December 17, 2014
Speaking the Language
Speaking through a translator
a woman was interviewed about the pressing issue of immigration rights. She has
lived in the area for more than 25 years, her husband has worked in the US for 28
years, and their three children range in age from late teens to a 5-year-old.
The woman, in spite of Obama’s executive orders, is still fearful of
deportation. I have to admit that I suffer from indignation when I hear people
living in the America for a quarter of a century, they haven’t bothered to
learn the language, and yet they want permanent residency. Then again, we have believers
who’ve been attending worship services for over 25 years and they too haven’t
bothered to learn the language of Christ.
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Gail;
-----And what do you suppose will happen to those who’ve lived in the church all their lives without learning the language of Christ? Is He going to happily invite them into His kingdom and change it to fit their comforts? No! They haven’t learned His language because they want His benefits, not His reign, His goods, not His relationships. Those living their lives in the United States without becoming Americans want America’s benefits, not it’s governance. Why should either the church or the nation put up with parasites? If someone wishes to live their life in America, let them be American, or send them home to what they are.
-----You might think it crass of me to call these people parasites. But a nation and its strength is built around culture. Culture is people thinking in like terms in similar directions so there will be strength in the similarities of their attitudes arising into actions. Witness WWII. Of course, nobody is identical to one another, even within a culture. But individual differences within a culture do not rise to the level of havening to redefine terms every time you change associates. But when you come to the criminal alien, you have to redefine the law so that his breaking it is not a crime, and he can become merely an undocumented alien. Then what falls before the other? The law, or the parasite? Maybe it is that some want the law to fall, and they only use the criminal alien to strike cracks in its foundation by attacking the culture of what it is to be American.
-----I love Hispanics as much as I love anyone else. But that’s just the deal. I do love everyone else, too. Watching ISIS chopping off heads in sight of the growing popularity for Europeans and Americans alike to join them makes me nervous for all my loved ones, including myself. If we had a sound, consistent, national culture around which everyone rather agreed upon and rather cast their efforts into, America would have the strength to fend off the building threat to the world that psycho-Islam is becoming. But no! We can not have the heightened security homogenous culture produces, because American culture is “evil“. We must all put down America so every foreigner amongst us can raise up their own culture.
-----Here’s an example. One of the oldest sayings I can remember goes, “Everyone must sleep in the bed they’ve made.” That was very much an American cultural idea. I don’t know if it’s origin was American, but I know its use was. And it meant that you are responsible for your own conditions. If you want good conditions, be smart, be legal, and work hard for them. If you don’t want to be smart, legal, or hard working, then live in the conditions which result and don’t whine for some enabler to came and give you someone else’s good conditions. But we must now cast that good sense aside to give good conditions to this lady who’s criminally lived in America for twenty five years (it’s not a legal status folks, it is what it is - broken law.) For her we must break America’s law and reduce the security of three hundred forty nine million nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine other people. I’ve one suggestion: strengthen the law by executing the law. Some bad situations have painful solutions. If you don’t rip a scab off a festering wound to wash it out, the whole body will be killed by gangrene. And we lie to each other about both the need for culture and the need for law to maintain strength of the body a nation is.
-----I’ve just about reached the point of praying with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. If America wants to make a fool’s bed, then I think it’s time for her to lay in the travesty her foolishness will bring. Besides, I see it written all over the stars and in the Word, too, hinting that America’s time to fall and anti-Christ’s time to rise have come.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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