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Truth in Conviction offers insights related to politics, religion and social happenings in the US and worldwide. The columns' philosophical base is conservative. Regarding
religion, it is evangelical. Concerning social matters, it is grounded in biblical ethics.
Swank has BA and MDiv degrees with graduate work at Harvard Divinity School. Married for 49 years with 3 adult children. Author of several books and thousands of articles in various Protestant and Catholic magazines, journals, web sites, and newspapers. Writer of weekly religion column for PORTLAND PRESS HERALD newspaper, Portland ME. |
Wed Jan 13, 2010
OBAMA, US MONEY AND CORRUPT HAITIAN PAST
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
At the top of the matter, let’s not think that any US government aid to Haiti will ever reach the poor. We all feel for the agonizing Haitian poor if we have any conscience; but that said, don’t think that any US government aid will reach the poor.
Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama, late in responding to the Fort Hood massacre, inefficient in his support for US troops in Afghanistan, and tagging pants bomber as an “isolated extremist,” came through quickly to the Haitian earthquake tragedy.
He meets at 7:30 a.m. on Haiti. He meets at 9:30 or 10:00 to discuss national security.
True, Haiti needs all the aid anyone anywhere can give. Of course. And particularly Christian heritage American grassroots will rise to the occasion as in the past with other disasters around the globe, even in these economically stressed times.
So, recognize that humanitarian compassion in practice is high on the grassroots agenda.
With that follows this question: With Obama promising lots of money to Haiti, where is it going to come from? Where oh where? Is Obama simply going to print more money? No doubt. He’s out to behead the country.
Sincerely compassionate people have the noblest motives when they respond to hurting Haitians. But even then the US government wallet is only so deep.
Obama has just asked for $708 billion for two wars. Count the pennies on that one and wonder. It might turn out that the US will need aid more than Haiti. Really.
I support private citizens and corporations and such giving to Haiti, but not the US government shelling out. There are scores of individuals and good-heart agencies willing to help.
By the way, don’t send contributions for Haitian relief to the US government as Obama has asked. One cannot trust the cheat in the White House, surely not as a charity outfit. It is Obama out to tax charities. Remember?
Further, Obama responds so promptly to a predominantly black people’s tragedy. When it came to whites laid low at Fort Hood, why was the Obama delay so pronounced?
Now that opens the door for being labeled racist. I am not. I am simply pointing out the obvious. To not mention it is to be irrational.
Moreover, wait not too long for Robin Hood Obama to open US doors to Haitian aliens for their Dem votes will count healthily.
This question also comes to mind: when the US government gives to another government such as Haiti, do dollars go into fat cats’ pockets? Naturally. Haiti has an open greedy officialdom history.
Previous governments there stashed rotting US dollars under the presidential palace. So what’s with the grassroots poor not coming upon US handouts?
Think on this: media reports that the Presidential Palace was leveled by the quake. Why does a mere mortal live in a Palace while God-created peasants live on $2 a day? One can be sure that the first building to be restored will be the Presidential Palace.
It is so sad that Haitians for years have had to endure money-grabbing Papa Docs jamming their thumbs in the backs of the poor. And yet with a quake staring us in the face, the US is to trust another round with these thieves?
Lastly, what ever happened to the $50 billion Clinton handed over to Haitian officials?
Oh, but permit this post script: Surely Yemen hospital ships are on their way to Haiti as well as real-life real-time aid from Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iran.
And where is the UN coordination of massive aid to Haiti?
PAT ROBERTSON: HAITI SURRENDERED TO SATAN AND SO IS CURSED
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Years ago, Haitians told the Devil they would serve him if they could be severed from French rule.
They were severed from French rule and so now live under the curse.
You may believe that or not. Some conclude it is but a legend. Robertson considers it to be history.
There are some events regarded as legend that in fact were historical. When I attended Harvard Divinity School I was taught basically that biblical miracles could be traced back to legends and were not history.
I did not accept that. I believed just the opposite.
Who today was at the events referred to by Robertson? No one. So the debate will go on till the end of time.
Countless will discount Robertson as a hyper Pentecostal spokesman as they have in the past. Others will believe his conclusion as sound.
Whatever choice, the Bible states clearly that when a people turn away from God, divine curses come upon them.
Read Deuteronomy 28 at http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+28-29%2CMark+14%3A54-72&version=NIV
When people live in total surrender to the Bible’s God, divine blessings are bestowed upon them.
Those who despise the Bible as mythology then go spastic over others who claim the Bible as eternal truth. The anti-Bible crew turns into screeching hyenas blasting the Scriptures.
However, those who align their faith with the Bible as God’s Word believe with their entire beings such biblical teachings as Deuteronomy’s curses and blessings.
Mortals have free will. They can choose because God has formed them that way. Therefore, God permits mortals to despise Him or delight in Him. Their last breath then yields the consequences with eternal bliss in heaven or eternal damnation in hell.
Again, those who despise the Bible as so much rubbish go absolutely berserk when such statements are made. They don’t believe in God. They don’t hold to a heaven or hell. They believe all is morally relativistic. This existence is all there is and so forth.
However, those who confess the Bible as their guide for belief and lifestyle hold fast to the curses and blessings segments. They live their lives staving off the curses by obeying God. They witness that in obeying God they experience His blessings.
America is in dire shape. This country has committed sins that are abhorrent to the Bible’s God. Two of them are killing womb babies in huge numbers and baptizing homosexual practice as morally legitimate.
There are other outrageous evils permitted openly by American citizens, some protected by law, others held to simply because sin is enjoyable for a season.
If our nation continues to turn its face against God, it will pay severely with divine curses.
There is an obvious, pressing need for a spiritual revival to engulf America; only then will divine blessings return to this country.
It is the curse. Or it is the blessing. Free wills determine which America will experience.
Read http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+28-29%2CMark+14%3A54-72&version=NIV
FIRE MICHAEL STEELE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele may be a smart fellow in some sort of fashion, but his mouth has a gear out of whack.
For example, Steele says Republicans can’t win in 2010. That comes from the man chosen to be the Party’s cheerleader.
The last ingredient the Republican Party needs is a speaker who knocks his own. The Party must have a spokesman who knows his facts, speaks realistically with finesse and molds concepts that build a future.
Steele has none of these qualities. Instead, he makes statements that defy facts. He lacks mouth control so as to be, for one, abrasive. Instead of envisioning Republican wins, he preaches weakness and defeat.
Reports have it that Steele is getting Republican spankings behind doors. Sometimes they come in news interviews with those shocked at the Steele drag on the Party. For certain, there are not many in Steele’s amen corner these days. He’s become an embarrassment to Republicans.
No doubt it’s his personality. And that is not going to change dramatically for what fundamentally Steele is, he is. Now the Republican Party realizes that it made a poor choice when coming upon his persona.
Should he be fired?
Steele has baited the Party with that question by saying if the Party wants to fire him, then fire him. Is that the kind of image the Party needs for its Chairman? Hardly. He’s asking for trouble from his own family and he is getting it.
Here is vintage Steele mouth per Newsmax’s Ronald Kessler:
“’Get a life,’ Steele snapped. ‘If you don’t want me in the job, fire me. But until then, shut up. Get with the program.’
“Responding to a comment by TV One’s Roland Martin that ‘white Republicans have been scared of black folks,’ Steele replied, ‘You’re absolutely right.’
“The first African-American RNC chairman, Steele continued, ‘I’ve been in the room, and they’ve been scared of me. I’m like, I’m on your side.’
“In the face of criticism, Steele routinely tries to retract his controversial statements. He now says Republicans will win in 2010, but the damage has been done. He has defended his leadership by saying, ‘I have $8 million [cash on hand in the RNC’s coffers] and no debt.’
“Given that the RNC had $23 million when Steele took over in January 2009, $8 million now on the books is not exactly impressive. Meanwhile, some key Republican donors say they are avoiding the RNC.
“On Fox, when Hannity expressed surprise at Steele’s comment that Republicans wouldn’t be able to take back the House, Steele allowed that ‘I don’t know yet’ whether Republicans could win a majority because candidates still are being lined up.
“’But then,’ Steele said, ‘the question we need to ask ourselves is, if we do that, are we ready?’
Hannity asked Steele what his answer is.
“’I don’t know,’ Steele said.”
Obviously that is not what the Republican Party wants to hear.
Read Ronald Kessler’s “Michael Steele Has Lost the Support of His Party” at http://newsmax.com/Headline/steele-gop-support-republican/2010/01/12/id/346168?s=al&promo_code=9536-1
HAITI: ‘WE ALL NEED TO PRAY’
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“Hell in Haiti” is the headline this morning.
“The hospitals cannot handle all these victims,” Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles, a doctor and former Lavalas senator, said as he helped survivors. “Haiti needs to pray. We all need to pray together.”
How many times have Americans begged for that when tragedy strikes?
Yet when quiet, peaceful times slip through, that call to prayer is forgotten—except for the anti-God evangelists. They up their antagonism against God by threatening to secularize the nation.
They despise “In God We Trust” as our motto.
They want to erase “under God” from the pledge of allegiance.
They got prayer out of public schools.
And so forth.
However, as history moves on, another tragedy hits and people reach up to God. They say something like “our prayers are with you.” Sometimes they even interview clergy to ask their spiritual opinions on the situation.
One cannot get rid of God. God created all things. God still oversees the spiritually fallen planet, Earth. God will have the last word concerning this planet’s existence.
This God appeared in Jesus. Jesus offered redemption for the genuinely repentant. Jesus even gave His own life as a sinless substitute for our sins.
However, He came unto His own, but His own received Him not. And so the world continues to hate Jesus, except for the righteous remnant who have discovered in Him their salvation.
Read WHY IS JESUS HATED? at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-is-jesus-hated.html
No matter what the anti-God voices scream, they cannot rid the world of its Creator God.
Now Haiti is shocked by a devastating earthquake. And with that the cry goes out to pray.
Read “Injured Haitians plead for help after quake” at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake
CHINA ANGST: LOW ON MARRIAGE-AGE WOMEN. ABORT BABY GIRLS NIXED?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
TimesOnLine headlines the China angst: “One-child policy condemns 24m bachelors to life without a wife.”
It’s the health of an entire nation.
China may run out of females. That means a culture with nothing but males. Now it won’t come to such an extreme; then again, it could.
That’s what happens when mortals play God. That’s what happens when mortals kill babies inside female bodies. That’s what happens when mortals take charge on the dark side of the devil.
So China is faced with a real-life dilemma. Marriage hungry males can’t find the brides they were hoping for. Their parents can’t find their prospective daughters-in-law because somewhere along the line, baby girls in mothers’ wombs were scalded or scraped or whatever out of the wombs.
The government demands one child per family. That means that if a mother becomes pregnant with a female, kill the female before she breathes. Can’t betray the government, after all. Better a male than a not-wanted female. So the female babies-in-wombs have heaped high in the garbage pile up. Sad.
Therefore, the demons have certainly had their day, or it appears their night of sin nationwide. Evil pays with its own death salary check. Wickedness sanctioned by a politic eventually calls for accounts payable.
China is now considering putting into law that baby girls aborted will bring criminal consequences to those performing the killings. There must come about an evening out of females and males or male-female marriages are not going to continue in the offing. And that quite soon.
According to AP and FOX News: “Government figures show 117 boys are born in China for every 100 girls — a gap blamed largely on a policy limiting most couples to one child.
“In a society that values sons, many parents abort baby girls, hoping to try again for a boy. In some rural areas, the ratio is approaching 150 boys for every 100 girls, leading to fears of a huge surplus of men who will be unable to find mates in coming decades.
“China’s top lawmakers want to make it a crime for doctors to detect an unborn baby’s sex for non-medical reasons, in a bid to combat the abortion of female fetuses, government-run newspapers reported Sunday.”
Sometimes Judgment Day comes early. So be it.
Read “One-child policy condemns 24m bachelors to life without a wife” at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6983716.ece
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