I Wish I Was President
Because if I was President, a sudden static would wash over the airwaves, people across the country would reach for the remote, unable to get away from me in my office and I would deliver this address:
My fellow Americans,
As you witness the economical, political, and societal breakdown before your very eyes, be sure that these are scary times. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression were never intended to erode the moral framework that gave this country its freedom. Our friends, families, co-workers, and representatives have been deceived by a vacuous relativism, that cannot in itself, stand the test of continuous autonomy without self destructing. We are certainly a kingdom divided. We are a house standing in opposition to itself! The same pluralities that gave America her rich flavor have been frothed into an amalgam of bitter hostility. Oh what richness we forego by purporting our autonomy at the expense of another's freedom.
My generation works feverishly to esteem themselves. We work hard to go to college because we want a good job, so that we are respectable, and that we will attract others with higher prestige. Unfortunately, in the pursuit of enthroning ourselves, we have dethroned our peace of mind. We are faced with the shock and despair of uncovering the emptiness of how we vainly defined ourselves and our culture.
How, therefore, can we digest "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?"
Have we not called into question liberty by killing the Creator and redefining life according to relativism? Have we not endeavored to "purchase happiness" rather than pursue it? We are a broken people, in debt and desperately in search of forgiveness. My generation seeks anybody, anyone to come and solve the problems of the housing market, disappearing social security, inflation, healthcare, and unwanted pregnancy. Surely, we all are searching for a savior, but that savior will not come from Whiskey, Washington, or Wal-Mart.
Only from our Creator have we been flattered by the essence of the divine. I must concur with Robert Fitzroy, captain of the HMS Beagle (whose naturalist was a young Charles Darwin), who said "Believe God rather than man."
When we cheapen ourselves by adding our lives to the nameless pool of relativism, we abdicate our God given uniqueness and our only shot at redemption. Do not forsake He who will never forsake you. Yes, these are scary times, and they will worsen, but our hope was never meant to come from people anyway. Hope in God.
"Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words." -1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
My fellow Americans,
As you witness the economical, political, and societal breakdown before your very eyes, be sure that these are scary times. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression were never intended to erode the moral framework that gave this country its freedom. Our friends, families, co-workers, and representatives have been deceived by a vacuous relativism, that cannot in itself, stand the test of continuous autonomy without self destructing. We are certainly a kingdom divided. We are a house standing in opposition to itself! The same pluralities that gave America her rich flavor have been frothed into an amalgam of bitter hostility. Oh what richness we forego by purporting our autonomy at the expense of another's freedom.
My generation works feverishly to esteem themselves. We work hard to go to college because we want a good job, so that we are respectable, and that we will attract others with higher prestige. Unfortunately, in the pursuit of enthroning ourselves, we have dethroned our peace of mind. We are faced with the shock and despair of uncovering the emptiness of how we vainly defined ourselves and our culture.
How, therefore, can we digest "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?"
Have we not called into question liberty by killing the Creator and redefining life according to relativism? Have we not endeavored to "purchase happiness" rather than pursue it? We are a broken people, in debt and desperately in search of forgiveness. My generation seeks anybody, anyone to come and solve the problems of the housing market, disappearing social security, inflation, healthcare, and unwanted pregnancy. Surely, we all are searching for a savior, but that savior will not come from Whiskey, Washington, or Wal-Mart.
Only from our Creator have we been flattered by the essence of the divine. I must concur with Robert Fitzroy, captain of the HMS Beagle (whose naturalist was a young Charles Darwin), who said "Believe God rather than man."
When we cheapen ourselves by adding our lives to the nameless pool of relativism, we abdicate our God given uniqueness and our only shot at redemption. Do not forsake He who will never forsake you. Yes, these are scary times, and they will worsen, but our hope was never meant to come from people anyway. Hope in God.
"Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words." -1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
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