Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
I will try to get a longer video about these adorable creatures. Patty
From March 5, 2014
As the leaders and intelligentsia of this fallen world do their level best to turn the human race into wandering bands of vegetarian homosexuals, good news is increasingly hard to come by. But here’s some!
Hours after the Supreme Court refused to hear their case, and with deportation back to Germany hanging over their heads–meaning fines, imprisonment, and loss of their children–the Romeike family got an unexpected reprieve from the Dept. of Homeland Security.
The family can stay in America (see http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/04/dhs-grants-german-home-schooling-family-permanent-asylum-in-us/ ).
The Romeikes came to America as political refugees. Under a law enacted originally by the Third Reich, homeschooling is strictly verboten in Germany. Had they stayed, the Romeikes would have been treated as criminals. German judges say this is necessary to prevent people from developing “a parallel culture” in Germany. Everybody gotta goose-step to the same tune.
Although Germany has never requested that the Romeikes be shipped back to the Fatherland, and although a court originally granted them asylum, US Attorney General Eric Holder overruled the immigration court and insisted that the family be deported.
Suddenly the ball wound up out of his court, and Homeland Security did an about-face and ruled that the family can stay. Makes you wonder how that happened, doesn’t it?
The Romeikes had settled in to their Tennessee community and won the affection and respect of their neighbors–many of whom, yesterday, were promising to oppose the deportation with civil disobedience. The Romeikes are hard-working, law-abiding, church-going, English-speaking persons. Had they been the opposite of all those things, Holder would surely have wanted to keep them in America.
But let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth!
Pray it’s the beginning of better days to come.
From October 25, 2013
I got an email yesterday from a reader who found one of my columns inspiring. If I could only know what I might have said to inspire her, I wouldn’t say it again.
This person castigates Christians for not being hip to various “secret” books of God (but if everybody knew about them, they wouldn’t be a secret) which reveal that human history on earth has been secretly managed by “the Annunaki,” who are FROM ORION. Don’t blame me for the caps. Throughout the email, the writer used all-caps to emphasize the importance of the Annunaki and their secret wisdom being FROM ORION.
A quick Internet search reveals all sorts of websites dedicated to this crackpot ideology. There must be a lot of people out there who have tapped into the secret knowledge that comes FROM ORION.
For those who may have forgotten, there is no such thing in the real world as “Orion” or any other constellation. The constellations are only patterns which human imagination has imposed on the stars. The three stars of Orion’s belt only seem to be close together, lined up in a row. In reality, they are millions and millions of miles apart; and if we could look up from any planet other than the earth, we wouldn’t see the same patterns in the stars and we couldn’t see Orion. So nobody, not even Annunaki, can actually be FROM ORION.
Are there that many more nuts out there, nowadays, or does it only seem that way because the Net provides a kook-friendly environment?
It’s a marvel how much trash one can generate.
Cardboard, plastic, paper (tons of paper) Amazon wrapping envelopes (which are made of completely untearable stuff), glass , cans (am I forgetting anything)?
I feel this more keenly right now, because my neighbor has been taking out my recycling bins since Lee died. That was a job Lee always did, and it is rather awkward for me to do at this time. Things will improve when I get more exercise, but I really don’t like burdening someone with that job. She is a young woman, but she has some health issues of her own and is also very busy as she is a deacon at her church and very involved with a lot of church duties.
Looking forward to passing along that katana tomorrow. I hope sensei can get a good price for it.
Upward and onward.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From November 26, 2020
COVID-19 is very far from being the deadliest disease the world has ever known, but that hasn’t stopped our exalted leaders from behaving like it’s the Black Death and the Spanish Flu rolled into one. And so we have these bizarre, draconian restrictions wrapped around people’s necks, world-wide; and every time we get close to what we’ve been told will be the end of it, they move the goalposts farther away.
Need we mention that nobody tells us anymore what the end will be?
And what happens from now on whenever a nasty disease comes along? Are we gonna play shutdown/lockdown every time?
Why do our exalted leaders do this to us?
Because it’s their weird substitute religion. And what religion is that? The Humanist Manifesto 2 will sum it up neatly for you (https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto2/): There is no God, but no problem, using our infallible Science wisely, we, the world’s smartest people, can and will do everything God shoulda done!
So they want God’s job, they want to sit on His throne: and then they realize, “Schiff, now we gotta do all those things we disbelieved in God for not doing!” You will find those things listed in the Humanist Manifesto. Question: Why does every moth-eaten bunch of commie wackos have a “manifesto”?
Now that government is God, and they’re the government, they have to do a better job than God ever did and prevent all Bad Things from happening! And if any of them do happen anyway, it’s Donald Trump’s fault. In the case under discussion here, the self-anointed gods now have to demonstrate that they can wipe out diseases. Once they’ve got it all under control, no one will ever get sick anymore! (Unless White Supremacists find some way to make them sick.)
Whatever the problem, it can always be traced to a core or cadre of Christian conservative spoil-sports who refuse to get behind the program. They’re the ones holding back the Government from creating Utopia! Off to the gulag with ’em! You’ve gotta break eggs to make an omelet.
It’s not just disease. The new gods, self-anointed, also propose to eliminate war, poverty, inequality, and unhappiness. “That’s a better deal than God ever gave you!” And who needs forgiveness of sins, when there must be some Scientific method to make it impossible for you to sin in word, act, or thought? Some little chip implanted in your brain: it’ll fry you if you think a Bad Thought.
Because the humanists aspire to be gods–just as the Serpent promised, back in the Garden of Eden–they must aim for and exercise total control over every aspect of human life. Wow! Good thing they’ll only do that for our own good!
The fool says in his heart that there is no god; and then he goes out and makes one out of cardboard.
From December 21, 2014
There are a few purists among God’s people–who are my brothers and sisters, so don’t think I’m trying to throw brickbats at them–who don’t like Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol or its many incarnations into film. But here we watch our favorite movie versions every Christmastide: and really, I can’t think of any piece of fiction that more faithfully teaches Bible truths concerning Christmas.
We should all watch these more attentively–in addition to always spending time in the Bible text itself. If you’re reading Scripture daily, then Christmas will come more than once a year.
Consider George C. Scott’s Scrooge: could anyone be more cold-heartedly obnoxious? Or Alistair Sim’s Scrooge in the immortal 1950 classic: he is more creatively, exuberantly nasty than the others. And don’t forget, from farther back, Reginald Owen. His Scrooge is just plain flat-out mean.
All are horrible individuals (even though they’re all meant to be the same person). Not only bad, but taking a perverse pride and pleasure in their badness. Anyone can watch these performances and feel superior. “At least I’m not that bad!”
A Christmas Carol is not about Santa Claus and shopping and presents. No, it gets to the heart of the matter, it shows us why the Son of God came down from Heaven, why the Word of God had to be made flesh. For the business at hand, then and now, was the business of Redemption.
God has made Jesus Christ to be for us, because we can attain to none of these ourselves, wisdom and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption (I Corinthians 1:30). And what Dickens and his movie-making successors are telling us is that, if God can redeem and regenerate such a rotten, heartless, sinful soul as Scrooge, He can redeem us, too. The Holy Spirit of God can cleanse the human heart. The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins (Matthew 9:6).
Want to hear some good news? We are not stuck with who we are! Or rather, who we have become, indulging sin and folly in a fallen world. We are not stuck with that at all.
For the Lord hath spoken it.
And this little story of A Christmas Carol has put it into English.