I am always amazed by the fact that although we call
ourselves “a Christian Nation” and we boast about the fact that we have more
churches in the United States than any other country in the world, the
teachings of God, the Father, and His Son, Christ Jesus, play minor roles in the integrity and spiritual correctness of our moral decisions. For example, it does not appear that we ask
ourselves questions like “What grade would Jesus,
who knows what’s honestly is in our hearts, give us for the policy decisions we’ve
just made?” "How would God feel about the Republican Party's intentional attempt to create a health care policy that is going to result in pain, suffering, and death for millions of Americas?" “Are our policy decisions concerning entitlements, tax cuts, voter ID laws, immigration . . . in
accordance with His teachings?” “Are we conducting ourselves in compliance with the example
He modeled on Earth?" "Are we writing and passing legislations that are in the
true spirit of His principles (in accordance with His Word in His Holy Bible)? And finally. are we living and practicing the laws, principles, and values from His Word that we have incorporated into the two most important documents in our nation – The Declaration of Independence and The
Constitution of the United States?”
In fact it appears to be quite the opposite: Our decision-makings
are so far afield of His teachings that they would probably put us in good
standing with the other guy – Satin. Moreover, what appears to be more
amazing is the fact that organizations, like the Republican Party, which claim to
be the beacon of Christian values and morality, are the worst offenders. Their
anti-Christian policies, which are becoming more frequent, are increasingly producing
more severe consequences: Reductions in real wages; reductions in the size of
the middle class; increases in the number of people living below the poverty
line; and deregulation of civil rights, workers’ rights, gender rights, equality for all, representative government, and
individual rights.
Currently, it appears that the republicans are winning all
the social and economic battles. They won the battle concerning “no new taxes.”
They won the battle concerning the topics and the framing of the economic debates.
And most significantly, they won the battle concerning spending cuts: they
forced our country to make deep cuts to badly needed social and education
programs, while refusing to make any cuts in defense spending, for weapon
systems the Pentagon neither wanted or needed.
On the surface it appears that the republicans won the
economic debates because their economic ideologies were better and more
effective than those of the democrats. I don’t believe this is true. Moreover, there is one inescapable fact that all honest God-fearing Christians
cannot overlook: Jesus would never cut entitlements, because He knows that
cutting entitlements make the poor poorer. This means that death from poverty
and other conditions in poverty-stricken neighborhoods increases. God knows that cutting entitlements is literally
a death sentence for the poorest Americans. And the majority of poor Americans
are children. God knows that the deeper the cuts, the more children you
sentence to death.
Cutting entitlements or social programs that help “Americans
in need” might be a good strategy for giving corporations
and wealth Americans. It might appease the Republican-Tea Party, but let there
be no doubt in anyone’s mind: Agreeing to these actions makes you and I and
every American conspirators in what has
already become “the biggest mass genocide of Americans by Americans – And most of the
victims are children!!!!!!
God help us!!!
by
James A. Porter
