A Few Good Questions
Has there ever been a time when the average American citizen knew so much about so many things and yet understood so little? Is it any wonder that television's Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' are so inordinately popular. Future historians will accurately designate this time in our history as "The TRIVIA Age". Solomon described this generation when he wrote in Proverbs 1:22, "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?" Surely it's obvious that we love to be ignorant.
Have you noticed that the constitutional rights of American citizens are increasingly being ignored, restricted, or attacked by elected and appointed government officials and employees? Doesn't it seem that these people have little if any knowledge or understanding of our country's founding fathers, or the great instruments upon which our REPUBLIC were founded? Shouldn't they read and become acquainted with the Mayflower Compact of 1620, the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Articles of Confederation in 1777, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, etc.? Hasn't Americans' preachers and news media been guaranteed freedom under the first amendment to the Constitution? Then, don't they have the responsibility to courageously preach the truth and the facts without fear or favor?
Aren't liberals always talking about "Hate crimes" and "Gun control" and 'A Woman's right to choose(?)" and "Alternate(?) lifestyles" and "Freedom of expression," i.e. allowing pornography, sexual perversion, filthy language and degradation that is saturating our country via literature and television? Surely we can see that Liberals know how to produce a SMOKE SCREEN.
Would you please ask yourself a few good and pertinent questions? Is there anything MORE HATEFUL than promoting or tolerating sexual perversion with its disastrous results on society? Is there anything MORE HATEFUL than restricting a citizen's Constitutional right to self-protection?
Is there anything MORE HATEFUL than a woman choosing to kill her innocent, unborn baby? Is there anything MORE HATEFUL than polluting our citizens' minds with the filth of pornography and vulgarity? Is there anything MORE HATEFUL than poisoning the minds of our public school children with the unproved, God-denying theory of evolution and calling it science? Is there anything MORE HATEFUL than denying or limiting any American citizen of their God-given, Constitutionally protected liberties through unconstitutional laws, rules, licenses, and regulations? Have you asked yourself why it is necessary for a citizen to obtain a license to do something that our Constitution already guarantees us the liberty to do? Where is the outrage of our preachers, our citizens, and especially our free press and news media?
What's happened is we are getting dumber as we lose our fear of God. Friends, if we think education is expensive, wait till we've tried ignorance a while.
Charles H. Rice, Sr. -
Pastor Emeritus, Goodman Road Baptist Church, Memphis TN