From the Mind of Abouna: WEDNESDAY: GOLDEN PIG AWARD

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Today’s Post is a bit lengthy, so please bear with me.

Today’s GOLDEN PIG AWARD posting is going to be a little different; I am going to award it to the American people. To do so, I want to write a response to a posting by Roxie of "Shades of Red, White and Blue", which was posted on Gayle’s “Dragon Lady’s Den”.

The “GRAND MOOSELIM OSAMA AWARD” is going to all of the “moderate” Muslims who, for one reason or another have NOT spoken out against the terrorists.

I found very little to disagree with in the article “To the Citizens of the United States”, but there were a couple of areas that I wish to clarify. Yes, there are far too many leaders in America, as well as in many other democratic countries around the world, that want to bury their heads in the sand and deny the real facts concerning the evils and dangers posed by the Islamists to the entire world. Many of these spineless leaders are from the various Christian churches, and most are political leaders who call themselves Christians. But, please let us remember that standing in a garage, no more makes one a car then merely attending a church makes one a Christian.

I have seen so many so-called Christian ministers, pastors, and Catholic priests, who have been so warped by political correctness that, in all honesty, they cannot truly be called Christian. The same goes for the every day average laymen/women who blindly go along with the acceptance of sin and evil, even welcoming it into their churches. I can also use the same analogy for those who claim to be patriotic American citizens (ordinary men and women as well as those who hold political office).

When it comes to those in Office, all the way up from dog catcher on up to the president, who would put personal prestige or monetary gain ahead of what is in the best interest of the country, who would sell out our nations freedoms and safety for the sake of political contributions from special interest groups or for the false idealism of a One World Government, are no more patriotic and lovers of America then are the Islamist terrorists who wish to destroy us. The same holds true for the ordinary citizens who close their eyes to the corruptions and deceits that are going on all around them.

If one cares to know the truth, God is allowing the terrorists to gain the upper hand as a warning to the Christian nations to turn back to His laws. It is God’s way of warning us to turn from the evils that have taken over our society today. I know that there are many who will not believe that God would allow our destruction, but if that is their thinking then they certainly do not know their Bible, as there are plenty of instances in Holy Scripture where God allowed the destruction of whole cities and societies because of their sins. Those who tacitly supported the sinful acts being committed by their leaders and/or large numbers of the population, through their silence, were just as guilty as those who actually committed the acts.

In the article by Roxie, it was stated:

“Blinded by homosexuality some religious leaders blamed America’s humanitarian treatment of homosexual people for 9/11 instead of laying the blame for the attacks at the feet of the Islamic revolutionary terrorists. It was immoral of American political and religious leaders to turn a blind-eye to the barbarian ideology that was ravaging cities in nations around the globe. The nonsense of pursuing a tiny immorality while permitting an antichrist abomination to grow so large and so strong as to endanger all of humankind betrayed not only Americans but billions of people around the world.”

It was not America’s “humanitarian treatment of homosexual people”, that caused God to allow the attacks of 9/11, or for that matter, the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina or any of the other disasters, natural or man made, that have been plaguing us with greater frequency and ferocity the past few years, but rather it is America’s acceptance of homosexuality. This acceptance has gone so far as to cause many Christian churches to perform same-sex marriages or blessing of same-sex couples. Remember, Jesus taught that we are to love the sinner but hate the sin. But what have we done? Because of political correctness and pressures put on our society by special interest groups (many working through the United Nations) we, along with many of the “Christian” European nations, have not only embraced the homosexuals, but have also embraced the homosexual life-style as well, by allowing our children to be taught in our public schools that homosexuality is something to be respected and embraced. We now tolerate “gay pride” day celebrations in public where some of the vilest antics go on. We tolerate gay themed TV shows and movies. We even tolerate it when some of our schools celebrate gay pride days by making our children come to school dressed as the opposite sex.

For those who call themselves Christian, what is so difficult to understand when God says: “If a man lies with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord”, or when St. Paul states: “Neither liars, thieves, catamites, sodomites or homosexuals shall enter the Kingdom of heaven.” Even if one is not a Christian or if one is a complete atheist, one still knows, deep down inside through natural law, that homosexuality goes against nature, and yet we are told that we must accept and embrace it.

When we as individuals, commit any immoral act; that is our personal sin. When we as individuals fail to speak out against immorality, when we quietly condone and embrace such acts, that also becomes our personal sin. When a government enacts laws to protect and legalize immorality and we the people refuse to stand up and demand that such laws be repealed, then that is a national sin. Like it or not, God does punish unrepentant individuals for their personal sins and he most certainly does punish entire nations for the sins of those nations.

True, it was the brutal, blood thirsty antichrist Islamists who attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, it was they who attacked two of our embassies in Africa, it was these same Islamists who attacked the U.S.S. Cole. True, it was the crazed Islamists who attacked and destroyed the Twin Towers, killing thousands, on 9/11. It is these same barbaric madmen who have attacked innocents in Spain, England, France, Israel, Darfur, Lebanon and many other countries, but it is God allowing it to happen because we have turned our collective backs on Him. We have kicked Him out of our schools, out of our public lives, out of our homes and even out of our personal lives. The more we turn from God, the more of His blessings and protections he withholds from us and our country.

The more we refuse to follow God’s Laws, and the more our government bends over backward to appease not only the Islamists but also the immoral and godless special interest groups, and the longer we remain silent and accepting, the worse and more frequent the attacks and natural disasters will become. And if America does not wake up soon and turn back to God, God will allow this nation to be totally destroyed.

There are those who will tell us that God loves us so much that He would not allow our destruction or for us to be punished. I have even had people tell me that if God allowed our destruction, He would be contradicting His own commandment of “Thou shalt not kill”. Well, once again I have to say that you do not know the Bible. Many will even use this sixth commandment to speak out against war. Let’s take at closer look at this commandment and see what it really says.

The King James Version was translated in the early part of the 17^th century using an archaic form of English, which is very different from our modern form. In the ensuing 400 + years English has undergone drastic changes. Like the original Hebrew (which was the language that most of the Old Testament was written in), English uses different words for intentional and unintentional killing. Therefore, the verse translated “Thou shalt not kill” should more accurately be translated
“Thou shalt not murder”, which is the accurate Hebrew translation. The Hebrew word used here was ratsach which refers to intentional killing without cause.

So, to answer the question: “Does God break His own commandment?” one would first have to determine if God committed “MURDER” (killed people without cause) when he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, or when He destroyed the world through the flood, or when he ordered Joshua and his people to kill every man, woman and child in Canaan. The Bible is very explicit that God has killed people directly (one example being the flood) and indirectly (when He ordered peoples to be killed). If God either directly killed or ordered the killing of innocent people, then He would be guilty of murder, but we know that God is incapable of sin.

When he destroyed the world by the flood, with the exception of Noah and his family, the Bible tells us that all people (except Noah and his family) had become corrupt. Not only had they become corrupt, but they continually plotted evil. Is it possible for an entire society to become corrupt? You bet your booty! A prime example can be found in recent history, when the Nazis took over Germany before WWII, opposition was crushed and when the Nazis began to purge the “undesirables” (Jews, Gypsies, etc.) virtually the entire German society went along with the plan. Therefore, the Bible tells us that no innocent people were killed.

Even with the in habitants of Canaan, the people were so wicked and evil that they were sacrificing their own sons and daughters to their gods. You say that surely God could have spared the children! Too often people tend to view children as innocent, even if their parents are doing evil deeds. Such a view is totally unfounded. A good example is the Muslim children who are officially taught and brainwashed starting in grammar school to hate their Jewish neighbors and all non-Muslims. This indoctrination is so deep and ingrained that many of them willingly give up their lives in suicide bombings. Corruption breeds corruption, and it was for this reason why God did not want the Hebrews tainted by the other corrupt cultures.

So as you can see, God does and will destroy whole cities and countries for their national sins and corruption and if we remain silent and turn a blind eye to the sin and corruption going on around us, if we accept the sin and corruption and even allow it into our churches and every aspect of our society, then God considers us to be just as guilty and corrupt as those who actually commit or practice the sin.

If we truly want to save our nation, our lives, our eternal souls, then yes, we have to fight the godless and vile Islamists, but at the same time, we must fight to change our own society, our own lives and return to obeying God’s Laws.