"What's Dad doin' for Christmas?" - "Killin' Hottentots & Filming It!"

Dude seemed to be a nice guy. Always doing what needed to be done, and when the kids got hungry, he’d say, “C’mon, get in the car!” & take’em to McDonalds. He didn’t seem to confirm my picture of the average American warmonger & professional killer that I had in mind, and I figured, well, he must be one of the rare exceptions.

You know, the kind of guy that will heap tons of the latest gimmicks & tech toys on kids for Christmas. After all, what are credit cards for anyway?

Well, it turns out that the economy may not remain invulnerable forever, after all.

And it also turns out that some lonely folks are saying that it doesn’t matter whether you call yourself a Christian and go to church, or not, if you kill innocent people, God will hold you personally responsible for your actions anyway - Christian or not, and the excuse that you were just following orders will sound just as lame as it did in Germany 60-some years ago.

Turns out you can’t stay in the business of legally killing people and stay a nice guy forever.

Last I heard, Dude got himself a special night-vision combat camera, attachable to his helmet so he can film his “action.” Apparently he wants to let his progeny know what he’s been up to, should he perhaps not return from one of his missions.

Dude voted for McCain, since - although being no Caucasian, either, it bothers him to have to salute to a black President.

Oh, and Dude doesn’t like the wrong kind of ragware on kids, either. Where he is stationed right now, he says, they have to fire at anything suspicious, no matter how young, so, better make sure your kids are clad in appropriate red, white & blue fashion next time he’s in town. You wouldn’t want anything to awaken that killer instinct in him, even if it’s for a “just cause”…

Of course, we all know from the famous Abu-Ghraib gang rapist on Youtube of the 15 year old Iraqi girl that subsequently committed suicide, that a rag on the head is the proof of guilt, so you can’t blame anyone for shooting anything that moves, right?

Why I’m not scared Dude’s gonna come kill me for writing nasty blogs about him? Because as long as they’re making killing machines out of once nice & decent folks, I don’t consider life worth hanging on to with tooth & nail anyway.

Seems to me as if a lot more is wrong with America than its economy, and with the rest of the world, for just looking on like a bunch of idiots.

By the way, if you were thinking Dude might be some isolated case, just type in “combat camera” in Google Pics or Youtube & you’ll come across more results than for “Santa Claus.”

The Rambo generation is all grow’d up now, and they don’t need no frickin’ Hollywood to become stars & little Rambos all by themselves. Who needs internet porn when you can watch yourself kill an Arab?

The 10.000.000$ Shoes

You can say what you will against Arabs and Muslims, but one thing sure makes them stick out from most Westerners and so-called Christians I've seen in my 40-some years on the planet: their courage.

While you can count on the fingers of one hand the people in the so-called "civilized" world who have the guts to risk anything in order to speak out against a President that has wrecked their country, killed tens of thousands of innocents, took away a substantial part of their freedom and put a mark on Christianity that the world won't forget as easily as the crusades, here's a guy who went down in history in a day, upping the value of his footwork by 9.999.950 bucks by flinging them at the very man whose boots the vast majority have licked for too long, risking a 7 year prison term for doing something most of us wish we'd had the guts to do.

The Problem With Political Correctness

One of the main reasons why it's virtually impossible to be both a genuine Christian and at the same time politically correct is the fact that the notion has taken over modern minds that there is no such thing as truth, but that truth is merely a matter of personal views. Any worldview veering from that law of political correctness will automatically land you in weirdo-nirvana.

The problem with political correctness, is... it sucks.

What it really is, is a new, unwritten law: "Thou shalt be thine own, self-fabricated god," or, "Thou shalt concoct thine own philosophy, no matter how pitiful and screwed up, and call it 'truth'! (Don't worry, nobody's going to give you hell about it, or we're gonna give them hell!)"

It's the dictatorship of every Tom, Dick and Harry over any other Tom, Dick and Harry that should have the bad karma to cross their path.

An old friend once said: "Opinions are like assholes: everybody's got one."

The refusal to accept any certain and definite credo as the truth is simply the self-issued license for every individual to create their own. Perhaps that's precisely what Satan meant by "Ye shall be as gods."

When it comes to being a genuine Christian, you start having problems with that, because unless Jesus really was Who He said He was, and what He was, and if He really, honest to God wasn't any of those things, then all He would have been was a weirdo. That's why Christians can't just say, "Oh, well, yeah, I know, of course, you're right everybody: there isn't really any such thing as truth... it's just that I personally believe in Jesus, and I mean, hey, I could be mistaken, and your trip could be just as much the truth as mine..., after all, who knows, right?"

What kind of a faith would that be?

That's why, eventually, Christendom is going to have to part from the rest of the flock (or should I say, herd) of the global community that chooses to adhere to the Gospel of political correctness. It is either going to be swallowed up by it (which probably the majority of lukewarn, half-hearted bench-warmers are going to do) or rebel against it ferociously, even if it means being labeled lunatics, fanatics, extremists, and possibly even terrorists, which will give the wonderful politically correct New World Order its final excuse to create a new generation of martyrs.

I admit, any stinking lie is a lot more comfortable to live with. After all, have we all been brainwashed with Freddy Mercury's "Bohemian Rhapsody" ("I don't wanna die..."), or haven't we? The thing is, each one of us is inevitably going to die, eventually, whether we want to believe that or not, and that's some undeniable truth for you, and not just a matter of opinion.

Of course, the main issue about "what is truth" is not so much the fact that we're going to die, but what happens afterwards. I guess we'll all know more then, and see who was right, and whether there was any such thing as "right," after all, or not. As far as this life is concerned, it's already clearly stated in the Bible that if we only hope in Christ regarding this life alone, then we're of all people the most miserable. In other words, if Jesus was just some nice dude or philosopher that it's supposed to be hip to follow, then we're really screwed, and of all people the greatest fools. About 95% of everything He ever said can be discarded then (which is just about what the average so-called Christian does).

Take, for example, His often quoted statement, “the truth shall make you free.” What truth? You mean the truth everybody concocts for himself in their own head, consisting of thousands of shreds of pet doctrines and personal preferences, some artificially, haphazardly slapped together dogma, one in 7 billion? And free from what? Free to do and say and think whatever I please, alright (regardless of whether it’s truth or right or not), which is the kind of freedom a significant portion of the world population has been enjoying for the past few decades, although, thanks to some cleverly concocted “truths” (or not), that freedom seems to be slowly (or not) fading away …

If, on the other hand, Jesus is indeed what He claimed of Himself, “the way, the truth and the life,” and the only way to God (John 14:6), and His Words are truth, and He’s not only one of a gazillion other little gods creating some sort of inter-galactic traffic jam in heaven, but really the Dude, then He and those Words must have that power He claimed, namely to set us free from a crueler task master than the whips of Rome: our own sinful selfishness. That same insane egotism that gives us the audacity to claim that whatever little fabrication our brains come up with is “the truth,” (just like any other)…

Only the Father of lies could have cooked up such a brilliant master plan, to have 7 billion idiots kidding themselves, running around, and each proclaiming their own little “truth.” Why? “Because there is no truth,” or “Truth is merely a matter of personal opinion.” Well, you’ve heard my old friend’s take on opinions.

So, basically, the question is, what do you want? The truth, or just be one more asshole with an opinion?

Not Without My Sister

Some former members of the highly controversial Family International are currently on a crusade that's earning them a lot of sympathy (and other benefits, I'm sure) via the media, as they proclaim their gospel of "My father has never had time for me and I've been robbed of my childhood." While that kind of message is extremely popular and successful in getting you all the pity and sympathy you couldn't even come up with for yourself, what strikes me as the most sad about this issue is that those people must have never really known Jesus, nor cared about anything He's had to say.
They must be so enchanted and enamored with themselves, they never gave a hoot about the things Jesus had to say in the Gospels about such things as family, let alone some of His more controversial statements on the issue, and I strongly doubt that anyone not familiar with the words of Christ can be a true believer in Him, because it's the Words of Christ that our faith in Him come from.
The problem is that the Family Intl. is an outfit that takes the words of Jesus very seriously, more seriously than any other Christian church or movement I know, and thus many obviously argue that they're taking them too seriously. If you take Jesus' words seriously enough, you won't be able to maintain a good, nice and clean image of what the world considers a "good Christian" anymore.

Jesus was an iconoclast (idol smasher) and revolutionary who broke with many of the traditions of man (like the Sabbath, that was holy unto the Jews), and , in fact, with anything that ever stood in the way between God and people. He tried to remove any obstacle that could possibly get in the way between God and man, showing us and enabling us to enjoy a personal, loving relationship with God - and through that, with our fellowman, too. And it so happens that for some people, their family is their god, (just like for others, their god is their job, their house, their car, their football team, favorite rock-star, or their belly). That's why Jesus said, "He that loveth father or mother,... son or daughter more than Me... is not worthy of Me," and He made it pretty clear that He valued His disciples above His flesh and blood family and relatives, no matter what kind of interpretations lukewarm preachers and moviemakers are trying to give those Gospel passages.

The truth is that the Family Intl. is one outfit that for once is trying to put God first, without any of the idols and other little gods that "Christians" usually worship and serve in reality, and people who are totally alienated to that concept because all they really care about is themselves, simply can't cope with that.

The world I grew up in was very different from the one that Hollywood so successfully has been making nearly everybody under forty believe exists, of happy, loving, rich families living in pink houses: a world where fathers simply rarely did have time - or much interest, for that matter - in their children, because they saw it as their primary duty to rake in the money. The world I grew up in was one in which you didn't mind not seeing too much of your father, because if you did, you might regret it...
My wife was sexually abused by her father as a child and lived, even without writing a book about it. In fact, she found it in her heart to forgive him and was the only one of his children around him when he died. It's a concept called forgiveness, one that attention-junkies are totally oblivious to.
The thing is, the world is only willing to listen to your sob stories if you were member of a group that is the only proof in existence that there is a way out of their miserable treadmill after all. It's easy to rot together against anyone who's different, whether they wear a turban or dare to live or believe differently than you, and the establishment will always gladly pay you your 30 pieces of silver for your elaborate "inside information." They want to believe in their Hollywood make-belief world, and hate anyone threatening to destroy their illusion.

Well, enjoy your selfish dream, folks, for as long as it lasts. In the end you'll see that all the while you had a more loving Father Who cares about you more than you could ever fathom. You just didn't care about Him, that's all.