October 29, 2007
Panic Alarm
In 1998 we purchased a near new, previously owned mini-van that had all the bells and whistles. The owner’s manual resembled a correspondence course, so I thumbed through it just enough to learn the basics. Ten years later I still haven’t learned about all the gadgets. While shopping alone one day I somehow locked myself ‘in’ the car. Oh, I could get out of the car alright…but not without setting off alarms. It took 15 minutes of pushing buttons before the car finally released me from captivity. Recently on a trip with my husband, where I did all the driving, I had to re-adjust the position of my seat and side mirrors every time I got into the van. It was maddening until I realized the settings were automatically changing when my husband used his clicker to unlock the doors. Apparently each set of keys has personalized settings. I think when many of us become believers we assume we can walk the Christian path by just learning the basics. Thankfully embarrassing alarms don’t go off every time we make mistakes.
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Gail;
-----After I read your piece for October 29, two images were brought clearly to my mind. In both I saw the captives and the captors. In both I saw inequities and injustices done upon the captives by the captors, and it was plain how the situations of both images have come to be. For the captors take advantage of the control placed into their hand every time, whether or not they too had once been captives. Sadly, it stems from freedom.
-----There has never been a nation with the individual freedoms of these United States and the amazing prosperity produced by those freedoms. We are free to pursue career choices, life styles, hobbies, and past times all having unending variety. The Constitution has for the most part safeguarded this storehouse of freedom. But for that guard to be effective, the perception of its message must parallel the speaking of its message. Unfortunately, perception is very much a public matter, because people are social creatures. It is human nature to resist the thought which does not roughly correspond to what the others are thinking. And there is the control laying in the hand of those who have the means to put forth a constant and somewhat believable message, regardless of its parallel to the truth.
-----Today progressives, as they call themselves, liberals as they are more descriptively termed, have had a long history of message control. They have owned the theatre for centuries. In the last dozen or more decades they took possession of the printed media as well. The motion picture industry toppled into their grasp, along with television entertainment and TV news by the end of the 1960’s. Having gained such a broad foothold into our culture, and knowing that tomorrow people believe what today was only amusing, the liberals were able to quickly spread throughout the education and court systems. We have arrived at the day when the liberals are able to send this culture’s perceptions down Alice’s rabbit hole with a mere click of the control.
-----The majority of the people give no bother to check the claims of the crying sirens of the left. Therefore the majority control of the House and Senate changed upon the use of the word, “Mikaka.” Likewise, the entire country now believes that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction based upon the word of a very white man who speaks no Iraqi against their own experience of the past and against the testimony of one Iraqi who was second in command of Saddam Hussein’s air force. For the liberals it was easy to lock us inside their vehicle with all the controls set to their liking by simply beating the “Mikaka” drum while chanting’ “Bush lied. Bush lied. Bush lied. People died.” They know the nature of the American is to spend their time and resources stuffing mouths full of pizza and beer rather than confirming tidbits of truth for their minds to ponder.
-----So also people find themselves locked up in denominations, believing what they believe about the Lord simply because so many others whom they know believe it as well. Our very faith in the Lord is subjected to the same option setting control of popularity held by prominent hands of the day as are our political convictions. But the real lock which confines is the laziness to seek and verify the truth, as well as the cowardice to stand upon it against inevitable alarms sounded by its popular opposition. But the more people are willing to speak out those verifiable truths, the more the control in the hands of the prominent begins to fade. It can not be done by one voice or two. It must be done by many. That is why I celebrate talk radio, people who meet for Bible study regardless of denomination, your blog, and everyone who speaks out in your blog.
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