The thing that makes today’s song so great is how seriously people sing this, what just may well be one of the most stupid songs every written. Really? I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows. All I have to do you is walk out my front door and see my dead petunias to see how silly this song is. This song is actually called a gospel song like there was anything that is even close to being in the Bible. But Elvis along with many others sing it like it’s God’s word. I’m unable to get the video to load to my blog right now but here’s the words to the song.
I Believe
I believe for every drop of rain that falls
A flower grows
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night
A candle glows
I believe for everyone that goes astray
Someone will come to show the way
I believe
I believe
I believe above the storm the smallest prayer
Will still be heard
I believe that someone in the great somewhere
Hears every word
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry
Or touch a leaf
Or see the sky
Then I know why
I believe
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry
Or touch a leaf
Or see the sky
Then I know why
I believe (Why I believe)Songwriters: DWAYNE CHIN-QUEE, MICHAEL FRANTI, JACOB HEMPHILL, DAVID BELL© Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
A lot of people would say I believe that I’m a liberal Democrat and if your one of those people you would be wrong. I’m not a liberal Democrat I’m a liberal Republican! Some may say there’s no such thing but I’m going to explain what a liberal Republican believes.
I enjoy watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC she clearly explains what she believes in and more important why she believes what she believes. A while back I posted one of Rachel’s comments on my Face Book post. The comment was on her TV show May 6, 2010: ” I’m undoubtedly a liberal, which means I’m in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform”. If you think what the Trump Republicans believe the same as Republicans believed in the past your about to be shocked!
The other night I was watching Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC. Jay’s theme on the episode I was watching the other day was cars that ran on something other than gasoline. His first guest was Arnold Schwarzenegger who showed up in his electric SUV. Jay and Arnold were riding in the electric SUV when Arnold said “when I first came to L.A. my eyes would tear up because of all the smog. But Reagan when he was Governor of California he started to clean the air because back then the environment wasn’t a Republican issue or a Democrat issue everyone cared for the environment. And Jay agreed with him saying something to the effect where’s the smog now? Imagine that a former Republican governor of California that cares about the environment and says Republicans used to also care.
Then there’s the Endangered Species Act of 1973 signed by Republican President Richard Nixon! That’s in the news because the Trump Administration is now in the process of gutting the Endangered Species Act. But wait there’s more!
President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970 and it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate. —– So what’s going on? It all goes back to Rachel Maddow’s comment, every four years both parties have a convention and vote on what is called a platform. The platform is basically a statement of what each party believes in. Every four years they vote on a “new” platform and every four years their platform “believes” changes a little until as Rachel points out what they believed in the past is nothing like they believe today. That’s just the way politics works.
My main focus I is not politics, rather I believe what I should do is write about how today’s politics affects the church. I’ll give an example of my purpose. Just the other day one of mine Face Book friends made a post I strongly disagreed with. Now I believe that what makes America great is the free speech we all have and Face Book is a platform that most all Americans can practice our free speech. That being said I believe it’s my duty as an American and more important my responsibility as a born again Christian to speech up and not to remain silent. The post I’m referring to was posted by a friend of my who I’ve known since he was five or six years old because that friend of mine was the oldest son of my childhood pastor. That was way back in the late sixties, today he and his son are both Southern Baptist pastors just like their father and grandfather. Today the son of mine childhood pastor is a pastor of a rather large Southern Baptist church in the Tulsa metro, it’s not like it’s a tiny church out in the panhandle. He is a very strong supporter of Donald Trump and anything Republican. Believe it or not this educated Southern Baptist pastor posted the conspiracy theory about the Clinton’s having Jeffrey Epstein murdered. And I’ll make another comment here. Between Jeffrey Dahmer and Jeffrey Epstein, this is yet another reason I like to go by Jeff! Now I believe like the Bible says there’s a time for everything. And after that post the time for me to remain silent was over! This was my comment on his post: Brother Tim your calling is to spread the truth and love of Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ it is not to spread the lies and hate of Donald Trump! This comment didn’t phase him a couple of days later he posted that people who have “dirt on the Clinton’s they are 859% more likely to commit suicide. What makes this so sad is all the likes and comments in agreement of these non Christlike posts! This is what I fight for, I don’t care how big these pastors church’s are, or how large their viewership is on TV if they are spreading lies on the internet someone has to speak up to their lies and false teachings. I have no idea how these good people can now have such untrue beliefs in such a short time. It appears to me these “conservatives” believe it’s their duty to defend the Republicans weather it makes any sense, or totally without any scripture to back up their beliefs.
The problem all my church friends have is that in order to be a conservative Republican today they have to forget what they use to believe and create a way to change the Bible in order to “fit’ their current beliefs. I’ll give a good example of this with climate change. From what I can tell church people now say that God is in total control of the weather and the climate, in fact God is in control of the whole Earth. That sounds great!! so that lines up with the conservative Republicans and Donald Trump calling Global warming being a “hoax. There’s only one problem, it may make sense that’s God is in control of the Earth, but that’s not what the Bible says!!!
Genesis 1:26 – And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Did you catch that? The Bible says that God gave man dominion (control) over all the earth! To say God is in control is just great you can put it on a T shirt but try to find in the Bible where God took man’s dominion over the Earth away from him! You can’t find those verses because it’s not in the Bible! This has a profound difference in belief’s for instance if man no longer has dominion over the fish of the sea, that means under the new belief that God is in control if man over fishes and a species become extinct then it’s “God’s will” because God is it control. And since man no longer has dominion over the fowl of the air if man over hunts, well it’s once again God’s fault! That’s why church people find global warming and climate change is so funny, yes they post on Face Book making fun of this, because they claim, like the current Republicans, man can do anything he pleases without any consequences whatsoever! God is in control man can’t change anything. The best I can tell that’s what church people really believe it sounds good to them and best of all it fits with their political Republicans believes. Of coarse there’s not any scriptures in the Bible to back up these beliefs but they are totally unconcerned they believe what they believe it doesn’t matter what the Bible says. What about the verse above? They will say that’s in Genesis and nobody really believes anything in Genesis! Making up new beliefs is harder than some may think. You see before making a new belief you first have to prove what you believed before was wrong. In order to be “conformed” to the Republican belief on global warming you have to transform the Bible to go along with this belief. Yes this is a shameless effort to remind church people of Romans 12: 2.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. —– And by the way The will of God NEVER CONTRADICTS THE WORD OF GOD!
What about immigration? Is what the Republicans believe today the same as it was in the past? Did Ronald Reagan start to build a wall? Not exactly I’ll paste this from Wikipedia explaining what Ronald Reagan immigration policy was:
The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act altered U.S. immigration law, making it illegal to knowingly hire undocumented immigrants and establishing financial and other penalties for companies that employed undocumented immigrants. The act also legalized most undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the country prior to January 1, 1982.
Can you have two beliefs any more different than amnesty compared to building a wall? Today church people love to call undocumented immigrants “illegals” that makes these church people “the righteous” or so they think. My next post I’ll explain how today’s “righteous church people” flatly refuse to follow the word’s of Jesus.
And then there’s tariffs. Today’s Republicans might as well put on some red caps that says: Free trade sucks! In the past tariffs were Socialist and not a single Republican were be in favor of tariffs for any reason. But that was then, today in order to be a Republican you must forget the past and what and why you believed before and embrace today’s beliefs as if that’s how you always believed.
Today I used just three examples; global warming, immigration, and trade. There’s more but I will post a lot more in the future, I didn’t scratch the surface today. My next post will be on immigration and in particular how today’s church people call immigrants “illegals”.