Christian Fundamentalism

Liberal/socialist dogma contends that Christian Fundamentalism is atavistic, a throwback to some pagan past, which our modern society must keenly resist.

It has now become fashionable in the climes of the Upper West Side in NYC or the summer vacation locals where liberal/socialists imbibe and graze such as the Hamptons on Long Island, Cape Cod or the Berkshires in Massachusetts to conflate the Tea Party movement with Christian Fundamentalism. This was hardly unanticipated since Christian Fundamentalists and a majority of Tea Party supporters are against unfettered abortion which is also for liberal/socialists one of the pillars of their dogma along with the anodyne of social justice, a diminished military and a powerful and all-consuming central government. So for liberal/socialists with the addition of the Tea Party movement Christian Fundamentalism takes on a far more sinister religious component and an expansion of its political base. When liberal/socialist pundits complain about the Tea Party movement what they are really concerned about is the enlargement of Christian Fundamentalism as a political force in America.

Isn’t ironic therefore that liberal/socialists correctly view Christian Fundamentalism as an impediment to performing their pagan rituals such as the killing of human fetuses, homo-sexual license along with the pagan celebrations such as the various seasonal bacchanalias all of which Judeo-Christian morality, a fundamental tenet of Christian Fundamentalism, is ignored.

Abraham and Isaac

As a young boy in NYC I remember listening to the radio station WWVA, out of Wheeling, W. Va. and literally grew up on country music. Little did I know then that I would meet the people who lived that music.

Years later I lived in Charleston, W. VA selling disability insurance to coal miners. Driving down dirt roads, deep into the “hollers” I remember one day selling insurance at the home of a dirt poor coal miner. As I sat across the coffee table and started my pitch…the miner stopped me cold, looked into my eyes, straight, and asked, “Are you Jewish?” “Yes”, I said. His eyes brightened and he called to his wife, “Honey, I’ve got a Jew here. Come on in and meet him!” As she sat down he said to me, “We’ve never met a Jew before. You are the people of the book. Tell us a story in the bible as you know it, as you learned it as it was told to you.” I told the story of Abraham and Isaac and how confused Jews were about the story of God’s demand that Abraham sacrifice Isaac…his son, his only son. I told him that this story is confounding for Jews and that it is told on every new year holiday and that it is debated and discussed by the congregation and each year we all walk out of the synagogue as confounded and confused as we were the year before, wondering how a loving God can cause such abiding grief.

Today when my liberal friends on the Upper West Side and other climes complain about the Evangelicals and the “Christian Right”, I ask whether they ever met one. Invariably they say no. But I have met them, many of them. And as an American, a New Yorker and a Jew, I feel downright comfortable that I share this great country with them.

The Liberal Tactic

Recently I’ve noticed a new tactic among my liberal friends. When faced with an unalterable terrible truth about a government entitlement or some economy killing social program, they just deny it.

I moved my office to the Berkshires in Massachusetts for the summer and so I now have many opportunities to socialize with numerous liberals with whom I have been friends for quite a number of years. As now instructed by my bride of 42 years however I avoid at all costs discussions political since they usually lead to angry confrontations and lots of frustration, at least on my part. So we sit and talk about all sorts of innocuous things: Where to buy the best telephones, what shrubbery to plant and in what type of soil, what is the current cost of gas and as always where to go for a good steak or salmon. Most of my friends are receiving Social Security so while discoursing about these matters mundane I innocently mentioned the fact that the Social Security program is insolvent and will probably become broke in less than 10 years. “Nonsense” said my friend, “Social Security is as solid as a rock.” “But there is no money in the till since the government has been borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund with IOU’s and using the money to pay our general obligations!” “Nonsense”, said my friend. “When Social Security started in the 1930’s we had 30 workers paying for one worker. Now we have only 4 workers paying for one and within the next 20 years we’ll be down to 1 worker paying for one worker!! “Nonsense” said my friend. As I was turning a beat red and ready for an assault on the Normandy beaches my wife just happened to look over at me and saw the imminent tsunami. “So how’s your golf game doing” I said to my unrepentant liberal friend.

Republicans Brings Down DADT

Yesterday, a Federal District Court Judge ordered the Military to provide homosexual service members equal rights under the U.S. Constitution and to stop enforcing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law signed by a Democrat president 17 years ago. It took a Republican group to bring this case to court and win.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Liberals love to depict Republicans as some sort of pre-historical creatures who are to be barely tolerated. They think that to be a Republican means you are pro-life and to be pro-life means that you have not yet joined the 20th Century no less the 21st. What Liberals fail to consider is that at least half of those that identify themselves as Republicans are pro-choice . Liberals think, for example, that because Republicans are generally against the minimum wage law that they have no sympathy for poor working people. But Liberals fail to consider, as Republicans do, that the minimum wage law restricts young workers from entering the work force and unnecessarily increases the cost of doing business.

And of course Liberals believe that Republicans are homophobic and view homosexuality as sociopathic. But after 17 years of Congressional dithering to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law it took the Log Cabin Republicans to navigate a complex case through the Federal court system and argue it to victory.

Republicans do a fairly poor job in explaining to the American public why they support certain policies and reject others. So this is a great opportunity for Republicans to remind the American people that it took a Republican group, the Log Cabin Republicans, to oppose a long standing government policy that was fundamentally unfair and wrong.

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Are There Any God-Fearing Liberals Or Are They All Closet Socialists?

What is it with Liberals that when a conservative mentions God they get the summer humors. For those unfamiliar with ancient medicine summer humors is the expectoration of yellow bile.

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Last weekend Glenn Beck held a massive rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. proclaiming to his audience of nearly 300,000 and the entire nation his belief in an almighty God. For the past week I have been spending my vacation in the Massachusetts Berkshires home to expatriate liberal New Yorkers and Bostonians and all they now talk about is how nutty Glenn Beck is because of his strong belief in the Almighty. So I ask myself is there something about being a Liberal that is antithetical to the concept of an almighty God? I think there is.

Liberals are closet socialists. What that means is they are more than willing to defer to government largess and control to resolve economic, social and political problems. They have little faith in a society that promotes individual and voluntary associational effort to address society’s challenges. Such an approach for Liberals is unpredictable and relies more on risk taking and a powerful belief in a moral imperative, in other words, God.

So on that sunny Saturday last weekend at the Lincoln Memorial it wasn’t Glenn Beck alone that bothers Liberals it was those additional 300,000 souls who followed him to alter of a God fearing man who was willing to take the risk of freeing our country of the scourge of slavery based upon a moral imperative that all men are created equal in the eyes of God, not a government bureaucrat.

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Obama Economics Puts The Squeeze on Liberal Entreprenuers

What is it going to take to get those small business entrepreneurs who happen to be liberal and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 to realize that they voted for a Socialist.

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Yesterday I was perusing through my AOL page and came across a news story about small business entrepreneurs and what they would say to President Obama if they could get him alone in the oval office and speak to him one on one. “Mano y mano”, so to speak. Now these interviewees were not your garden variety candy store operators. These were college educated, articulate and successful young men and women, who voted for Obama, and are now extremely disappointed with the way the economy is going. They sincerely believe that all they have to do is get this President in a room and offer him the fruits of their education and experience and all will be well.

Well, boy and girls, after listening to these entrepreneurial geniuses I am more convinced than ever that we are far deeper in trouble than I ever considered. First of all not one of them showed any anger, any sense of betrayal, any sense that the election of Barack Obama, along with a Democratic Congress has created a major sea change in the American economic system and they are going to be the first ones overboard. They are the new Kulaks of the Bolshevik Revolution. They aren’t the ones President Obama and his gang of the left want to benefit. They are the ones that they want to fleece, starve and from whom they will squeeze every last tax dollar. And these liberal small business entrepreneurs haven’t a clue. At least the Kulaks put up a fight.

So where to turn? The only group that seems to have more than a clue is the Tea Party movement and believe it or not the Republican Party is catching on.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

Don’t Mess With The U.S.

When discussing the destruction of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon that occurred on 9/11 my liberal friends invariably say that when they think about it they feel sad. Well, when I think about it I feel a deep and unforgiving anger. And I might add so do most Americans.

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To feel sad requires a sense of disappointment, a violation of a trust. To be angry is an attack on your self-esteem. Therefore the more we value our own worth or the worth of something valued, like our country, the angrier we become when we perceive that we have been dealt with unjustly. Is there anyone therefore with any sense of love for this country that could not feel outraged at the attack on September 11, 2001? And knowing that the attack came from Afghanistan, protected by the ruling Taliban is there any question that we were going to attack that country if the they refused to hand over the bastards that attacked us? And since the Taliban did refuse we attacked without forethought, without some deep plan, without any sense of what would be the consequences, the burdens or the responsibilities that would result from such an act. We attacked with rage.

Now 9 years later I still burn with anger. For me and for most Americans there is no forgetting. So let’s see if we can get this thing straight: America shall not leave Afghanistan until every last al Queda and Taliban that supports him is dead or dying and when that country is free of every one of those SOB’s who believed that it was OK to tangle with the United States of America without placing their very existence at risk.

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Liberals, Where Is My Right To Respite From Terrorists?

At what point do my liberal neighbors in Massachusetts begin to comprehend the enormity of the conflict between radical Islam and America?

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My contact with liberals seems to be geographic. Though I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the last bastion of Communism since the fall of the Soviet Union, I have little or sporadic contact with liberals. But it is in Massachusetts, the Berkshires to be exact, especially in the summer months, that I have ample opportunity to explore the liberal mindset. It is here that Obama and the democratically controlled Congress can do no wrong. It’s the land of the ubiquitous Obama bumper sticker, the small groups that gather along local roads holding signs that demand we get out of Afghanistan, bring our troops home, support environmental taxes on capitalist oppressors, stop laying off teachers, and declare Goldman Sachs guilty of unspeakable crimes. Whether poolside or sharing a dinner with my liberal friends when I mention, for example, the sacrifices of our men and women who serve their country for little pay they respond by saying that our country takes advantage of those who join the military because they come from the backwaters and city slums of America and have little education and opportunity to do anything else.

It would be untrue to say that these liberal opinions don’t bother me but I try to keep the conversation civil. But there is one opinion which liberals express which does get my blood up, and that is they seem to be oblivious that we, as a nation, are in a fight for our lives against Islamo-fascists. So my belief is that it will take the obliteration of Manhattan Island or downtown Chicago by Islamo-fascists to get their attention on this issue. But should that ever happen, the liberal mania for giving terrorists Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights will go right out the window. In fact if such a thing would happen they and the rest of our country can kiss the rest of the U.S. Constitution goodbye. But today as they enjoy themselves in the refreshing pool and partake of succulent Berkshire home grown organic meat and vegetables none of this is very important. Of course they have the assurance that no Islamo-fascist will blow Great Barrington to smithereens. Living in New York City, as I and 8 million other people do, I enjoy no such assurance.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

The Truth v. The Liberals

The most fundamental failure of totalitarianism is its failure to control thought. The most fundamental success of the current leadership of the Democratic Party has been its ability to control liberal thought among its supporters.

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When speaking with liberals, and living on the Upper West Side in NYC I have ample opportunity to do so, it is always somewhat of a surprise to discover that no matter how educated they are they harbor a belief system that seems never to rely on facts. For example they believe that our health care system is broken, yet nearly 85% of Americans, except for a tweek here and there, were quite satisfied with the system as it currently stood prior to the passage of the Health Care Reform Act. They believe that global warming is anthropomorphic, meaning man made. Yet there is not a scintilla of evidence supporting this. They believe that the government can reduce unemployment by the infusion of massive amounts of money. Yet there is little if any evidence proving this is true. A recent example of this knuckleheaded belief is the recent $800 billion stimulus package passed by the Democrats in early 2009. And they believe that a human embryo is not human unless it is decided by at least one person with respect to one human embryo that it is.

I could go one but I am restricted by my producer to 2 minutes. Now isn’t that a hard fact that liberals would equate to 120 seconds? I wouldn’t bet on it. My point is simple. If you speak to liberals the first thing you should establish is what the facts are. You know, those are the things you can’t make up.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

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