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Finally, some good news!

Posted by faithfulmom on Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:38:30 PM
   I know it may not seem like much, but the fact that Michael Steele was elected to the RNC chair position was probably the best news I heard since the elections.  I've been wallowing in the muck, feeling sorry for myself and fellow conservatives.  Having to endure the, what was that word?  I keep thinking of abomination...yeah, the inauguration (sigh). 
   Every time I tried to write something, I'd lose the inspiration and quit.  Couldn't manage to put the phrases together coherently.  Not that I'm doing such a great job now.  However, I feel a renewed hope now that Michael Steele was elected the Chairperson (or is it the ChairMan?).  Whatever, the ever present pressure of having to be PC isn't phasing me today. 
   I do have one peeve though.  What are they talking about when they say that M. S. will be a relief from the Bush years.  Why do we need to distance ourselves from Bush?  He was a good President and a great, gracious man.  He behaved the way a president ought to have behaved.  With dignity and self depricating humor.  Something the new (shudder) president ought to learn.  If President Bush attacked all the journalists, talk celebrities, t.v. anchors, hollywood sticks (oops) stars, university professors and well you know, like the way Mr. Obama has attacked Rush Limbaugh, President Bush would have spent all eight years with laryngitis.
   The reason the GOP lost so much ground the last 2 election cycle isn't because we haven't distanced ourselves enough from Mr. Bush.  It's because of so called Republicans who think that we should.  Instead of rallying around our President, the one whose actions, may I remind you, has kept us from being attacked since 9/11.  The only problem I had with President Bush was that he was too NICE.  He actually wanted to BE the unifier.  He actually tried to compromise with the devil, sorry, I mean the democrats.  What did he get every time he tried, a knife in the back.  Instead of doing what the demos do, which is utilize their 3 major mouthpieces to whine or shake their fists in outrage, Mr. Bush smiles, shrugs his shoulder and says I tried, maybe next time.
   One of the reasons I love M. S. as the new Chair is that I think he's going to give back to the demos what they dish out.  No one could do it in the same cowardly and deceitful glee as the demos cans but in his own way, I believe M. S. will pack a wallop in the tit for tat game.  The way things are going, I forsee a lot of tit for tat.  I hope he will put his face in the news to make or rebutt every talking point.  If not himself, then someone who will speak for the RNC. 
   He should start revamping the website and utilizing all the tech to reach everyone possible.  YouTube, Facebook, Twitter (I joined recently) use them to keep the twittering thumbs busy and their frenetic minds engaged.  Fill them with reason and logic.  Help them to put their expensive education to work, with their minds and their hands.  Teach them that people can't be governed with good feelings and rhetoric.
   I hope I get more good news.  Economically (not doing too good), politically, culturally and global security any or all would be sweet.  I won't hold my breath but I might not be able to write until then.
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Christian Liberals = Oxymoron

Posted by faithfulmom on Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:31:45 PM
   I just came from a bible study today.  This is a fairly new group, for me.  All the other people there have know each other for a while, I think.  I'm still at the stage where I'm feeling everyone out and gauging their character, likes and dislikes (mostly biblical) and where they are spiritually and culturally.
   One of my new friends just has her husband back home from being posted in Korea, by the Army.  He's home for a month's break.  I get the feeling a good number of the men in my new bible study group have been in the military.  Although I personally feel very grateful to any and all military, I find myself unable to express that to those who have served.  Part of that is guilt.  They've given and given up so much and I take so much for granted.
   After introductions, a discussion ensued about our current President elect.  This let me know where everyone stands on their political view points.  As expected, conservative, on most if not all subjects.  As our bible study got underway, a new couple joined us.  I hadn't seen them before, but everyone else greeted them with warm familiariy.  It wasn't planned, but because of the lastest ballot bailout, a good part of our discussion circled around the differences between faith and belief.
   Our conversations were varied and interesting, I actually spoke aloud (with my face turning red as the subject matter became heated) and gave my view points on politics and belief, and almost everyone came to a general consensus.  I say almost everyone because the new guy, to me, wanted to know why we were so upset about Barak Obama being elected President when we call ourselves Christians?  He felt Christian should't be so involved in the political process.  If we as Christians believe that God is Supreme, than why do we get our hands dirty in politics?  I expected this from the MSM and liberal Dems, to try and keep Christian voices from being heard and having a say in our political process but to have heard this from a Christian (very intelligent, probably highly educated and definately not military) left me a bit bewildered.
   The soldier on leave from Korea had stated earlier that nowadays politics was about legislating morals or lack there of.  I pointed out the when the Dems started legislating their brand of ethics, ie; abortion on demand funded by public dollars, advancement (militantly so) of homosexual agendas, hi-jacking of our childrens education, that's when the conservative movement took a big upswing.  Since I was getting so hetted, the gentleman became withdrawn and didn't say much more during our study time, but before he left, he wrote on the dry-erase board that all points of view had equal merit.  
   This was such a liberal point of view that the label  "liberal Christian" being an oxymoron took root.  If all ideas were truely equal, than there can be no concept of good, nor evil.  We get our ideas (ideals) from the world (Satan) or from the bible (God).  As a non-believing person, of no stated faith this would make sense.  They want to deny God's supremacy over the world so they deny His existence.  Logically, if He doesn't exist, than the bible was written by man and so one man's idea is equal to any others.  However, if we are true, bible inerrancy, believing Christians than we cannot say that all ideas have equal merit.  
   Clearly stated by Christ himself, a person is a child of Satan or a child of God.  Since all man was physically beget from Adam, a creation of God's own handiwork, than reason says that Jesus was not talking about genetics but about spirits.  Spiritually dead and you are of Satan.  Spiritually alive and you are of God.  Death or life that is dependant on what you believe and your beliefs are cobbled together by the ideas that you hold as truths.  So, are all ideas equal in merit?  Again, as a Christian, if you are a true Bible believing Christian, I don't think you can say yes to that question.
   A liberal who believes that all ideas have the same merit are actually liars.  Even in their own belief system they can't be consistant.  If all ideas are equal, than at least to that liberal, my idea should have the same merit as his, but of course if this was true he wouldn't have become upset with my ideas.  This I believe is the fundamental difference between the liberal mindset and the conservative Christian.  Conservative Christains are consistant in one thing, if nothing else, that all truth coms from God and He taught us this truth by the teachings of the bible.  Interpretations and applications may differ slightly (should worship services be held only on Sunday morninigs or are Saturday evening services also considered worship) but we all agree that in the end, we find the absolute truth from God (God sanctions the punishment of death by governing bodies but absolutely abhors the spilling of innocent blood).  
   For a liberal, truth is qualifiable to any individual.  The bigger the sin of the individual the more quantifiable it becomes.  Sin is not sin because..... There's always an excuse.  To the liberal minded person, the only true sin in this world is to claim that there is sin.  So the only true sinners are the conservative Christian.  This being the case, how can there be Liberal Christians?  One cancels out the other, doesn't it?
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Thank you Sarah Palin, the original Pit Bull

Posted by faithfulmom on Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:39:13 AM
Being a neophyte political junkie, this election campaign made me obsess, a lot.  When George Bush was first elected to office, I didn't like him very much.  My reasons now embarrass me.  I only got my information from the network news and ... People magazine.  Al Gore was so much cuter.  He looked like he should be a President.  Not so much when he lost and whined and sued and threw a fit and on and on...As I stated in my bio, 9/11 changed all that.  My family moved down south from NY and we have friends and family that we used to visit very often.  As a matter of fact, we were in NY the weekend before 9/11 and left on Monday, 9/10.  It was our tradition to leave by the Holland tunnel and wave good-bye to the Twin Towers.  One of my adopted uncles (this is a Korean tradition, to adopt people and make them un-related relatives, more on this later) was married at the top of tower 2.  I was a Maid of Honor.
On the morning of Tuesday, 9/11, my husband called me on his way to work and told me to turn on the news because there was something about a plane crashing into the Twin Towers.  I told him that this was terrible joke.  He said he was serious.  I turned on the news just in time to see the 2nd plane slice into the building like a knife going into a stick of butter.  I was totally transfixed in front of the t.v.  I hadn't even realized that tears were pouring down my face until I caught the sound of my own sobs from my throat.  On that day, I believed that God put George Bush in the White House because He wanted someone who would be strong, in will and in his faith. 
I later learned that Bill Clinton, while in office, had the opportunity to capture and be rid of Osama bin Laden.  However, he was too busy playing naughty games with prococious interns.
During the course of the "Shock and Awe" and the capture of Sadam Hussein, CNN and the rest of the netword 3 made me a media sceptic.  Fox news sustained me throughout the 2004 elections and also through our current mess.  Fox news was the only channel that presented Governor Palin as the remarkable person that she truely is.  So begins my reason for being grateful to Mrs. Palin.
When 9/11 changed my view points, it also brought harmony to my faith and my politics.  From a mildly liberal Christian who believed that although abortion was not the most appealing choice for women, every woman should have to choose for herself. I became completely conservative and believed that all life is precious and it is immoral for the government, of any country, to fund the killing of generations of children.   From that point on I became the mom to avoid at church.  All the other mothers would quickly move away if they saw me coming first.  I was known as the woman with lots of children who actually wanted to talk about politics and policies while advocating breast feeding to new mothers who would rather not.
When John McCain became the Republican nominee for President, I pouted.  He was too conciliatory toward the Democrats.  He made deals with them instead of fighting them.  There didn't seem to be much difference between him and the Dems.  Then Sarah Palin was introduced as the Republican VP nominee.  I almost didn't watch it because I was so miffed.  But, when she started to speak, I found myself nodding my head and pumping my fist and getting excited.  Here was a great role model for young, Christian mothers who might have kids be married and have a job too.  Someone who didn't apologize for any of it and embraces all aspects of her hectic and I'm sure, harried life.  Her comments about the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is the lipstick made me realize that I too have been compared to such single minded brutes when defending my kids from the trash thrown at them by this culture. 
She showed such grace and dignity through all the nasty gargage spewed about her and her lovely family.  After every attack, she came out smiling and swinging.  She's shown me that the RNC still has hope in future candidates.  I know who I want to run for the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012.  Thank you Sarah Palin, the anti-Hillary.  Knowing that you will be the future of the RNC gives me some measure of comfort on this very sad day.
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