December 03, 2013
Table Talk
My large round oak table dinner
table is one that my grandma purchased years ago at a yard sale for 25 cents.
Grandma ran an old folks home and we always had four or five old-time gents
eating family-style meals with us. Grandma, a staunch believer, never served a
meal without first saying the blessing, so the prayers offered over this table
would be too numerous to count. Although the table has been refinished, it is seasoned
and worn with prayers, petitions and thanksgivings. I can only imagine what
this cherished piece of furniture might say if it had a voice. Interestingly,
John does give voice to the altar in Revelation. “And I heard the altar
respond: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.” (Rev 16:7 NIV)
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Gail;
-----Your blog today just brought to mind the Thanksgiving Day and Christmas dinner talking points Organizing for Action distributed. Although I admire their moxie, the concept is both evil (as in “anti-Christian) and anti-American. By comparison, all of the blessings asked, thanksgivings offered, and conversations seasoned into your old, oak table shine in the dark of man’s days like the stars of goodness making fellowship that has made America.
-----OFA titled their stab at our hearts, “HealthCare for the Holidays.” The blessing hidden within this subtle attack on goodness is that it shows ObamaCare is dragging underwater the collectivist concept - that near and dear heartthrob of the Democrat base - like a canoe full of anvils. America’s eyes saw. America’s minds understood. America’s hearts rejected what also they had shouted “NO!” to three-and-a-half years ago (hmm, coincidentally odd period of time.)
-----55% of Americans reached their conclusion by talking sense and reason amongst themselves. They compared ideas happening naturally and rather independently within their individual minds and found among themselves more interrelated ideas supporting a free-market style of healthcare than a collective style. This concept of spontaneous and free flowing discussions warms my heart. “Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another; the LORD heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and thought on his name.” (Mal 3:16)
-----Now, what is so evil, anti-Christian, and anti-American about “HealthCare for the Holidays”? Formally, evil is a part of the natural flow deceptions must make to infect a population. I recently read a book titled “The Science of Evil, on Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty,” by Simon Baron-Cohen. His theme was that evil was simply the absence of empathy. And I think it is one of its bones. But empathy is made of thinking upon truths. To exist, it needs an individual casting thought and imagination upon others and the truth of their plights. That is quite different from casting a thought upon a list of talking points and its planned objectives. But empathy wells up from the goodness of hearts loving truth of mind. And truth is that kind of thing such independent minds recognizably approximate, then agree upon when comparing notes. Thus do 55%. So, empathy emerges from truth oriented people, while evil is the child of deceit. A particular deceit must be distributed, for good people would not commonly conclude it. Rather than emerging as a power from individual hearts as do common empathies, deceit must weasel into individual hearts through a particular power. And wherever a deceit is, there grows its evil. Substantively, “HealthCare for the Holidays” is a collection of outright lies and twisted truths poked at the minds of good, independently thinking people. That is evil, anti-Christian, and anti-American.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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