4 posts from March 2009

Frequently, you go stumbling through the Internet and see some web sites thinking they are the grand master of intellect.  They proceed to ridicule and minimize those of religion, and then by a very ignorant and vague series of "proofs" proceed to demonstrate the "superiority" of the scientist or atheist.

I find these comparisons quite humorous.  They say ignorance is bliss, but those trying to "prove" those of religion are the ignorant ones brings me the most laughs.

Since those of science like to use facts to "prove" their case, let's do so here:

Science says the universe, as we know it, started with a big bang.  Unfortunately they don't explain how it happened, why it happened, and what brought it about.  They also lack the ability to explain what was before.  So far, a believer in the divine has no problem with HOW the universe came into being.  They just simply say it was part of a grand plan by a grand intelligence.

Science says intelligence couldn't possibly be the author of such specific order, beauty, and majesty.  It's all accidental, or coincidence.

Let's concentrate on our own solar system.  Science says it's all a great big series of coincidences.  Let's cover these "coincidences":

• The location of the solar system.  It's on an outer arm of the Milky Way galaxy in a relatively calm location, away from star birth, far away from the chaos and radiation of the galactic center.  It's far away from violent gamma-ray bursts and other sources of deadly high energy radiation.  Interstellar traffic is also calm.  Being out so far also means a lower velocity of orbit around the galactic center.  The solar system is pretty well protected.
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  The Sun (Sol)
  The Sun.  Our star, Sol, is a magnificently tame and stable star with a fairly long and stable life span and a much smaller radiation output and relatively calm demeanor compared to other smaller and larger stars.  Perfect for cultivating life.
• The system itself.  Science is observing more and more planets around stars and so far has not found anything even resembling our solar system.  It's almost as if our solar system was the result of design.  Typical systems have their gas giants close to the star and most planets are in quite eccentric orbits.  Our solar system has remarkably stable planetary orbits with the planets arranged in a "convenient" order of size, which has the side effect of protecting the third planet.
• The Earth is very unusual.  It has a moon exactly one tenth the size of its planet (a veritable impossibility), and its orbit and distance is perfect for maintaining just enough tidal forces one the earth to keep it temperate enough for life.  These tidal forces help with the internal core to constantly generate an unusually strong magnetic field, which protects its inhabitants from stellar and interstellar radiation, and is usually reserved for gas giants.  These tidal forces also churn the oceans to generate flowing currents, which cause air currents, which cause hot and cold areas to be cooled and heated respectively, thus tempering the climate.
  

  Ocean_currents
• The Earth's continental positioning "coincidentally" allow for the tidal oceanic currents to flow around the earth in a beneficial manner, which also causes atmospheric currents to flow in a beneficial manner as well.  If the continents were in a different position, then the oceanic currents would stop and the jet stream would greatly change its course resulting in very hot and very cold localized regions and almost no temperate zones, as well as out of control weather.
• The Earth just happens to be in exactly the right orbital distance from its star for these temperate and life giving conditions to exist.  Of course, all purely coincidental.  Any closer and the Earth cooks.  Any farther, and the Earth freezes.
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  Volcanic_island
  Back to the Moon.  It's tidal forces, keep the Earth's mantle and core hot.  This causes land to be renewed, rain to fall, carbon to be broken down by the oceans.
• The life itself is quite "coincidental" as well.  You have plants, from trees, to algae, that process carbon-dioxide and turn it into oxygen.  Quite a "coincidental" symbiotic relationship to the other "accidental" forms of life which take in oxygen and expel carbon-dioxide.
• Then there is the size of the planet Earth.  Any larger and gravity would overwhelm the ability of life to stand upright, and make chemical processes more difficult in almost every aspect from volcanism to photosynthesis.  Any smaller, and our atmosphere disappears, and the ability to maintain a constant livable climate also disappears.
• Oh, let's now consider the unusually diverse number of minerals and chemicals at our disposal.  Scientific observations have shown that single minerals and chemicals tend to congregate on a per planet basis, usually based upon their weight.  Yet, we have everything from gold to hydrogen on our planet.  We even have the benefits of fossil fuels as if someone knew we'd need them.
• The land to water ratio also happens to be perfect, or "coincidental".  Too much water and storms take control and wreak constant chaos.  Too much land and temperatures rise without enough cool air to control it.
• Oh, then there's the tilt of the planet causing seasons, which make for excellent ways to grow crops and renew the land.  They cause rain and snow to fall, erosion to happen.  Which nourishes the oceans and nourishes the land.  This also helps with maintaining the climate.
• Then you have the variety of life.  Science claims it's all accidental, and all "evolved" from one single organism.  Yet, science can't seem to show HOW it happened.

Ask any mathematician about the beauty of the mathematics involved with the various objects in the solar system, especially the Earth and Moon.

I find it humorous that science, which claims things don't exist unless they can be reproduced in a laboratory, yet accepts so many "theories" as fact without this reproducible result.  Einstein had relativity to explain the very large, but it fails to explain the very small.  You have quantum mechanics which attempts to explain the very small, but falls apart with the very large.  Nevertheless, both cannot truly explain the universe around us.  They are just convenient explanations that "fit" for our needs.

I find it laughable when these "geniuses" fill in blanks for things they do not understand and then people build their lives around it trying to prove it is true, or end up realizing they wasted their lives on a theory that was a lie.  Does "dark matter" mean anything to anyone??

As I see it, I see far more evidence in the environment around us, both on Earth and off, that not only overwhelmingly proves that a grand intelligence was behind its planning, but that there is also great beauty in it not just chaotic perfection.  To see people ignore the obvious and say there's no such thing as a God shows me not only a closed mind, but one incapable of just looking and seeing the truth of it before their very eyes.  Everything from the genius of life and its complexity to the genius that organized the solar system to be a home for us, is more than obvious to the eye.  You can see it.  You can feel it.  You can smell it.  You can eat it.

It's not magic or hocus-pocus that is God.  God, is the grand architect.  Everything you consider as "science" he created.  Those magnificent laws in all of their perfection and mathematical beauty came from God.

How can anyone see the veritable number of so-called "coincidences" that resulted in this Earth being the grand location for life and deny it all being part of an intelligent design is just fooling themselves.  What science is learning is that for this to truly happen accidentally is even more and more impossible.  The odds are against them.  It would have be the culmination of trillions of "coincidences", all with incredible odds in and of themselves, to achieve what we now enjoy.

Sure, there are some religious people without any understanding of the beauty and intelligence of God, and think him to be some sort of "magical" being.  God is perfect.  Perfect knowledge, perfect in exercizing that knowledge which gives him great power, yet he does it out of perfect love.  Quite unusual for someone with absolute power.  Imagine, knowing all of the secrets of the universe.  This alone causes a great paradox for science.  If science were to know absolutely everything about the universe, both big and small, life and mineral, energetic and dormant, man and woman, they would be as God.

The paradox being in order to prove there is not a God, you must become God to do so.

Science, hasn't been able to disprove God.  They have only been able to expose those with false beliefs in a false God.  Even the Bible itself shows such things happening.  To disprove a "religion" does not disprove the existance of God.  Doing so is impossible.

However, one cannot expect to prove the existence as well, if the one insisting on proof refuses to see with their own eyes the truth of it all exposed to them plainly day after day.  The order of things cannot help but prove the existance of an intelligence behind its design.  Look at how much intelligence is merely trying to grasp its understanding now.

Anyone that has been following my various articles will soon realize that I'm a religious man and a strong conservative.  Some of my articles have concentrated on religious matters and some have been strictly political.  Well, this one is going to heavily combine both.  First, a little about why there is good and evil and how evil accomplishes its purpose with good people.  Second, I'll use that foundation to illustrate my points.  I'm not here to convert people, nor to exercize political correctness, nor will I express anything here as theory or "my opinion".  This may sound unacceptable to some and perhaps arrogant by others, as the world is too used to debating religion and truth.  What I'll be addressing here is what I know to be true.  If you have a genuine interest in knowing why I say "I know", then feel free to private message me.  I could not express these topics, of things I know to be true, and water them down to "my opinion".  I feel I would offend God if I did.

Nevertheless, I do respect your religious beliefs.  You have a right to believe (or not believe) in a manner you see fit.  Nevertheless, if I have piqued your curiosity and want to know more, then read on.

Many people do not understand evil and the source of evil.  I have found many preachers of religion with misconceptions of evil.  Evil, is the art of distracting people from what is good for them.  Evil, has only one grand purpose, and that is to spread misery.  The author of evil is an individual named Lucifer.  Without getting into details, Lucifer used to garner power and influence in God's kingdom; until he decided to usurp God's glory and power for himself, and as a result of his choice and actions, he was forever cast out from God's presence and before he and his minions get their final judgement, they remain here on earth to try and make us miserable.  He bacame "the adversary" or "Satan".  He's pissed and has vowed to take everyone down with him.  He and his buddies have been here since then and have become very very good at what they do.

The tools of evil are:

• Subtle deception.  Which is the art of mixing a lot of truth with just enough lies to get you to believe the lies, because the truth gives it pliable credibility.  The more and more Satan can get you to believe the lies, the more lies he replaces the truths he hides them in.  Pretty soon, he can feed you a lot of lies without the truthful foundation because now he has you as a fanatical believer.
• Counterfeiting.  We see this every day, but can read about a great example of this in the Old Testament where Moses used his staff to perform miracles and the Egyptian magicians mimicked them with counterfeits.  This is a very clever means to deceive.
• Reversal.  He only acheives this goal after the previous methods have proved successful.  It's the art of actually getting people to believe that good is evil and evil is good.  Counterfeiting is key in this goal.  He uses the counterfeits of happiness, which is pleasure, and the counterfeit of liberty, which is anarchy.
• Envy and Jealousy.  The art of convincing people they are entitled to things they didn't earn or work for.
• Pride and Vanity.  The counterfeits of honor and charity are selfishness and narcissism (demanding respect instead of earning it).
  

Now I'll cover each tool in detail using real examples:

Subtle Deception

The entertainment industry today is an excellent example of subtle deception.  They numb your repulsive response by slowly and constantly "pushing the envelope".  What once was labeled by society as pornographic or repulsive, is now shown as "normal" in prime time.  Sexuality, being a very powerful instinct and tool (God needed us to multiply quickly) is the catalyst to how this is accomplished.  

The public education system is also another means of subtle deception.  Indoctrination and convenient absence of key truths being taught to children make for a fast track of misery.  The entertainment idustry and education are subtle partners here.

Ask yourself why things such as teen pregnancy, divorce, and higher crime rates climb higher and higher with each generation, if you need proof.

Counterfeiting

Communism and its intermediary Socialism is the counterfeit to God's idea of having all things in common.  To have a society where everyone has everything in common only works when all people choose to live that way and have the freedom to leave any time they desire.  It requires a great deal of love and charity to accomplish such a society in a successful way, where the concern and love for each individual takes precedence.  Such a society is doomed to fail with the presence of evil, pride, envy, jealousy, those hungry for power, etc.  The counterfeit to this United Order is Communism, which forces people to give up everything, and their lives are governed by those with their own interests and power in mind.  The only way even a short period of success is possible is, to actually prevent people from leaving, and punishing those with a desire for the freedom to exit the system.  The subtle deceptions are "for the good of the people" or "spreading the wealth", and the care for the individual is lost to mob rule.  Charity cannot be forced on anyone, nor can you steal from the talented and hard working and give to the lazy and slothful.  What always happens in a socialist to communist society, is those that work hard finally give up, because their extra hard work is not rewarded; in fact, the extra hard work is usually punished because it makes others (the people) look bad, and you're accused of being selfish.  The back side of the coin is that hard work is no longer required, and the government provides everything they used to have to work hard for.  So all they do is the bare minimum asked of them.  Did you ever see a quality product come from a Communist nation?  The cars were poorly manufactured, the buildings were of poor quality, even the USSR's space vehicles of the space program were of considerably lower quality than that of the USA.  Socialism and Communism do not succeed in their claims of eliminating poverty, but instead they do eliminate the rich in favor of making everyone, except high government officials, poor.  Everyone is "equal" that is true, but they are equally miserable in their poverty.

Those that try to say socialism or communism are good, tend to be those that live isolated lives in universities having their livelihood already guaranteed.  So they sit and think about these things all day long, and they claim their superior intellect knows better.  The problem with this, is they have removed themselves from the responsibilities and experiences of society, thus they couldn't possibly understand it.  There are also great flaws in the arguments for socialism and communism.  They usually make comparisons in a fixed class society, which only existed in ancient Europe during the monarch period.  After the USA appeared and offered a better form of government and the concept of liberty for all, it eliminated the barriers of poverty and wealth.  This means those that are rich can become poor, and those that are poor can become rich.  This is all based upon personal responsibility and ingenuity governing their lives.  This is how our nation changed the world.  The USA has brought a higher standard of living to the world, and has the highest standard of living of any country.  This was all accomplished in less than 200 years with just ingenuity and liberty, the freedom to develop and the freedom to fail.  Socialism doesn't reward ingenuity and it protects you from failure.  Thus, the government controls your life, and it's usually a miserable one.  Why?  The "people" take precedence over the person.

Pleasure is the counterfeit to happiness.  Pleasure is being taught as a means of gaining happiness and it always brings misery.  Rampant and uncontrolled sexual behavior brings the greatest misery filled with brief occurrences of pleasure.  You have young women losing their educational futures due to pregnancy because they chose pleasure over common sense, and becoming mothers whilst barely finishing their lives as a child.  Self respect and the respect of each other has been completely lost.  You have boys running around like chimpanzees in heat humping every willing partner mistaking partying and pleasure as happiness.  No longer do men and women have respect for each other's purity, but there's nothing to look forward to and appreciate in marriage for them.  A woman offering herself to her new husband is one of the greatest gifts and acts of love and trust in the world.  This is why the wedding dress is white, symbolizing purity.  Now days, that has been minimized and downplayed to a mere pleasurable animal act.

Once upon a time a man's word (or oath) was as strong as a written contract.  In fact, honor was the most important element a human could possess, and dishonoring one's self meant losing their ability to function in their society.  They couldn't do any business because everyone would know their word didn't mean anything.  Those that were successful, were those you could trust in their words and oaths.  Satan has succeeded in ruining this aspect of humanity, and replacing it with the substitute of anarchy claiming it as "freedom", which it is not.

Reversal

This is accomplished through ridicule, mainly.  The concepts of being "cool" or "hip" or the "new thing" are excellent ways of achieving reversal, especially with our children.  All children want friends and to be liked.  Well, if Satan can have enough willing participants in the entertainment industry to make evil look cool or hip, then he has an easy job.  Concepts of fornication being "normal" or "natural" or even expected if you want to be "cool" he introduces through those vehicles of fame.  Fame is popularity on steroids, and children mistake fame for the ideal life.  So they try to pattern their lives with the image projected in that fame.  Everything from piercing, to tatoos, to music, to clothing, all have had their changes from normality to their reversal.  Clothing was once a means to be modest and protect ones self from the elements.  Now it's to look most like the whore on the TV or movie screen (look up whore in the dictionary, they are being paid a lot to do it).

Fighting reversal requires good and responsible parenting.  If you think public schools run by the government are going to teach your child what is right and what is wrong, and what brings misery and what is real deception etc, then you are in for a big surprise.  You need to take responsibility for your child's upbringing.  You need to make sure they have the character and moral strength to recognize evil and deception when they hear it and see it.  They need to understand the lies of pleasure being happiness.  The counterfeit is the order of these two.  Happiness brings pleasure, the counterfeit says pleasure brings happiness, which is a lie.  Examples can see pleasure always ends up bringing misery.

Hitler recognized how powerful reversal works on crowds.  He went from community organizer to German Fuhrer (emperor) in a few short years by saying what people wanted to hear, blaming the rich (which were usually Jewish) for their problems, promising change, promising he'd eliminate their poverty, give them homes to live in, cars to drive.  The third Reich would be the socialist utopia.  NAZI, afterall, stood for "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party)".  Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, promised to "fix the economy".  He proceeded to have the government take over companies, he then took over the banks, finally in a claim to "finally fix it all" he requested special powers to accomplish this miracle.  He was given full authority and named Germany's first (and last) Fuhrer (he added "of the Third Reich").  He promptly used his new authority to dissolve the parliament and appointed "Governors" over regions to replace mayors and town councils.  He did all of this because he caused people to cry and get emotional at his speeches.  People thought of him as the Saviour of Germany.  He loved the media and the media loved him.  In fact Time Magazine featured Hitler in a positive manner.  He carefully controlled what the media would and could say and the media didn't care.  They just loved him.  He started government work programs to build roads.  In fact, the modern freeway is a Hitler Germany invention.  Big problem, the rich were now slaves (or dead), conveniently relieved of their riches, and the poor were still poor but taken care of.  Members of the Nazi party were the only privileged and you had to be invited into the party to be a Nazi (you also had to be of the "pure race" as well).

Notice anything similar in that historical account to the happenings of today?  Satan uses techniques that usually work.  He's had thousands of years of practice to get it down.  You're smart, you can do the math.  Yes, it's where George Lucas got his ideas for the rise of the Emperor and fall of the Republic, but that's not what I mean.

Summary

You cannot think that Satan's counterfeits can ever accomplish anything good, even with good intentions.  Good can only have its roots in liberty and freedom of choice.  Charity, can only work when love is behind it, as it's only theft if it is forced.  Poverty can only be overcome with charity and hard work.  A free handout only results in a hand expecting more.  A hand-up teaches that person how to fill their hands themselves.  Charity is a means to give a hand up and not the never ending handout of government welfare.

The commandments of God weren't given by a divine tyrant.  They actually protect us and give us a means to live our lives to the fullest with happiness.  If everyone lives according to the ten commandments, to the letter, then the natural form of society would be a United Order in the end, but because people are not perfect, they will always fall short of that ideal.

It is my belief that the USA and the land it sits on was blessed and started with God's influence.  A place for the imperfect to live in liberty.  It finally pulled the world out of the dark ages, which started when evil destroyed and killed the Apostles.  Seriously, think about it.  A bunch of rag-tag farmers (many without shoes!) defeated the greatest army and navy in the world!  This happened because God caused miracles to happen (not coincidences).  Great men were brought together, a grand council to which we have never seen again; our founding fathers!  Do you know of any man today, in the world, that would turn down the opportunity to become a king or emperor of a growing nation in favor instead of "just" being it's first President?  These founding fathers actually believed what they preached!  George Washington was one of the greatest men to be born in hundreds of years.  He wasn't perfect, none of them were, but they had honor and integrity.

To throw this all away because of Satan's counterfeits is a sad sad statement for the last two hundred years of growth and accomplishment.  Today things aren't Democrat versus Republican anymore.  Those days disappeared years ago.  It is now good versus evil and all of its counterfeits.  You hear Glenn Beck speak of 9 values and 12 Principles.  You have Rush Limbaugh speaking of Conservatism.  You have Mark Levin speaking of the coming tyranny.  You have Sean Hannity warning about the mob that is government.  All are good and well.  All are valid podiums to preach from.  All are legitimate cases.  However, though I support them and participate in their concern and activism, I cannot help but think that the root of the problem is simply Satan's distractions from God.  The principles we need to live by are contained as both the Ten Commandments and Jesus' beatitudes.  If people simply applied those principles and values to their lives, these issues and problems would be non-existent.

I honestly feel, these patriotic movements are treatments for the symptoms of the disease, not treatments for the elimination of it.  If you want liberty and freedom, then live the type of life from where those gifts are given.  Set an example, you cannot force others to live as you choose to.  You can only offer to share what you know if they accept the offer.  Be who you should be.  Turn off that questionable TV show.  Don't watch that questionable movie, even if edited for TV.  Don't buy that video game if it's immoral or encourages immorality.  Stand up for what is right, and don't put up with Satan's "political correctness".  Point out lies when they are told, regardless of venue.  Vote for honest people in government.  Voting for the best speaker or best looking is irresponsible and part of Satan's plan of misery.  George Washington was not a good speaker, nor was he a good looking man, but he was a great President and General.  Vote for those with integrity and morality, not a good haircut.

Don't take your education and basis for knowledge from the news media.  Learn for yourself.  Read more good books.  Always gain in knowledge and experience.  Never be "too good" to teach others when they ask for help.  Be humble and kind.  Be loving, yet firm.  Be knowledgeable, yet not arrogant.

I realize this is a wordy post, but something that has been bothering my conscience for a while.

Recently, the jackass the slight majority of voters in the United States of America voted into the office of President (you know, the one that didn't have any executive experience, that said he was going to "repair our image in the world" etc.) did what no other President in our history has done to date.  He successfully and without regret or sorrow insulted and offended our greatest and strongest ally in the world, the United Kingdom.

What did he do?  Well, considering our mainstream media molly-coddles this President and tries everything to protect him, you wouldn't have heard the story here in the United States.  However, we have other means and a lone honest media called FoxNews which reported it plainly.  Our new President didn't make one "simple" mistake, oh no, he layered insult on top of insult.

First, he snubbed Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, not once, but twice; by refusing a joint press conference which is traditional and a sign of friendship and solidarity, and by refusing the customary respect and honor by throwing a state sponsored dinner or banquet.

To add insult to injury, he asks (tells) that the UK take back the gift of a bust of Winston Churchill given to the USA as a symbol of solidarity after the attacks of 9/11.  This was the equivalent of telling France to take back the Statue of Liberty!

Finally, Prime Minister Brown offers the United States of America (not just our President) a gift full of historical meaning, a hand crafted pen made out of the wood from the USS Resolute to match the desk in the Oval Office.  This desk and that ship have grand historical meaning.  The USS Resolute was a symbol of two nations turning from enemies or fighting sisters, into two friends with grand respect for each other.  The time the USA and the UK became allies and were reconciled.  What did our President do?  He offered him a box of DVDs some guy got at the local video store at the last minute.  These DVDs don't even play on equipment in the UK. What an insult!

Prime Minister Brown had to have been shocked.  He thought Obama to be a kindred liberal spirit like himself.  What he didn't understand about Obama, is that he is so liberal and so indoctrinated with Marxist teachings that Prime Minister Brown represented a country Obama has been taught to hate from those he had associated with, like Bill Ayers etc.  Obama would rather talk to and give gifts to the Taliban, Iran, Cuba, etc.  They represent the types of society Obama believes reflects his Marxist ideals.  Anyone that does not support his socialist/communist agenda are just in the way.

Obama is loved in Europe.  Simply because of their liberal media.  They only get one side of a story.  It always seems that Europe falls in love with the worst types of leader, especially Germany.  The UK has always been a Europian anomoly with their support of the USA and its Presidents.  Unfortunately, instead of seeing through the B.S. like they were usually good at doing, they got suckered into the image of "saviour" that Obama's PR team has been so successful at projecting, even to where Obama himself believes it.  This time the UK learned a lesson the hard way.  Fortunately, they learned early enough and can finally see what the right in the USA has been trying to show people that Obama is not what he claims to be, and is a wolf in saviour's clothing.  He's not just trying to force socialism on our nation, but the whole world.

With all of that said, I know that there are at least 54 million citizens of the USA that want the UK to know, we appreciate them and their heart felt gifts of friendship and solidarity.

To:
  Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
  His Excellency, Prime Minister Gordon Brown
  The Great and Wonderful People of The United Kingdom

We the People of the United States of America offer our deepest and sincerest apology for the rude and inconsiderate behavior of our President, who's duty it is to represent us, the people and not his own personal agenda.  He has clearly fooled everyone, which is our fault and responsibility.  However, we want you to know how your gifts of solidarity and friendship have meant a great deal to us, despite his rude and inconsiderate behavior.  We also ask that instead of keeping your gift of the bust of that magnificent man, Winston Churchill, that you please preserve it until we have earned it once more and can appreciate it properly.  We first must clean our own house of the scum and rabble we have allowed into it, in all three of our major houses of our Federal government.

We ask for your understanding and patience, and we make only one simple request.  That is, to help expose those that would want to bring down both of our forms of freedom and liberty.  We have never needed an ally more than now.  Previously we have come to your rescue on more than one occasion, and have stood together, resolute in our friendship many times after.  We now ask for your help to keep us free from tyranny this time.  We have allowed the wolves into the barn, and now they are gorging themselves on power and making changes and policy we're afraid may not only damage our nation, but the world.

With heartfelt thanks and appreciation,

The People of The United States of America (at least 54 million of them)