Those
who can hardly stand the syntax and rhythmic schemes of the English usage in
our Constitution will not find any magnificence or beauty in the Elizabethan
phrases of the Bible’s King James Version. Not to worry – other versions are
readily available to elucidate and amplify; there is hope for those whose
cognizance has been slighted.
King
James says “O ye sons of men, how long
will ye turn my glory into shame? How long will ye love vanity, and seek after
leasing?” (Ps 4: 2) The hurried generation doesn’t employ, nor is familiar
with terms like ‘leasing.’ Visions of
new car leases or Fifth Avenue apartments that rent for five million dollars or
more, per year, are not the subject spoken to in the King’s most regal version
of writ.
Let’s
use a simpler version, broken down for the hurried minds and the erudite of the
day. Here is a chance for those fully endowed with acquired knowledge, but who
remain unable to engage the ancient, revered yet fully preserved mechanism by
which to use knowledge correctly; commonly referred to as wisdom.
The
easier version, quoted from the Message Bible removes the clouds thus rendering
it accessible even to the minds of children. “You rabble—how long do I put up with your scorn?
How long will you lust after lies? How long will you live crazed by illusion?” (Opere citato)
How long will you lust after lies? How long will you live crazed by illusion?” (Opere citato)
The
‘everything came from nothing’ crowd, (Big bang,) insists that God could not
have actually spoken these words. That’s OK, because the same crowd is still
wrestling with the question of whether the tree falling in the forest makes any
noise in the absence of anyone being present to hear it. Passing by their own
fully accepted, empirically derived, definition of sound, we should not be
surprised that they haven’t arrived at a fully supportable definition for the
beginning of the universe.
To
review: whether a falling tree in the forest makes a big bang cannot be
answered – but a big bang in outer space can make a universe. No witnesses for
either event but an entire society that believes one big bang equals one big
universe. This raises the specter of two more great questions. First, if a mind
asks a question when no one is there to witness it, does it create a great
intellect? Second, do you actually want to leave the explanation of the
universe in the hands of people who think like this?
As
they wrestle with the question of trees in the forest, we at least already
know, that not one human being was present to hear the big bang, subsequently,
explanations for the origin of the universe are still, knocking, flailing and
floundering at wisdoms door.
If
wisdom arose, he would no doubt rebuke those who pounded on his door. He would
ask the question of why he should have to speak to them a second and third time
on the subject he has addressed so often and so concisely. Why should he have
to repeat it again to the dull of hearing when there are those who haven’t
heard it for the first time? Have you heard it yet?
“Because that which may be
known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so
that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations,
and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools.” (Ro 1: 19-22)
After
such a scathing rebuke, would they not only cease to seek father wisdom, but
they may be inclined to warn others that he doesn’t have a clue. If that didn’t
work, they might cut off his lines of communication, or as we say here in
century twenty one - pull the plug.
The
unplugged version of society is busy running around pulling the plugs of
scripture, constitution and academic curiosity in so many ways that it would
require a full non-fictional omnibus to cover its brief (about one generation)
but frenzied history.
Prayer
yanked out of schools, placards removed from courtrooms, words forbidden in
classrooms, political correctness choking the media and a fear, fully formed and
carefully outlined by PC
engineers, then cast upon an entire
generation that would bring pride to the likes of Hitler, Mao and Mussolini.
This
generation has figuratively re-written the most well-known prayer in the world.
Unspoken but, clearly heard, it is the very supplication and petition of the
unregenerate.
Our
Father which art in heaven, please erase your name from our classrooms,
courtrooms, places of public discourse and most everywhere else – if you
please. And by all means don’t let your kingdom come, especially not now,
because we are very busy in our all new enlightened world. And lest we forget,
please dump that daily bread thing, we want more millionaires so we can tax
them and use the dough to support the entitled and less fortunate. Would you
mind easing back on that temptation thing because political hooligans,
pop-culture heroes, Hollywood’s hacks, Playboy’s Heff and the internet’s Huff have
assured us that; ‘lust is for life’ and we really can’t seem to get enough of
that good stuff these days. And by the way would you stop emphasizing that sin
thing. We have pretty much dealt with that and now, we allow most everything,
except murder and child abuse – but at times we’re not too sure about that
either, as our ground breaking new HBO series, “Angry
Boys” should fully indicate to you. Finally God,
about that kingdom, power and glory thing; we already have a narcissist in
chief (Barack Obama) so lighten up a bit for now.
If,
as we like to say, ‘one lie only leads to another’ what shape is the last day’s
generation in, since they choose to accept the ultimate and biggest lie of all
the previous generations, namely, that we are no longer or, perhaps, were never
accountable to God at all? Are we already running headlong into the scripture
that declares “And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie?” (2Th 2:
11)
It
is clearly safe to say that the day has arrived when lies, not love is what makes our world go round here in America. We
have as the best example, the re-election bid of Barack Obama. Here is a man
with stacks of 2008 campaign promises fully undelivered and rotting on their
pallets down at the White House docks. With almost four years to make good on
any promise, policy or proposal, he can now only say the exact opposite to the
campaign crowds he addresses today and hope they won’t notice that he is quite
full of the proverbial baloney sausage.
Gas
prices climbing to the moon do not supplant the all but deleted space program,
but it is clear that prices at the pump will reach the moon long before we make
our second attempt to get there. Obamacare is under the scrutiny of the
Supremes and it doesn’t have a good prognosis in that august body. Social
tinkering to promote the gay agenda has become a runaway train belching out
whistle, smoke and terror as it approaches our children’s security and their
very childhood innocence, at breakneck speed.
Joblessness,
bank failures, failed bailouts and green
policy that is stifling energy production, bring
up the rear, but the campaign rhetoric goes on, replete with hedging,
prevarications, evasiveness, equivocation and fibbing. That’s an awful lot of
words to use for civilities sake; when we all know that the real word to use is
simply – lies.
Besides
lies, there are the old trustworthy political devices like, blame gimmicks and
the old stand-by - unmitigated gall.
We
thought there was nothing left to blame George Bush for, until now. Then we saw
the start of the gimmicks, like ‘the Buffett Rule’ and the ‘War against women,
working moms, the church, the unborn, marriage, the rich and America itself.
The only thing left is the gall with which Barack Obama expects us to believe
that re-electing him would be anything other than the beginning of a national
disaster.
Let’s
get plugged back in to some higher wisdom America and bring this great
streamlined locomotive into the station in one piece, with some dignity and
some national pride to go along with it!
I
can think of plenty of names like Washington, Lincoln, Reagan and others whose
words would serve to remind us of the wisdom and nobility that was once used to
form this nation. But I would rather remind my readers of the real words of the
Lord’s Prayer which may serve to direct our attention to the one whose words
are far more than quotable – they are the words
of life.
“Our Father which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” (Matthew 6: 9)
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