Sardonic Scribe

As a Christian, faith is something that is developed and worked to maintain in the face of challenges and tests that we all experience. The primary difference is that instead of putting our faith in “Man” or things of man such as government, Christians rely on the promises made by God. Christians have the comfort of knowing that God will do exactly what is carefully explained and taught in the Bible which is God’s Word to man. The peace of knowing what God promises can make it very easy to cultivate the type of unshakable faith that so many Christians exemplify.

Secular people try to explain faith away and prefer to rely on worldly items like Science, government, or other men. For me, this is like pondering the age old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? Man and science would try to explain this conundrum away with lofty sounding, academic explanations primarily leaning on the theories of evolution or the “Big Bang” which are far flung ideas full of holes and problems.

People of faith tend to be happier, calmer, and more at ease and peace, no matter what they are hit with in life. Why is this, how can this be? First, it is because Christians understand that there is something far bigger than “Man” and that is God, creator of everything. Christians will read and study the Bible to better understand and learn how to handle anything that they are faced with. Primarily, the Bible teaches Christians that no matter what, Jesus is always there with you and will fight the battles with or for you. It is the understanding that no matter what challenges and problems that we might face while on this earth, our Heavenly Father is always just a prayer away and is more than willing to jump into the battle and stand in the gap for us. God is always faithful to His Word and to His children, us. This understanding affords Christians a great deal of comfort and peace.

Today, we have but to turn on a television to see the seething hatred and vitriol of the secular world. We are hard pressed to find examples of joy and happiness and are instead, entreated to endless stories of hatred, rioting and chaos. Mindless violence over ideological differences is the topic of the day and there seems to be no end in sight for it. Far too many exuberantly embrace the chaos and violence and seek to fan the flames and spread it as much as possible. Hatred for anything and everyone who dare to differ from their worldview and opinions is assaulted with hatred and attacked wildly.

Where does this hatred come from and why is it so prevalent today? the Bible teaches us that the enemy, Satan is fully in charge of this world and that he comes to kill, steal, and destroy. Well, just take a look around and you can see endless examples of this taking place all around us. Satan was given full reign of this world and loves nothing more than causing as much chaos and damage to anyone who opposes him forever. The torment we experience in this life is nothing compared to the endless torment that will be inflicted upon those who reject Jesus and do not go to Heaven when they pass. Those who are not “Saved” and set aside to spend eternity in Heaven with Jesus will be condemned for all time to torment and unending anguish inflicted upon them in Hell. This is absolutely not appealing to me and I will spend my time on this earth doing my best to live up to the teachings of the Bible, God’s inspired Word.

The absence of faith results in fear, uncertainty, chaos. We have but to examine history to see how “Man” has fared in situations where the people were faithful and those who dared risk God’s wrath for not being faithful and rejecting God’s Word. Consider any tragedy involving little more than pure evil resulting in death, misery, and horror. Some glaring examples would be Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Mao’s China in which millions upon millions of people were ground into submission under the unyielding boot of tyranny. These governments enriched the leaders with opulence and wealth while the average citizens were quite literally starved to death. A quick check of historical facts reveals the incredible death tolls which were the direct result of the failed ideologies and political systems imposed unwillingly upon the citizens of those respective countries. There is no lack of evidence demonstrating the horror, agony, and just plain evil perpetrated by Godless tyrants and dictators.

A common trait of these evil men was the rejection of God and Christianity. After that worldview, moral compass, and fundamental basis of character, the rest was easy for the enemy to swoop in and direct the actions of these evil men. Rejecting God is like slamming the door in Jesus face but flinging it wide open and welcoming in evil, and Satan. Free will was given to “Man” and God allows His children to make their own choices, even if the choices made cause great harm and grief to our Heavenly Father. Not loving Him back is one of the worst things that we can do to cause unimaginable grief to our loving Father in Heaven. Consider the pain caused to our earthly parents when we are disobedient children and cause pain and anguish to our earthly parents. Children do not typically like to hurt or cause their parents pain but rather seek their approval, and love. Most children will go to great links to please their parents and make them happy. The absolute same is true of our Heavenly Father who loves us more than anything else. Knowing that we have the love of Jesus gives Christians a tremendous sense of peace and happiness. Knowing this makes it easy to have faith that our God will always be faithful to us. Thank you Lord for all that you do for us. God bless America!

So what is decency anyway? One definition states that decency is ….

noun

1. behavior that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability.”she had the decency to come and confess”

Now you can parse, dissect, and contemplate the meanings of each word and come to your own conclusion. Some like to spin, twist, manipulate, and come to some exaggerated hypothesis on what the actual meaning is. The Left absolutely love to demonize and destroy words and meanings that they do not like or accept. For example, the term liberal was used to describe leftists until the connotation of negativity began to be synonymous with the tern liberal when used as a label for leftists and democrats. The result was that liberal was immediately dropped and the term “Progressive” was adopted by leftists and democrats. The bottom line is that the left like to use terms to hide behind because their true intentions and agenda typically will not stand the light of day or actual scrutiny, especially in the court of public venues where the citizens are actually informed.

The Left have even tried to play games with word like reality implying that somehow reality differs from person to person as does the truth. The implication that my truth and your truth might differ with regard to a plain fact is quite simply just absurd. But, absurdity has never stopped the left or democrats from throwing everything against the wall to see what will stick and then running with the result in hopes of damaging or inflicting injury upon their enemies or opponents. But that is a low blow and dirty trick you might say, well yes in the realm of decency it certainly is unacceptable behavior but when has something like that ever stopped the extremists from doing it?

During the course of the last four years, we have been witness to the seeming demise of things like ethics, morality, decency, and most certainly, civility. The ability to engage in civil discourse about anything that the left has not deemed appropriate or furthers the left’s agenda is positively not allowed, period. Those who are foolish enough to attempt to disagree with the Left are brow beaten, harassed, or positively terrorized into submission by extreme radicals who will do absolutely anything to suppress and silence any and every dissent to their ideology.

Consider situations such as Conservative speakers who attempt to educate and inform young people on college or University campuses who are typically not going to hear anything about the right or conservatism otherwise. Any time that a Conservative dares to speak on a college or University campus in America today. The result is usually angry mobs of misinformed, uneducated students, steeped in far left ideology which is typically all that they experience with the possible exception of home and church, taking to the streets to trash, smash, and riot. The behavior is the typical response to any attempt to present ideas and world views which are on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Students are typically not even presented with ideas of anything except the furthest left and most radical view points of professors who proudly and openly identify as socialist, Marxist, and even just plain communists.

To those on the extreme Left, the idea of decency, like most ideas is something that is fluid and constantly changing. The Left typically rejects the idea of rigid, solid definitions, especially those which are representative of right and wrong. The Left typically rejects the idea of right and wrong and attempts to categorize or assign degrees or levels of right and wrong. Ideas which differ from those which are accepted and typically utilized by the Left are completely rejected and accompanied by some drawn out, hypothesis of nonsense and academically belabored diatribe. To the majority of Leftists, the ends justify the means, period.

If one subscribes to the philosophy that the ends justify the means, then concepts such as right and wrong become fuzzy and somewhat intangible. There is no concrete or absolute definition as the concept is fluid and moves along unseen scales and is comprised of degrees on a fictitious scale. This has and is leading to the absolute abolition of the idea of decency. As defined above, decency can be thought of as conforming to accepted standards of morality and respectability. Judging by what we seen happening in the streets of America from coast to coast with endless nights of rioting and mobs inflicting damage and chaos upon anything in their path, decency and civility are the last things on their minds. And what of the media or the leaders on the Left? What is their response to this lack of civility and decency? Typically, it is to spin, twist, and manipulation of facts. We are told that the mobs rioting are “mostly peaceful” despite us seeing riots with our own eyes. In other words, they lie to us to excuse this lack of decency demonstrated by out of control mobs. If those engage in riots are even charged at all, they are typically bailed out by supporters who contribute to huge caches of money used to defend them. Sports figures, Actors, and even politicians contribute to such funds to help those who are burning, destroying, and even murdering anyone and anything in their path.

We are witnessing the death of decency, civility, and anything that can even be construed as “Normal”. We are told that such activities, ideas, concepts, and worldview are the “New Normal”. If this is true and we can not go back from what we are told is to be our “New Normal”, then I will reject it with every fibre of my being. I will not sit idly by and watch the destruction of our way of life at the hands of fanatics who wish to utterly destroy the America which has been established, built, and worked so incredibly wonderfully for over two hundred and forty years. Wake up America!