The Problem with Socialism

These are some citations from Winston Churchill. They were in the October issue of The Journal from Summit Ministries. The way they had them printed, I'm not sure if these all came from the same document, and they didn't print their source. However, I believe Churchill had some quite true and thought-provoking statements.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."

"If I were asked the difference between Socialism and Communism, I could only reply that the Socialist tries to lead us to disaster by foolish words and the Communist drives us there by violent deeds."

"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State."

Parental Rights Travesty

Just when I think I’ve seen about as far upside-down as things can get, another issues comes to my attention.

Picture this scenario: two women live together for ten years in a lesbian relationship in Montana, a state which doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage to begin with. One of the women, Barbara Maniaci, adopted two children on her own - the children were not adopted by the couple, just Barbara. Three years ago Barbara decided to leave the lesbian relationship and later married a man. Her former roommate obviously was not happy about that and sued for parental rights over the two children.

Now, if Montana was a state with same-sex marriage approval, you might expect there would be some benefit given to the woman who was left behind. If the children had been adopted jointly by the lesbian couple, you would expect a benefit given. Since same-sex marriage isn’t recognized by Montana (the women never got married anyway), and the children were adopted only by Barbara, one would logically think courts would tell the lesbian left behind to take her case and leave. Not so the Montana Supreme Court.

The Montana Supreme Court gave parental rights to the left-behind lesbian. The report I read didn’t say what reasoning the Court used to justify such injustice, but it did cite a dissenting opinion as saying the decision “will open a Pandora’s Box of potential attacks upon the right of fit and capable parents to raise their own children.” I found another article that said the judges saw that a parent-child relationship existed and to deny that was bigoted against homosexuals. The one citation I found by a judge demonstrated he was 100% for the homosexual agenda.

When a person not related to a child can demand and receive parental rights, it truly is a very, very upside-down world!

Selfish Pride and Baby-Making

Last week the Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette, the major newspaper in my area, published an AP article about a fertility clinic mix-up which led to a woman being implanted with the wrong embryo.

The lady who was supposed to get her own embryo learned of it being given to the wrong woman, and the two women arranged for the wrong mother to continue to term and transfer the child to the right mother after delivery.

Does this whole scenario seem a bit upside down to you? The article said that it was rare, but not unusual, for women to be given the wrong embryos from fertility clinics. So why are we even doing such things?

Artificial insemination or ways of impregnating embryos for implantation completely remove the unitive function of marriage from the equation. And with artificial insemination using sperm other than the husband’s, isn’t that sort of tantamount to adultery with the man who donated it? And what about fertility drugs that end up causing multiple births with premature babies?

What is it with mankind’s pride that says they must have a child from their own body when their body is not functioning properly? Why not just adopt a child? Are we not playing God with this whole fertility industry?

I guess I’d be interested in a valid reason for not adopting one of the hundreds of thousands of babies who are motherless and for not accepting the fact that one is infertile or unable to have children naturally for what ever reasons.

It is an upside down world where a couple will spend perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars playing God just to get a baby from the wife when a small fraction of that money would provide a needy baby a loving mother and father.

The Newest "Mental Illness"?

The July-August issue of Worldviews, the newsletter of the Apologetics Resource Center, has an article about the prevalence of texting. The newsletter cites information from the Washington Post and New York Times about how many thousands of texts are sent by teens each day and how it affects their communications skills and such.

Along with all this information, Worldviews mentioned a psychiatrist who published an editorial in The American Journal of Psychiatry “suggesting that addiction to the Internet and text messaging be included in their diagnostic manual as a mental illness.”

The psychiatric/psychological industry has been one of the primary causes of the downfall of society. They have determined that any behavior lacking is self-control is either a “mental illness” or a disease. No one has to take responsibility for self-control any more; just say you are mentally ill or have a mental disease. Are you a drunk? No problem - you have alcoholism. Are you sexually promiscuous? You have an addiction! Everyone is a victim of some sort of “mental illness” - just look at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual the psychobabblers use and see how thick it is.

What happened to people accepting responsibility for their behavior? What happened to society requiring people to be responsible for their behavior? The psych industry provides the modern priests for the legal system so anyone who has committed a crime can be given compassion because of the “mental illness” which caused them to commit that crime. The psych industry provides the guinea pigs for the pharmaceutical industry as the majority of our children now run around doped up, diagnosed with the “disease” of ADD/ADHD.

Where is the common sense that says “mental illness” is a fraud? The mind is intangible and can not be ill. There are indeed organic problems with the brain which can affect the thinking processes, but probably 95% of what is found in the DSM is not a brain problem. The rest of the stuff in there is all about the lack of self-control.

I found a good book a few years ago which I highly recommend: Manufacturing Victims, by Dr. Tana Dineen. Check her out at http://tanadineen.com/

This upside-down world is going more and more upside down with the psych industry at its helm.

Lesbian Demand Trumps Christian's Rights

The last time I checked, artificial insemination was an elective procedure which is not medically necessary. No doctor should ever be forced to perform this procedure for any reason. The doctor should have the right to make ethical decisions without worrying about government or other legal intervention. But that common sense logic doesn’t seem to hold in California.

In 2001 Christian doctors in California were asked to perform artificial insemination for a lesbian in a relationship with another lesbian. The doctors gave her fertility drugs and instructed her how to inseminate herself at home, but said they couldn’t do so because of their Christian faith. The doctors also referred her to another fertility specialist.

None of these actions were satisfactory for those “tolerant” lesbians, however. No sir, they demanded retribution; how dare someone have moral grounds to deny them the right to be artificially inseminated! It mattered not that there were other doctors able to provide the service; what mattered is that everyone must bow to the demands of the homosexual community. So the lesbian, Guadalupe Benitez, and her “spouse” sued the North Coast Women’s Medical Group for discrimination. The case went all the way to the California State Supreme Court, which ruled, according to OneNewsNow.com, “that doctors, in spite of their faith, cannot violate state anti-discrimination laws that are designed, in part, to protect homosexuals.” The case was settled last week as the doctors gave the lesbian an undisclosed amount of money as punishment for their crime of having a moral standard of right and wrong.

In this upside-down world, especially in California, anti-discrimination laws are for everyone except those holding the Christian faith. In that case, the law says you must be discriminated against because of your beliefs. Those people practicing immoral and perverted homosexual behavior want only one thing - to force everyone of any moral character to sanction homosexual behavior. And the government at all levels is being used as their hammer to accomplish their goal.

For those promoting the homosexual agenda, tolerance is only one way; they never practice it.

Who Controls the Culture?

"Art and Media are the means and the bridge over which the current philosophy of the philosophers reaches the general public. Whoever controls the media, controls the culture." Francis Schaeffer.

Homosexuality Involvement in Crash Hidden by Media

So, have you read anywhere in the mainstream media about the cause of the commuter train crash in California last year which killed 25 and injured many more? I didn’t think so. There is a really good reason for that omission: the engineer, who also died in the crash, was a homosexual and he was texting a teenaged boy when he should have been paying attention to the red light he blew through.

It seems that the media wouldn’t want that bit of information to become headlines because it just might shed a bad light on the homosexual culture which they are so active in promoting. As the article on World Net Dailypoints out, (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=109553) if the engineer had been a Christian trying to evangelize a teen by texting it would have been front-page headline news for days on end!

In this upside-down world, it is not politically-correct to mention anything about homosexuals in a critical way. That would be “homophobia” or hate speech of some sort.