Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Whom Do We Cheer?







Caleb had a great time running off some energy...
around and around my kitchen counters. And of 
course I didn't mind. I 
wasn't cooking.  I was watching him like
 I'd paid $100 to see a fantastic play. He 
is my grandson!

When I was a teenager there was a singer 
whom I loved to see and hear...and it was not Elvis. 

When I was a teenager there was a singer 
that I loved to see and hear. It was not Elvis. 


  
I thought he was disgusting at the 
time. I liked to hear him sing Peace in the
Valley, but that was it.
I liked Pat Boone.  He went to the same 
college as I did only some years before. 
One of his friends went to church with 
me and a couple of times Pat came to 
our state and went to church with us.  
The second time he came, he was famous. 
Someone saw him enter the building and
 when church was over and we opened
 the doors, there was a humungous crowd 
out there waiting and cheering for him.  

They were cheering just about like I 
clapped for little Caleb in my kitchen.

Today Pat Boone is still speaking his mind
 and I've copied here his thoughts on Obama.

Pat Boone on Obama......Simply 
Outstanding
CHRISTIAN NATION!
When you have read what Pat Boone 
wrote about Obama (below), you may 
want to click on the link to "Snopes", 
which brings up a page telling you that 
this is an actual letter written by Pat 
Boone - and Very well written, I might 
add.
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT COMMENTARY,
AND SHOULD BE READ BY EVERY
AMERICAN!
The President Without A Country
By Pat Boone

"We're no longer a Christian nation." - President 
Barack Obama, June 2009
" America has been arrogant." -
 President BarackObama
"After 9/11, America didn't always 
live up to her ideals."- President Barack Obama

"You might say that America is a Muslim nation."
- President Barack Obama, Egypt
 2009

Thinking about these and other statements 
made by the man who wears the title of president.
 I keep wondering what country
 he believes he's president of.

In one of my very favorite stories, 
EdwardEverett Hale's "The Man without
 a Country," a young Army lieutenant 
named Philip Nolan stands condemned 
for treason during the Revolutionary 
War, having come under the influence 
of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks 
him if he wishes to say anything before 
sentence is passed, young Nolan 
defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United
 States ! I wish I might never hear of 
the United States again!"

The stunned silence in the courtroom 
is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause,
 the judge soberly says to the angry 
lieutenant: "You have just pronounced 
your own sentence. You will never hear 
of the United States again.. I sentence 
you to spend the rest of your life at
 sea, on one or another of this c
ountry's naval vessels - under strict 
orders that no one will ever speak to 
you again about the country you have 
just cursed."

And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken 
away and spent the next 40 years at 
sea, never hearing anything but an 
occasional slip of the tongue about 
America.. The last few pages of 
the story, recounting Nolan's dying
 hours in his small stateroom - now 
turned into a shrine to the country
 he foreswore - never fail to bring
 me to tears. And I find my own 
love for this dream, this miracle 
called America , refreshed and 
renewed. I know how blessed and 
unique we are.
But reading and hearing the audacious,
 shocking statements of the man who
 was recently elected our president 
- a young black man living the 
impossible dream of millions of young 
Americans, past and present, black 
and white - I want to ask him, 
"Just what country do you think 
you're president of?"

You surely can't be referring to 
the United States of America , 
can you? America is emphatically 
a Christian nation, and has been 
from its inception! Seventy percent
 of her citizens identify themselves
 as Christian. The Declaration of 
Independence and our Constitution 
were framed, written and ratified 
by Christians. It's because this 
was, and is, a nation built on and 
guided by Judeo-Christian biblical
 principles that you, sir, have had
 the inestimable privilege of being
 elected her president.

You studied law at Harvard, didn't 
you, sir? You taught constitutional 
law in Chicago ? Did you not ever 
read the statement of John Jay, 
the first Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court and an author of 
the landmark "Federalist Papers": 
" Providence has given to our people 
the choice of their rulers - and it
 is the duty, as well as the privilege 
and interest of our Christian nation 
- to select and prefer Christians 
for their rulers"?

In your studies, you surely must have
 read the decision of the Supreme 
Court in 1892: "Our lives and our
 institutions must necessarily be
based upon and embody the teachings 
of the Redeemer of mankind. It is
 impossible that it should be 
otherwise; and in this sense and to 
this extent our civilization and our 
institutions are emphatically Christian."
Did your professors have you skip 
over all the high-court decisions 
right up till the mid 1900's that 
echoed and reinforced these views 
and intentions? Did you pick up the 
history of American jurisprudence 
only in 1947, when for the first 
time a phrase coined by Thomas 
Jefferson about a "wall of separation 
between church and state" was used
 to deny some specific religious 
expression -contrary to Jefferson's
 intent with that statement?
Or, wait a minute: were your ideas 
about America 's Christianity formed 
during the 20 years you were a 
member of the TrinityUnitedChurch
 of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah 
Wright? Is that where you got the i
dea that " America is no longer a 
Christian nation"? Is this where you,
 even as you came to call yourself 
a Christian, formed the belief that 
" America has been arrogant"?

Even if that's the understandable
 explanation of your damning of 
your country and accusing the whole
 nation (not just a few military 
officials trying their best to keep 
more Americans from being murdered 
by jihadists) of "not always living 
up to her ideals," how did you come
 up with the ridiculous, alarming 
notion that we might be"considered
 a Muslim nation"?
Is it because there are some 2 
million or more Muslims living here,
 trying to be good Americans? Out 
of a current population of over 300 
million, 70 percent of whom are 
Christians? Does that make us, by 
any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"?

Why are we not, then, a "Chinese 
nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a 
"Vietnamese nation"? There are even
 more of these distinct groups in 
America than Muslims. And if the 
distinction you're trying to make is 
a religious one, why is America not 
"a Jewish nation"? There's actually 
a case to be made for the latter, 
because our Constitution - and the 
success of our Revolution and founding 
- owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers.

Have you stopped to think what an 
actual Muslim America would be like? 
Have you ever really spent much time 
in Iran ? Even in Egypt ? You, having
 been instructed in Islam as a kid at 
a Muslim school in Indonesia and 
saying you still love the call to evening 
prayers, can surely picture our nation
 founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-
Christian Bible, and living under 
Shariah law. Can't you? You do 
recall Muhammad's directives 
[Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" 
and "kill the infidel"?
It seems increasingly and painfully 
obvious that you are more influenced 
by your upbringing and questionable 
education than most suspected. If you 
 consider yourself the president of a 
people who are "no longer Christian," 
who have 
"failed to live up to our ideals," who 
"have 
been arrogant," and might even be 
"considered Muslim" - you are president 
of a country most Americans don't 
recognize.

Could it be you are a president without 
a country?

All who love their Christian Beliefs and 
their Country, Forward to all in your 

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