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Icons of our Youth

Posted by CCC5 on Monday, August 21, 2006 12:06:13 AM
I am currently reading a wonderful new biography of Roberto Clemente.  I think that you have to be in a specific demographic to understand this post,  but maybe there is someone like me out there.
As a child of 6, I know that I watched the 1960 World Series with my parents.  Though I have no memory of the original TV images, I remember the reaction of my staid and reserved parents when Mazeroski hit the Home Run.  Rules were broken- running in the house, jumping on the bed-and that was the adults.  From that point on, I have loved  the Pirates and especially Roberto Clemente.  As I know now, he was a very complex and at times conflicted man-but oh how he could run, throw and hit.
In addition to the book, I received a copy of a reunion of the 1960 heroes, complete with their reccollections and commentaries about that majical year.  How much fun it would have been to sit in a room with the absolute heroes of my youth:  Dick Groat, Vernon Law, Roy Face, Hal Smith, Gino Cimoli, Maz and others from that period as they shared their memories from that wonderful time.   It was so nice to take some time away from the problems of this world today and just think about a simpler time--and beating the Yankees!
It's a different story today for the Bucs, 14 losing years in a row.  But somewhere on their roster is the next Smokey Burgess or Bob Friend.  I'll keep watching for them to appear.
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PCUSA

Posted by CCC5 on Saturday, August 19, 2006 1:25:46 AM
For two decades, I have watched in anguish the Presbyterian Church's march into heterodoxy.  As the son of a United Presbyterian minister who heard 2 sermons a Sunday for many a year, I know the soundness of Biblical Presbyterian doctrine.  The PCUSA today is but a shell of the legacy that descended from Calvin, Knox,  Edwards, Gerstner,and Sproul.  I am sad to report that the PCUSA today has become a "big tent" that denies the inspiration and innerrency of Scripture and therefore can embrace a feel good theology that seems to say, independant of Divine Revelation, "I'm OK, you're OK."
Hugh Hewitt's post today about the publishing wing of the PCUSA's new conspiricy book about 911 is just further proof of the leftward movement of the leadership of the denomination.  While much of the  " new" teaching and doctrine of the PCUSA  "tickles the ears" of the gradually more liberal members, it is direct conflict with the teachings of the Bible.  And I hate to say that no matter how many good deeds people do, whether it is supplying Angela Davis with money to defend herself,   embracing openly homosexual clergy, or authorizing the money to publish a book on President Bush's conspiricy to get the US into war in the mid-east,  those" good "deeds are meaningless.  When the Church ignores the Bible and the simple message of the Gospel--that is the immense sinfullness of each individual person and the forgiveness that is offered freely by faith in  Christ's work on the cross--and places its trust in good deeds and affirming sinful behavior,  the denomination becomes complicit in leading people to Hell.  That is scary and given my history, sad.
I have tremendous respect for Hugh Hewitt and I hape that God will use him to spearhead a new reformation in the Presbyterian Church
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Rest in Peace, Dad

Posted by CCC5 on Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:46:25 PM
It seems to me now , that Natalie Mains of the Dixie Chicks wasn't completely wrong.  The only mistake she and her talented, but misguided cohorts made was in being embarrassed by the wrong American leader.  When will Jimmy Carter "fade away"?  My knowledge of American history is not complete, but can anyone argue that Jimmy Carter was not the worst President this country ever had?  And an even tougher argument-somebody tell me why he isn't the absolute worst ex-President we have had in the history of the United States.
Pres. Carter's record includes his Chamberlain style foreign policy, odd/even gas rationing, "just put a sweater on" in South Dakota in the winter time to combat the high cost of heating our homes.  The list is endless--hostages in Iran, believing terrorists in negotiations etc.
But it is as a former Pres. that Jimmy really shines.  From "monitoring" rigged elections to trashing this country, to promoting the United Nations as a viable authority to settle differences between terrorists and democratic nations,  he is an abject failure.  His latest diatribe included a comparison of Islamo-fascist fundamentalists with those of us who are orthodox Christians.  He thinks we are as much a part of the world's problems  as they are.
And his legacy lives on through those wonderful, "ivory towered" jurists that he appointed.  Those appointees continue, like the Eveready Bunny to chip away at the security and fabric of this nation.  But, having met people like Pres. Carter and his appointees,  it is not enough to tell them to "pull their heads out, there is a real world out there."  We need to endorse, support, and vote for serious, grounded adults in Nov.
Re. the title of this post.  My Dad died in 1988.  One of his regrets was voting for Jimmy Carter.  I know that it is not possible, but wouldn't it be wonderful if we could amend that idiotic Mc Cain Feingold campaign finance "reform" bill to include a gag order on former Presidents? Especially those who are failures at everything they say or do.
Rest in Peace Dad---we will carry on.
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Christianist

Posted by CCC5 on Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:59:46 PM
Andrew Sullivan has recently become even more virulent in his criticism of Christians.  Some, including me, would say that his critism stems from ignorance and predjucice.
Sullivan has even gone as far as accusing, among others, Hugh Hewitt of being Christianists.  But as Hugh pointed out on his blog, there has been no definition of Chrisionist offered by Mr. Sullivan.   I think that we all know that Islamists are Moslems who condone, encourage, or participate in violence against anyone not of their faith.  Does that mean that a Christianist is one of the very, very, very small minority who claim Christ as Lord who bombs an abortion clinic or who shoots an abortion Doctor?  If that is the definition, I'll buy it.
But it seems to me that Sullivan is including a much wider class in his definition.  It seems to me that he is also including many orthodox Christians-perhaps the most tolerant people in our culture.  Many Bible believing, church attending Christians like myself live in neighborhoods that are not photo copys of Nazi Germany.  In our immediate neighborhood we have a lesbian couple with children and a very liberal(some might say radical couple) who are the antithesis of everything the Bible teaches about how to live a God pleasing life.  While I don't agree with their lifestyle and political choices, it would never occur to me to strap a bomb around my expanding waist and blow them and me to Paradise.  The most radical thing I can remember doing to the neighbors is asking if I can keep an eye on their house while they are out of town.  If Sullivan is equating this type of behavior with radical Islamists, he is clearly further around the bend that I thought.
Hugh Hewitt is only a slight aquaintance of mine, though I have listened and read his views since the KFI days.  If Andrew Sullivan wants to expand his definition of Christianists to include a committed, compassionate, reasonable, mild-mannered man like Hugh,  I guess I'll join up gladly.
God Bless our military
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The Times That Try Men's Souls

Posted by CCC5 on Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:55:56 PM
From Adam's first bite through the most recent unguided rocket into Israel, these are the times that try men's souls.
Thanks to a heads up from Hugh Hewitt,  I am reading Manchester's Churchill: Alone, which  is the most prescient book around today.  One can't read it without being struck by the denial of the west as to a grave threat and the rampant anti-semitism expressed.  It is Groundhogs Day  writ large.
It seems to me that we have a 2 pronged problem today.  First, we have a biased press that leaves much of our population ignorant or ambivilent about the threat that radical Islamists pose.  Unless we regular folks join the giants of talk-radio, print and blogs who deal with the facts of the Islamist movement, I fear that we will have a change in leadership.  This change will not be good, because the Democratic Party does not have the brains or brawn to face a world at least as dangerous as Hitler's re-armed Germany.
We foot soldiers need to be armed and able to warn family, friends, and neighbors about the grave consequences of the upcoming elections.  We need to elect pro-America, anti-terrorist, serious people to the Congress who will in Barney Fife"s immortal words, "nip it in the bud".
The second prong of our problems today is on a parallel track.   While media bias keeps our populace ignorant, our culture has been degraded to the point that many millions of Americans are on the fast track to Hell.  Many of our family and friends are not only ignorant to the temporal threat posed by militant Islamists, they are so completely absorbed in the popular culture that they can't see the eternal consequences of their need for a Savior.
The only thing that former Surgeon General Jocyln Elders got right was when she said,"we're all gonna die of something someday."  Well, people are dying every day, deluded by a culture that has taught them that there is no God, or that if your good, you will go to Heaven.  God not only exists, but his standards for eternal life are really high--either be PERFECT, or bow our knees to Jesus Christ and trust that the work He did on the cross will satisfy God's hatred of sin.
I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but if you do and agree, we have a lot of work to do. We need to encourage others to confront the forces of evil-terrorists of every stripe.  And we need to share the love of Christ with hurting people that we meet-even if they don't  know why they are hurting.    
God Bless our  military men and women and all those that spread the Gospel of Christ
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