When the wolf pulls the wool over his own eyes: The greatest lies ever told

By Curtis Dahlgren

"For so is the will of God, that with well-doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men, not using your freedom as an excuse for maliciousness, but as bond-slaves of God." — Peter (KJV)

SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TELL IF THERE'S MORE "RELIGION IN POLITICS" OR MORE POLITICS IN RELIGION. A motel owner in Napa Valley said that he's going to put an environmentalist's book in every room and remove the Bibles, but that's nothing — lots of churches did that years ago!

My column specializes in the great paradoxes of life, and how the liberals/secularists can't handle a paradox well at all (which is a paradox in itself, because they constantly accuse orthodox/conservatives of "over-simplification").

WHICH BRINGS US TO THE TOP TEN LIES OF THE WEEK:

10) The moon is turning to green cheese, and we've "GOTTA do something about it" right now [to paraphrase the "crisis-of-the-week: "the debate is over," the fix is in — I mean "the facts are in"].

9) America was founded as a secular "democracy."

8) The goal of our Founding Fathers was absolute "equality."

7) Separation of Church and State was an obsession of theirs.

6) The pioneers were too independent; what we need now is a Big Socialist Village.

6) Republicans steal elections [but Democrats only "massage" them — or, what?].

5) Tax cuts reduce government revenue; tax increases won't be passed on to the public.

4) President Bush planned the WTC attack and no plane ever hit the Pentagon (it was a flying saucer).

3) Al Qaida is fighting for freedom, Arafat was for peace, and America just WANTS WAR.

2) "Big Oil" can charge anything it wants for a gallon of gasoline [actually Big Ethanol's profit percentage is 2 or 3 times as high as Big Oil's and the government's "take" on a gallon of gas is 5 or 6 times as much as Big Oil's].

1) a. Saddam Hussein had no chemical or biological weapons.

b. Man never landed on the moon, and even if he did, Armstrong never said "One small step for man."

c. Christian fundamentalists believe that there were dinosaurs on Noah's ark.

d. Christians are no better than the terrorists.

e. There are no terrorists.

A new revelation hit me this week: It's pointless to argue with a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, because he has pulled the wool over his own eyes first! So true!

The best we can hope for is for someone to notice the fur under "grandma's" wool. Sometimes all that it takes to save the herd is for one suspicious wildebeest to betray the position of the lion lying in the weeds. That's why it's so important to understand the "positions" of secular liberalism (in both religion and government).

They think that "cognitive dissonance" is a clever way of calling their enemies "stupid" and that we won't know what they're talking about because — well — we're "stupid" of course.

The word-for-the-day, boys and girls:

The Madison (Wisconsin) ambassador to the recent National Spelling Bee told of her two favorite words: "kallikak" and "kakistocracy." A Kallikak is a stupid or an ignorant person and a kakistocracy is "the rule by the most incompetent — or the least principled — people."

I hope I'm not using any "forbidden" words here, but a kaka is a parrot, a KAKARIKI is a lizard, and KAKERLAK is a cockroach, literally, according to my trusty 38 Funk & Wagnalls

(KAKERLAK gave us the word KAKERLAKISM, which I propose as the new word for liberalism, since the Liberals don't like the term Liberal — much like the Pharisees didn't like the term "snakes-in-the-grass").

CONCLUSION

In my most recent column, I talked about the three parts of the "Puritan sermon," the "doctrine," the "reasons," and the "uses." This column's "doctrine" came from I Peter 2:15-17. The New English Bible says:

"For it is the will of God that by your good conduct you should put ignorance and stupidity to silence. Live as FREE MEN, not however as though your freedom were there to provide a screen for wrongdoing, but as slaves in God's service."

This column's REASONS? There are ignorant and foolish people out there, so beware! "All good things come to him who WAKES."

And this column's USES?

The King James version tells us to "USE" OUR FREEDOM, and some of those "freedoms" include:

- Freedom of thought
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of the press (plus now the Internet)
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech ABOUT religion (no matter what the IRS says)

By the context, you can tell that Peter's longest sentence was not "spiritualizing away" the term "freedom" to a phantom "liberty'" but was talking literally about Civil Liberties.

Other scriptures tell us that "the Truth shall make you free," that "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty," and that "unto whom much is given, much shall be required." Freedom betrayed becomes nothing more than mere LICENSE.

Someone once said that some people can't find Jesus for the same reason a thief cannot "find" a policeman. www.doesgodexist.com

P.S. The publication just mentioned there (May/June 07), has a couple of interesting "global warming" items. It says that the 2006 annual report on the ozone hole seems to indicate that in the stratosphere where the ozone hole is, 2006 was "abnormally COLD." [Discover magazine, January 07]

The September 30, 2006 issue of Science News reports that the top layers of the ocean have cooled "for reasons that are unknown." And "Natural History" magazine has an article entitled "Ice Cycles," on past warmings and coolings of the earth.

The bottom line there is, with all that we don't know yet, red flags should go up when people seem to be trying to give you the "definitive inconvenient truth" about "climate change," aka "global warming." If they have to force their dogma on captive audiences such as school children (one Canadian had to sit through the Gore movie four times), maybe that says more about the weaknesses of their premises than about their strengths!

[an interesting website in conjunction with all this is www.textbookreviews.org ]

Our Founding Fathers often referred to "starting the world over again" here in the New World, and one of the models they openly referred to was the Exodus from Egypt into the Promised Land. Yes, Israel had a priesthood and a King, with neither being under the thumb of the other, but it is a faulty extension of illogic to assert that there was utterly no relationship or fellowship between the two sides of the "wall."

Our Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson himself, feared domination of the Church by the State more than they feared domination of the State by the "Church" [i.e., the "congregation of believers"]. Furthermore, the Fathers hoped (and even expected) that the prevailing Culture would encourage the choosing of "faithful and competent" public officials (in Monroe's words), and they believed that this in turn would help maintain the original "Freedoms."

It is high time to stop going along with the semantical head games that the Left is playing and simply refuse to accept their premise that "separation of Church and State" meant SUPPRESSION of religion. Christ told us to "turn the other cheek," but not THAT cheek!

The philosophy of the Founding Fathers was that a godly Culture was to be encouraged much like a farmer cultivates his crops (without trampling or uprooting them) but in the case of crime, severe measures were called for (like a vine dresser pruning his vines back). That concept served our people well from 1789 until about 1947 when the Left introduced the "abridgments" of civil rights based on religious belief, and the "infringement" of the right of Conscience (Supreme Court decisions slowly began to be openly anti-Christian). *

* www.renewamerica.com/columns/mwest/070531 "The Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have gone mute" by Marsha West

PPS: The bill to institutionalize illegal immigration as the "American Way" hit a speed-bump this week, but trust me, the Senate has not yet begun to fight!

STAY ALERT!

© Curtis Dahlgren