The Barking Dog

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We have all experienced the irritation of a neighborhood dog barking through the night at nothing significant. If it keeps up for more than a few nights, even the most tolerant, will become so agitated he will confront the dog’s owner. There is just something unsettling about that persistent, penetrating noise, going on and on, non-stop. The only person who seems unaffected by the barking is the owner himself who somehow has acquired the ability to block it out entirely.

On the other hand, everyone loves the dog who remains constantly quiet, always around but not in the way. Because of this normally quiet state, the neighbors and the owner are immediately alerted when they hear the dog barking. There is no doubt in their minds, that the dog is barking at something out of the ordinary, the dog is “sounding the alert” to something. It is then up to the owner to determine if the barking is warranted; perhaps a robber, or a bear, or even a fire.
Yet regardless of how important or valid the barking is, if it comes at 3:00 am, the first response is one of irritation. That is the nature of an alarm; it is supposed to be irritating to ensure a response, just as an infants cry.

All my life I have been around dogs which had been well trained and normally are very quiet. I have seen on occasion when these dogs get so excited about something that they just can’t help it, the dog would let out a low, quiet “woof”.
I also remember, on occasion, hearing the dog barking at night.
As a child I would see my dad go out with a light to investigate what was alarming the dog. After finding nothing, the dog would get a good talking to and we would all go back to bed.
After a few nights of this, finding no cause, the irritation would grow in us all until we began to be angry at the dog for waking us.
Finally, on one such particular occasion, we woke one morning to find the goats were dead. Killed by a brown bear who had through the week, becoming increasingly comfortable around the place, even with a barking dog.
This story is the same whether a bear, a fire or an intruder.

The dog was being faithful to do his part for the protection of the ones he loved, but in return he received ill favor, frustration, reprimand, and even disfavor.
But having the nature of a dog, he just kept doing his job the best he knew how.
The fault was not in the dog.

The owner faithfully got up to investigate. At first the owner was quick to respond.
With flashlight and rifle in hand a search was made each night, until in time the decision was made to just stay in bed, the repeated searching had shown to be fruitless, and the comfort of sleep was just too desirable to abandon without good cause.
The fault was not in the owner.

The fault was not in the bear, who was also just doing what was in his nature; to destroy and devour an easy prey.

So at who’s feet can the fault be lain?
How could this horrible result have been avoided?

If we would have remembered the normal state of this wonderful animal, we should have known that in spite of not being able to detect it ourselves, the dog was telling us; danger was indeed just beyond our ability to detect it.
The fault was in our ignorance of the nature of danger, specifically the nature of the danger in our location.
Bears, like the progressive agenda, are very patient.
Sitting in tree stands watching bears is a fascinating study.
At first they circle the area of their interest from a significant distance.
Very slowly, night after night, they will come just a little bit closer. Testing. Sniffing. Listening. The barking dog is a good way to keep them at a distance…. For a time, but eventually they will work their way in closer and closer. Only when sure they are safe from harm, will they claim their target.
Strangely in our ignorance, we are quick to jump to alert on the first night, when the bear is the least detectable and least dangerous to us.
But as the nights progress the danger grows closer while at the same time our interest grows less.
At the point in time the attack is made, we are sound asleep having tuned out the barking dog as an irritation to our slumber.

America, you’re dogs are barking.
They have been barking for a long time now.
Danger has been growing bolder and closer over the years.
Now as the danger is eminent, is not the time to get angry at the sound of the alarm!
Turn off your TV, park the boat; The intruder is at the door to steel your children away, To make slaves of a free people.

Learn about your enemy.
Your enemy is now on your soil as Alkida and Hezbollah, and illegal aliens.
He is inside your government as self serving congressmen and corrupt Supreme Court Justices.
He is destroying your industry as Liberal agenda pushing legislators.
He is killing your faith as warped and wicked media.
He is now changing the very fundamentals of your existence as the President of the United States!
Who is this enemy?
The values of Hell itself as Progressivism.

Get involved.
Seriously take interest in who is running for office.
Search them out. Take no ones word.
Look up their track record to show their real views.
and VOTE with an educated mind!

Finally, Tolerate evil no longer!
Political correctness, and tolerance for everything, is not the way to greatness!
"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without conviction." author: Bill Gothard
Evil must be identified as a danger, and defended against.
Be discriminating and call good good, and be bold to call evil, Evil.
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isaiah 5:20
If you don't choose your rulers in righteousness, evil will rule by default.

In my simple way I am doing as commanded; to be your barking dog. Ezekiel 3:17-21



Please read these books!

Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America by Brigitte Gabriel
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek (see Glenn Beck’s show June 8, 2010)
At Glennbeckclips.com

What is Truth?

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Recently in The Truth Project (*1) I was confronted with the question; “What is truth?”
At the time, I was not as interested in the answer as I was curious about the question itself.
Absolutely everyone knows what truth is…. Until asked to define it.
Ask yourself, “What is truth?” and you find your mind stumbling for the right words to explain what you are sure you know for fact, then you think, and you discover you really are not sure what truth is.
Go ahead ask yourself right now, write it down, I’ll wait.

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In all confidence you probably gave lots of explanations, which turned out to be attributes, or events, but not actually defining truth.
Why is a word that is so familiar to us, so hard to explain, even to ourselves?
The more I thought about this, the more the answer itself seemed important.
After wrestling with the question and the answer for a few days, I showed up at my local community coffee shop in the morning, which is a regular daily winter routine with several locals.
It went like this;

“I have been thinking about a question that has got me stumped, so I want to run it by you and get your input, OK?”
“I need to know, WHAT IS TRUTH?”
One local liberal man we’ll call him Chip, blurted out;
“Truth is what it is.”
I said, I needed a better definition.
Another, in law enforcement, we will call Andy said;
“Truth is a person’s perception of reality.”
I asked; “you like that definition?"
He affirmed in confidence, so I wrote that on my paper place-mat.
I then asked;
“How can you and I both have different truth?”
As we discussed it more he included;
“Truth varies from person to person.”
And later in our conversation, he added;
“There is no definition of truth beyond perception.”
And; “Truth is not an absolute.”
So with his agreement I summed up his answers by writing;
“Truth is human perception.”
The owner and cook came out of the kitchen and agreed with this definition confidently. And the waitress hesitantly agreed as well.
My constant question returned often;
“How can there be more than one truth? Isn’t truth more foundational than opinion?”
The answer was;
“Truth has too many variables to define it clearly.”
At this point Chip got up shaking his head as if to say; The question is ridiculous and not worth my time. And he left.
After expressing my belief that Truth must be more than imagination, Andy explained it to me like this;
“We know now that the world has always been round, but men of the past thought it was flat and so the truth for them was that it was flat.”
So changing tactics, I asked,
“What is Fact?”
and without a hesitation Andy answered;
“The ultimate truth.”
“So!” I said; “If there is ultimate truth, anything less that that must not be truth.”
The word Ultimate indicates that truth is more concrete than opinion. If we look deep enough we can find what (ultimate) truth actually is. Therefore when something does not agree with ultimate truth, it cannot be truth.”
“What is the truth, if I drop my coffee cup to the floor; will it break?”
As long as we only TALK about a truth, it remains in the theory stage and we can both feel we are right. you say it wont, I say it will, yet neither of these are more than opinion until tested.
But when I drop my coffee cup on the floor, the truth will be revealed.
You call it ultimate truth, my truth, observed truth. You add all kinds of verbs to the word to try to define the intensity of the truth. These verbs tend to indicate at some point the truth can be known as fact. My truth may be less true than your truth, which is less true than ultimate truth?

At this point, both the cook and waitress said their heads hurt and wanted the conversation to end.
And I went home to think some more.
Is truth simply variable and therefore meaningless?
I think by nature when pressed we find that truth must be more than that.
How do I find out; “What is truth?”

I got out my dictionary, a Webster’s Collegiate 5th edition dated 1948. It said;
Truth
1. Quality or state of being true; hence:
a. Archaic. fidelity; constancy.
b. Veracity; sincerity; genuineness.
c. Agreement with that which is represented; correspondence to reality; verisimilitude.
d. Conformity to rule; exactness; correctness.
2. That which is true; that which conforms to fact or reality; that which is or is characterized by being in accord with what is, which has been, or must be; as, to seek the truth; the truths of science.

Here is my 2001 Merryman-Webster electronic dictionary:
Truth
1. Truthfulness, honesty
2. The real state of things: fact
3. The body of real events or facts: actuality
4. A true or accepted statement or proposition
5. Agreement with fact or reality: correctness.

There seems very little here to include; imagination, opinion, assumption, faith, or hope.
Truth appears to be very definitive. There are no verbs to add validity or type of truth.
‘My truth’, ‘your truth’, ‘perceived truth’ are even less than limitations on truth; the attached verb shows that the perception of the perceived truth must be less than true.
If it does not represent fact of reality, it is not truth, so to say “my truth” suggests some variation of what is actually reality, which then cannot be true.

So why do so many Americans today have such a strange view of truth?
Where do such views originate?
Recently I listened to a podcast from the apologist Ravi Zacharias (*2)
Although the podcast did not even seem to touch this topic, I was amazed to see it answer this question.

The Christian religion holds firmly to the perspective that truth by its very nature, is exclusive of all else. If ‘this’ is true, then ‘that’ is not true. “Either/Or” is the nature of truth. This is why the world sees Christianity as narrow minded, bigoted, and restricting, when in fact it is represented by all reality.
In America, all of our culture, all of our laws, all of our perspectives, have been built and successfully administered with this Either/OR approach to life.

Looking at the Hindu religion of India, they hold the view; god is everything and everything is God. From this pantheistic perspective any view is as equally correct, even if conflicting; good, bad, this or that, it is all god. In this way everything is true. It is the "This and That" approach.

I try to grant every view an opportunity to prove itself, so this perspective deserves to be honestly evaluated; after all, Hinduism has grown to become the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam.Hinduism
But this perspective seems to hold water only as long as it isn’t tested in reality.
As Ravi expressed so well; “Even in India we look both ways when we cross the street, it is either me or the bus, not both.”
The incredible poverty in the streets of India side by side with the wealthy, is a clear example of this perspective in action. "I am rich, you are starving, that is Karma, therefore we should not try to change it."

But this religious perspective comes very close to the new American idea that truth is whatever you think it is.
I believe this thinking is now possible in America, and promoted by our infatuation with fantasy through TV, movies and video games. Most Americans spend a huge percentage of their lives in fantasy, where this kind of thinking cannot be proven wrong.
Nature abhors a vacuum, so this adaptation of unfamiliar views is assured, once the original faith is rejected as ours was by removing our God from our schools and our government in 1963.
Vice President Joe Biden can honestly believe that “America must spend money to keep from going bankrupt ", but tested against reality in history and practice, this idea proves to be folly. In the movies you can out run a title wave, hold your breath underwater for as long as you need, get shot at point blank by a machine gun but not get hurt, then take out your opponent with a single round from a pistol while you are tumbling for cover! In the world of the Matrix, reality as we know it means nothing, Therefore truth has no meaning either.

Once a person decides truth has nothing to do with reality, then anything is potentially possible, and any opposition is just negative! Lets try it and hope it will work, be positive!

But Americans used to know what foolishness was. And how did they know that?
Because Americans believed in the concept that there is only one truth, and we must find that truth.
This is a basic of nature, of science, of reality. Originally this was the platform and purpose for scientific discovery, to find what is true. Today the History and Science channels have been taken over by the SciFi channel.
Strangely enough, Jesus gave us our original logic when he said; “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me.” John 14:6 This is the Either/OR approach. Not unfair, just the way it is.
Reject this truth, and you reject logic. Because IF Jesus is the creator of the known universe as the bible says, (John 1:3) then rejecting him, rejects truth.
Are we seeing the evidence of this truth by this new bizarre concept of ‘pantheistic truth’ in America?

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*1 The Truth Project
http://www.thetruthproject.org/ is an amazing walk through why America works. Very worth your time!
*2 I highly recommend Ravi’s podcasts for the thinking mind: Let my People Think Podcasts
http://www.rzim.org/rss/rss-lmpt.aspx

So What Happens If America Falls?

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What Makes Us Different From Other Nations?

This morning is a beautiful spring day.
After a breakfast of my choosing, I made a nice hot cup of coffee, grabbed my current book and stepped out into the sun of my small, modest “breakfast garden” to settle into my chair.
With my coffee on the little round table beside me, and the book in my lap, I closed my eyes to soak in the warmth of the morning sun and listen to the songbirds singing happily.
This is the life!
Then I found myself praying.
It wasn’t long until I was praying for the persecuted church across the sea.
As I was praying I began to wonder; What legitimate thing can I ask the almighty God to do for them?
Can I expect God to answer my prayer to provide them with food, cloths, and shelter as I have? Would I even be content with such basics?
Do I expect him to answer such a general prayer for “the persecuted church”?
Can I ask him to successfully aid them in hiding from those who would kill or mutilate them? Is there a possibility that he would miraculously end the rape of young Christian virgins? Can I ask that he keep the children from seeing their parents murdered before them, or that the parents would be preserved from knowing the agony of seeing the limbs of their children hacked off by inhuman means as told often by NPR?
Is it probable that “the persecuted church” would suddenly be freed from the prisons of the oppressors?
How do I pray for the persecuted church, and the poor, helpless, less fortunate?
Why is the Church so violently treated in the East, and Middle East, while here in the West the church lives virtually undisturbed, at peace?

And as I enjoyed my coffee, in utter security, I am forced to wonder deeply; What makes me different from them? Why do they suffer such daily horrors, while I suffer virtually nothing? Why do they live in Hell on earth, while I live in an earthly paradise?
Do we not worship the same God? (There is much suffering in the world, in this narrative I limit my questions to those believers similar to me, different only in geography.)

The answer is not found in the church itself, (the people believing in Jesus Christ) the answer is found in the environment around them.
Contrary to the unspoken beliefs of many American Christians, if a Christian is surrounded by sick people, he will most likely get sick.
If he is around healthy people, there is less sickness to catch, and he will most likely remain healthy.
Simple science.
For the most part, Christians can expect to exist in the same reality that non-Christians do.
Cause and Effect is the same across the board… for the most part.
Strangely many western Christians are foolishly ignorant of such science, believing themselves to be miraculously above it. This is an ignorant misuse of scripture.
This works in all areas of life; health, finances, knowledge, relationships, etc.
Christians begin to fail in these areas, just as non-Christians do, when they forget to implement the laws of nature relating to each area. Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,…”
This is not some spiritual hocus-pocus, this is science, this is math, it is calculable.

So what about the environment of the East and Middle East, is so different than the environment of the West, that would result in such opposite circumstances?

Just what is it that makes the West, and especially the USA privileged to somehow slip by such atrocities of life in virtually all the middle east nations, most eastern nations, and large parts of the African continent?

Answer yourself this question and you will find the right God to worship.
With few exceptions, the religious ideology of a nation’s government is the cause of its happiness, or lack thereof. All its laws are based on these ideologies. One limited exception to the above statement is the religious ideologies of more powerful neighboring nations.

World history shows a strong trend of great national effort to dominate and oppress other nations, or the idea; “What I feel is good for me, at the expense of what you feel is good for you”.
The time of historical darkness prior to America, is interestingly called the Dark Ages. In 1065 Jerusalem was taken by the Turks. Today re-written history will tell you that the King of England went to war in the Holy Land for his own glory and national endeavors. But an earnest research will show that England went to war against the Turks in an effort to defend the Holy Land from the invaders.
England was struggling with its own perversion of Christianity known as the Church of England, and so resulted their own miss-application of justice. But this began the turn, and the Dark Ages became the Middle Ages as the oppressive Catholic Church was challenged by bold Christians at a very high price. “ Foxe’s Book of martyrs” Author: John Foxe (1516-1587)

Islam, now the dominant faith in the Middle East is called the religion of peace.
What are the signs that it is rightly named?
In the Islamic faith, is the foundational principle to kill all who disagree with them.
Qur’an 9:191 “Kill the disbelievers wherever you find them” (Qur’an 5:34, 9:124, 9:29, 9:73, 9:123, 9:121, 47:4 etc. etc.) This is not some unusual one time circumstantial event, this is a fundamental obligation to all Muslims. Qur’an 8:39 “And He orders us to fight them on until there is no more tumult and faith in Allah is practiced everywhere” (Qur’an 9:39, 9:110, 4:104, 66:9 etc.)
“Jihad is an act of worship, it is one of the supreme forms of devotion to Allah. They say that Jihad is only for defense. This lie must be exposed.” Muslim author and teacher Muhammad Saeed al-Qahtani Jihad Quote
http://iisca.org/knowledge/jihad/jihad_for_allah.htm(since removed)
Islam school in Australia
http://iisca.org

In contrast, the Christian faith finds the foundational command to love your enemy;
Holy Bible Matthew 5:44 “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you:…” 5:7, 5:19, 5:46,
Matthew 5:21-22 “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I (Jesus) say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment…”
Do not kill (one of 10 foundational rules) Exodus 20:13, Proverbs 1:11
Do not lie (another of the 10) Exodus 20:16
Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty are the words:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Clearly the theme of America's religion is love the helpless and unlovable,
while the theme of Islam in the Middle East is; “Allah akbar” at the end of a sword.
"Allahu Akbar is recited on many occasions:
1 In the beginning of prayer of Hazrat Bibi Fatimah (upon whom be peace);
2 When animals are slaughtered; and
3 By the mujahids of Islam."
Meaning of Allahu Akbar
http://salmanspiritual.com/akbar.html
What is a Mujahid?
Mujahid. someone who is active and fights for Islam. A Muslim fighter. The opposite of qaideen. Definition of Mujahid
www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary/term.MUJAHID.html


The God of the west is a God of love, acceptance, forgiveness, benevolence, hope, and love.
The god of the east is a god of hate, murder, suicide, oppression, and hate.

The Middle East, specifically Islam, has long given the world war, conquest, slaughter and oppression.
The West, specifically Christianity, has given the world wealth, security, peace and human dignity.

I am often confronted with many European examples that they are different forms of governments and religions, but similar to America in wealth, peace, freedom and security. This seems to show that the USA is really no different than many nations in spite of its claim to its religious reasons… doesn’t it?
Good question;
To answer that, it must be remembered; my entire Blog is dedicated to returning America to its foundations…. The same foundations that Mr. Obama has dedicated his Presidency to fundamentally change!
America is on its deathbed, and we cannot rightly evaluate its years of unquestionable greatness by its present pitiful condition.

We must also consider just where did these nations obtain their ideas of wealth, peace, freedom and security?
From America!
When America was the world dominant superpower, she did not use her power to oppress nations, or to collect tribute. She blessed the world with unsurpassed financial and political aid, she held at bay evil nations like the USSR when she could, and subdued other evil nations like Japan when other options were unavailable. Yet even then she paid for their rebuilding into nations of peaceful cohabitation with their neighbors, under their own governments!
She showed the world how to hope for more than they had, and raised the world standard of living to previously unimaginable heights!
By freeing humanity from oppression she freed their minds to create, and thus the industrial age was a result.
America’s great armament was not for her own enrichment through conquest, but the defense of the defenseless.
Si vis pacem, para bellum, Latin for: “If you want peace, prepare for war.” was the underlying mentality of her military.
The goal of Hitler was to create a master race, eliminating all others. He was “just helping evolution along” Mein Kampf, English: My Struggle, is a book by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology.
It was America who stepped in to aid Europe in its defense.
In a very simplistic statement; It was America who found and developed the significant oil fields of the middle east, then after getting it established, offered to buy the oil from them. Petroleum Refining by William L Lefler
http://www.bookrags.com/research/oil-is-discovered-in-the-middle-eas-scit-061/

All this is but a fraction of examples showing that America, through its government, based on its faith in the Creator, had the intention of existing in conformity to the principles found in the Holy Bible. Did she always get it right? No. But the results are for the world to remember.

World peace, and lifestyle, and expectation, as we know it today, are a direct result of the influence of America.
What has the Islamic nations given the world?
We have a sea dividing the two religious influences.
This is why I sit quietly in the sun, enjoying the day in utter peace.
This is why many in nations across the sea live in sorrow, fear and destitution.
The Church also finds its quality of existence where it is, because of the spiritual authority under which it lives.

If America is to die, Europe will be like the children of the rich man who has just died.
Europe has learned to expect a fearless lifestyle, but it will dry up because the authoritative source has been removed. Even now, in her much weakened state, America is still the power that holds back the great evil of Islam in the world. Yet we see Islam, in great anticipation, now supported by the evil that sits in the seat of authority of America, beginning to embolden itself again, and the world has begun to see the results.

I sit here even now, at a time when our foundations are being “fundamentally changed” and still the principles that have made this nation so safe for so long, are able to allow me to expect my morning coffee and a good book will not be interrupted by someone I have never met, trying to kill me for reasons I do not understand.
The values that gave us this great peace are at the very foundation of this nation, that is, the faith that we are the servants of the creator, and that we will be accountable to him for what we do.
To fundamentally change this can only lead to fundamentally less than we are now.
Let the faith of the east prove itself there before we so eagerly accept their values.
By violating our foundational values, established in this land by our founders, the man masquerading as our President, the body of Congress, and the Supreme Court, have collectively and individually committed treason against the United States of America in an effort to change our foundations to those of our enemies, against the declared will of the people.

I read in scripture the opportunity for America to repent of our waywardness.
The end of America is not written in stone.
If America dies, it will not be to usher in the end times.
The ‘end times’ events are written in stone, but America can enter them on either side of right.
America has had many years of playing the wayward teen, but she has now been given the confrontation: The voted emblematic leader of this nation has declared to the world; “America is no longer a Christian nation.” And he has told us of his intent, only days before taking office; “We are only 5 days away from fundamentally changing America!”
How we enter the last days is up to us.
The time to choose is now!

Joshua 24:15 “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”