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• 09/30/08 01:16 PM [ET] (http://www.house.gov/writerep/)
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• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she's voting yea despite receiving 85,000 calls against it (total number of
calls: 91,000).
Capital Hill doesn’t listen to America, do they? Get this:
within this new Bailout, as per Harry Reid, is an added perk:
$100 Billion dollars put aside for
pork barrel spending and a mental parody measure which, like it or not, will be
the beginning of socialized medicine.
Thanks, guys, now I feel better…
Everyone on
Capital Hill should be fired.
Regarding a recent “Mad As Hell" article I had posted, a
private e-mail arrives:
… Who could believe that the Wall Street Debacle
should occur within weeks of the Presidential election?
We are being assaulted from every direction between
terrorism, hurricanes, global warming, abortions, drug addiction, violence- you
name it and we got it. We are clearly in spiritual warfare and the demonic
is in the chaos. This is just not some pious fundamentalist platitude—it is the
real world of the Spirit.
Luke expresses it well in the words of the Lord: Jesus said to the people,"When you see a
cloud coming up from the west, at once you say, it is going to rain, and it
does. And when you feel the south wind blowing, you say it is going to get hot,
and it does. You hypocrites! You can look at the earth and the sky and know
what it means, why then don't you know the meaning of this present
time?".Luke 12 vs, 54-56.
I feel that Jesus is speaking to us right now and how many
are really listening?
—Keep
Loving and Praying, RM, SJ
I will risk being labeled a fanatical Christian
because I AM A CHRISTIAN who is NOT a fanatic but a realist that cares deeply
and is concerned about the future of our children.
The “drumbeat" of
Socialism/Marxism never ceases and the general populace doesn’t even recognize
it.
Following are excerpts from
an article by William Staneski, “The Drumbeat," which should make every
American of faith stop, think and realize that America is in a spiritual battle for its very soul. (complete article
can be found at The American Thinker website: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/the_drumbeat.html):
“The drumbeat. It’s always
there. Day and night. Rain or shine. Winter or Summer. Sunday or Monday. It
comes at you from every direction. It comes over the TV, the radio, at work, at
school, in music, in the newspapers, from the politicians, in conversation with
others, even in church. It wears you down. It robs you of the will to resist
its message. Even short-lived victories, which stop it briefly, leave you with
the knowledge that it will return; each minor victory bound to be lost to the
redoubled efforts of this patient and persistent force. You can’t escape it. It
never stops. It never gives up. It never ends. It rains upon you from every
possible angle, from every possible source.
It’s the drumbeat of the
left. It is political, philosophical, theological, and social. It pervades
every activity. It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything in the
parlance of the day. It is tolerant, diverse, non-judgmental,
non-discriminatory, egalitarian, politically correct, multicultural, globalist,
and collectivist. It insists that there are no rights and wrongs, no moral
absolutes. It turns everything upside down in its looking glass world. It
denies the correctness of all that produced what our culture revered before the
deconstruction of the world in accordance with the tenets of cultural Marxism.
It denies God, human exceptionalism, and the soul. We are reduced to Darwinian
animals floundering in an amoral sea of meaninglessness. It is a product of the
nihilistic, existentialist philosophical movement, which went hand in hand with
modern art, atonal music, scientific materialism and modern physics, and the
generally discordant nature of the twentieth century.
It is said that a fish is
not aware of the water in which it swims since it is totally immersed in it.
This is the way cultural Marxism is taking over our world in its inexorable
Gramscian march. We swim in it. It enters every pore of our existence. It is
everywhere. We can’t escape it. Many people accept this world without even
realizing it, just as the fish accepts the water in which it swims. They don’t
realize it as the left creates new conventional wisdom and new intuitions about
truth.
The cultural Marxists
convince us that the truth is that there is no truth. And even though this
unresolvable paradox lies at the very center of all this, the constant drumbeat
keeps the masses in line, anesthetized enough to not make an issue of it. Fed a
constant diet of sex, drugs, poisonous pop culture, materialistic trinkets, and
unkeepable promises of security provided by huge leftist government, ever more
globalist in nature, the masses are diverted from realizing, as they are told
there is no truth, that this claim itself is subject to the same test. It is
logically impossible for the leftist drumbeat to be true by its own axioms.
The principles upon which
Western culture rests and upon which America was built are under attack by
these slow acting but deadly forces. The drumbeat is grinding down the will of
the West to maintain itself. The ideas of individual sovereignty and
responsibility, natural rights, and objective truth have been derided by the
left to the point that many of our young people reject them, if, indeed, they
are even aware of them as the basis for our culture. All that ensures that a
culture will pass its ideas down from one generation to the next is its
cultural memory. The drumbeat is slowly but surely replacing our cultural
memory….
…If you believe that all
this is a paranoid overreaction, you have plenty of company. Those of us who
can still see the water and hear the drumbeat are subject to attempts to make
us sound evil and foolish. To believe in traditional Western cultural values,
American Exceptionalism, God, and moral truth is to be branded as old fashioned
and foolish, even by the best assessments of those who have bought into the
cultural Marxist’s message….
…In truth, and in direct
opposition to the drumbeat, each human being must be accorded his or her
natural rights, individual sovereignty, and self-responsibility to be in
harmony with human nature. Each of us must have the freedom to succeed or to
fail. Western culture, culminating in the great American experiment, has been
perverted. Due to these perversions, many failures have already occurred, which
have then, ironically, been used to justify further perversions of the same
sort as those which caused the problems to begin with.
Generally, these
perversions are manifested in bigger government, more laws, more bureaucracy,
more regulations, more taxes, and government controlled redistribution of
wealth, more collectivism, less individualism, and less freedom. We all hear it
constantly from leftist politicians as they add their part to the drumbeat:
government must do more to ensure Americans avoid the consequences of
their choices. We all know the song, sung to the cheers of the unthinking
throngs who would give up their very humanity for the promise of a free lunch.
These are the joys of cultural Marxism.
And the drumbeat goes on." |
