USSR stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Republicans are calling democrats socialist so that sounds really bad. Do you know what a socialist is? One thing is for sure Trump and the Republicans don’t have a clue what socialism is all about, they just know it sounds bad. From the sound of this classic Beatles song socialism doesn’t sound that bad.
Did all this talk about Democrats being socialist start with Trump? No this started a long time ago. When Jimmy Carter was president one of his quotes was: “Many fervent pro-life activists do not extend their concern to the baby who is born and are least likely to support benevolent programs that they consider to be socialist”. This whole idea of giving anything to the poor as socialism goes back a long time Trump has picked up on this and now all you hear is how democrats are really socialist. The biggest benevolent program that was implemented during the Carter Administration was Women, infants, and children know as WIC . I copied this from it’s website: WIC (Women Infants, & Children) is a supplemental nutrition program for babies, children under the age of 5, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and women who have had a baby in the last 6 months. The Federal Government supplies the money to the states and it’s the states that runs the program. If you want to see what is covered in your state just go to your local grocery store and you will see, if you look for it, there’s a small yellow tag that says “WIC approved”. Members of my family have been helped greatly by WIC. Millions of poor women their babies and their children have depended on WIC. It’s programs like WIC that Makes America truly great! But ask any of the 70% of white pastors who support Trump and they will tell how bad of a president this born again Christian man was and WIC is socialism. This brings me to another famous Jimmy Carter quote “If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, then STOP saying that you want a country based on Christian values, BECAUSE YOU DON’T!” This reminds me on all the Face Book posts where they will say Life begins at conception and my tax dollars is not paying for one abortion. But they also say that their tax dollars are not going to pay for diapers, formula, juice, and all the other things that WIC pays for. It seems their slogan should be Life begins at conception Love ends at birth. What kind of Christian values do these 70% of white pastors have? By what their calling socialism; is Jesus a socialist? Well let’s look at some scripture and find out.
Mark 10 17-22 17. And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal Life? 18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God. 19 Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery; Do not kill; Do not steal; Do not bear false witness; Defraud not; Honor thy father and mother. 20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. 21 Then Jesus, beholding him, loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest; go thy way, sell whatever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow me. 22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.
Jesus told him to sell everything he had and give it to who? THE POOR. One thing we learn from this scripture is that Jesus, without a doubt, is NOT a republican. Republicans do not believe in giving anything to the poor, they hate the poor and blame the poor for most of the problems in the US. The Republicans would say “we don’t hate the poor we just don’t want to spend all of our money on them”. Wait that didn’t sound right. We believe we shouldn’t spend so much money on the poor rich people need money too. Well maybe I shouldn’t guess what their answers would be, but one thing for sure they know Jesus is wrong, selling all you have and giving it to the poor , by the Republican definition, is Socialism! Imagine No Possessions! If anybody out there knows any of these 70% of white pastors who support Trump ask one of them to explain away this scripture and how Jesus is not a socialist .
When people talk about love songs they probably will not mention today’s song, it’s not on those TV commercials selling CDs of the greatest love songs. But Rock and Roll Lullaby by BJ Thomas is simply one of the best most touching love songs ever written. It’s describes the great love a mother has for her son. The first verse describes the situation: She was just sixteen and all alone When I came to be So we grew up together My mama child and me Now things were bad and she was scared But whenever I would cry She’d calm my fears and dry my tears With a rock and roll lullaby
And the last lines: Now I can’t recall the words at all It don’t make sense to try ‘Cause I just knew lots of love came through In that rock and roll lullaby
What would happen if this scared all alone sixteen year old mother went to a church for help? What kind of “help” would the good church people offer to the girl? It’s sad to say but today’s church would probably say that this young girl was an “unfit mother” that she has no business raising a child on her own without a husband. There was a good Christian couple at their church who’s been trying to start a family for years and they would give this baby a good home and they could provide for this child unlike the poor unemployed mother. After all the deep love that girl has for her baby isn’t enough, it would be much better to take her baby away from her and be raised by a good Christian couple with good jobs after all money is much more important than love.
In the past couple of weeks it seems to me that most of the posts on Face Book are pro-life proclaiming how evil the democrats are. This is very concerning to me because I was raised to believe that it was a sin to judge anyone as “evil”. I was taught that the only difference between Christians and everyone else was that Christians were sinners saved by grace. As the Apostle Paul said in Romans: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But from the posts I’ve seen a lot of Christians don’t believe that anymore.
Let’s look at the pro-life movement and a brief history of Roe v Wade. In 1976 Jimmy Carter was elected president as a born again Christian. But a lot of Christians led by Jerry Falwell turned against Jimmy Carter because of his stance on abortion. They wanted Jimmy Carter to sign an executive order banning abortions. He refused to do that so vast number of Christians voted him out of office. I saw Larry King interview with him and Larry asked him about his views on abortion. Jimmy Carter explained his view and I’m in complete agreement with him. His belief starts with one verse of scripture John 3:17. These are the words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ:
For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
It was during Jimmy Carter’s presidency that the Reverend Jerry Falwell began the group know as the Moral Majority. They declared that as the moral children of God it was their right to condemn others. By the number of posts condemning democrats it definably appears that the Moral Majority has increased their numbers by millions and now more than ever these people believe they must condemn the democrats. In particular they really display their hatred of Nancy Pelosi. I have seen some posts that declare that Nancy Pelosi is none other than Satan himself! From their posts it seems that compared to Nancy Pelosi Osama Bin Laden is a saint! I’ve seen posts where they call her a baby-killer. Now where have we heard that term before? Back during the Vietnam War those evil war protestors would call our soldiers returning from the war baby-killers, but those were liberal hippie democrats and it was wrong for them to call some one a baby killer however, the conservative moral republicans believe Jesus wants them to call the evil democrats baby-killers. These people that make believe they are justified by making these posts if they ask their friends at church their friends will tell them that their are justified to make these. They may even ask their pastor and sad to say but there’s a good likelihood that their pastor says their justified. But what does Jesus say about this? Does he say that they are justified condemning democrats? In Luke 18: 10-14 our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ says:
10. Two men went up into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. 11. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men who are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all I possess. 13. And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto Heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other, for everyone that exalteth himself shall be abased: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Of coarse today’s moral republicans will need to add evil democrats to the Pharisee’s list of people their not like. Jesus said that the self-righteous Pharisee was not justified by condemning the tax collector. There’s a word that Jesus uses in this passage that you don’t have to worry about Trump or his supporters of being guilty of. That’s the word humble, no way a Trump supporter will ever become humble as they express in their posts they are the most condemning, self-righteous people you’ll ever what to meet.
The people reading this are saying that they are not at all like the self-righteous Pharisee they are justify making these posts in fact they believe that Jesus will reward them for making this posts. Their only question is how much a reward will Jesus give and I better make more of these posts just incase Jesus will reward me with a lot of money! That’s a good question, how much will Jesus reward them? I have an idea on that. In Matthew 6: 5-8 our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ says.
. 5And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Today you don’t have to stand on a street corner to be seen by men. Today the street corner is Face Book and unlike a street corner where only the people right by you can hear you, your Face Book post can reach the whole world! That means when your yelling at your Face Book post about the evil democrats the whole world can hear. According to this scripture, when you make that Face Book post as soon as you hit that share button you will receive your reward.
What kind of Face Book posts should you make. It depends on what you really want. If what you want is to glorify yourself and condemn others than what you are doin now is just fine. However, if one of your goals is to have Roe v Wade overturned, you have to do something else to make that happen and it’s not calling democrats evil! There is a simple, almost a sure way to do this. All that it will take is for President Trump to sign an executive order banning abortion, then the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade. The question is would President sigh that order, here’s what he said years ago.
Oct. 24, 1999 interview on NBC
That might be a problem we elected a very pro choice man that says he won’t sigh an order to ban abortion. The Trump base will tell you that he has changed his mind and now he’s very pro life. Remember the debates? During the debates what did Donald Trump say about abortion? If you will recall what he said was how evil Hillary Clinton was, but if you listened carefully to what he really said he never once said if you elect me I’ll ban abortions. And the same is happening now except now it’s Nancy Pelosi that’s the evil one. So it’s the same thing blame the evil democrats and do nothing!
I’ve heard some pro life leaders say that an executive order from President Trump wouldn’t work anyway. The Friday after his inauguration President Trump sighed his first executive order. Was it to ban abortion, no, it was the Muslim ban. The Muslim ban went to the Supreme Court with the new Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court ruled that freedom of religion does not matter in the USA and sided with the president. So now people because of their religious beliefs are banned from our Christian country.
So is the Trump base going to demand that President Trump sign an executive order banning abortion? Or will they just keep on condemning evil democrats and praising Trump. I think we all know the answer to that.