10 posts tagged “judgment”

As a Christian, I use the term "of God" to communicate the concept of "ordained" by or "part of His original design" for human society.  In the Jewish tradition, Jews use the term "kosher" extended from their dietary laws.  In Islam it is referred to as "Halal" or approved, also extended from dietary laws.   The Muslims also have a word for the opposite "Haram" where as the Christian and Jewish traditions use simple negatives to express the same concept of not being "of God" and not being "kosher."

Many liberal Democrats actually believe THEY are doing God's work by advocating for homosexual legitimacy, by protecting illegal immigrants, by favoring Islam, by forcing national philanthropy on Americans, by eliminating our right to be armed for self defense, (the shooters at Columbine and Virginia Tech violated 18 gun laws going onto the campus' with guns, do you think 2 more laws would have made any difference to them?) by forcing America's wealth into the hands of enemies and barely friendly states, by opposing war, by cutting the military budget, by advocating cultural diversity, by eliminating public Christian displays, by shutting down evangelism in public, by supporting radical feminism and the obfuscation of gender roles, debasing the level of civility, and defending pornography.

Examples follow:

Here is the way the original description of Prop 8 read:

• To provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Jerry Brown is advocating for same sex marriage using his position as Attorney General to describe a  bill that has already passed in liberal California to sound more like a violation of human rights.  Here is Brown’s new description:

• Changes California constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.

This video illustrates the difference between a peaceful religion and a militant religion perfectly.  Both have the right to free speech, both have criticism of the other, but one responds with truth while the other responds with violence, yet in our current mindset of multi-culturalism they are equally associated with hatred and intolerance. 

John LeoBowling With Our OwnRobert Putnam’s sobering new diversity research scares its author.

25 June 2007

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so. His five-year study shows that immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating short- and medium-term influence on the social capital, fabric of associations, trust, and neighborliness that create and sustain communities. He fears that his work on the surprisingly negative effects of diversity will become part of the immigration debate, even though he finds that in the long run, people do forge new communities and new ties.

Putnam’s study reveals that immigration and diversity not only reduce social capital between ethnic groups, but also within the groups themselves. Trust, even for members of one’s own race, is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friendships fewer. The problem isn’t ethnic conflict or troubled racial relations, but withdrawal and isolation. Putnam writes: “In colloquial language, people living in ethnically diverse settings appear to ‘hunker down’—that is, to pull in like a turtle.”

In the 41 sites Putnam studied in the U.S., he found that the more diverse the neighborhood, the less residents trust neighbors. This proved true in communities large and small, from big cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Boston to tiny Yakima, Washington, rural South Dakota, and the mountains of West Virginia. In diverse San Francisco and Los Angeles, about 30 percent of people say that they trust neighbors a lot. In ethnically homogeneous communities in the Dakotas, the figure is 70 percent to 80 percent.

Diversity does not produce “bad race relations,” Putnam says. Rather, people in diverse communities tend “to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more, but have less faith that they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television.” Putnam adds a crushing footnote: his findings “may underestimate the real effect of diversity on social withdrawal.”

Neither age nor disparities of wealth explain this result. “Americans raised in the 1970s,” he writes, “seem fully as unnerved by diversity as those raised in the 1920s.” And the “hunkering down” occurred no matter whether the communities were relatively egalitarian or showed great differences in personal income. Even when communities are equally poor or rich, equally safe or crime-ridden, diversity correlates with less trust of neighbors, lower confidence in local politicians and news media, less charitable giving and volunteering, fewer close friends, and less happiness.

Now I will grant that the Conservative lobby has its ills and I will grant that some of the actions taken by conservative led government has had some detrimental effect on our society and foreign policy but, it is hard to accept liberals are interested in culture when they are deconstructionist. Liberals don't embrace culture as being something handed down to them. They strive to create a culture (that is ideal and not based in historical precedent) at the expense of the one that was dominant from Jamestown until the 60's revolution.  The effects of this deconstructionism in an effort to create 'a better world' has made the world worse in almost every instance in history.   Justified by intent, anyone can feel sanctimonious in committing the most heinous crimes against humanity.  It was under this very banner that Mao ordered the murder of millions in China and Stalin in Russia.  It is under this banner that Islamists commit terrorist acts around the world by the thousands each month. (to establish the house of peace and to purify their culture)  Most liberals do not go so far as even breaking a single law toward this end but most, (especially those in the most responsible positions in our society) do compromise their own values of right and wrong to forward their agenda.  Nancy Pelosi for example was quoted by the Washington Post in explanation for not heeding American suffering from gas prices because, "I'm trying to save the world here."  From the threat of DDT to the threat of heterosexual AIDS in America to that mass killer secondhand smoke, the left believes and spreads threats that, unlike the threat of Islamic terror, really are "scare tactics."  Never underestimate the harm that cheap heroism can do to our society.
                                                                              

 What the liberal mind misinterprets about Christianity and conservatism is what they criticize in Christianity and conservatism far more often than actual philosophies of Christianity and conservatism.  Naturally, the liberal will immediately argue the same is true of conservatives and Christians about other cultures and liberalism.   This video demonstrates the obvious ignorance in American history leaving a false negative impression of conservatism and a false positive impression of liberalism.  I'm not talking here of the commoner but of the the liberal experts and historians highlighting the worst of Christian and American human rights violations and self determination  or the conspicuous absence of reference to the foundation of our cultural principals and in some cases outright denial of faith in founding principals.

On Friday, I saw a video of popular court TV Judge Judy making clear to a thug where she stands on private citizens and personal weapons.  It is a rare bit of wisdom expressed from the bench, even a TV bench which bears no impact in the real courts.  Judge Judy has been and still holds accreditation through the BAR association, but the TV courtroom is a show and as such, the participants sign documents before entering this court which holds them to a binding contract of the Judge's judgments.  It is a great representation of why the Supreme Court did the right thing upholding citizens' right to keep and bear arms as laid out in the Constitution.

I heard about this case through the Dennis Prager Show last week and found it stunning.  The story comes out of Quebec Canada where a child can take a parent to court and sue the parent.  Some may feel this to be a good thing, afterall aren't there numerous cases of parental abuse that nobody hears about until the kid is either dead or so screwed up in the head they'll never be a contributing member of society?  Well, yes there are cases like this.  However, when you get the courts involved in private matters, this is where you end up.

A twelve year old girl brought her dad to court in a lawsuit protesting her grounding over the fact that she was posting some inappropriate photos of herself on MySpace.  Her father had... well here's the article.

Judge overrules dad's decision to ground daughter

GATINEAU, Quebec - A Quebec youngster has used the courts to avoid parental discipline in a "landmark" case. The 12-year-old girl, who is too young to be named, went to court to force her father to overturn his decision not to allow her to go on a school trip. Her father had decided to ground her after he found out she had posted photos of herself on a dating website against his wishes. The sixth-grader then took her father to court, arguing that his punishments were too severe.

 

Madam Justice Suzanne Tessier of the Quebec Superior Court ruled on Friday that denying the girl permission to go on the school trip was an excessive punishment. The girl's lawyer, Lucie Fortin, said, "She's becoming a big girl" and described the school trip as "a unique event in her life", the Globe and Mail reported. In arguing the case, Fortin cited Sections 159 and 604 of the Quebec Civil Code, which allow minors in some circumstances to initiate court proceedings relating to the exercise of parental authority. Section 159 is used in "extreme circumstances", such as cases of parental negligence.

 

The father's lawyer, Kim Beaudoin said that her client is "stunned by this situation. He feels like he's lost his daughter". He is appealing the court's decision.

You can read the full article here.

In a statement after the judge's ruling, the father refused to have the girl in his care citing;  "If I have no authority over her, I can't raise her."  He is entirely correct.  His consequence for her behavior was not harmful to her in any way and the judge has effectively nulled his authority and affirmed the daughter's belief that her father is an overbearing authoritarian.  I could not take care of any child of whom I have not the authority to train, correct, and enforce consequences, and certainly not in a circumstance where my authority has been undermined by a major figure of legal authority for such a minor consequence when the man was looking out for the child's welfare.  He is appealing the case and I hope and pray for the sake of the child that this ruling is repealed.  May that judge forever regret her decision to interfere in the rational council of a loving father.

From Webster's Dictionary

enemy (en` a mi) n. one actuated by hostile feelings; an armed foe; opposing state; something harmful; a. of an enemy; due to an enemy

This is craziness!  How did Barack Obama ever make it this far?  In his run for the Ohio state Senate, in his run for the U.S. Senate, didn't anybody look at his background or his intentions?  Certainly, before he was put up by the DNC he should have been gone over with a fine toothed comb.  Hillary was dumbfounded when she told the American voters that he hasn't been vetted and the response to this concern was apathy at best and to her chagrin, an introduction to media bias and criticism usually reserved for Republicans.  Now he is the candidate apparent for the DNC and the responsibility falls to the Republicans to dig into his history and frame of mind.  Hasn't any of this been scrutinized by any Democratic interest for the good of the party?  I really haven't believed that the Dems want this nation to be in the hands of a man who has at any time in his life wanted it destroyed and I cannot believe that the party has ignored information that he wrote in a published autobiography.  But here we are.  This leaves me to conclude that either they do want the nation destroyed or that they don't care what kind of person takes that seat as long as he has a D beside his name.

Not even bothering to take into account that this man is a radical for leftist ideology on everything from partial birth abortion to redistribution of wealth and has the furthest left voting record in the legislature in American history, but his associations with supporters of militant Islam and militant radicals like William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Louis Farrakhan, Raila Odinga, Rashid Khalidi, Nadhmi Auchi, Raul Reyes of FARC, Edward Said, Dick Morris, Najib Balala, sets him apart as a dangerous element in American politics with intentions to destroy our system of governance.

The laundry list of groups and individuals he supports and those which support his bid for the presidency are beyond crooks and liars.  These people are actually, violently trying to destroy the United States of America and name themselves as enemies of the state.  Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn organized and bombed buildings and are now acting through our educational system to instill, inculcate communism in our children.  Louis Farrakan teaches at Columbia University and advocates militant Islam.  It was he who invited Ahmadenijad to speak at Columbia.  The Black Panthers endorse him.  Palestinians advocate for him...  just to name a few.

Quote from Barack Obama's book, Dreams Of My Father:
"The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother] Roy .. He converted to Islam."

From 'Dreams of my Father', "In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school"
"I studied the Koran.."

From 'Audacity of Hope: "Lolo (Obama's step father) followed a brand of Islam ...."I looked to Lolo for guidance".

From 'The Audacity Of Hope, ""In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

From The Audacity Of Hope, "We are no longer just a Christian nation," "We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."  (This has been true from the beginning of this nation, the emphasis here is that it is not Christian dominated.)

From Dreams of My Father, " I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE". (Racist against whites)

From 'Dreams of my Father', "The emotion between the races could never be pure..... the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."  (Promoting racism?)

From 'Dreams of My Father',
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"  (Practicing animosity)

From Dreams Of My Father, "never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself.."  (Muslim)

From Dreams Of My Father:
"That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."  (The institutions that have afforded him such success he views as system of oppression.)

From Dreams Of My Father;
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names"  (As racist as Jeremiah Wright)

From Dreams Of My Father, "I had grown accustomed, everywhere, to suspicions between the races."

From blog entry by the pro-Palestinian blogger Ali Abunimah at The Electronic Intifadah.

"The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood," Abunimah writes. "He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing. "As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, "Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough pri'mary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.' He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and US policy, 'Keep up the good work!"

Statistics on illegal aliens:
The Heritage Foundation ^ | 10/25/06 | Robert Rector

The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that each immigrant without a high school degree will cost U.S. taxpayers, on average, $89,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.[3] This is a net cost above the value of any taxes the immi*grant will pay and does not include the cost of educating the immigrant’s children, which U.S. taxpayers would also heavily subsidize. In this way, the roughly six million legal immigrants without a high school diploma will impose a net cost of around a half-trillion dollars on U.S. taxpayers over their lifetimes

Crime Statisitcs
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.
71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or "transport coyotes".
47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens.
66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are illegal.
Birth Statistics
380,000 plus "anchor babies" were born in the U.S. in 2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S.citizens.
97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers.
66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 July 2007 )

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http://immigrationcounters.com/
http://www2.islandpacket.com/blogs/post/26929
http://www.texasborderregulators.org/
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200801/COM20080109b.html
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PBA_Images/PBA_Images_Heathers_Place.htm
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article
http://www.onenewsnow.com/
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/c...o000167/votes/
http://islamichope.org/
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
http://www.usvetdsp.com/
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=289786626246641
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/obama_lou%20tribe.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/MOU_between_Ralia_Odinga_and_Muslims.pdf
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/a_question_of_power_before_tribes
http://www.kenyaimagine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=904&Itemid=141
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/02/revenge-of-epimenides.html
http://i.abcnews.com/Politics/story?id=2819848
http://www.kenyaimagine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=904&Itemid=141
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2008/01/odinga-obama-and-lack-of-courage.html

Of particular interest in the laundry list of his associations with America's enemies, one case stands out.  Late last year Odinga was a Muslim candidate challenging the incumbent for the top seat in Kenya (a country in Eastern Africa) and one of his campaign promises was to bring Sharia law to Kenya.  Kenya has a minority Muslim populace and a majority Christian populace.  He worked with Dick Morris (a criminal campaign manager formerly employed by the Clintons) to campaign for Odinga.  In my mind, this reveals Obama to be an advocate for Sharia law.  There is no way I can believe he is anything other than a Manchurian candidate in the American culture and political scene.  MilitantMuslims are dancing in the streets and cheering him on as he campaigns for the role of leader of the strongest nation on earth and the leader of the free world and essentially the world's police force.

Summary:

The man's own published book indicates he (who is running for the highest seat of authority in the land) is and always has been an enemy of American values and American businesses and American institutions and the Constitution.  The only bill I'm aware of, that he authored sets a precedent in subjugating America's Constitution to UN authority and specifically taxes Americans for a UN controlled budget to benefit non-Americans without benefit to Americans.  His associations with enemies of America.  His whispered message of approval and subterfuge to a blogger advocate for Islamism.  His church is openly anti-American.  Family members are openly anti-American.  His associations with criminals now being indicted and tried.  At some point, you would think the Democrats would throw up their hands and say, "This guy will not serve to the best interests of this country."  But enough of their party is anti-American to take this deadly dangerous candidate and push the entire party into a choice of dumping the party, or abdication refusing to participate in the process, or falling in with and becoming enemies of America.

Addendum:

I tried to make this document legible but you will have to visit the site I got it from to read it.
http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8

 

http://www.amazon.com/Takes-Village-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton/dp/0684825457

Hillary Clinton wrote a book a decade ago called, "It Takes a Village."  The premise is that parents cannot be held solely responsible for the upbringing of their children.  This much is true and I agree wholeheartedly that teenagers especially, but children in general must be held accountable for their behavior by whoever catches them in their unacceptable behavior on the spot.  I take this very seriously and act personally on this principal.  Funny enough, I saw an example in a Hollywood movie called 'Second Hand Lions' that cemented this principal in me.

A few weeks ago I was driving through a nice neighborhood on a very quiet street in the middle of the day when something thumped against my vehicle.  I quickly checked my rearview mirror and saw a nerf football bouncing around on the pavement.  Looking around, there wasn't a soul in sight.  I still hadn't come to a complete stop so I immediately decided to keep going.  Before I'd traveled 6 houses along the street I thought better of it and decided to pull over where the street curved and watch what happened where the ball rested.  It didn't take but a minute or two and there they were, about five pre-teen boys creeping out into the street to retrieve their ball.  They didn't hang around to continue their play but slipped back behind the backyard fences to wait for another car to come along.  Sure enough, the next car had the ball bouncing off the side of it as it passed the house.

I turned around and headed back down to the house and they saw me and broke in three different directions.  When I got there and stepped out they were well out of sight.  Rather than call the police and make a much bigger deal of it than it had to be, I called out to them that I wanted to talk to them.... no answer.  I waited a few seconds them said, "You can talk to me or you can talk to the police!"  That did it.  Three of them came out to face my wrath rather than have names recorded, addresses noted for trouble makers and parents ire lit to the heavens.  At first they tried to deny they'd done anything, then tried to claim it was an accident, but I wasn't having any excuses.  I described who and what I saw in as clear detail as I could muster then proceeded to chew them up one side and down the other about endangering drivers, about common courtesy, and about their use of time.  If I were involved in any sort of youth activities, I would have talked to their parents about involving them in my program.  As it was, I let the scare of my anger and the 'could have been' consequences ride their reasoning abilities.  The worse they can imagine and the less you explain what those consequences might be, the better.  I didn't have to press charges, I didn't have to hit anybody, and I didn't have to press their parents to "do something."  All I had to do was express my intolerance of their abusive behavior, but it has to be done on the spot, when it happens.  This is love, not ignoring them, and not pressing the advantage because you're in the right.

Another time, some teens had taken somebody else's wheeled trash can and drug it along the street beside their speeding vehicle to slam it into my garbage cans.  These kids were videoing their handy work to post it on the web.  They were finding glory in their mis-behavior. (following the influence of the movie 'Jackass' no doubt.)  This is far worse behavior for society and is the same mindset that has lone gunmen walking into schools to shoot kids and faculty en masse so their story will be plastered all over national and international news.  This is where you call the police and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.  Judges and defenders are wrong to write this off as 'just kids' stuff' when they are glorifying it on YouTube.  This too, is love.  Measuring your response based on what is best for all of society, those who would harm it, what would correct it.  Not assuming they will get their due, not allowing glory to Jackass copycats, and not chasing them down with a baseball bat to damage their property, (car) in retaliation for damaging your property. 

Back to Hillary's book, she doesn't want to just uphold the common decency standards we can all agree on.  She is talking about state run programs expanding educational and Child Protective Services' authority and using it to enforce her standards on our children and their parents.  If you don't find that scary, consider the results of every government run social program to come out of Washington.  What has welfare done to the biggest recipient group, inner city blacks?  What has Social Security, whose funds were stolen by the welfare program, done to retirement planning and the social responsibility we must have for our own futures?  What has federally funded education and it's requirements done for our kids' ranking in the world?  What has price regulation done for fuel supply? (repealed within one year due to shortages in the 1970's)  I could go on, but I'd only be repeating myself from earlier articles on this blog.  Imagine if you will, the parenting police ensuring you are teaching your children according to state proclaimed standards or worse, keeping your kids in various after school programs to give you less access to them.  That was Hillary's vision in the book, but stated in softer tones and covered over with examples of the inevitable atrocities committed by so few parents against their own children in relation to the norm.

Add to this authority the propensity of groups like the Lesbian/Gay/Trans-sexual Lobby foisting their agendas upon parents under the threat of removing the children from your home and incarcerating you if you refuse.  Last week, a three judge panel in the Los Angeles area gave a ruling effectively dissolving all California parents' option of home schooling unless they can become accredited teachers.  This in the face of the fact that home schooled kids consistently rank at the top of 4th and 8th grades according to a government sponsored study and are preferred recruits for college.  Hillary's agenda is dangerous and there are plenty of co-conspirators within our courts, within our Federal and Local Government, and among the lobbyists.

Accounts of current indoctrination:

This is an article in World Net Daily about Anita Bryant.  Anita's story is about the sacrifice necessary to combat lies like these and the moral fortitude required to stand in the gap.  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=58600

quote, "I recognize and celebrate that our country is founded upon Judeo- Christian values, and I have pledged my life to defend America and all her values, the values that have made us the noblest experiment in history. But public -- but political intolerance by any political party is neither a Judeo-Christian nor an American value. The political... (APPLAUSE)

The political tactics of division and slander are not our values, they are...

(APPLAUSE)

They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

(APPLAUSE)

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right."

John McCain presidential campaign speech 2000

I am an agent of intolerance according to many including Presidential hopeful, John McCain.  It used to be that I didn't think of myself that way.  Now that I am taking bolder and broader stands for conservative values based on evidence of results, I get charged with being an agent of intolerance often.  The most striking thing about this is that it requires a large measure of intolerance to make the charge in the first place.  Nothing new here.  In the same way judgments are made against me for judging, intolerance is expressed toward my intolerance in the name of tolerance.  The first time I heard it, I was a little taken aback.  But a two second reflection upon whatever issue I was debating and the words I'd chosen, and the way I'd presented them..... Yep, intolerant. 

So what?  Everybody is intolerant by necessity.  Tolerance and intolerance requires judgment.  Judgment is meaningless without intolerance.  We don't tolerate stealing, cruelty, endangering others, slander,,,, you name an area of life and I'll demonstrate intolerance.  These are called laws.  More personally, we have intolerance for relatively minor things called infringements.  A sociologically healthy person sets up boundaries and require others to respect them.  This too, is a form of intolerance.  For instance, I don't allow anybody I'm not intimate with to stand within a foot of me unless circumstances null my personal space.  Something like riding a crowded bus or commuter train.  If I observe someone acting aggressively or threateningly my personal space is extended until I feel I can react in a timely manner to counteract any threatening move made by that individual.  In effect, I grow more intolerant the more insecure I feel.

I'm an individualist, I'm self reliant, I've finally grown up enough to take responsibility for my decisions, and stick to my commitments,,, and I expect others to do the same.  I've come to understand that even though I am an individualist and self reliant, I don't live in a vacuum.  What I do affects those around me and what others do, affects me.  Since this is the case I have, and expect others to have, some common courtesy, some guidelines for behavior both public and private that benefit the whole society.  These are healthy boundaries.  I'm intolerant of gays getting equivalent benefits and legitimacy as a 'family' and of illegal immigrants getting equivalent benefits as citizens because, even though they may be nice people, their equivalence negates the sacrifices of those who live by the set boundaries of healthy societies.  I'm intolerant of many social programs that hurt the very people they are intended to help.  I'm intolerant of mob mentality which often undermines social structure.  I'm intolerant of repeating failed attempts to fix self destructive people with big government programs that only support the self destructive behaviors we want fixed.  I'm intolerant of government sponsored fixes for nonexistent threats like global warming while so many advocate ignoring real threats like global jihad.  I'm intolerant of abusing language to the point that set definitions and expressions are muddled to near complete obfuscation.  (Fascist)

Now that I've owned my intolerance and I believe most all conservatives would own their intolerance with me, let's see if any of the agents of intolerant tolerance (liberals and Democrats) will own their intolerance by recognizing their hypocrisy in labeling the rest of us intolerant.  After all, how tolerant is it to attack conservatives for supporting established principals that are time proven while they insist on pouring ever increasing tax dollars into proven failure programs.  More likely they will continue to obfuscate the term the same as they have fascism, xenophobe and a host of other labels used to dismiss any opponents' input not inline with their own.

Charles Barkley, Madonna, and innumerous other pop culture icons are purposefully and in some cases ignorantly misquoting Jesus to Christians.  Its not exactly a misquote, but it is definitely taking his instruction out of context.  This verse makes it clearer.

John 7:24 "Do not judge according to appearance , but judge with righteous judgment ."

Here is a video of a pastor saying it much better than I can.  Here's to defeating this ignorance.

Yesterday, I heard Charles Barkley slamming Christianity for judging people, calling it hypocrisy.  He (Barkley) judged all of Christendom hypocrites for judging others.  The lack of depth, the vacuousness of his thought processes are not unique.  This is fast becoming the populist position within the very culture that is derived from Christianity.  What has Western culture become? 

If Christians are hypocrites for judging others, what does that make those who judge Christians and condemn them for judging?  I do not condemn anyone for judging me, in fact I encourage it.  However, I must condemn anyone who judges me on the basis of prejudice.  Prejudice is a pre-judgment and in this case, a pre-judgment (prejudice) based on my faith, an irrational fear of Christians and it is called Christophobia. 

Judgment based on understanding, facts, behavior, values, and morals is absolutely necessary to our survival.  You cannot succeed in any relationship without using your judgment.  Everybody uses judgment to choose their friends, their spouses, their advisors, their suppliers, their customers, business partners.......everyone is judged daily.  What's more, since no one is perfect, we have to use our judgment within each relationship with every contact, every exchange of information must be evaluated for relevance and accuracy.  Even my pastor, whom I respect and adore and lean on for guidance has weaknesses and holes in his knowledge and is therefore capable of steering me wrong, not because of evil intent necessarily, though he struggles with certain temptations just like I do, but lack of knowledge.  So I evaluate what my mentor has to say maybe even more carefully than what my doctor has to say.  Most assuredly, I evaluate what my doctor has to say since my life may literally depend on it.

I have heard more often than most Christians prejudices like Barkley's because I have tried to reach young people with some good old fashioned common sense.  When I have been on Yahoo's Answers and in chat rooms and when I speak to the youth in person, I am often condemned for judging others for giving common sense advice.  These young people have been taught this prejudice in our educational institutions.  From grade school through college this anti-Christian attitude is rampant among the staff and the kids pick it up directly or indirectly, through lessons or by observing their teachers.  Now with the legal requirements to remove God from schools, these prejudices are being reinforced by our courts and by the highest authority in the land.  This schizophrenia fracturing the character of our nation and its culture is what is weakening our resolve to define and fight evil within our own culture as well as the external threats to our very existence. 

Some examples of what I've been condemned for include, choosing what kind of person to date, what kind of person to be, what kind of person to follow, what kind of person to do business with.  Anytime we Christians are attacked (verbally) on the basis of this prejudice, Christians should respond with a counter attack (verbally) on their prejudice and hypocrisy.  Stand for what you believe in and stand for your reputation loudly and immediately.  Expose the ignorance of your attacker so that all who hear will know their prejudice and shallowness of thought.  Let it be a shame to them.  Do not allow an unreasonable fear based on prejudice to condemn you for following the Scriptures.  Certainly, do not allow a non-believer to mis-quote Jesus or to take His word out of context to condemn you.

The bigger problem is when the non-believer equates Christianity with Islam.  Every week we hear of another act of terror perpetrated on Christians and Jews.  In Chad and the Sudan the Islamic government and those it supports are ethnically cleansing the entire country.  They are killing everyone who does not believe in their particular branch of Islam, so Christians, Jews, and Muslims are dyeing by their torturous methods.  In Saudi Arabia and Iran and numerous other countries dominated by Islam, people are literally executed for leaving Islam.  Where in the Christian dominated governments around the world can you claim anybody is executed for leaving Christianity?  There are none.  Yet, pop culture here in this nation, give Christianity, Islam, and all religions the same level of credence.  We Christians make statements against lewd behavior, debauchery and defend values that have stood the test of thousands of years, but in Arabia and Persia they don't just speak out against this behavior, they take deadly steps to stop it.  If you are a non-Muslim there and are caught in a sexual encounter with a Muslim woman, you will be executed.  If you are caught in a homosexual act whether you are Muslim or not, you will be executed.  If you try to teach a Muslim about your faith, any faith other than Islam, you will be executed.

Ok, so maybe most people are unaware of these distinctions.  What about the way they conduct war?  We see on the nightly news that Muslims target their own innocent civilians in order to disrupt the economy in Iraq to keep the region from trusting the stability the American forces are bringing to them.  Muslims use their youth to blow themselves up in crowded shops in Israel.  They target innocent civilians in other countries.  They keep children around their leaders so that if they are located and attacked the children will be killed in the process, then our media play their story in our homes so that the enemy is aided by our media to make us look as bad as they are because their children were killed.  Their moderates do not speak out against their extremists' obvious evil ways to protect the reputation of their own faith.  Their is no comparison, but they are given equal status with the vastly more honorable by our own colleges, media, courts, and to some degree, even our president.  (Religion of peace) In fact many of the Muslims who fully support these extremists have been employed as professors in our colleges.  The peaceniks and the blame America types have no excuse for equating murderers and terrorists with those of us who try and occasionally fail to hold the standard, who try to convey that standard to others, who do not force our faith on others, but offer information to be evaluated for its truthfulness and who fight to make freedom available to all people.  We do have real reason to fear the advancement of Islam for the things I've listed above and much more.

Charles Barkley is ignorant.  No surprise, this.  What is surprising is that we hear the same rhetoric coming from our youth, our media, and our courts.  That is why we need to be ready to answer prejudicial attacks.  That is why we need to judge right.

Have you ever had a premonition about something that came true? 
Submitted by Sheri.

No.  I really wanted to know that experience, but I have had dreams that repeated for years and then came to mean something I believe to be messages from God.  Usually long and involved, it would be difficult to explain what they were and how they were relevant to my life and purpose.  They have proved invaluable for directing the course of my life to work toward the good of society.  This is one of the main reasons I blog.  Its an effort to give direction to anyone who'll listen...'er read what an old man has to contribute to the welfare of our culture.

In that vein, I'd like to explain why I chose the name for my blog that you see above.  Judging has been condemned among the youth and pop culture of our society.  These are people who do not think very deeply.  If they would bother to scratch the surface of this thought theme, they'd begin to understand how ridiculous the statement, "You shouldn't judge people." really is.  You shouldn't choose your friends?  You shouldn't choose your country's leader?  You shouldn't choose which religion to believe in or which leader in that religion to follow?  You shouldn't choose where to work or what kind of work you should do?  You shouldn't choose who or where you get your education from?  Get real!  Yet, when I used to spend hours in Yahoo Answers, I would be judged and condemned for expressing my opinion of certain askers and especially, answerers.  I say again, they would condemn me for judging others.

We literally, could not survive if we didn't use our common sense, and judgment is part of this mental utility.  When they quote Jesus to me, a Christian, to defend their stance on judgment, I am forced to go into a long, detailed explanation of the use of words, interpretation of languages, and the mis-application by several generations the latest of which is this pop culture.  Perhaps a better word the interpreters should have used would be 'condemn' but until now the depth of thought was good enough to recognize the proper application in most people.  So, I am waging war on the shallow thought.  I invite you to judge whether this message and this messenger is worth hearing....'er, reading.