It’s been quite a busy few weeks here in the US. The presidential election has come and gone and you could almost hear a gasp when it was announced that Barack Obama won both the popular and the electoral vote. Unless some unforeseen circumstance happens, we’ll be calling him President Obama very soon.
While the far left have been having a field day, the far right have had a hard time coming to grips with the fact that McCain lost. It’s not so much that McCain lost, but that the alternative won. Obama is the most up-front socialist this country has seen yet. He is by far the most pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage president-elect we’ve had, and that’s just the beginning. But it says a lot. Not necessarily about Obama’s views – but about the state of the US.
Supposed Christian’s let their true ambassadorship down. It shows not just the Biblical illiteracy in the country today, but also the fact that most professed Christians aren’t really believers in the first place. I’ve said for awhile now that I believe most people filling the pews on Sunday morning are athiests and it seems to be more and more true as the days go by. Athiests in the Sunday morning service aren’t a bad thing – we should be happy to see them there! The problem is in the pulpits that refuse to share the Gospel – the one thing every single person in the US needs the most! Why don’t the pastors share the Gospel? I believe most of the pastors in these churches are athiests themselves.
Most people who voted for Obama who claim to be believer’s will tell you that it wasn’t about abortion, or the homosexual agenda. Instead it was about change and getting rid of the Bush administration. I understand – Bush has been anything but a good President – at least as far as this countries constitution is concerned. He proved to be a liar from the beginning. His ‘faith’ isn’t the faith he claimed it was. But he’s operated according to the ultimate plan. And Obama, much to everyone’s dismay – though they won’t see it or admit to it, will be operating very much to the same tune.
These people are right in that the issue of abortion may not be what was on their minds when they entered the booth, but that doesn’t mean they were right to ignore it. An issue like abortion sets the stage though on who the candidate really is and what the country really represents. Letting an issue like the sanctity of every human life get pushed aside as unimportant is really just asking for the moral decay this society is facing anymore. Don’t be shocked when kids walk into schools and shoot their classmates or someone opens up fire in a mall during daylight hours while patrons are shopping. Don’t be appalled when women get brutally raped and beaten without a care in the world and the one commiting the crime goes free. When you indoctrinate children 3 generations deep into believing the lie that they’re just evolved animals and there are no absolutes, this is the result – people acting like animals.
Abortion isn’t about choice, it’s about life. Pro-abortion is actually anti-choice. Making it illegal for a doctor to choose whether or not he wants to perform an abortion isn’t leaving him a choice. Making it impossible for pro-life doctors to practice not only doesn’t leave the doctor a choice, but it doesn’t leave the patient a choice either. Being able to choose the doctor I wish to see – one who has no problem killing babies or one who values every human life would seem to be more ‘pro-choice’. But that’s not the option we’re given. Doctors are driven out of practice if they go against the pro-abortion stance – so much for a free country. The hippocratic oath is meaningless when physicians have no problem killing children. How do you expect a doctor to value life, when it’s no skin off their back to end it? Are you going to the same doctor expecting to be healed? When you take your aging parents to the hospital – don’t expect them to save them. The doctors who you’re looking to for help with your parents are the same ones who just got done murdering a 20 week year old baby because Mom didn’t want to be inconvenienced.
Really though, abortion shouldn’t even be an presidential issue – but it is because the federal government won’t operate the way it’s supposed to. Making it mandatory for states to take part in abortion and making it mandatory for taxpayers to pay for it isn’t pro-choice – it’s slavery. The nation was formed with the idea that if you didn’t like the way your state operated you could live in another state. Abortion SHOULD be a state issue. It’s not pro-choice when you don’t give people that option anymore.
There were presidential candidates running who were pro-life and they weren’t McCain. There were people earlier in the election running on truly proven records with years of service – not lip-service. Ron Paul wasn’t lying when he said he was pro-life or anything else – and his record backed it up. McCain has flopped his whole career and we don’t even know Obama enough to get a half decent picture of him. The republicans have blown it because they’ve gone centrist. They aren’t the party of free-market small government… they’re just a half step behind the left anymore. A McCain presidency would have been little different than an Obama presidency. The republicans would be wise to stop offering up politicians like McCain. Get back to the core of what the party stood for – you won’t lose your centrist republicans, and you’d likely gain all those you’ve lost to the Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party. But that won’t happen as the script has been laid out far in advance and the play has been in progress for quite some time.
December 30th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Chris, i just pushed something and all disappeared, starting over. Bush wasn’t the perfect president, however, he received a bak rap in some cases. This was promoted during the campaign; it was done to make things more difficult for McCain. i believe McCain would have made the better president. Personally i would have liked to have seen Huckabee in there. Have you seen him on Fox? He displays strong Christian character and godly wisdom in his viewpoints. He would have won my vote. We must be diligent to intercede for our nation and its leaders. God bless you and your ventures. Jim
December 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Jim – I agree that MicCain would have been the better option of the two, but there were others yet. Bush’s ratings have been down and it’s true that was used in the campaign but I don’t think it was a make or break. McCain’s run was pretty shabby from the start, but you’re right, the media used everything they could to make it even worse. I was actually surprised he got as much of the vote that he did. I like Huckabee as well, however, I don’t see him as hardlined as I’d like. I personally side more with Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Chris, Ron Paul was fairly popular here in Montana, but I would have liked to have known more about him. I’ve not heard of Chuck Baldwin. I must admit I am concerned about our president-elect. We are in changing times and I believe we are definitely in the last days. Nevertheless, what my opinion is, it is time for all Christians to diligently pray about the days we are living in. God bless you. Jim
January 1st, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I couldn’t agree with you more, Jim. Blessings!