What Stinks? What Stinks? What Stinks?

Hey! We can't be knuckleheads all of the time!
Some call it editorializing; some call it venting your spleen. Whatever you want to call it, I've just got to get something off my chest. Let's air this dirty stuff. That malodorous smell I whiff can only be one thing. It's What Stinks!

"Who's Really Running the USA?"

Do you think our Founding Fathers ever thought we'd need a Right-to-Life Amendment because our nation has decided to turn on its most helpless and innocent members by declaring open season on our babies? We worry about women's rights. Well, what about babies' rights? Will no one defend their right to even exist? Who will protect their rights?

Do you think our Founding Fathers in their wildest dreams, or maybe I should say nightmares, ever conceived of the idea that we would need a Marriage Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution to prevent wicked judges from legalizing same-gender unions? These are judges who have sworn to uphold the law but choose rather to break it instead in the name of "legal activism!"

Do you think our Founding Fathers ever supposed that the freedom of speech, granted in the Bill of Rights, would be twisted around to defend the rampant debauchery of pornographers, and then turned on its ear to deny people the right to freely express their religious beliefs publicly or in places of learning? Do people forget that the reason many of our forefathers came to America in the first place was to escape religious persecution and to be able to express their Christian beliefs openly without fear of fine, imprisonment, torture, or execution? They wanted the freedom to believe and serve God and not the freedom to speak and behave reprehensibly, I might add.

Just what's going on in our courts? Do courts make the laws, now? I believe that the U.S. Constitution gave that power exclusively to the Legislative Branch. Isn't it the same for Massachusetts as well? We have no right to say something is good, righteous, and acceptable that God has proclaimed evil, forbidden, and an abomination, and that goes for judges, too. Let me take a few moments to support my statements with Scripture for those learned professors and clergy who say the Bible does not condemn same-gender relationships. Please pay attention. Leviticus 18:22 clearly states, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is an abomination." Abomination does not mean that the Almighty finds it somewhat distasteful; it means He loathes or hates it with every fiber of His being! For those of you who would say the Old Testament law doesn't apply to us anymore, then why were Jesus, Paul, and even Satan himself always quoting from it? The Devil knows Holy Scripture, so why don't these scholars? Need more proof? Look at Leviticus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 23:14-18.

Next, let's move on over to the New Testament to see what it says about the matter. Romans 1:24-26 states, "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature (secular humanism) more than the Creator who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient."

Now, let's consider this for a minute. Do you believe today's men really hate to think about God or to listen to His warnings? Well, brother, Aldous Huxley, a "free-thinker" who wrote the chilling, futuristic novel Brave New World, once acknowledged on a TV program that there was a good reason why evolution was so readily accepted by modern man. He addmitted, "The reason we accepted Darwinism even without proof is because we didn't want God to interfere with our sexual mores."

Want more Biblical verses from the New Testament? Try reading 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. It affirms, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effiminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor theives, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God?" Any priest or preacher that tells those who are practicing these sins that they're going to be all right with God are only fooling the sinners and themselves and are sending these gullible congregation members down that broad way to the hot place! These people need to be taught instead to love God more than the sin into which they've fallen, and then give it up. As John, the Baptist, cried, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"

Need some more? Try these on for size: Colossians 3:5-6, 1 Timothy 1:9-10, and Jude 7-8. If you aren't convinced by now, then your mind's already made up, and you don't want to be confused with facts. It is then time for me to "shake the dust off my sandals" and move on.

What gall some foolish people today have to believe that they are somehow more caring, loving, and tolerant than the Great Jehovah when He could plunge them all into the gapping, fiery jaws of Hell in a heartbeat, but instead He allows them to breathe and thrive and even blaspheme; however, their judgement is coming soon. Unless they plead and pray to the Lord, Jesus Christ, for mercy, their date with destiny is already set. Their name won't be found written in the Lamb's Book of Life!

Then just how would our Founding Fathers feel about what is going on today? Well, let's consider what these founders of our nation and the framers of our system of government said themselves. Our Founding Fathers knew that a republic, such as ours, could only survive if the people of the United States held to Christian principles in their daily lives. Yes, you heard me correctly. I said Christian! I guess that you'll be wanting some more proof. John Adams, the second President of the United States and the father of the fourth President of the United States, avowed, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral, religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

Thomas Jefferson, our third President and writer of the Declaration of Independence, concurred, "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty . . . students perusal of the sacred volume will make us all better citizens."

President James Madison, one of the authors of the Ferderalist Papers and the father of the Constitution, wrote in his Memorial and Remonstrance of 1785 that "religion . . . [is] the basis and foundation of government . . . . Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe."

Founding Father Samuel Adams admonished everyone to "study and practice the exalted virtues of the Christian system. While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader . . . . If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great Security." Talk about hitting the nail on the head. Look at what is happening in Europe and Canada. Will the USA soon be following close on their heels toward destruction?

Even sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, stressed, "The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion."

On September 25, 1789, when it was proposed to the first Congress under the U.S. Constitution that the Bill of Rights be added, Congress also passed what became know as the Northwest Ordinance. It avowed that "religious liberty . . . [is] the basis whereon these republics, their laws, and constitution are erected and that, being necessary to good government, religion, morality, and knowledge . . . shall ever be encouraged through the schools." After the resolution was adopted, unanimously, I might add, President George Washington proclaimed "it was the duty of all nations to ackowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor." What say you, ACLU, about that? Did these men believe we were "one nation under God."

President Washington went on to say in his inaugural address, "It would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, [and] who presides in the councils of nations . . . . No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency . . . . We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained . . . ."

How about it? Do you now believe? Would you say these men were believers in Christianity, and even if not all born again, were they at least followers of the many of the teachings of Jesus Christ? Patrick Henry, great orator and statesman, explained, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionist, but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom to worship here." Can it spelled out any plainer than that?

Here's how some other founders and leaders of our nation weighed in on the subject. John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams and fourth President of the United States, stated, "The first and almost only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible."

President Abraham Lincoln once said, "All the good of the Saviour of the world is communicated through this Book; but for the Book we could not know right from wrong. All the things desirable to man are contained in it."

Even usually taciturn President Calvin Coolidge once affirmed, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."

Though there are more quotes I could list, let me conclude my evidence on this point with a few statements by ol' Benjamin Franklin, that guy on the one hundred dollar bill. He said, "He who shall introduce into public affairs the principals of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."

On June 28, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention was about to rupture asunder, possibly irreparably, 81-year-old Franklin rose to his feet and addressed the delegates gathered there, "the small progress we have made after four or five weeks . . . with each other . . . is a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding . . . in this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding?"

"In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of the danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of supertending Providence in our favor . . . . Have we now forgotten this powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?" Franklin said.

Frankin then stated, "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it [Psalm 127:1].' I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages."

Franklin proposed, "I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessings on our deliberation be held in this assembly every morning . . . and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service." Franklin's speech marked the turning point. Within only a year the U.S. Constitution was ratified by 11 states, and what can be considered the first Christian form of government in history was founded.

What then about today's judges? Are they too stupid or blind to know this? Well, Sir, John Jay, one the authors of the Federalist Papers and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, saw things differently. He stated, "Providence has given to our people the choice of rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privledge and interest of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians as their rulers."

Even as late as the Supreme Court Decision of 1892, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, it was avowed: "Our laws and our institutions must 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 civilation and our institutions are emphatically Christian . . . . This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation . . . we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth . . . . These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation." What about them apples you revisionists of American history? That was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court talking and the Supreme Court itself. So much for the complete separation of church and state, eh? That statement is no where to be found in the U.S. Constitution nor was it ever implied!

Our biggest danger, therefore, appears to be the present corrupt judiciary who are determinded to separate America's future from its Christian heritage. President Thomas Jefferson warned that this could bring about the downfall of our nation. He foretold, "The germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; and irresponsible body working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a

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In regard to the situation in Iraq, it seems as though Democratic presidential hopeful, John Kerry, is a lot like the way Britain's former Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, was before Adolph Hitler and the Nazis invaded Poland. Kerry would have preferred not to ruffle any international feathers at the United Nations and play "patty-cake" with Saddam Hussein while Saddam built up his military strength similar to the way Hitler did in Germany. Don't these doofuses ever learn from history. I guess not. If you try to make a deal with the Devil, you're going to get burned--and eventually bombed,too!

Peas of My Mind

The U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of religion and not freedom from religion.

That's my beef. If you agree with me, then I appreciate your approval. If you don't, then get your own stinkin' web page. You can still get them for free nowadays, you know.

Text and illustrations copyright 2004 by Ron Ferguson
For more great information and quotes see America's Providential History by Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell and The Rebirth of America published by the Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation

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