09.20.05
no longer liberal
Well friends, I’m sad to inform you of this, but it’s only fair you hear it from me first. I’m going to swear off being a liberal. Turns out those commie bastards have been polluting this nation. The liberal anti-God ‘intellectual elites’ are the reason that there are hundred’s of poor people suffering…and those liberals keep trying to blame things like racism…hogwash.
You see, I just read this article by Brannon Howse (founder of Worldview Weekend) and I’m totally convinced by his reasoning. Here’s that article, read and learn, Pink-o:
Hurricane Katrina has brought to the nation?s attention the plight of the poor in America. While Jesse Jackson and other liberals attempt to blame poverty on racism and the President and other republicans look to throw money at the problem, few are discussing who and what are really to blame for the root cause of poverty in America.
The issue is not racism but anti-Christian bigotry on the part of the ACLU, the NEA, the DNC and Barry Lynn and his group, Americans United for the Separationof Church and State. The sad stories of the poor should be laid at the feet of the liberal, anti-God “intellectual elite” known as the secular left.
Decades-long brainwashing by liberal-leaning social engineers has so altered the worldview of the underclass that they have little choice but to live in the mire of their culturally bankrupt caste.
We in developed nations use the term “poor” flippantly to describe people who are really not poor in the historic sense of having literally nothing and living on the verge of starvation. It is also crucial to understand that sometimes when the Bible speaks of the poor, it is referring to a person’s spiritual, not financial, condition. However, when the Bible does discuss the fiscally poor, it is not the American definition of the term. Biblical poverty is someone that does not have a coat, food or shelter. Often in America those the government says live in poverty not only have a home, an apartment, and a coat, but a color television, cable TV, video games, an automobile, beer, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and other comforts as well.
While there are a few true victims of poverty, children who suffer from their parents’ bad choices (which all too many choose to repeat as adults)the blame for poverty lies not solely with those who make lifestyle decisions that lead to their status. The great facilitators of chronic indigence are liberal humanists and their worldview of ‘if it feels good do it.’ Much of America’s poor and criminal element have become what they are because of the liberal intelligentsia that have removed God from our schools and public square.
With the expulsion of God in America we have seen the increase of the poor and their practice of abortion, domestic violence, laziness, gambling, drug use, alcoholism, theft, assault, sexual promiscuity and countless children being raised in single parent homes with the same mother but different fathers. These consequences stem from the rejection of a belief in fixed morality and the God that ordained the consequences for its rejection or the rewards that flow for its adherents.
The annual resolutions of the National Education Association, (NEA) the cases brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the political platform of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) or the defense of child pornographers by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, furthers their goal to make us one nation under man not one nation under God.
The data from the Justice Department, Health and Humans Services, FBI and other agencies documents the overwhelming consequences that began to increase in 1962 when the liberals declared war on God and outlawed prayer in our nation’s schools. Their anti-God, socialistic worldview has fostered the chronic poor in America and their morally bankrupt lifestyle.
The liberal, humanistic elite, educrats, and social ‘the pimps of moral relativism’ have foisted their worldview on the underclass and the outcome has been ruinous.
Founding Father Noah Webster wrote, “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Do ideas have consequences? Does your worldview matter? Liberals can enjoy the distinct satisfaction of seeing just how radically their “forward-thinking” ideas affect the world in which people live day by day. Isn’t the compassion of unrestrained sexual expression, of ongoing handouts to the needy a wonderful thing?
Anyone who regards with even a shred of honesty the destruction of unregenerate people in the underclass knows the liberals’ time is up. Their social experiment is as bust as the former Soviet Union’s Communism. The Christian worldview is the hope that is left and a genuine hope it is. Christians must reach out to the underclass, seek to change hearts, renew minds, and reframe their deformed worldview by showing them the need to embrace Christianity and biblical morality and reject the secular left’s destructive, humanistic, anti-God religious
worldview.
paula said,
September 20, 2005 at 11:54 pm
wow! darn…i’m going to have to re-think my liberal bias now. there’s some heavy stuff there.
however christianity is not just a bundle of morals, rules, or “the ten commandments”. it’s christ, and the gift and everything that his life means. there’s a lot there beyond just “don’t abort” and “be nice to everyone”.
christ’s main gift is “you can be reconciled to god”, maybe.
i get really sick of how christianity is portrayed as a bunch of rules that ought to be imposed on everyone, christian or not. it’s a gift. it’s good news…
Benjamin said,
September 20, 2005 at 11:56 pm
I knew you’d be all over this one like a white looter, er, gatherer over the last bottle of perrier down at the Piggly-Wiggly. Or something like that you hellbound poverty pimp….
Boy, and I thought some of the people at my church were assholes about this….
Eric L. said,
September 21, 2005 at 2:34 am
um. so… i should read all those posts again about outrage, right?
speakless said,
September 21, 2005 at 7:58 am
have to say that finally amongst this whole blog ring circle there is a lean towards biblical thinking. stop it, ergh, i am venting. it is refreshing to read the article. look forward to reading more posts. so in practical matters - does this mean not to have a side when it comes to politics? hmmm.
Bad Alice said,
September 21, 2005 at 8:29 am
Is Brannon Howse important and influential? I’m sure a certain percentage of people hold this unChristian and distasteful view of the poor, casting a shadow over the large number of Christians who are working in the relief effort. But it seems like this post is simply setting up someone to be shot down while we congratulate ourselves on our own more compassionate point of view.
susan said,
September 21, 2005 at 9:28 am
“The issue is not racism but anti-Christian bigotry…”
So… this article is making christians out to be victims? There’s a Christian in the White House, and numerous Christians in congress… a Republican majority… Faith based initiatives… soon there will be another conservative on the supreme court… most likely TWO. I’m not seeing a lot of christian victimization here myself, help me out here.
What of all those other founding forefathers who believed separation of church and state was a very important thing?
The liberals declared war on god? All liberals? God is a lot bigger than the a group of liberals, or republicans for that matter… and to group God on the side of one party just minimizes God in my opinion.
It seems to me that this is just another blame game that gets us nowhere. Judge not lest ye be judged. Love your neighbor as yourself. Be an example of the solution, not a gonging cymbal proclaiming the problem.
Stephen said,
September 21, 2005 at 12:34 pm
I actually didn’t know Noah Webster was considered a “Founding Father.” I understand that he was alive during the revolution/constitutional period.
He began writing the first American dictionary in 1801. He started NY’s first daily newpaper in 1793. His approaches to education were influential, as well.
However, since he was only 23 at the passage of the Constitution and was not really politically minded, I would hesitate to give him that title.
Or rather, maybe we should give everyone who participated in any way in the foundation of our country the title of “Founding Father,” but then comes the question, “Why do the descendents of the most numerous group of Founding Fathers and Mothers find themselve impoverished?”
Oh, that’s right! We kept them enslaved for nine decades after we gained our own independence.
ninjanun said,
September 21, 2005 at 1:54 pm
Christians must reach out to the underclass, seek to change hearts, renew minds, and reframe their deformed worldview by showing them the need to embrace Christianity and biblical morality and reject the secular left’s destructive, humanistic, anti-God religious
worldview.
That’s right, if the poor will just “embrace Christianity and biblical morality,” they’ll magically stop being poor!
As others have said, this belittles all the Christians who are working to make our society more just, and puts the burden of the poor ON the poor, instead of on society as a whole.
Tom said,
September 21, 2005 at 4:26 pm
How is that backers of creationism/”Intelligent Design” are always the biggest social Darwinists in the room?
bill said,
September 21, 2005 at 10:53 pm
There is truth to this…a little, well some.
The big problem, however, is that poverty pays. A few people make good money from poverty. Who would buy all of those lottery tickets that the state governments sell to pay for better education? Who would buy that cheap, watery beer? And cabel TV, who would watch that crap? Who would that they’re going to hell is they don’t tithe to “the kingdom.” Governments, corporations and legalistic churches need the poor.
On a less sarcastic note, we will always have some poor. It’s a matter of economic probablility. But we must help them, nevertheless. That’s what we’re called to do. And getting them yoked to a legalistic church is not helping!