June 12, 2007
Quotable Quote
I recently watched the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The pirate ship is headed into the drink and both ship and crew will be lost. Captain Barbosa is at the helm and in true pirate form says, “The best day to die is a day worth living for!” What a great Christian eulogy. I think I’ll write this one in my Bible.
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Gail;
-----I am going to go way off your topic, because it reminded me of something I heard last night on the Rusty Humphries Radio Show. He mentioned that the Americans suffered great losses to win the security of the seas back from the pilfering rampages of the Barbarossa pirates. His point was that those ancestors of ours felt the security of the seas for those who respect right was plenty valuable to exact the price in life it took to defeat that evil. The rights purchased with that payment of lives has been inherited by their succeeding generations of children.
-----I hang my head in shame every time the liberal news show flashes the last graphic on the screen of my TV in protest of the lives lost battling the inhuman hatred of Muslim terrorism. I tremble in anger knowing that the same talking head emitting tears of regret over this price for freedom and dignity and mutual respect also has knowledge of the hatred for Jews, Americans, and the Western lifestyle being taught world wide in Wahhabi schools funded by Saudi Arabia -- the same country who sent Wahhabi fanatics into Afghanistan to fight the Soviets -- the same fanatics who became the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Osama bin Ladden. This talking head also knows Hamas, Hezzbolah, and the Islamic Jihadists are all organizations created by Iran in the past and funded by Iran today. And he knows that the “Islamic Republic” in the Islamic Republic of Iran stands for the idea of uniting all Islamic states into the Koranic law in place of the idea of nationalism within each individual Islamic state. And the talking head bemoans the loss of another American life with no mention of the threat to the world which necessitates that loss.
-----Indeed I grieve for the succeeding generations of our children who evidently do not count in the thoughts of the self-centered baby-boomer. But I do not hang my head in shame because of my generation’s lack of the sacrificial love required to secure the future from tyranny. No! Instead of moaning for the dead, I give honor and respect to their sacrifices made for our freedom and security in life. And I acknowledge them as heroes and heroines. For I do all I can to educate myself beyond the carefully trimmed words of the talking heads. Then I do all I can to repeat what I learn to any who will listen. And if the Lord brings avenue to my feet to do more, then I will do that also. It is the only way I can avoid the shame of my generation.
----I am not ashamed to acknowledge the right of the One who is to come for what is His over the wrong of those who think they have to bomb innocents, decapitate captives, and take the world by bloody sword before theirs will come. And I thank God theirs will come, for He who needs no man’s sword to clear His way will defeat their evil by the sword of His own mouth.
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