I once had a Facebook account; it seemed like a good thing at the time.  I signed up so I could join all the others in my family who appeared to enjoy keeping up with friends and family by reading the various postings they all placed in the forum.

It didn’t take me long to realize the complete indiscretion of those I had contemplated being in communication with.  Friends, cousins, nieces, nephews, brothers, and colleagues all intent on proving to the world just how ridiculous, how absurdly they could behave:  it’s such a shame that we live in Jerry Springer’s America.

The most disturbing revelation; however, was how far our precious middle child had fallen into the confusing mess this world has become.

In deference to the very discretion whose loss I so loudly bemoan I will not disclose the many details of the fall, except to share what I feel is an endemic problem for the entire Christian world: how we have failed so miserably in our presentation of Christ to the world.

Somewhere out there in Facebook Land is a cartoon comedian called Lizzy Lezzy, an apparent characterization of someone similar to Ellen DeGeneres.  One of the supposedly sharply witty comments this character has proclaimed is one in an endless stream of atheistic attacks on Christians, which goes something like this, “Do you really believe there is a god out there somewhere, looking down on us all, saying, Ew! Gay!”

Now don’t misunderstand, this child of ours is not, as far as we know, a homosexual; just one of the many highly intelligent, highly educated individuals of this America who think the very idea of God is absurd and is the source of all the evil intolerance stirring our society.  How did this happen?  How does a child, raised in a home where Christ is clearly presented, not only by the immediate parents, but also by several generations on both sides of the family tree, as the one true God who has created all things and is redeeming all things to Himself, become an angry, atheistic, anti-Christ hater of God?

Let me share my grief.  She has looked at those calling themselves the people of this God and has found us all wanting in every way.  We no more reflect the nature of Christ than does Satan.  Our churches are modeled after Judaistic Synagogues and our worship is the sacrifices of the tabernacle and the observances of Mosaic Law, not at all the model of Jesus, set for us as He walked this earth.

So I say to anyone, everyone who has shaken their fist in anger at God.  No… Lizzy lezzy, I don’t think there is a god out there somewhere, looking down on us, saying, “Ew! Gay!”

In fact I’m certain He is right here, wherever anyone might be, standing with His arms open wide to the adulterer, the murderer, the atheist, the whore monger, the fornicator, to the abused child, the widowed mother, the cop who had to kill to save a life, the doctor who aborts a child, the homosexual, the child abuser, to all of us in this fallen world.  He’s standing there calling out, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Don’t confuse our loving Savior with the desperately fallen people He is still trying to redeem.

I just can’t stand it!!! Americans are soooo ignorant it’s almost intolerable!  Folks get all cranked up about the stupidest things and all because they are ignorant of the very laws they think are being violated.

This rant is all about the American flag.

Recently the local news ran an article about some fool who posted a picture on Facebook of himself standing on an American flag.  Then they continued the story with interviews with another individual wearing a shirt with the American flag on it, who roundly denounced the idiot standing on the American flag.

So what’s wrong with this picture?  Well a close examination of the Flag Code will reveal that the one wearing the shirt is just as guilty of violating the laws governing proper respect for our national flag as is the idiot standing on it.

Here’s an excerpt:

• The flag should not be used as “wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery”, or for covering a speaker’s desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general (exception for coffins). Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
• The flag should never be drawn back or bunched up in any way.
• The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
• The flag should never be used for any advertising purpose. It should not be embroidered, printed, or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use. Advertising signs should not be attached to the staff or halyard.
• The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, firefighters, police officers, and members of patriotic organizations.

And there’s much more (http://us-flag.net/code/ ), but isn’t this little bit enough to let you know that the citizens of this once great nation blithely ignore the respect and honor our national flag deserves?  You can see it anywhere you care to look.  People mistakenly believe that simply displaying some form of our flag somehow brings honor and respect to the display, when in fact it brazenly dishonors our flag and the nation it once stood for.  This is yet another example of the extreme ignorance that pervades every facet of our American culture.  We are no longer a nation of proud citizens, but instead have become a disjointed conglomeration of self-seeking idiots foolishly proud of their disrespectfulness, deceitfulness, and debauchery.  Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on us and, sadly, we are proud of it.