Confessions of a Stupid Elephant (Sample Chapter from “Stupid Elephant Tricks – The Other Progressive Party’s War on Christianity”)

© 2011, 2012 Scott Alan Buss – All Rights Reserved.

The following sample is the complete introduction from the just-released book, Stupid Elephant Tricks – The Other Progressive Party’s War on Christianity. If you like it, please pass along this link to anyone else you know who might me interested and inspired by the message of this book. Thank you for your prayers, patience, and support!

For more excerpts and to address any formatting issues with this one (blog posts/emails can sometimes be thoroughly mangled in transit), please feel free to head on over to www.FireBreathingChristians.com. There is a lot of info on Stupid Elephant Tricks posted there, along with clips and previews from this month’s other R3V Press release, Satan’s Jackass – The Progressive Party’s War on Christianity.

That said, and without further delay, here’s your sneak peek at Chapter 10, “The Would Be God Who Would Be President”:

CONFESSIONS OF A STUPID ELEPHANT

THE REPENTANCE AND REFORMATION OF A CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE

…what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God…

2 Corinthians 6:14-16

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“Of two evils, choose neither.”

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

                                                                                  .

Is my vote honoring to my God? This is the question that, by His grace alone, I’ve aimed to sincerely ask and honestly contemplate, and the serious consideration of this question is what I hope and pray to inspire in all other American Christians through this book.

As a thankful child of the ’80s, I have a soft spot and deep admiration for Ronald Reagan and what God chose to do through him for America in what was truly a desperate, dark time in the nation’s history. As a politically inclined young man in the ’90s, I also have something of a soft spot for Rush Limbaugh and the radio revolution he began “back in the day” of George H.W. Bush’s “kinder, gentler nation”. (I even refused to purchase the text bookfor a college sociology class taught by a gay (“homosexual”, not “happy”) Marxist, instead opting to carry a copy of Rush’s The Way Things Ought to Be with me to class every day.) And as a vocal supporter of the younger Bush’s campaigns in the decade that followed his father’s presidency, I have a very warm affection for good ol’ red state, Tea Party patriotism and sensibility.

   None of these things have changed.

I love America. I love her Constitution. I love her history. I love her unique wonder and witness to the providential hand and power of God. I love her role and influence in a dark world insofar as she has been able to attain and sustain that biblical “shining city on a hill” position mentioned so frequently and so fondly by President Reagan.

I love conservative books, I love talk radio, and I love the fact that God has given American Christians all of these things along with the power and opportunity to use them to shape our own government – something that is breathtakingly rare in human history. I love that we have no Caesar in America (at least not yet). I love that We the People are Caesar (at least for now).

But each of these loves have been, for me, cast in a new light. By the grace of God alone, I’ve only recently been granted enough light and the desire to face it so that I might come to see and contemplate that question differently. More seriously. More urgently. More faithfully.

Is my vote honoring to my God?

Considering what I have been graced to learn and live through His perfect Word, is my vote honoring to my God? Knowing what I have been blessed to see and understand about His nature and necessity as the center of all hopeful human endeavor, is my vote honoring to my God? Having embraced the truth that He has given me through His written revelations regarding the need to exalt and submit to Him in all things at all times, even (and especially) when doing so is decidedly unpopular and non-pragmatic by every self-serving standard and worldly impulse, is my vote honoring to my God?

   As I first began to seriously contemplate this question a few short years ago, I immediately realized that repentance was required. And in that same moment I also realized what it was that had played such a large part in my having previously avoided the true weight of the question altogether: Pride.

It was anything but comfortable to realize that  I  had been so far off the mark. And it was hardly a warm and fuzzy feeling that washed over me at the realization that I had been that far off the mark when I had, all along, had my God’s perfect truth plainly preserved and presented before me the whole time.

It wasn’t as though Scripture was vague, cloudy, or ambiguous regarding such vital truths as the centrality and lordship of Christ in all things at all times. It wasn’t exactly wishy-washy as to the price of submitting to Christ in each and every one of those things, either. And it sure wasn’t the least little bit wobbly or wiggle-room-friendly as to how counter-intuitive and downright peculiar the Christian life in action would appear from a worldly perspective. God’s Word couldn’t have been more clear on any of these things. It was as though it was perfect or something….and that perfection was cutting through a lot of pet positions, perspectives, and traditions that I’d proudly held close and dear for a very long time.

I realized that I had been very secularly pragmatic in my political thoughts and actions. I had been very self-focused, self-referential, and self-centered in my political thoughts and actions. And I had been all of these things in spite of my having known better all along.

Now here I am, in the year of our Lord 2012, and I see an America that is circling the drain in every significant, measurable way. Realizing that it is doing so in no small part due to the choices that  I  have made, the causes that  I  have supported, and the candidates for whom  I  have voted has not exactly proven to be my idea of a good time. It really was much more fun when I could just blame those evil and/or stupid Democrats for everything.

But the course that’s been charted for America isn’t an exclusively Democrat construct. Far from it. It isn’t a Republican creation, either. It is the product of a progressivism that has captivated both parties, and the “progress” at the heart of both its right wing and left wing variants is a progress toward a man-centered worldview and away from a God-centered one. If this path is followed for just a little while longer, we really will see the doom that has been waiting for us since we started down this trail.

   I love America. I love God more than America. Infinitely more.

So it is that I love America enough to root for her when she seeks and submits to His will, I love her enough to root against her when she goes the other way, and I love her enough to fight for her shifting to the former path when she is presently choosing the latter. My fidelity is, happily and adoringly, to God above all else, and that is the prism through which, by His grace, I aim to test all things – including all political things – and then ask the question: Is my vote honoring to my God?

My prayer is that the hard truths and bold statements made in the pages of Stupid Elephant Tricks will be understood with four keys kept on hand and in mind:

1. This book is written primarily to Christians. There is a roughly zero percent chance that much of what’s written in these pages will even begin to make sense to anyone else. That said, it is hoped that the Gospel presentation contained in these pages might be used by the Lord to add to His church as He sees fit. He is trusted completely in this regard.

2. All that any of us have – including any bit of knowledge or wisdom or insight – is a gift from God. None of us have any room to boast in ourselves, though we can and should boast in the Lord who has given us all of these things. I certainly do not imagine for a moment that I am inherently any better than any of those whom I may criticize herein. I am not. Of all the people I’ve ever met or heard of or even read about in a history book, the one of whom I am most aware as a sinful, selfish person is: Me. By God’s grace, He has saved me, and by His grace He is sanctifying me, but based on what I know about my own heart and my own mind, I do not for a single solitary second seriously present myself as inherently better than anyone.

3. This book does not pretend to represent or aspire to become a benchmark or standard setter for Christian political thought. The Bible is that book. This one is just an imperfect set of observations written by an imperfect man who hopes and prays that God will choose to graciously use these clumsy words and expressions to draw His people toward Him as the source of every meaningful bit of knowledge. I am not proposing or implying or even close to implying that those who arrive at different conclusions than I express on the subjects covered herein are in any way, as a result of such a difference, demonstrating that they are not “real” Christians or that they are in any way less of a Christian. The Bible is their proving ground for such things; this book is not.

4. We must seek biblical answers to every question – including the political. The whole thrust of this book is aimed at simply inspiring Christians to cast every political question in the perfect light of Scripture and then submit to what is revealed in that light – no matter the cost in this fleeting, temporal world.

So have grace towards others – including me and every target of criticism noted in these pages. Love as you have been loved. And then stand for the truth as the Lover of your soul has commanded, with all boldness and confidence in Him.

I trust that He will guide us all along the way as we take this journey together. He has placed us purposefully in such a time and place and situation as this. That reality is both a matchless comfort and a magnificently daunting challenge. And we shouldn’t want it any other way.

We have a nation to save, but we have a God to honor first. May He never again allow us to forget this.   Thank you for your patience, grace, and desire to pursue His truth in all things.

Soli Deo Gloria…and let’s roll!

SAB

March 25, 2012

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Thank you!

Intro to Fire – The Power and Purpose of a Common Believer (Excerpt from “Fire Breathing Christians”)

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This has been a long time in the making, but the day has finally come…

Posted here is the introduction from Fire Breathing Christians – The Common Believer’s Call to Reformation, Revival, and Revolution. The book will be released in late October. In the days leading up to launch, I will be posting excerpts from many of its 21 chapters so that you might get a feel for the material without having to go to the trouble or expense of purchasing a copy. Of course, if you like what you see, I fully expect you to buy at least three copies.

In all seriousness, if, after reading through the Intro to Fire (and the excerpts to follow), you find Fire Breathing Christians to be your cup o’ tea, I hope and pray that you will use the great power that you have to fan this flame into something God glorifying and culture impacting by simply sharing the message of this book with like-minded folks.  The good news is that the “God glorifying” part of that equation is, in a real sense, already in the bag. He has taken care of that. The “culture impacting” part is where you come in. To that end, your prayers are coveted and your spreading the word of Fire Breathing Christians is more appreciated (and more important) than you may ever know.

Thank you for taking the time to pause, read, pray and ponder. Without further delay…

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Copyright © 2010 Scott Alan Buss - All rights reserved.

 

INTRO TO FIRE

THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF A COMMON BELIEVER

 

“FIRE…God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, and not of the philosophers and savants. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace.”

Blaise Pascal

I can remember holding my wife’s hand when she died. Even now I can vividly recall the moment before and the moment after, but it was the difference between the two that struck me with a force I’d not anticipated. It was in that instant following her ascent to paradise that I realized fully for the first time the fact of death—the permanent passing of a good and beautiful thing from this flawed and fallen world. The moment before, Kristi was there. Her spirit and mind were with me. The potential for every good and miraculous thing that might be realized through them was there with me. Then, in a breath, they were gone.

From a secular perspective, this was pure tragedy. Twenty-five-year-olds aren’t supposed to be diagnosed with cancer and twenty-nine-year-olds aren’t supposed to die. From my own weak and flawed perspective, this was a time of great loss and pain—the quintessential example of “a time to mourn.” From God’s perspective, this was a demonstration of matchless love and flawless timing, all according to the perfect plan He had ordained since before the dawn of creation.

It was in the midst of these competing claims to truth that I was blessed with clarity. The God who had so lovingly sustained and encouraged me through a four-year saga of hope and sorrow had then graciously provided the precious prize of certainty. Just as I’d discovered a deeper meaning of death, so too I had been presented with the gift of peace through a divinely inspired clarity. For the first time, I came to personally realize that God’s plan was not merely perfect in a broad, general sense, but it was flawless perfection for each and every one of us on an individual level—even for me.

It was a simple concept, really, yet one of impossible weight, all of which seemed to relentlessly press on my mind. I was simultaneously numb from the profound turn that life had just taken with Kristi’s passing and awestruck at what I was beginning to see clearly for the first time. It was at once a wonderful and frightening experience; one that left me feeling both desperately small and boundlessly hopeful. As I struggled with these apparent contradictions, I developed into a confused American thirty-something-year-old Christian man. And that was a good thing.

In the following weeks and months, I prayed, studied and sought the thoughts of others who had been exposed to this convicting and invigorating clarity. This search led me to many wonderful and inspirational stories, including that of a man named Blaise Pascal.

God-given Fire

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:28–29

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a child prodigy who became a prominent mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. By the age of nineteen, he invented what many consider to be the first computer (it was a calculating device that he crafted to help his father, who was a tax collector). What I found most intriguing about his biography was its “Night of Fire” episode.

In the late 1640s, Pascal came into contact and subsequently wrestled with Jansenism, a branch of Catholicism that emphasized the fall of man through sin and the necessity of divine grace. Pascal struggled with and contemplated this philosophy well into the 1650s; though during that time, he embraced neither its views nor the God claimed as their author.

Then, on November 23, 1654, not long after a brush with death at the Neuilly-sur-Seine Bridge, he was overwhelmed by an intense vision. Between the hours of 10:30 and 12:30 at night, Blaise Pascal experienced what has come to be known as his “Night of Fire.” He recorded the experience immediately in a note, which began: “Fire. God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and savants…” and concluded by quoting Psalm 119:16: “I will not forget thy word. Amen.” He then sewed the written note into his coat and always transferred it when he changed clothes. The presence of the note was discovered accidentally by a servant after Pascal’s death…that is, if you believe in accidents.

I no longer believe in accidents, and that’s the point. Well, one of them, anyway.

After reading Pascal’s story for the first time, I couldn’t help but be overwhelmed and, I must admit, even a bit suspicious. The sheer power of it all was quite impressive, no doubt, but almost too fantastic to be true. Yet there it was, and as I pondered this dramatic episode further, my mind was propelled from one biblical account to another. The fire of which Pascal so passionately wrote inspired my recollection of John the Baptist’s announcing Jesus’ coming to “baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire” as well as images of Pentecost as recorded in the book of Acts:

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.

Acts 2:1–3

These accounts painted the once suspicious Night of Fire in a very different light. They seemed to me to proclaim that Blaise Pascal’s experience, while utterly fantastic and awe-inspiring in so many beautiful ways, was nonetheless quite possible—indeed, in a very real sense likely—in the life of a believer. The more I studied, the more I became convinced that Spirit and fire are not merely possible, they are to be expected. They are to be assumed in the life of a Christian.

Just the thought of such a thing as this is worthy of pause, I think, and pause I did. My frazzled mind grappled at length with what was, for me, a wonderful and intimidating new truth: Christ has come to baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. And even better, He doesn’t seem to be selective with this Spirit and fire. He gives them to every believer.

This magnificent power might come over you in an intense vision on a November night, or it may make itself known as you hold the hand of a loved one who is passing from this life and into the next. It may lay its claim upon you while you struggle and cry out from the deepest place of despair or while you happily sit and read under a shade tree on the perfect, sunny day. Whenever or wherever it may have come to you, I cannot know or say, though I can be certain of two things:

Every Christian has been baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Every Christian has been blessed in this manner for a great, God-centered and God-glorifying purpose.

The first aim of Fire Breathing Christians is to identify the God-given fire in every Spirit-filled believer so that they might actively and enthusiastically fan its flame. From one Common Believer to another, my initial goal is to impress upon every Christian man, woman, boy, and girl who may read these words that they have both an amazing power and a unique, individual purpose, regardless of their place, position, title, or role in this fallen world. There is nothing in your past—no failing or flaw—that alters this truth in the least. Every Christian has been called to otherwise impossible heights and equipped to attain them.

So it is that you and I have been brought together today for a great purpose. (And you thought this whole “pick up a book and have a look” thing was quite random, didn’t you?)

While we could hardly have imagined, much less properly planned such a meeting as this, we can now know that it has been both imagined and planned by the same Master who inspired matchless “certitude, feeling joy and peace” in one particular man on the night of November 23, 1654.

The God who claims and empowers great leaders and theologians is no less interested and takes no less joy in any other father, mother, daughter, or son. He seeks to lift them all to the same impossible height. As I am selfishly fond of pointing out, He takes great pleasure in using the weakest vessels to accomplish the most magnificent tasks. And His fire is not solely reserved for child prodigies or prominent philosophers.

This truth serves our purpose very well, as the change that America so desperately needs cannot be imposed from a pulpit. It will not be a product of seminary training. It will not come via decree or proclamation from the high places of man. It will come from the front lines, the grass roots, and the trenches. It is the Christian shopkeeper, landscaper, plumber, and homemaker in the pews who hold the keys to victory. They will make or break our cause.

It is the fire from above burning within these people that can heal a dying culture and restore a once-great nation. But this fire knows only one source and one goal—the one and only true God of biblical Christianity. Insofar as He, and He alone, is our center in all things, it will hold and we will accomplish otherwise impossible tasks.

To this end, every Common Believer has been called to this battle and equipped for victory.

The Common Believer

While this is certainly not a book of high theology, there are going to be some critical terms and concepts that must be defined as we go along.  To that end, Fire Breathing Christians will make regular reference to the Common Believer. With this term, I aim simply to address every genuine Christian convert and adherent to biblical truth, regardless of position, place, role or title.

The commonality expressed in this title is threefold:

1. Common in status as adopted sons and daughters of Christ.
2. Common in submission to Jesus as Savior and Lord.
3. Common in submission to biblical truth as authoritative in all things.

This category covers theologians, fieldworkers, philosophers, housewives, political leaders, policemen, fishermen, fathers, daughters, sons, and students. It includes all biblically defined Christians without any compulsion to exalt one above another or rank them in any order of perceived significance. These are the people that must be equipped so that they might successfully engage the culture.

We simply cannot continue to surrender most battles, cede most battlefields, and then hope to somehow win the war raging about that culture. We cannot wait for a good and godly leader to emerge or for somebody else—anybody else—to “do something.” We cannot wait for God to miraculously do what He has called and equipped us to do. You and I—each and every Common Believer—must take it upon ourselves to engage the enemy on every front. The arts…business…politics…these are the fields of battle that we are called and equipped to conquer.

Fire Breathing Christians is one Common Believer’s attempt to guide his brothers and sisters toward the Word of God so that they might be equipped to win the war we are all called to wage. In this, we will examine many spheres of life and areas of conflict between Christianity and its opposition throughout contemporary American society. We will see where we are, how we got here, and what we must do to restore our nation’s biblical foundation, one individual submission to Christ at a time.

Our preparation will begin with a detailed examination of the culture war as it currently stands on a variety of fronts; a survey of the battlefield, so to speak. As the self-helpers like to say, the first step to a solution is admitting that there is a problem, and when it comes to the state of American culture, we clearly have one of those. Many of them, actually, but each of these problems shares one root cause: Ours is a nation in open rebellion against truth and its author. The God of Christianity is hated here. This is the reality with which we must contend. This is our great challenge.

But we must never forget that within every great challenge lies great opportunity, and never more so than with this conflict in these last days. Our God has placed us in this particular place at this specific time to meet this unique challenge. He has equipped us for combat and called us to victory. These most comforting truths must not be forgotten as we take a first hard look at the field of battle.

Post-Christian America

American Christendom is in a free-falling state of collapse. Having conformed to the world she was commissioned to transform, the church has accommodated, embraced, and exalted an astounding variety of heretical concepts that would have been unimaginable to believers of just a generation past. Homosexual priests have claimed many a pulpit, the biblical definitions of family and gender roles have been largely abandoned, business and politics have come to be regarded as “separate matters,” church discipline is virtually non-existent, and Christ-less education has become the accepted norm. At the root of it all is an open tolerance of the biblical illiteracy that has come to permeate the church and define the average contemporary American Christian life.

As the church has surrendered to the lethargic, lazy spirit of this age, her enemies have advanced on all fronts. From within, liberal progressives win convert after convert through their zealous evangelical efforts. From without, an American culture at war with the faith that brought it into being batters, pounds, and assaults every biblical truth from every conceivable angle in a suicidal quest to remove from sight and memory every vestige of a once-cherished God.

Is this cause for despair? Should biblically submissive American Christians abandon all hope and concede that the culture—and perhaps even the church itself—has been lost to the enemy?

Absolutely not!

However brazenly the church may have spurned her Lord, we may be eternally thankful that in His matchless grace He has chosen not to return the favor. Far from abandoning us, He has called us to His side in these last days so that we might be empowered to stand and fight.

He has long been about the business of preparing us for this day and preparing this day for us. Throughout the age of American decomposition, He has allowed warnings to sound through the words of many good men and women.

Two such men published books in the early nineties, with each approaching the ongoing culture war from a unique perspective. Robert Bork’s The Tempting of America—The Political Seduction of the Law, written in the aftermath of his defeated nomination to the Supreme Court, was a brilliant and sobering account of a national judicial system that had lost its way. His detailed and compelling chronicle of America’s continued flight from her founding constitutional principles served both as a frightening diagnosis and a prophetic warning. Was Judge Bork’s warning heeded?

In the era of Barack Hussein Obama and Sonia Sotomayor, the answer is as obvious as it is unsettling. The “original understanding” of the Constitution so skillfully defined and defended in The Tempting of America continues to find itself openly undermined by the forces of progressive liberalism. In the wake of this ongoing assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation, we find ourselves moving ever closer to a state of overtly anti-Christian judicial tyranny.

In the classic work of apologetics, Christianity in Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff applied the illuminating light of scriptural truth to the church from within, focusing on the burgeoning movement of heretical philosophies that had come to permeate Christendom at every level and on a massive scale. Christians, the book maintained, had come to embrace and emulate a wide variety of cultic systems of thought in some form or fashion, and the cost to the church had been catastrophic. Hanegraaff predicted that if this trend continued, the church would find her already questionable influence further compromised, ultimately to the point of becoming a non-factor in the culture.

To avert this crisis, we must shift from perceiving God as a means to an end to recognizing that He is the end. We must shift from a theology based on temporary perspectives to one based on eternal perspectives.

And while change must come, it clearly will not come easily. Those who are feeding this cancer occupy some of the most powerful platforms within Christianity. They control vast resources and stand to lose multiplied millions of dollars if they are exposed.

The stakes are so high that those who are plunging Christianity into crisis seem willing to do and say virtually anything to silence opposition and rally support.

Was Hanegraaff’s warning heeded? Has Christendom embraced God as its ultimate end (or even as its ultimate beginning), submitting to His will wherever it may lead? Or is He still largely viewed as a tool to be used in the exercise of our will and pursuit of our desires all on our schedule?

Put another way, have you ever heard of Joel Osteen?

In the era of American Christ-less Christianity, the answer is clear and horrifying. The church has been utterly compromised, giving herself over to a Mr. Potato Jesus brand of religion that encourages adherents to add or remove any accessory from their customizable little pseudo-god in pursuit of personal acceptance and corporate relevance. The church has come to openly embrace virtually every counter-Christian concept in some form or fashion. As a result, the term “Christian” itself has lost most of its definitive power. It has become little more than a synonym for “good person.” That is, if you still believe in “good.” The results of this have been predictably devastating to the church, and where the church has been so effectively crippled by her enemies, the culture at large has suffered incalculable loss.

Biblical Christianity finds itself under siege from without and actively undermined from within. A nation once consecrated to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has fallen into a state of complete rebellion.

Terms of Engagement

In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis described the path of the Common Believer as follows:

The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says, ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked—the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.’

This is a fine initial description of the core truth that will serve as our guide. Christ wants all of you and He wants all of me. You and I are called to fully submit every area of life to Him. Our notions of politics, the arts, education, and economics are all to be subjected completely to His will if we are to have any hope of peace, prosperity, and victory in the culture war that has ravaged the America that God has given us. It is from this perspective that Fire Breathing Christians seeks to empower each and every Common Believer. It is from this launching point that we will examine the spirit of relativism that has consumed the culture and the spirit of compromise that has corrupted the church.

We will see—many times in our adversaries’ own words—crystal clear expressions of rebellion against and contempt for the God of Christianity. We will witness the enemy boldly proclaim, exalt, and advocate opposition to virtually every clearly pronounced truth of Scripture. We will then examine these actions and the motivations behind them in light of biblical truth. In this, we will gain a crucial understanding of not only what the enemies of Christianity are doing, but why they are compelled to do so.

This understanding is vital. After all, if we do not know what our adversaries are doing and why, any attempt to effectively engage them on the cultural battlefield will prove futile. Only when we have this knowledge in hand are we properly equipped to achieve victory. Only then can we finally liberate American culture from the secular forces of relativism and humanism that have come to dominate and enslave her. With our enemies identified, their strategies understood and the battlefield surveyed, we will then fix our minds on the God-given blueprint for victory.

As we consider the many challenges before us and begin down the path towards cultural engagement, we are well served to consciously cling to three essential aspects of the Holy Spirit as evidenced in the life of the obedient Common Believer:

1. A humble spirit—We must never forget that every slave of the enemy is only acting according to their fallen nature. We were once just as they are now. We must always earnestly pray for their regeneration by God’s sovereign hand and treat them accordingly: with love, patience, and respect whenever possible. Our boldness must always be “in the Lord,” and not of ourselves.
2. A servant’s spirit—We must always aspire to actively, consciously submit to the will of God the Holy Spirit, who dwells within us. We must serve Him completely and in all areas of life.
3. A martyr’s spirit—We must be willing to pay any price for the sake of advancing the Kingdom of Christ. Any means any.

While our God has baptized us with Spirit and fire, we must never imagine for a moment that one will ever contradict the other. The passion and power given every Common Believer is essential to success, but we must remain vigilant against our inclination to pervert or distort these treasures for the purpose of self-exaltation or excessive criticism of another.

Through Christ and our complete submission to His will in all things, there is no obstacle, challenge, or opponent that we cannot conquer. Through a process of thoughtful, prayerful preparation followed by obedient execution of His perfect plan for battle, we can finally engage the culture, achieve victory, and restore our fallen nation.

Fire Breathing Christians is aimed at guiding the Common Believer through this process. In doing so, it is my hope that readers will come to realize what may at first seem to be an unexpected benefit from such a book as this: everyday application.

Lest there be any confusion, the aim here is not to promote the everyday application of Fire Breathing Christians. At least not as an end. No, the goal here is to encourage and guide every Common Believer toward everyday study and application of the revealed truth of Holy Scripture. If Fire Breathing Christians is to be rightly applied, the first step in that application will always be to seek, find, and submit to truth as revealed in the Bible. That is where God-given hope and power lie in their undiluted, unmatched, and eternally relevant form. This is where our fire is fed.

While much of what is covered in these pages deals with large scale and lofty sounding bits of high drama and grand strategy, as we pass each milepost along our journey, we will see with great clarity that each problem under consideration and its biblically prescribed solution has direct application to our lives on a very personal level. We will pause at each of these markers to observe and learn how it is that we are to apply these specific scriptural principles to our everyday lives on an individual level, and as we do so we will grow.

When properly understood, this book should challenge and inspire positive change not only at an institutional or organized political level, but in the morning commute and at the kitchen table. It should shape not only our view of “how the world should be,” but how our families, friendships, and personal relationships should be. This is not a top-down message. The Bible-based, culture-transforming change advocated here is one that must begin at the roots before it can progress to the treetop.

The great challenges facing our country cannot be met on a national level if they are not first overcome in each of our hearts and homes. It is in the everyday life of the Common Believer that this culture war will be won or lost, so our growth is essential. It is essential to our peace, our happiness, and our ultimate victory.

In concluding this introduction to what Fire Breathing Christians is, I am compelled to take at least a moment to clarify what it is not.

Though one of the central themes presented here is the empowerment and unique purpose of each and every Common Believer, this is in no way intended to minimize the significance or importance of good, God-fearing leadership. Church history is replete with examples of wonderful men and women who have faithfully served Christ and led His people through the careful use of biblically sound instruction, made possible only through long years of study and personal submission. I do not in even the slightest sense aim to exalt any Common Believer, myself included, above the need for such divinely provided leadership and guidance.

This is also not a work that seeks to denigrate theology, doctrine, or dogma as trivial or unimportant to the Common Believer. Quite the contrary! Theology, doctrine, and dogma are essential to the Christian life, as they literally define it. The approach taken here will be to address pertinent doctrinal matters as we go along without stopping to dwell at length or dive to the furthest depths with regard to any single one of them. I wholeheartedly encourage the pursuit of such depth and will commend the inspired, inquisitive Christian to seek out other works to aid them with their ongoing growth. Biblically-rooted, Christ-centered knowledge is the greatest thing that a human mind can experience, so its unending pursuit should be the most natural sort of desire for every Common Believer.

With the principles of everyday application firmly grasped in one hand and commitment to biblically sound intellectual pursuit in the other, we are well equipped to begin our journey on an individual level so that we might eventually realize transformation on a national scale.

The Secular Inquisition

You and I live in a post-Christian America that is rapidly transitioning into an anti-Christian state. This shift can still be reversed, but only for a little while longer and only if the Common Believer embraces their responsibility to engage the culture. It is my prayer and hope that our God will make use of these words to encourage and empower you to that end.

The Fire Breathing Christian has become both an endangered species and the most feared of creatures from the liberal humanist perspective now dominating the scene. I am convinced that by removing Spirit- and fire-filled believers from that endangered list we can both help every anti-Christian leftist in the nation realize their darkest fears and return America to her God-glorifying foundation. Put another way, we can accomplish great things and have a whole lotta fun in the process.

We will begin our preparation for battle by considering one believer’s stand and the subsequent hate movement mobilized for her destruction. In this example we will find a great deal of valuable information concerning the nature and strategies of our opposition as well as a clear and powerful warning to every Common Believer who would dare take to the field of battle: You will be hated.

American culture is at war with God, His Word, and His people. The active suppression and silence of all Christian thought is a primary goal of the forces currently guiding secular civilization.  We now live in an age of Secular Inquisition and must prepare accordingly.

So I invite you now, one Common Believer to another, that we might begin this most important journey together in the name of the one true God, who is a consuming fire.

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Thank you again for taking the time to read through this portion of Fire Breathing Christians. As I mentioned earlier, more excerpts will be posted in the coming days.

I apologize for a few annoying formatting issues with regard to this post.  The book itself is definitely a polished, smooth production. Unfortunately, that polished smoothness didn’t cut and paste very well, so…

Your patience is much appreciated.

Pre-order and sale information will be posted in late October, 2010. (The Amazon.com listing will be up in the next week or two, as well.)

Thank you for your prayers and support!

SAB

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Copyright 2010 S.A. Buss

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Reformation>Revival>Revolution (1 of 3)

You say you want a revolution

Well you know

We all wanna change the world…

~ The Beatles

 

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

~ Jesus (the real one) 

 

Everybody wants a revolution. They sure seem to, anyway.

Nike wants one. Apple wants one. Chick-fil-A even wants one.

Every two years, the party out of power wants one.

Sexuality always wants one. The body count on that one stands somewhere north of 41,000,000 (and counting) in America alone. And that’s just the death toll on one of multiple fronts, mind you. Talk about a revolutionary war with casualties…

Fashion, technology, cars, video games, music, literature, film…even politics, sex, spirituality, and religion. Perpetual revolution is the way of the world. Revolution for the sake of revolution. Change for the sake of change. Movement without purpose or direction based on the notion that it always beats standing firm.

Revolution is popular, and we love popular. So it is that we must love revolution.

It’s hip. It’s cool. It’s serious, too. And the way that the whole revolution concept manages to cover everything from the hip and trendy to the serious and profound tells us something about its inherent power, scope, and appeal as an idea.

Yeah, everybody wants a revolution, and they all want you to join in.

Any self-respecting revolutionary lives to recruit, and these days they are programmed to do just that on behalf of the perpetual revolution machine that is popular culture. There’s always a new style, sound, and feel to pitch, and producers of the pitch are counting on their properly programmed pawns to do the work of spreading the latest and greatest good news of the millisecond where the most recently culturally coronated cool game, band, diet, look, sound, or thought is concerned.

It’s all about networking, don’t ya know. Oddly enough, most of those doing the bidding of ”revolutionaries” like The Beatles, Sony, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue don’t know. They have no idea how, why, when, where, or even that they have been so thoroughly programmed. They simply hear, obey, and regurgitate. They are defined by the world and they live accordingly. They “just do it”.  And the “it” in question is: advertise.

They do it on their Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. They do it in their phone conversations and around the table when they bother to sit down and eat. They do it in the car with friends and at restaurants. They do this evangelical pop-culturist routine pretty much all the time. It’s who they are and what they’ve become, all by design.

You see, these pop-culture programmed little revolutionaries are inherently evangelical.

And, for a long time now, evangelicals have been very revolutionary. Only in a bad way.

The styles and modes of revolution practiced by most of evangelicalism in America over the past several decades have, for the most part, been expressions of open rebellion against biblical truth.

American Churchianity has been swept up, chewed up, and spit out by a secular culture that is very pleased with the resultant transformation of adversary into ally. The church has been conformed to the world she was commissioned to transform.

Where once we were known for Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, we are now known for Joel Osteen and Rick Warren. Where once our society was led and shaped by those with a high view of God and His Word, we are now inspired by any of a million different leaders heading as fast as they can in their million different directions from truth.

We now live in a supposedly Christian nation utterly dominated by fundamentally anti-Christian characters and concepts. From Flu Shot Jesus and The Artists Formerly Known as The Emergent Church to “Best Life Now” Carnal Christianity and Purpose Driven Evangelicalism, American Churchianity has largely abandoned the truth of Scripture as its guiding light and has subsequently stumbled down every dark alley towards which she has been nudged by her enemy.

A Mr. Potato Jesus brand of name-it-and-claim-it, man-centered spirituality and religion on demand has taken hold.

Welcome to the Progressive cultural and religious revolution!

We’ve revolutionized education.

We’ve revolutionized sexuality.

We’ve revolutionized family.

And right about now we’re revolutionizing economics.

So we see that, for much of the time since the American Revolution, major revolutions in America haven’t gone very well from a biblical perspective. They’ve been, for the most part, vehicles for decline and darkness in a land that once cherished truth, understood the nature of true liberty, and exalted the one true God of biblical Christianity.

So is revolution always a bad thing, then?

Nope.

Not at all.

It’s just that, like almost anything wicked little fallen people get their hands on, we are very prone to mess it up.

The bad news is that we’ve managed to do just that, both with great intensity and over a long stretch of time. America has been radically changed, one individual at a time, from a God-fearing, Scripture-loving, magnificently blessed bright and shining light in a world of darkness, to a hollowed out husk on the verge of death by a thousand suicidal decisions born of a thousand suicidal delusions.

The good news is that Jesus is God.

And He saves.

He saves people. One at a time.

These people make up families, towns, cities, states, and nations.

These people make up movements, too.

They start revolutions.

And, make no mistake, this is precisely what is happening…right here…right now…

C.S. Lewis put it this way:

 

“Enemy-occupied territory – that’s what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.”

 

The call has gone out. The command has been given.

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

The ultimate insurrection is now underway.

 And it’s gonna be good!

…to be continued in “Reformation>Revival>Revolution (2 of 3)” - to be posted soon…

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By the grace of God, I’ve been given what seems to be nothing short of a miraculous opportunity through the good folks at WorldNetDaily and WND Books. My book, Fire Breathing Christians: The Transformative Power of the Common Believer, has just been listed at Amazon and, Lord willing, will be released on September 14. My aim with this work is to encourage just the sort of Reformation, Revival and Revolution that has been touched upon in these three blog posts. This is truly an amazing opportunity to bring a Christ-centered approach to the culture war that has ravaged America. Your prayers are coveted as I go about the risky business of tackling scores of the most serious issues in what will surely be a controversy inspiring manner. I am new to all of this, so please pray that I might be granted the ever-elusive perfect combo of boldness and grace (and basic competence, too…yeah, that would be nice).

As the long pre-release ramping up process rolls along, I’d appreciate it if you’d check out the listing of the book, read through the summary below and, if you have any thoughts (good, bad, or anywhere in between), please feel free to shoot me an email. I will read ‘em all and do my best to respond, though it may take a little time.

If you know of anyone who would be interested in this message, please forward it on to them. In this age of instant communication and networking, your help with this particular piece of revolution marketing can accomplish far more good than you probably realize. That said, please do not randomly send this info, blanket email folks, or anything like that. Only send this on to those whom you have very good reason to believe would enjoy and be encouraged by the themes in Fire Breathing Christians. This whole “Fire Breathing” deal is going to be annoying enough to folks on the other side of that coin. We don’t want or need to add unnecessarily to that offense.

I have no idea at this point whether it will be used or not, but, in order to help you get a better feel for the book, here’s an advance look at the copy that I submitted for the back/inside cover.  (All written material copyright 2010, S.A. Buss) :

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Fire Breathing Christians is a pew-to-pulpit plea for reformation, revival, and revolution. The church has been infiltrated, redefined, and led down a path to man-made, man-centered religion and spirituality. A Mr. Potato Jesus brand of pick-and-choose truth now dominates the church.

In its postmodern abandonment and purpose-driven surrender of the Gospel’s essential penetrating edge, American Churchianity has exchanged the perfect, supernaturally forged Sword of Truth for an endless supply of flimsy, pathetic little man-made sporks. In strict theological terms, this is known as “really dumb”.  And “really dangerous”.

In a bold call to Christ-centered culture warfare, Fire Breathing Christians encourages and equips Common Believers to identify and overcome every enemy of the Gospel, including: 

• Progressive Religion – Postmodernism’s war on biblical truth has a gang of giggling, happily heretical allies in The Artists Formerly Known as The Emergent Church.
• Progressive Politics – The man-centered “social gospel” is built upon a foundation of Christ-less hope and Christ-less change. This anti-Gospel is the engine that powers the Progressive political movement.
• Purpose Driven Evangelism – In its embrace of Flu Shot Jesus and Carnal Christianity for the sake of secular appeal, American Churchianity has largely assumed the role of warm and friendly escort to Hell.
• The Goat Driven Church – Through its purpose driven business model and “Best Life Now” appeals to greed and narcissism, American Churchianity has been occupied, defined, and dominated by the anti-Christian “goat”.
• Compulsory “Charity” – Once its voluntary aspect is removed, Christian charity is murdered. Compulsory charity is a biblical oxymoron, but it is a required step down the Progressive path to socialism.
• Murder for Convenience – Where Nazi Germany murdered millions for horrific reasons, Progressive America has one-upped her super-state sister by murdering tens of millions of the most innocent for mere convenience.

In every vital area of consideration, Fire Breathing Christians points directly towards the only solution with the power to save a person, a nation, a culture, or a world:

The whole, undiluted Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This is the banner under which we must formulate every strategy and fight every battle. This is our source of true hope, peace, and joy. This is the banner that we must restore as our guiding standard in all things. This is our Reformation…our Revival…our Revolution…

We were made for such a time as this.

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Thank you for taking the time to read and prayerfully consider these things. Your thoughts, support, and especially your prayers are coveted! Together, Lord willing, we will see great positive change in this wounded culture as we swim deep, make waves, and endeavor to exalt the whole, undiluted Gospel of Jesus Christ as the essential first solution to any problem facing any individual, city, or nation. This is the message of Fire Breathing Christians.

Soli Deo Gloria…and let’s roll!

SAB

www.FireBreathingChristian.com

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Anti-Americanism is the New Blackula

Whitey hates blacks.

Whitey hates women.

And Whitey definitely hates Mexicans. Even more than he hates kittens, smiles and sunshine.

He lives to use, abuse, plunder and murder at every turn. That’s just what Whitey does.

Man, I hate Whitey more with every keystroke…and I’m white!

Whitey hates so much that he won’t even allow socialized medicine, socialized housing, open borders with Mexico, the dismantling of the U.S. military, or the disarming of the legal American citizenry. Yeah, this Whitey dude is that bad.

Clearly Whitey and his oppressive, inhumane, imperialistic and intolerably cruel America both deserve to die. They must be stopped. They must be destroyed. Only with the America of old left burnt to the ground (figuratively or literally – either is fine) will we finally be able to realize the “fundamental change” needed to make the world right again. You know, like in all of those other fine socialist countries…Greece, for example.

But who will rise to this noble cause?

Who will crush the imperialists and liberate the oppressed working class?

Who will take what the “rich” (read: anyone working hard to earn more than $40K) have and “spread that wealth” equally?

Who will destroy the profit motive and bring down the capitalist system?

Barack can’t do it alone. Not that he isn’t tryin’. 

It’s just that more is needed. More hope. More “fundamental change”. More progress. The One needs a good number two to make it all happen. A colorful sidekick, if you will.

We need more organizing of communities for the purpose of destroying the United States. We must foment more rage amongst those who are being cheated by the suppression of socialism in America. And we can always use more destruction of the core values that made America the single greatest nation known in all of recorded human history. But this is simply too much progress for one – even the One – man to achieve.

Fortunately for Barry O and the Progressives, Amerika has its second savior in as many years:

Machete!

Welcome to Hollywood. Land of a million self-loathing American dreams and birthplace of the latest cool new “race war” fad.

And welcome to Machete!, the latest star-laden assault on everything that made these idiotic stars possible in the first place.

Machete was ”once a decent man”. Really. After all, you can obviously trust Hollywood to know what makes for a decent guy.

He was even “living a decent life”, just in case that first wave of “decent” didn’t do the trick.

But now…now…thanks to Whitey and his draconian crackdown on ridiculous things like “crime”, now Machete “is a brutal savage who must slaughter to stay alive”.

See what Whitey did? He made poor little innocent and decent Machete get all brutally savage and stuff… 

Bad, bad Whitey!

Whitey deserves Machete/machete, and he’s gonna get ‘em both! So bring on the righteous rage, mayhem, destruction and slaughter of Whitey’s America. There will be death. There will be mayhem. There will be Machete justice!

For Progressives, this is what qualifies as “the feel good hit of the summer”.

If we could just ship this Machete yahoo to Pandora, we might be on to something. I’d actually pay to see that Avatar sequel. But I digress…and I surely just got blacklisted for suggesting that anyone anything like Machete be “shipped off” to anywhere.

While the forces of tolerance and progress tarry and we have a moment before their planned storm of change, consider the following:

1. Legal immigration is beautiful!
2. Illegal anything is…*drumroll*… illegal. 
3. Every other nation has enforced border control.
4. Mexico has some of the most stringent border control standards on earth; many refer to them as “draconian”. Just ask any discontent Guatemalans with an eye toward their northern borders.
5. There is only one race in this discussion. It’s called “human”. Feel free to check into it if your Hollywood/Progressive indoctrination has you doubting that one.

Finally, if you should wonder how you might deal with a real-life Machete coming to your home to bring Progressive “justice” to you and your family, just remember: The second amendment is a beautiful thing.

Use it.

While you still can.

And you can even incorporate a little Hollywood into your Machete stopping routine if you like, as in, “Two in the chest. One in the head.” That’s from Collateral.

Thanks, Hollywood! You’re the best!

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My book, Fire Breathing Christians: The Transformative Power of the Common Believer, has just been listed at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It will be released on September 14. Your thoughts, support, and especially your prayers, are much appreciated!

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The Smell of Progress

 

I can remember living in Seattle just over a decade ago, right before the world was scheduled to end by way of another colossal Microsoft screw-up. Maybe all the techno-apocalyptic hubbub was just another marketing ploy concocted for the likes of Hal Lindsey and Pat Robertson, or maybe it was all a part of prepping the world for Vista. We may never know, but, whatever the case on the Y2K front, Seattle in 1999 definitely was an interesting place to be.

The political sea was churning.

The world was watching.

Progress was in the air.

The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 was to be hosted at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle beginning on November 30th, and Che Guevara wannabes from around the globe were prepped, primed, locked, and loaded (though not legally so, mind you).

During this dramatic and beautifully revealing snippet of American history, I was blessed to live in a downtown apartment amidst the roving gangs of progress.

One thing I really enjoyed was the uniforms.

Not the police uniforms (though I certainly did appreciate those folks, lemme tellya). Nope, my favorite cookie-cut wardrobe package on parade during Progress Week in Seattle was the simple, dark, hooded and masked ensemble that so many of the good folks from the happy land of peace and tolerance opted to don. These predictably monotonous, by-the-numbers thug getups were often accented by such marvelous accessories as, you guessed it: chains, bats, sticks, and ACORN tracts.

Vandals of the world, unite!

And unite they did.

They strolled, rolled, crashed, crushed and pillaged their way through the downtown area. They smashed windows. They looted stores. They antagonized police. And if that wasn’t bad enough, they even antagonized police horses. (Can you guess when PETA almost started to care?)

I was privileged to work in a downtown office at the time and had the unforgettable (really; trust me, I’ve tried) pleasure of witnessing the forces of progress up close and personal. I saw storefronts crashed through, businesses vandalized, and police threatened.  In this, I understood the uniform. The hoods and masks were a no-brainer, really. I mean, you need those sorts of things when, at any moment, you might yield to the urge to do something really, really progressive.

The image that made the deepest impact/scar came my way as I was weaving through the packed crowds covering the streets on the way to work when I caught a glimpse of a gaggle of progressives [not Shinola]-ing in the alley behind the Decatur Building.  I tried to turn away before the image burned in, but here I am…over a decade later and unable to shake it. It still stings.

There’s nothing quite like the sight – or smell – of pure, undiluted progress.

As the happy forces of peace and justice frolicked and went about the business of wrecking the city, the police responded with tear gas and a variety of other measures, culminating in the quarantine of downtown Seattle.

Providentially, I was also privileged and blessed to live in the quarantined zone at the time. It was a hoot. In that one week, I learned a lot. More than I wanted to, for sure.

Plunder…thuggery…tear gas…and adorable little misunderstood freedom fighters cranking out the progress in the alley behind my office building.

Good times.

While much still mystifies and amazes me about that week, the only real lingering question that I have when it comes to the events of 1999′s Progress Week in Seattle is: Why rubber bullets?

Now, let’s fast-forward to April of 2010. Just a couple o’ weeks ago. Tax Day, to be precise.

Or, as it’s come to be known these days: Tea Party Day.

You see, on that day there was another gathering of dangerous people in downtown Seattle.

A mob of Neanderthals.

A horde of barbarians.

A gang of “racists”.

Or so I was told.

But it was weird.

They didn’t break anything.

They didn’t loot anything.

They didn’t take even a verbal shot at the police. They actually seemed to be pro-law enforcement.

They seemed to be quite pro-America, too.

And they had quite a thing for The Constitution.

Like I said, it was weird.

They didn’t even hunker down in any alleys.

No hoods either.

No chains swinging into windows.

But make no mistake: they were dangerous. They were a threat. And they still are. More so with each passing, building day.

They want their country back.

And they’re not asking.

Not anymore.

They want the Constitution to matter again.

And they’re willing to do what it takes to see that it does.

They cherish freedom. They covet liberty. They know that both are threatened as never before in American history.

They know that America can end.

And they won’t let it.

They’re willing to fight. They’re willing to sacrifice. For the first time in a long time, they’re willing to pay the price that freedom requires.

This is different.

Things are going to change.

“Change” is going to change.

“Hope” is going to change.

“Progress” is going to change.

Something big is about to happen. Something very big.

And so long as the liberty loving people spearheading this movement hold true to the God and principles that inspired and sustained American reformation and revolution in the past, it’ll be a beautiful thing.

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Comrade Oxymoron and His Deconstruction of Christianity

Did you know that “Christian worldview” is an oxymoron?

Me neither.

And don’t worry; it isn’t.

Yet just this weekend I spoke with a professing Christian who actually believes that “Christian worldview” is indeed oxymoronic. He said so. Out loud. He wrote about it, too.

He explained to me that “worldview” meant “a view from a worldly perspective”, and that, as such, a Christian shouldn’t have a worldview.

I laughed.

He didn’t.

I explained what the word “worldview” actually meant.

Crickets chirped.

Worldview meant whatever he wanted it to mean. Hadn’t I gotten the memo?

At any rate, he was detailed in his pitch to dismiss the credibility of the Christian worldview concept. This was no off-the-cuff, heat-of-the-moment, spontaneous bit of conversational fumbling. It was a carefully constructed response to the clear and present threat that this man perceived in the Christian worldview (if it were to actually exist, anyway).

Now, before going on, let’s make note of something more than a tad on the important side:

Anyone dismissing the notion of a clear, coherent, biblical Christian worldview is admitting, if nothing else, that they do not hold to a Christian worldview.

This is a biggie.

In this sort of sad attempt to dismiss the notion of a Christian worldview, the one and only thing concretely established by the critic in question is that they personally do not possess the very worldview that they are denying.

Moreover, those who would make such an assertion are going about the process of defining and defending their counter-Christian position in a particularly cowardly and deceptive manner.

Rather than own up to the fact that, yes, there is a clearly defined biblical Christian worldview to which they simply will not individually conform, they seek instead to escape personal responsibility by dismissing the concept as a standard by which anyone must live. In strict theological terms, this is known as “lame”.

If this ridiculous contention is allowed to stand, its proponent will claim and build upon a victory founded on two delusional principles:

1. With “Christian worldview” dismissed as a concept, they cannot possibly have any personal obligation to honor it.

2. With this one worldview removed from the category of legitimate consideration, any individual making an argument from a “Christian worldview” perspective can be just as easily dismissed, ignored, and, when properly enlightened “progressives” are in a position of power, silenced. (These folks thrive on silencing dissent. It sure beats free and open debate, from their perspective.)

With the Christian worldview deconstructed in such a manner, the Christian walk is left completely open to interpretation, or, more accurately, re-interpretation. This is an intentional vacuum crafted for intentional use in the intentional redefinition of Christian life.

What’s left at the end of such an exercise?

Well, pretty much anything you want, theologically speaking.

And that’s the point.

This is just the kind of counterfeit religion that fallen man loves.

You can claim all of the nice, warm, fluffy, non-threatening and harmless bits about Jesus and Christianity that you like while at the same time retaining the full freedom to dismiss anything that doesn’t conform to the will and comfort-level of the little god you’ve crafted in your mind. Back in the day, this was known as “idolatry”.

God hates idolatry.

(And yes, that’s “hates” in the present tense.)

Since there’s really nothing new in any of this, you might be wonderin’ why I’m making such a big deal about the fact that I managed to bump into a person in America who openly embraces a fundamentally anti-biblical worldview. (Worldview being defined here as: “The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.” I hope that such a definition isn’t too jarring or confusing.)

This hardly seems newsworthy. We are living in post-Christian America, after all.

But here’s the rub:

This guy preaches.

He’s a deacon…at a Baptist church…in the Bible Belt Buckle.

So it is that this man must be held accountable, and to a much higher standard than the garden-variety professing Christian roaming the countryside.

I didn’t write these rules.

God did.

And these rules reared their head last Saturday.

All of this shifted into high gear when, at a Christian writer’s club meeting that we both attended over the weekend, Mr. Oxymoron noticed a copy of Blue Like Jazz that I had in my briefcase. For those of you unaware of Blue Like Jazz, it’s a best-selling book written a few years back by a guy named Donald Miller, who is something of a celebrity in the counter-Christian movement known as, among other things (they change names almost as often as they mutilate Scripture), “the emergent church”.

In his book, Miller rambles on and on about the problems with orthodox Christianity (aka “a Christian worldview”) while extolling the virtues of practically every vice covered in Scripture. He exalts the free-sex flaunting, pot-smoking, Christ-denying hippie culture as the pinnacle of “community” and his experience in said community as the time in which he had “never felt more alive”.

Lest you think I’m exaggerating, feast your eyes on these little Blue gems from Don:

I began to understand that my pastors and leaders were wrong, that the liberals were not evil, they were liberal for the same reason Christians were Christians, because they believed their philosophies were right, good, and beneficial for the world. I had been raised to believe there were monsters under the bed, but I had peeked, in a moment of bravery, and found a wonderful world, a good world, better, in fact, than the one I had known.

The problem with Christian community was that we had ethics, we had rules and laws and principles to judge each other against…Christianity was always right…And I hated this. I hated it with a passion. Everything in my soul told me it was wrong.

…and…

I confess I enjoyed being different. I got more attention by being the hippie guy than I had when I was normal. I felt better in a lot of ways, more superior, because I was no longer sheltered. I had been in the world, and the world had approved of me.

They were cute, these little Christian people. I liked them. They reminded me of my roots, where I had come from all those days ago, before my month in the woods with the pot smokers and the hippies and the free love for everybody.

…and…

I had never felt so alive as I did in the company of my liberal friends. It isn’t that the Christians I had been with had bad community; they didn’t, I just liked the community of hippies because it was more forgiving, more, I don’t know, healthy.

You get the idea.

Blue Like Jazz is about as flagrantly anti-Christian as a book can be. (Which these days virtually guarantees that it can be had at most American “Christian bookstores”.)

To miss the anti-Christian nature of Blue Like Jazz is to demonstrate, at the very least, a complete lack of spiritual discernment as defined in Scripture. (Which these days virtually grarantees one’s viability as a staff member at most American “Christian churches”.)

So Mr. Oxymoron saw my copy of the book sitting there inside my briefcase and, you guessed it, complimented me on having such a quality work on hand.

I then asked him if he’d read it and he said yeah with a smile. He really liked it. He was a big fan.

A few thoughts bounced around my spinning little head as he enthusiastically saluted Miller’s naked assault on Christianity.

“What are you smoking?”

“Who vetted you for deacon?”

“Do you think you’ll see the lightning before it strikes?”

In fairness to Mr. Oxymoron, he couldn’t have known that my copy of Miller’s rather, um, intriguing work is drenched in highlights and underlines as part of what I like to call gool ol’ opposition research. As a case-study in contemporary counter-Christianity, Blue Like Jazz is a masterpiece. So, in a sense, I am a Miller fan too.

So, yay Donald Miller!

Kind of…

Anyway, the next few minutes were mostly filled with me explaining my views on Miller’s work and asking Mr. Oxymoron to please, please, please explain to me how it could possibly be defended as anything but anti-Christian from a biblically submissive perspective.

As I poked and prodded around Mr. Oxymoron’s worldview, he offered nothing in the way of orthodox Christian defense on a single, solitary position. More disturbing, he seemed not to be bothered in the slightest by this. In his responses, it seemed clear that he felt little if any compulsion to bring his views in line with orthodox, biblical Christianity.

Every subject I touched on, from homosexuality to abortion, and the requirement of biblical Christians to oppose both, was met with indifference. He had no interest in addressing these issues.

They inspired little passion in Mr. Oxymoron.

Yet, after a while, there was one defense that he leapt to make. There was something that brought Mr. Oxymoron to life.

And what was this issue or cause, you ask?

Making the intentional murder of innocent children illegal?

Nah, as I mentioned, Mr. O saw no reason to take a stand there.

Opposing the legitimization of homosexuality in light of God’s clearly stated disdain for the “lifestyle”?

Nuh-uh…no big deal, that.

Nope, the sacred cow that required Oxymoronic defense was neither of those things. Children can be legally murdered at a clip that’d make Nazi Germany blush and homosexuality can be legitimized at every turn, regardless of any crystal clear thing that God may have had to say on either matter, but there is one thing – one glorious and beautiful concept – that simply must be defended when attacked:

Socialism.

Yes, socialism was the one and only thing we touched upon that Mr. Oxymoron felt compelled to defend. At last he had found something worth fighting over. Just when I was beginning to wonder if all the abortion/homosexuality/Bible-fidelity talk had actually put the guy to sleep, he came to life.

There was finally an issue that inspired some passion in the man. Socialism was clearly a favored concept…much more real and defensible than that ridiculous “Christian worldview” thing.

This was where the rubber met the road.

This was where the battle had to be fought.

This was the hill he deemed worthy worth bleeding over.

None of this was all that much of a surprise. I’d spoken with the Comrade about these things before.  But still, the starkness of his reaction to socialism as a cause, as opposed to the legal murder of innocent children or the legitimization of homosexuality, was weird to behold. Predictable, yes, but weird nonetheless.

Not-so-coincidentally, Comrade Oxymoron had in earlier conversations frequently expressed something of a contempt for the notion that biblical Christians are required to submit every aspect of their lives to Scriptural standards.

The Christ of biblical Christianity comes for everything when He chooses to regenerate a person. He demands all. Every thought, deed, hope and dream.

C.S. Lewis described this most beautiful and central of Christian truths as follows:

The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says, ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked – the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.

Every aspiration, habit and goal is to be brought into conformity with the will of Christ.

This, of course, includes their politics.

And that’s where Comrade Oxymoron comes unglued.

The mere suggestion that all actual biblical Christians must love their Lord with all their mind, body, spirit and vote tends to inspire an immediate backlash of repudiation from Comrade O.

And remember, this guy preaches. He’s a deacon at a Baptist church. He claims to represent Jesus.

The Jesus of the Baptist branch of the Christian church in America.

Formally.

Officially.

All while simultaneously embracing Blue Like Jazz and actively undermining the very notion of a Christian worldview.

Do you hear the Twilight Zone music?

Once upon a time, biblical fidelity mattered.

Well, to the God of Scripture and those who actually hold to that whole wacky “Christian worldview” thing, it still does. Yet, sadly, in much of the professing church in America, such assaults on the foundations of the Christian faith seem to matter less and less with each passing day.

Why?

Well, for one thing, defending these things is hard.

It’s risky.

It will cost. Often a lot.

Adding to the challenge of meeting this obligation to defend truth is the fact that these stands must often be taken against the stated views of people that we like. The case of Comrade O is a fine example of this, as I find him to be very cool in a great many ways. He is what most would definitely call “a good guy” and he has a whole lot of exceptional attributes. He’s funny, bright and creative.

And he is profoundly opposed to Scripture in a fundamental and systematic sense, all while occupying the positions of preacher and deacon.

So how do you convey that, while you really like a guy personally and think highly of him in many ways, his worldview is, basically, of the devil?

Talk about awkward.

So what’s a biblical Christian to do?

As with all vital questions, God has provided an answer:

We are lovingly commanded to test all things in the light of Scripture, hold fast to that which is true, and correct any deviation from that truth. We are called to cherish truth, not as defined by our own individual minds and desires, but as objectively revealed in the perfect pages of the Bible. We are required to encourage all Christians in their pursuit of and submission to this truth and we are to hold our leaders to the highest of standards.

That’s what the God of Christianity has to say on the matter, and we must obey. Even when it’s hard….and awkward.

When we engage in this biblically mandated testing and repudiation of false teaching, we will be branded an intolerant, unenlightened jerk. We will be the problem in the eyes of many.

But never in the eyes of Christ, and by Christ I mean the real one – The One who wrote these rules and commands our obedience.

When we stand, we are promised persecution. It’s a guarantee.

This will not come as a surprise to the biblically literate Christian, but, then again, biblical illiteracy is precisely what the Comrade Oxymorons of the world depend upon to provide them with free access to and influence over the very church their cherished “progressive” worldview actively seeks to undermine. With biblical illiteracy pervasive and entrenched, the sheep are left defenseless. They’re there for the taking.

So it is that the emergent church of Progressive Anti-Christianity has infiltrated the professing church of Christ from coast to coast and at every level of leadership.

Can a Christian support a cause or candidate that supports the legal right to murder an innocent child?

You betcha!

Can a Christian support a cause or candidate that supports the legitimization of homosexuality?

But of course!

Should Christians strive to conform to a Christian worldview?

Nah. No need to worry ‘bout that.

You don’t believe me?

Just ask your local Baptist deacon. You might be surprised.

I know I was.

The question then becomes, what are we gonna do about it?

Remember:

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Timothy 3:12-13 (ESV)

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But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

 2 Peter 2:1 (ESV)

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There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

2 Peter 3: 16, 17 (ESV)

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See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:8 (ESV)

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As I posted at the Fire Breathing Christian home page a while back, I’ve been preoccupied with two projects that I’m wrapping up. I look forward to sharing details about these things and will do so as soon as possible. In the meantime, your kind patience is cherished. I should be back in a regular blogging groove again later this month.

Your thoughts, prayers and supercool emails of support have been very much appreciated!

Soli Deo gloria…and let’s roll!

S

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The Gayness of State Controlled Media

In the aftermath of yesterday’s elections, I stumbled upon the following gem from our professional, unbiased, utterly trustworthy and dependable journalists at the state controlled Associated Press. I’ve reproduced it in its entirety so that you might bask in the full, undiluted glow of this shining example of contemporary American journalistic brilliance:

Dejection fills Maine ballroom after marriage vote

PORTLAND, Maine – Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible.

Instead, they went home at midnight, dejected and near tears after a failed bid to make Maine the first state to approve same-sex marriage at the ballot box.

“I’m ready to start crying,” said Burnett, a 58-year-old massage therapist, walking out of the ballroom with Swanson at her side. “I don’t understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change.

“It hurts. It hurts personally,” she said. “It’s a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don’t understand what the fear is.”

With 87 percent of precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the vote in a referendum that asked Maine voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Democratic Gov. John Baldacci.

“The institution of marriage has been preserved in Maine and across the nation,” said Frank Schubert, the chief organizer for Stand for Marriage Maine, which lobbied for the repeal.

For the gay rights movement, which has gained a foothold in New England, it was a stinging defeat. Gay marriage has now lost in every state — 31 in all — in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine, framing same-sex marriage as a matter of equality for all families in a campaign that used 8,000 volunteers to get out the message.

Five states have legalized gay marriage — Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut — but all did so through legislation or court rulings, not by popular vote.

Portland resident Sarah Holman said she was torn, but decided — despite her conservative upbringing — to vote in favor of letting gays marry.

“They love and they have the right to love. And we can’t tell somebody how to love,” said Holman, 26.

While the gay marriage opponents claimed victory, Jesse Connolly, campaign manager for No on 1/Protect Maine Equality, held off conceding until early Wednesday, when he issued a statement vowing to continue to press the issue.

The fight for marriage equality will continue, he told supporters at the Holiday Inn ballroom, where a buffet table included a three-tiered wedding cake — with two grooms standing side by side, two brides standing side by side and the inscription: “We all do!”

“We’re not short-timers. We’re here for the long haul and whether it’s just all night and into the morning, or it’s next week or next month or next year. We will be here. We’ll be here fighting. We’ll be working. We will regroup.”

For Burnett and Swanson, the July 10 wedding date — and a reception cruise on Casco Bay — is off.

Woe unto poor Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson. All they ever wanted was to fundamentally redefine the God-ordained building block of human civilization.

What’s the big deal?

Well, whatever the big deal may be, AP has certainly gone to great lengths to paint a picture of the tragic yet hopefully temporary setback for a valiant cause. The ultimate victory of the forces of love, tolerance, puppy dogs and kittens over those who are “foes” and “opponents” of same said love, tolerance and puppies will one day come, though sadly not in time for Cecelia and Ann to make good on that planned wedding and Casino Bay cruise.

But one day the world will be right.

One day the tears will be not of anguish, but of joy.

One day the forces of intolerance and narrow-mindedness will be pushed back, totally and for good.

That’s the flavor of hope and change permeating most State controlled media coverage of the homosexual war on marriage, and it’s the sort of seasoning sprinkled all over this particular bit of “journalism”.

Why can’t “gay marriage opponents” simply be presented by the media as being pro-actual marriage? You know, as defenders of marriage as it actually exists? Why are defenders of marriage as it is constantly painted as “foes” and ”opponents” of love, peace, happiness and goodness?

Probably for the same reason that anti-actual marriage forces are almost always categorized in positive terms, a la “gay marriage supporters”, “pro-equality” and as a part of the ever so noble “gay rights movement”.

You see, those who wish to crush the God-ordained institution of marriage under their collective heel so that they might reconstruct it to suit their warped ideals, are for love. They’re pro-happiness. They’re pro-sunshine, pro-puppy dog and pro-laughter

Those who are pro-actual marriage…well…those folks are “foes” and “opponents” of love, peace, and goodness in general.

So goes the GayP State Media line.

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We are Each Equipped, Empowered…and Responsible

I was recently impressed by the following thought from Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse:

“The Lord says that the anointing by the Spirit renders us capable of understanding, so that we do not need to have any one teach us (1 John 2:27). The existence of teachers by divine order and arrangement is like the original institution of divorce, not because it was God’s first choice, but because of the hardness of the hearts of men (Matthew 19:8). The responsibility for reading and knowing the Word and will of God is upon every individual, who must find out for himself, conclude what he believes and be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within him, knowing that he will be answerable to the Lord for the content of his faith, and that he will not be permitted to present the excuse that he believed what some church or group of clergy interpreted for him.”

We are each unable to hide behind “some church or group of clergy?”

In an age dominated by the notion of a church staff member or associate level pastor dedicated to cultivating and catering to every single imaginable semi-demographic or identifiable niche in the population, one might scarcely imagine that such a relationship as Dr. Barnhouse has described is a real possibility and goal for the average contemporary churchgoer.

Would such a thing as this even be encouraged in most contemporary American churches? One can only wonder.

Yet it is not merely possible, it is ordained to be so. We are guaranteed this guidance.

The Holy Spirit either dwells within us or He does not. Where He is, all good things are possible. The crystal clear pronouncements of His holy word give us complete assurance that we are able to find truth in scripture without conforming to the constructs or manipulations of other flawed, fallen men.

We are here for great purpose, each of us. While, as we’ve all no doubt been emphatically reminded time and again, we are incapable of any good thought or act in and of ourselves, through Him all good things are possible.

All good things. He has called us to a task and He will always faithfully and fully equip those who are called.

How cool is that?

 

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Obama Youth Continue Socialism Sing-Along

Another day, another gaggle of kiddos paraded about to sing their programmed praises of Statism and its messianic advocate-in-chief, Barack Hussein Obama.

On the up side, this installment of Obama praise and worship was orchestrated in a private school setting.

On the down side, this installment of Obama praise and worship was orchestrated in a private school setting.

The whole glorious presentation, as broadcast on CNN (go figure), can be seen at the Real Clear Politics website.

Looks like most of the children here were below the age of thirteen, though I can’t be sure. Seems right though, since that seems to be the magical age at which many ”progressive” folks move from figuratively to literally pimping kids out.

 

 

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From The One to Number Two: Racist Nations Conspire to Give “Messiah” a New Complex

Somebody on the international advance team forgot to dispense the Kool-Aid, and for the first time in my life, I am proud of the IOC.

In what the Associated Press called, “one of the most shocking defeats ever handed down by the International Olympic Committee”, the city of Chicago was eliminated in the first round of votes cast to decide the host of the 2016 Olympics. “Even Tokyo, which had trailed throughout the race, did better — eliminated after Chicago in the second round,” the story continued.

Apparently, ACORN just didn’t have enough time to mobilize.

But who can blame them for their lack of concern heading into the big vote? This one was in the bag because The One was personally and presidentially on the case.

If only we could say the same about the war in Afghanistan, our imploding economy, skyrocketing unemployment or the Iranian nuclear threat.

Barack Hussein Obama, no doubt buoyed by the songs of praise emanating from his many disciples back home across the Atlantic, had made a special (“sacrificial”, as his wife Michelle would describe it) trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, in order to secure his hometown’s rightful place as the crowned location for the 2016 games. Current wars, pending wars, economic catastrophes and growing masses of out-of-work Americans could wait.

This was really important.

He even brought The Teleprompter, so you know he was serious.

The messiah came, the messiah spoke, and a worshipful Statist media proclaimed the messiah’s pending victory. Natalie Morales, reporting for the benefit of MSNBC’s nine viewers, provided a fine example of just the sort of unbiased, well-balanced and utterly professional coverage we’ve all come to expect from that fine organization:

“A lot of confidence here from the Chicago delegation, uh, particularly after the president and first lady made such a passionate and emotional appeal to the IOC voters here.  It really seems at this point, uhh, if I’m quoting a couple of sports writers that I talked to that is really Chicago’s to lose now that the president has spoken and the first lady made such a lasting impression here.

Oh, it was crazy.  We — in the press we were all standing there waiting to see if the president and first lady would even walk by us! But he kind of got stuck behind a wall as, uh, the IOC pretty much rushed him. Everybody seemed to really want their picture with the president, shaking hands; and of course the IOC voters trying to appear somewhat impartial but you could tell that they, too felt the rock star power there that the president and first lady were exuding.”

Enter: Reality, expressed here in the form of an actual, out-of-ACORN’s-control, vote.

CNN anchor Tony Harris provided that network’s dozens of viewers with another fine display of impartial, professional journalism as he chronicled the unfolding formality of Chicagoland’s coronation:

Harris:  Let’s take you to Copenhagen right now where we’re about to get an announcement of the first city out.  Let’s have a listen.  Let’s have a listen.

IOC Announcer:  Books given, 95.  Participants, 94.  Abstention, nil.  Void, nil.  Valid ballots, 94.  The city of Chicago, having obtained the least number of votes, will not participate in the next round.

Harris:  Chicago is out?  Chicago is out?  Madrid is still in?  Tokyo is still in?  Wait a minute, Chicago is out?

You see, for Harris, Morales, ACORN and Oprah, this simply could not happen. It had to be a mistake. Maybe a joke.

Yeah, that had to be it. This was all just a prank. Obviously a racist prank, but a prank nonetheless.

After all, The One had spoken.

He had addressed them directly.

There, in Copenhagen!

He and Michelle “sacrificed” for this. They blew off entire wars and the American economic crisis.

While this slap across the messiah’s face was not the joke CNN or MSNBC might have hoped for, the punch-line came through loud and clear:

The One is now Number Two. 

Obama’s hopey, dopey, changey hollowness and breathtaking naïveté have combined with his untested, gargantuan ego to form a persona that is distinctly pathetic even by the standards applied to politicians. He came, he saw, and he got the gong.

Hadn’t he apologized for America enough to win some good will with these people?

Hadn’t he demonstrated that America has nothing unique and good to offer the world?

Hadn’t he made it perfectly clear to the entire world community that America is nothing special at all, save for the many profound evils of her past and present?

With such a compelling case already in place, the teleprompted presentation in Copenhagen shouldn’t have even been necessary.  Yet he offered it up anyway. Yes ladies and gentlemen, The Obama was willing to sacrifice that much for Chicagoland Olympics.

And right after doing so, he got the first boot out of the competition.

What’s The One to do with that?

It’s enough to give a messiah-wannabe a whole new complex.

And this one fits like a glove.

 

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