from God.

When Love Is Not Enough

The thought, when love is not enough, crossed my mind this week and I decided to let it grow into whatever would come out of my keyboard. As I sit here I think of the high divorce rate in America…maybe even the world. An old lady was asked by a reporter how her and her husband had remained married for over 60 years. The old lady calmly replied: “We were married during a time when something got broke, we fixed it.” That could be said of many married, or formerly married people today. They were once in love and for some reason something went awry and instead of trying to fix it, they just separated, then divorced. 

When I was in Junior High many years ago, my home room teacher, Miss Kate Foster, had me to memorize a chapter in the Bible. First Corinthians, chapter 13. I quote part of it here to say that in truth, love can be enough if it is exercised rightly. “Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not arrogant, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; rejoices not in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” (I took the liberty to put the words into a more modern English for those who are not comfortable reading Shakespearean.)

There may come times when we think love is not enough. We may want to give up and call it quits. But when we sincerely think that there was one who loved us enough to die for us two thousand years ago and since then there have been many men and women who have fought and died for ours as well as others freedom, and all of that because of love for this country, one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. 

When we think in the broad terms of all that has been, there is no reason for love to not be enough in any situation we face.

Well, I said I would let it grow into whatever it would and there you have it. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Your comments will be appreciated, pro or con. Thank you and God Bless.

When Is Enough Government Enough?

By Ray Rogers

What is the limit to big government? What hurts me: as I watch these people who have taken over my country and are trying their best to destroy my freedom? Freedom was given to me, us Americans, by God Himself. Our free country, One nation under God with liberty and justice for all. I am so mentally and physically tired because of having to constantly fight our so called leaders who swore to uphold the constitution but in reality are hell bent on destroying it. I'm so tired of having to fight uniformed selfish voters that vote these kinds of leaders into power.

I'm tired of hearing about dead people voting and other people voting multiple times while we as conservatives ignore it as if it didn't happen.

Our so called leaders have learned a long time ago how to buy votes. Now they have got vote buying down to a science. I think this kind of conflict of interest should be a crime. If anything it is treason.

They take our money from us, the people who earned it, by force and use it to bribe the uniformed, ignorant, lazy people who constantly stand there with their ungrateful hands out wanting more. More free phones, food stamps, free housing, free health care. And why is this? Because some people think we owe it to them.

As time goes on our new "leaders for change" agendas are becoming more clear. To destroy freedom and liberty and take the place of the almighty God.

Winston Churchill once said "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Well he sure got that right. These kinds of governments are doomed to fail. Consider if you will, Communist Russia, North Korea with their starving millions, and Castro’s Cuba, Idi Amin who murdered as many as a half million of his people in  Uganda, or Pol Pot who killed as many as one million seven hundred thousand in Cambodia or any other socialist country. Remember that not long ago in Russian people were standing in long lines for bread and toilet paper. Socialism does not work.

People naturally want freedom. Hard working people don’t mind helping the needy but totally dislike their tax dollars going to those who just plainly refuse to work. Because of this there comes a chain reaction of a failing economy.

Here's what can happen once they've bought enough votes to gain totalitarian power. They will make the people totally defenseless through disarmament, (let's face it, they're already building an army through home land security,) then the producers will stop producing, the money that has been stolen from the hard working tax paying people, borrowed or printed out of thin air will run out. When this happens, the government that has given you everything will no longer be able to give to your every whim. You'll then see the same type of starvation here that has existed in third world countries for decades. You'll see violence in the streets as you see in other countries. If you haven't noticed it's already started.

If this progressive government continues, you can mark my words. you will see the things happen. So much for transparency, hope and change.

An Essay for Many Atheist Friends and Others Who Have Doubts

Having spent several years on social networks I have encountered many Atheists and others who display doubts in any kind of divinity. Too many of them think this world just came into existence without any intelligent planning giving over to Darwinism without even posing an intelligent question of the truth of the theory. Yes, Darwinism is a theory that has never been proven under controlled laboratory conditions.

Oh you may say that the Bible’s explanation of how the world and all that is in it came into being has never been proven under laboratory conditions either to which I can only offer the following explanation. What we know as the Bible was compiled from the writings of at least 66 different men most of whom didn’t know each other over a period of 1500 years most of which has been verified by the Dead Sea Scrolls. No other book in the entire history of mankind has been compiled with that many writings referring to an all knowing, all seeing, omnipotent God as the creator of all. The Qur’an was written by one man and it has parts in it that are in total disagreement.

You may then reply that in Bible time, according to scholars, the earth is only about five thousand years old. Then I would reply with two references from the Bible itself: “Psalms 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” and “Second Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” So then consider that the time from Genesis 1:2 to 2:3 could account for seven thousand years.

 

Then consider also that at least another thousand for Genesis 2:5 “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.” You say that according to Biblical account man was created back in Genesis 1:26, “Male and female created He them.” Since there are many races on earth, perhaps he made those people at that time. Now consider the next writings. After He rested on the seventh day, bringing us to the eighth day in Genesis 2:5 “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.” So God created a farmer. Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” I won’t go into Genesis 2:22 where Eve was made from a rib from Adam because I don’t want to get into a DNA argument but a rib is curved like sciences description of DNA.

And I haven’t even taken into account Genesis 1:1 which doesn’t seem to have been even called a day, it could have been millions of years of dinosaurs and other similar beasts and sea creatures being found by geologists. It isn’t even considered in the 8 days of Genesis 1:2 through 2:3.

I have been admonished to “study science and get my mind out of the Bible”. I have studied science. As a matter of fact, I aced scientific classes in both high school and university. Biology, Chemistry and Physics were my favorite subjects. I also scored high in my Bible study classes. I also watch every scientific program I find on Discovery channel and take in every word to see if anything new has been discovered about this universe. Carl Sagan was one of my favorite persons to watch even though he was an Atheist.

All you science believers haven’t considered the times science has been wrong in the last 40 or 50 years. I can’t even begin to count the mistakes science has made. How many things have they claimed causes cancer then changed their minds? Originally, the universe was considered expanding and collapsing and would eventually fall back into itself and now they are saying it is ever expanding. And I’m old enough to remember when the Milky Way was considered the whole universe until Hubble and the Hubble telescope started looking deeper into space.

Now scientists think they can look far enough back into the universe to find the beginning of the Big Bang (or beginning of the universe). My question for science is which way do you look? The universe is a gigantic sphere with no end. We can look at the North Star but which way is it to the beginning of the universe. There are more degrees in a sphere than I care to calculate. The other problem with the Big Bang theory is that most agree that it happened faster than the speed of light so if we’re looking backward at the speed of light the visibility of the Big Bang must have passed us by now.

Let me digress for just a paragraph. Having been a serious Bible student and brought up listening to the opinions of many different people, I had never given any serious thought to where heaven and hell could be located. Everyone points up to heaven and down to hell. I believe the Egyptians thought heaven was a journey either too or past the North Star. As I was watching television one evening, the mention of parallel universes came up. That got me to thinking that maybe heaven, hell and earth are nothing more than parallel universes occupying the same space or close to each other yet invisible to each other. That is just a thought I thought I would throw out for you.

The sad thing is that most people do not really know GOD and think of him as a benevolent old man sitting on a throne somewhere. They are very mistaken. John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.“ God is God, and being God, He can do whatever He wants to whomever He wants, whenever He wants. No reason needed for His actions. 1Corinthians 3:19 “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.  Isaiah 47:10 “For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, none seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.” Psalms 111:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.”

 

I full well expect a few negative comments because I have presented a totally religious argument for the Bible and God in the face of the Atheism which seems to be gaining popularity in our highly educated United States but the reason America on the precept of “In God We Trust” was because our forefathers, if you have read any of their writings, believed in Divine Providence. It was their belief that a benevolent creator aided them in establishing a country free from a king who controlled their lives according to his whims. As for religions in our early history, consider that the Capitol building was used by several different religions to hold services in on Sunday. That fact is inconspicuously placed on a wall in the building where most visitors can not readily see it.

Regardless what your religion or opinion of religion is, you do live in a great nation with the freedom to do pretty much as you please as long as it doesn’t cause harm or interfere with another person’s “right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” I would like the militant Atheists to consider leaving Christians alone to practice their religion and also, by all means, leave the American founding fathers belief that Devine Providence gave us this great nation in the face of overwhelming odds against the strongest military nation in the world in 1781, England. It won’t hurt you to just ignore those things you dislike about Christians and America. Christians have been quietly ignoring degradation and persecutions for years. Thank you if you do and bless you if you don’t.

I sit here in my glorious stupidity glad that I’m a Christian, I don’t need to worry about tomorrow, whether the universe is collapsing or even what causes cancer. I know who holds tomorrow and I know who holds my hand.

My How Things Have Changed

By Ray Rogers

When I was a small boy I went to an elementary school in Washington DC and at the beginning of the day we would get started by saying the pledge of allegiance, we would hear a small scripture read over the intercom by one of the students, we would recite the Lords prayer, and then we would sing patriotic songs like 'My Country Tis of Thee'.

Our teachers taught us how great our country is and how our brave forefathers fought for our country so that Americans would know true freedom. Freedom of religion, no more Church of England shoved down our throats. Freedom to own land and freedom from the whims of a belligerent King.

Then someone found fault with our American way of life. They suddenly found us offensive and politically incorrect. So our politicians decided to make decisions that changed the way could talk and behave. Just because it made someone feel uncomfortable.

Our teachers had been very proud of our country and our heritage and they instilled in us a feeling of pride that made us proud to be an American. Now I hear stories of how our children are being taught now that America is evil, that the only reason our nation is so great is because we have stolen what we have from weaker countries. Even past presidential candidate John Kerry said that we were like Genghis Khan torturing and raping in other countries. I personally don't believe anything these politically motivated people say.

So what's my point? Well it's this: today we have more gang violence, gun violence, murder, hate, and division than we've ever had throughout my 53 years of memory. Why is this? Maybe it's because when we were children and pride in our country was being taught to us we felt like we belonged to a great nation, we weren't looking for anywhere to belong, such as a gang. We didn't need gang affiliation because we were proud non-hyphenated Americans.

When our own schools teach us that we should be ashamed of our heritage, that leaves a hole that needs to be filled with something. There is not a child in the world that doesn't want to belong to something great. So if they don't get that need to belong satisfied by God and country they're going to find another way to fill that need and it's not always a good choice.

Teachers should stop telling our kids that our country was wrong for believing in freedom, they're robbing them of the greatest feeling of pride that they'll ever know, the pride of being an American.

I'd like to see the ACLU go to a Muslim country and complain about them praying to Allah in their schools. I think they might lose their head.

There shouldn't be a need to look for something to belong to. We already belong to something great. THE GREATEST NATION THAT EVER WAS. Oh, and how has the way we done it for the last 35 years been working out for us?

I'm 53 years old, I'm an American, I'm proud of my American heritage, and I want my country back for the sake of my grandchildren.