Observation #419

 

You know, one makes observations as one goes through life, you can't help but gather information as you go along. I want to talk about one of those things.....

There is a granite monument at 23^rd and Boulevard in Galveston, sitting right atop the seawall. I grew up with it, it was there before I was around.... I am told it was put there in 1923, so this year it will be 100 years old, that is to say, it was cut into shape a hundred years ago. Now they will tell you that granite is millions of years old, maybe billions.... Granite is number seven on the hardness scale, granite pretty tough stuff.

When I was a kid, we (the family) went on an Indian hunt... We were looking for one particular dead Indian., as a result we went though a lot of cemeteries, looked at a lot of tombstones. There is one cemetery behind the Mobile, Alabama Library that goes back to the first French settlement in the mid 1700's. Some of those tombstones were granite..... Remember I said Mobile, Alabama. It's on the bay, on the gulf, it's mud, there ain't no granite. Somebody had to go find a granite outcropping, and quarry it, and haul it to Mobile, for a tombstone, in the 1700's, (just a side note I found interesting). Let's just say I've seen lots and lots of tombstones, of all different ages....

The granite monument there in Galveston has worn down to the point, in a hundred years, they had to renew it so it would remain readable. The ones behind the library in mobile, you can't read at all, you can make out writing, but you can't read it. They are only three-hundred years old... In three hundred years, that granite has worn down to the point you can't read the inscription. Make that six-hundred years..? A million years...? A hundred million years...? Really..? Seems to me that tombstone would be gone. Dust in the wind. Yet you look at the mountains, you see jagged edges, you see sharp ridges, you see steady landslides.... What you don't see is anything that looks like millions of years. Other than the plant growth (another topic), most of it looks rather fresh.

If science is going to lie to us, and tell us fairy-tales so they look smart, you would think they would be smart enough to tell a story that looks like what we see.

As an Over-the-Road Driver, I have seen this country from sea to sea, corner to corner. None of it looks millions of years old, in fact in looks like it was laid out with beauty in mind. If one knows anything of beauty, it is awe inspiring. It is almost as if it was laid out by hand. An ongoing painting, in motion with day and night. A creation that creates. In many places signs of the great flood are obvious and they are everywhere, once you notice them. There are great oddities, like the Delaware Water Gap, something that really isn't possible, yet there it is, and you can drive through it, truly a signature of the artist.

I remember the first time I saw the Grand Canyon, I knew instantly, this is a big ole wash out. This happened very quickly and involved a lot of water. A lot of water...!!! Yet, there is room for two huge lakes above it, I've driven through them, indeed they look like lake bottoms, No millions of years there, just a real big ole wash out, and two empty lakes. It's obvious.

So don't tell me millions of years, I wasn't born yesterday, and by the light of Christ, I can see. Anyway, that's my rant, I'm just so sick of science lying and avoiding the truth. Teaching their lies to the kids, and testing them on it. It's crap, it's all crap.

George Henry Nichols

November15th,   2024

PS – I'm not really in a bad mood, just a rant.

An essay by Bill Brugman

 

Christianity is built upon a mountain of solid rock. Christian philosophers, historians, and scientists are the clearest thinkers I have ever encountered.

C.S. Lewis is one of them. He was a WW l infantry vet who fought in the trenches as an atheist. He was a medieval history and literature scholar, a philosopher and a professor at Cambridge. He was a prolific author. He became a Christian because he couldn’t avoid the truth, according to him. He broadcast messages over the radio to Londoners during the blitz that were edited and became one of his most famous books, Mere Christianity. He also wrote Miracles, The Problem of Pain, The Weight of Glory and the Screwtape Letters. He wrote the Chronicles of Narnia for children. I have never found a reasoned retort to his stance on Jesus Christ. I have seen angry, cynical posts on the internet but I would compare them to throwing sand against a granite boulder.

C.S. Lewis affected my life. He made a statement that I have never forgot and which I always remember when trying to understand the world today. He said: “I believe in Christianity like I believe in the sun, not only because I can see it but by its light I can see everything else.”

On that note here is what that light exposes about liberalism. They refuse to confront evil and actually deny its existence. They wind up condonng and promoting it. Evil is the scourge of human civilization and because evil will flourish under a liberal system of anything, liberals are a danger to all of us.

Their views on religion can be summed up with one statement. Liberals are diametrically opposed to traditional Christianity, the religion of C.S. Lewis, the belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

This is the Christianity that includes the doctrine of the goodness of God corrupted by the evil influence of Satan, a spiritual being of great power, who will be judged and punished at the resurrection when all humans living and dead will be judged for their deeds and will receive just rewards. The doctrine of evil as a real power in the universe is the doctrine liberals cannot stomach. Many claim to be Christians but if you dig a little deeper you will discover universalism, Christ as a wise and good man, etc. etc. Liberals hate the concept of evil because they hate the concept of judgment.

They despise these concepts because by accepting them they are placing themselves in the position of being accountable to a moral code above and beyond them. Liberals want to establish the codes of conduct of themselves and others. This desire permeates their views on everything that matters in this world. Therefore they embrace any religion other than traditional Christianity because all others allow self-righteousness.

Islam is a special problem for liberals. Islam worships Allah, the biblical name for Satan in the Book of Isaiah. Islam is an evil cult spawned by Satan through a tribal, pedophilic, violent, moon worshipping Arab chieftain. The light of Christianity clearly exposes Islam. It is tough to deny evil in the face of beheadings, corporal amputation, suicide bombing, rapes, pedophilia, mass executions and the desire for world domination under Sharia law. But liberals do. It is here that the mental gymnastics really become circus like.

They draw a moral equivalency between Islam and ghetto behavior and blame the evil of Islam on poverty or lack of education or the need for jobs or the climate or a response to corporate imperialism or anything but what it is, evil. And they do this as if they have already convinced us these are the root causes of ghetto behavior, which is another subject altogether.

By denying the evil of Islam they have hit a home run in the evil denying game. The denial of other sorts of evil, like ghetto behavior, the passive paganism of new age religion, the sexual perversion of homosexuality or human sacrifice in the form of abortion become child’s play. If the evil of Islam can be sloughed off, nothing is impossible. Right is wrong. Good is evil. Man is supreme. The State is supreme. The environment is supreme. Animals have the same value as humans. Human babies have no value at all. God is a children’s story. Anything goes. If it feels good it's right. Emotion trumps commitment. Courage is coming out as a pervert, not sacrificing one’s life for another.

Liberalism is a cancer. God damned it in the book of Judges 3000 years ago and I damn it in the light of Christ today. If that makes me a pariah I will die a pariah.

Bill Brugman