I am not a lover of cold cereal.
I am not crazy about milk. However, there are a few I really enjoy like Cheerios,
Frosted Flakes or Raisin Bran. I really dig Frosted Flakes, bananas, and ¼ cup
of really cold whole milk. I really would love the milk if it was really fresh
from the dairy cow even more. When you pour the flakes in the bowl, chop up the
banana into lots of bite size pieces, and pour the cold milk gently over the
top until it is slightly wet… it is perfect! I really like taking my time
eating it, savoring every single bite.
After half way through the bowl,
I notice the flakes start to wilt and become saggy(soggy) like my old milk powdered
breast and big round flat behind that has spread more than a mile with the
senior age. Look of cushion for a late middle-aged salt and peppered haired hag.
(Okay, I like to make jokes about fast approaching old people, because I am one.
The clock gets faster as one gets past 55.) Everything starts to sag after 55
and I don’t care if you cover it up or have surgery it all sags. I feel like
General Sherman himself marched across me more than a few times during the
Civil War. This southern belle no longer “dings”. It is more like a “dung.”
Well we can view politics the
same way my wet and soggy cereal has become. When a politician is elected, they
have this viable crunch. The inclination to want to change the broken nationally
governed system. About the end of year two, their dreams are drowned and wilted
in half the bowl. They just lay there with no crunch whatsoever and very
little fruit. We look in that bowl and see what? A soggy left-over mess that
still taste good but the crunch no longer exists. It is the end of year one of
the Trump administration, and what do we see in the huge dinosaur nation on Capitol
Hill? I see two branches of government stuck in the bottom of the bowl but
among the soggy. You might see somewhere in there find a crunchy flake or two that is about to turn and
drown in that soggy mess. When I think of Capitol Hill, I think of
extremely high altitudes where the air is lacking and it is hard to breathe; all
of life’s oxygen has been sucked out. Are they the “Walking Dead?” Is this the dark side of the fabled “Zombie Apocalypse?”
What happened? It didn't overnight. It seems since the “nouveau riche” of the Gilded Age, something has seriously
has happened in our country. We have the entitled because dad gave it to us; the
entitled because the made it really happen by luck only; the entitled who have
a little; the entitled who want because they worked their butts off for it, but
didn’t get it; the entitled who want but will never have it because they are lazy
in mind and spirit; then, the entitled who are sick or disabled and in most
cases just happy to still be living and remembered. Let’s get one thing straight. What are we
truly entitled to? Nothing because we are just ships (vessels) passing through a period of time looking
for the guiding light, and hoping for calm seas. The seas of GOD.
Political society is like modern evangelicalism.
It truly wasn’t that noticed or participated in America until mid to late 19th
century and it grew big in the 20th century to explosive in the late
20th century and early 21st century.
In history, why did
the colonials really come over? Very few were interested (there are exceptions
like about six religions total during colonialism). Was it to start a “Nation
under God”? (The phrase came about around the 1950s-Truman’s administration.) Guess
what, many certainly didn’t come over on the boat with the KJV? It was for free
land claims and the popular Bible was Geneva. They really didn’t want Anglican
religious control or for that fact any religious control. A few communities started with religious fervor. What happened to them? People just walked off and went
into the woods. By the way this is not fake news, but academic truth. I
learned this at a public university (BA) and a private high religious
university (MA).
Political society wasn’t much
thought of unless one was a property owner. As time progress, political society
was bitten somewhere by a rabid animal.
Here it is 21st century
and what is happening? People are retreating from Washington DC into the woods. Stale and fresh human minds are leaving quickly the hill. Why? It is because, since the Gilded Age, political life in America are showing signs of the rabies
disease, mainly foaming at the mouth. In the many words of the sense, I too see
modern evangelism foaming at the mouth as well.
There is a hardening of the arteries
in the true sense of faith and politics in America. They have become so intertwined
it is unreal. I do not want religion in government nor to I want government in
matters of religion. How dare political society want to dictate my faith!
I do
not have faith in my neighbor; I do not have faith in my community; I
definitely do not have faith in those who govern. I have faith in GOD ALONE and
Jesus, incarnate. That faith in GOD and Jesus (incarnate) dictates my hope
through his grace in my neighbors, community, and those who govern.
So, when I see a grandstand of
people at a prayer breakfast with the president the first thing that comes to
mind: Use of emotional religious matters to control the people of a nation.
This is nothing new. During the mid-industrial period in America, religion was
used to control the workers by many industrial capitalists. They felt religion
would make many a drinking Irish immigrant behave publicly, be more productive with less drinking or morally illicit acts. This was when? About the Gilded Age
period.
With the enhancements of modern
technical communications, religious politics seems like a rampant diseased of
psychological warfare.
Your faith is not between one’s country and you. Your
faith is only between you and GOD.
The Son is the radiance of GOD’s
glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful
word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty in heaven. (Hebrews 1.3)
We cannot share our faith because
it is only between you and GOD. You can share hope through his grace and you
can share the written word because your personal faith dictates your actions. Do
not let anyone use your personal faith as a tool against you for control unless
they are GOD.
GOD bless each and everyone.
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