Newsweek Full of It

It always amazes me how supposed reputable publications can publish flat out lies and get away with it.
From the October 8, 2007 Newsweek cover story, "Mindful of the sway of evangelical Christians over the GOP base, he (Mitt Romney) has positioned himself as the candidate with conservative principles and strong faith, even adopting evangelical language in calling Jesus Christ his 'personal savior' (vernacular not generally used by members of the Mormon Church)."
This is just one line from the article and it is wrong in so many ways.
Issue number 1, he has POSITIONED himself as the candidate with conservative principles and strong faith? Hmmm, it couldn't be that he actually has strong faith could it?
Oh yeah, I forgot, to elitists there is no such thing as true faith. NEXT ISSUE!! Dennis Miller once said, speaking of nuclear proliferation, "color me reactionary, but I don't think you should be able to vote on this crap until you learn how to pronounce it." I think this is applicable here. You shouldn't be able to talk about someone else's religion until you actually have gone to their services and know what the heck your talking about. I mean, you're Newsweek and your getting your references from anti-mormons? Why is it that people with no clue about the "Mormon" Church always are the "experts". I don't know if these writers have ever even gone to a service or, ya know, actually asked a "mormon" what they believe, but I've been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints since I was 8 (25 years) and I only hear people make reference to the Lord being their savior just, let's see, EVERY SERVICE. Let me site what the President of the Church said in his last talk to the world-wide church, speaking of Jesus Christ, "He was the great Creator. It was His finger that wrote the commandments on the Mount. It was He who left His royal courts on high and came to earth, born under the most humble of circumstances. During His brief ministry, He healed the sick, caused the blind to see, raised the dead, and rebuked the scribes and Pharisees. He was the only perfect man ever to walk the earth. All of this was part of His Father's plan. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He suffered so greatly that he sweat drops of blood as He pleaded with His Father. But this was all a part of His great atoning sacrifice. He was taken by the mob, appeared before Pilate with the mob crying for His death. He carried the cross, the instrument of His death. On Golgotha He gave His life, crying out, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34).
His body was tenderly laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea. But three days later, on that first Easter morning, the tomb was emptied. Mary of Magdala spoke to Him, and He spoke to her. He appeared to His Apostles. He walked with two disciples on the road to Emmaus. And, we are told, He was seen by some 500 others (see 1 Corinthians 15:6). . . . The next thing of which I am certain, and of which I bear witness, is the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. Without it life is meaningless. It is the keystone in the arch of our existence."(Gordon B. Hinckley, The Things of Which I Know, Apr. 2007.)
If that isn't saying the Lord is his "personal savior", I don't know what is.
Newsweek should get their facts straight.

Mitt Romney the Man

Its funny that people always complain about corruption in DC. They want an honest man, they want an outsider, the want integrity. . . so they say, but do they? Well Mitt possesses all of these qualities, perhaps more than any candidate in over 150 years, but HILLARY CLINTON of all people is leading in a lot of the polls. The Clinton name in synonymous with corruption. Her name is too corruption as Yoko Ono's is to treachery, William Shattner's is to overacting and Miles Davis is to coolness, yet many love her. What's the deal?
Mitt has proven that he has the knowledge and leadership to fix financial disaster time and time again, but people are ready to turn the reigns over to someone who is going to steal even the china and artwork out of the White House.
Mitt has proven that he can reach out to both sides when he governed in the People's Republic of Massachusetts. Is there a more divisive figure than Hillary Clinton?
I just have to laugh when people talk about changing DC, but they are missing the opportunity with Mitt and ready to jump on the Hillary bandwagon, the epitome of establishment DC. What a joke.

Blog Censorship?

Does anyone have a line on this? Are they into censorship on blogspot? Do they only put material they like on the search engine? Cuz, dang. I've been posting and I can't find mine on there. Sure I can find total crap. I guess they only put you on the search engine if you say the f-word at least once? I guess they just can't stomach that discusting morality talk.

The Morality Map

Ok, I'm going to get up on my soap box for a second. Why did God give the Ten Commandments to Moses? Maybe its because the Israelites would have messed things up without them. Maybe they're important, but man people are in a hurry to go Mel Brooks on them. This isn't just figurative rhetoric, government is REALLY trying to purge the country of our "morality map". In Roger Williams Park in Providence Rhode Island they decided to take out a monument dedicated to the Ten commandments. This kind of intolerant non-sense is happening all over the country. Roger Williams who pretty much invented separation of church and state in America is now rolling over in his grave and they're using the energy to power Providence and Warwick in order to help solve global warming. I've read tons of William's PUBLIC documents (after all he is only, ya know, My great-grandfather and all) and he never misses an opportunity to quote God and the scriptures (its great material, liberals should try a little reading instead of burning for a change). But this post isn't about how liberals have totally screwed the true nature of separation of church to the point Roger Williams would no longer recognize the "hedge" of separation. This post is about what happens to a society when they take their chizel out and start destroying any reference to God. Its about the consequences of mocking and disregarding His laws of morality.
Jesus said that His paths are straight and narrow is the way, which leads to eternal life.
As a geography and GIS guy, I'll put this in geographical terms. If I go out in the woods and my GPS runs out of juice and I forgot to bring new batteries (I say this as if it has happened, wink wink nudge nudge), if I can't find the trail, I've got to invent a new one out of there. Now I'm sure I'm going to get out of that forest, because I have a good sense, but I'm coming out with a lot of mud, poison ivy, ticks and yellow jacket stings all over me. In the forest even with a good sense of direction you find yourself drifting off course. You think you're going north and you're drifting more and more to the east. If I wasn't a geographer, if I was my wife, I might not even make it out of that forest alive. I just might fall into an old farmer's well that has since grown over.
This is exactly what has happened in this crazy society. They're throwing away the GPS and maps and have no clue where that correct trail is. If they're not careful, they just might end up in Rochester.
Lacking a map, where do they go? In the forest when people have no other reference, they go to what looks more familiar. So it is with morality, people are inventing artificial measurments of morality, based on what they are most familiar with.
Don't believe me? Here are just a few examples of what people find to replace what they call "out-moded" morality:
Ideology - NOW and other feminist groups supported Bill Clinton through the Lewinski thing, because "he's done a lot for women". He has? Thats news to me. I know he's done a lot TO women.
Race - OJ Simpson, need I say more? It's cool if you murder someone just as long as you're, ya know, the right race. Ewww, I'm racist because I point this out, right? Just to bug the dishonest race baiters who measure morality with race, I heard Stephan Marbury call Michael Vick "a good man". What? What do you have to do to be a bad man? Oh yeah, you have to be white, I forgot. Dang that white-devil. "Excuse me, I can't help but noticing that you referred to me as 'white-devil'". And speaking of "white-devil", you could be Satan himself and go to Coeur d'Alene and they would think you were mother Teresa, because you were white.
Gender - Lifetime network, I'm lookin' in your direction.
And yet a new one.
Winning - Bill Belichick, the coach of the Patriots helped me to realize this one. It came to light that he was taping opposing teams signals. In other words, he was cheating his immoral butt off, but as he walked off the field following the first game after the scandal broke, the New England fans gave him a standing ovation. During the game they were talking about how they admired him so, because he cared so much about winning. What the heck? Need more examples of the winning "morality map"? Bobby Knight. He chocked a player and people defended him. This wasn't even the first such event. In fact, a LOT of people defended him. Why? Because he won.
I think this should be a new segment on my blog, because new examples occur everyday.
If you have some, submit!

The Only Thing I Know

2 Timothy
Chapter 4
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

I've been thinking about how this is very true these days. We see fables all over the place (too many to list)and what is sad is how readily people buy into it and then call the truth fable and fables truth.
We were at church and a guy was saying that now that he is coming back to church his senses are peaked, its amazing how he looks around at people walking down the street and at work and its like they are zombies with no light in their eyes. They are spiritually dead, looking for the next drink or next pleasure and nothing more. He said he loves coming to church, because it is stark contrast.
I went on a tour at Toray and I could tell immediately that the tour guide was a good man, because he had that light I kept looking at him and wondering what faith he belonged to. I could tell that a family there was struggling, because they had little light left. Why would this be the case if there is no God?
People always want proof that there is a God, they insist on procuring the "proof" of worldly learning. You don't have to look far to see the proof and yet people want to believe fables and trust the "knowledge" they learn from professors and the so called "learned". I've found in my studies that you can tell whatever story you want in history and provide supporting "evidence". I wrote two opposing theses in the same semester on the same topic and received 'A' grades. You can make anyone a hero or a villain. You can make the United States noble or the "Great Satan".
The only thing I've learned I can trust as truth is that Jesus is the Christ and died for me and that I've felt the burden of sin lifted when I turn to Him and that He has restored the fullness of His gospel to the earth and lives and will come again soon. This is the only thing I KNOW, all that I've learned in school is theory.