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Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why we fight
by Kevin McCullough
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Commonsense thinking, or its lack thereof, will be the determining factor as to whether or not American society survives.

Please understand without clarity there is no common sense and without moral absolutes there is no clarity. For immoral liberals, it is a vicious cycle.

Yet is it too strong a statement to say that the survival of American society depends upon the common sense that moral absolutes give us?

In a word - no!

For America, we are at present fighting two separate wars. One of them is taking place at and beyond our borders. It is composed of spying on terror funds, stopping (some would say 'failing to stop') terrorists from crossing our northern and southern borders. It involves attacking them preemptively where they live and are carrying out plans to attack us from caves and spider holes in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and in multiple places across the Middle East and Southeast Asia that we have never been told about. This war requires vigilance of each American at all times, in ever public place. It even requires us to take our shoes off, get wanded several times over, and sometimes even cause us to miss our flight. It has taken the lives of honorable men and women, who have felt the call of history, who for these years have protected our security, and yet served without complaint.

For people of common sense there is a second war that we are engaged in and like the first it was not a war that we started - but like unto the first it is one that we must fight, and more importantly one that we must win. It is a near daily assault on our sensibilities as people. It is an all out blitz-kreig on our families, faith, and value system. It is requiring that our 1st and 2nd graders identify their sexual organs and feelings to strangers who parade about as public educators. It mandates that we sacrifice our under-age daughters' wombs to the butchers of Planned Parenthood. It outlaws the ability of parents to teach their children the lessons of right from wrong as my parents did with me via a firm swat on my overly plump backside. And it is attempting to brainwash our youngest with the cursed idea - that men and women are not equal - but rather the same. It is an agenda that seeks to keep mankind from being treated equally regardless of the color of his skin - unless it can be manipulated to benefit a political party.

It is mandating that we ignore what our faith leads us to believe while being forced to accept an evil, deceitful agenda from the godless in elite places who ignore moral absolutes and force their view onto us from their lofty towers in Hollywood, the Judiciary, the halls of Congress, and the lecterns of Academia. We call these elitists - The Diabolical Dagger Society!

The reason we fight both of these wars, simultaneously at that, is because to not do so only begs our destruction. And in both cases it will be a commitment to Judeo-Christian, biblio-centric absolutes that will save society. Continued...

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Subject: Responding to the madness
Phylo, I have been reading your dizzying arguments and wonder if it is a philosophy that you can really live by. You mention that society dictates the moral code by which we live; however, what happens when two societies come into conflict?

We are in just that situation now in which two societies, one valuing freedom, and the other submission, are in conflict. In fact, one side feels so strongly about their mores that they flew three passenger jets into buildings within our borders killing over 3,000. Whose society is right and whose is wrong? Or, are both societies right and may the strongest society win? Your argument breaks down when cultures, with different moral codes, collide. What happens when one culture that promotes the idea of “love your neighbor” clashes with another culture that says “eat your neighbor”? We get down to the system of might makes right.

Phoenix Lady: “I have a theory that all our problems as a species started when we began naming things…”

Eventually, we named God (Elohim or YHVH, depending on which tradition you use, although Elohim is, again, a title, and YHVH is an actual name).

LNC: Actually Phoenix, if you read the Bible you would realize that man did not name God (YHVH), rather God revealed his name to man. When Moses encountered God at the burning bush, Moses asked "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' " (Exodus 3:13-14)

So, your argument breaks down from there, we didn’t name God, rather God revealed His name to us. In essence, eternity, in the form of God, broke into space and time and revealed what reality really is to humans who have a limited finite perspective. If reality is an illusion, I don’t know why you wasted so much column space to convince me of that. May I ask who it is who is trying to convince me that reality is illusion? Or is an illusion trying to convince me of such?

I also beg to differ with you about what Jesus came to teach us. Jesus came to teach us that our separation from God is, in fact, quite real and quite serious. He came to sacrifice His life on the cross to bridge that separation that exists between man and God. The separation came into effect in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve violated God’s command and death entered into the world.

I will agree with you that God didn’t abandon us, rather we rebelled against Him; however, that separation is real and not merely illusion. Again, why would Jesus come to earth to die for mere illusion?

PL: I'm sure the Christians posting here will complain, but the Triune God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--is a projection of our internal triune nature--R-Complex (Lizard), Limbic System (Monkey), and Cerebrum (Angel or Android) onto Reality as a whole.

LNC: I am not sure where you get your belief system. However, I base mine on the revelation of God in three persons in the Bible. God revealed Himself and triune in many ways. Genesis 1:26 "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” John 10:30 “I and the Father are one." Jesus claimed to be God and the Jews picked up stones to stone Him for blasphemy. Acts 5 “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit…You have not lied to men but to God." This is not man’s concoction of a triune God, rather it is God’s revelation of Himself in three persons.

God’s wrath against man’s sin is mentioned nearly 190 times in the Bible. Ephesians 2 tells us that we “were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked” separated from God. However, the chapter goes on to tell us “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved.” Romans 5 tells us “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.” There is real separation from God as a result of our rebellion and sin. Thanks be to God that He sent His son to take the full wrath of His fury that we deserved.

When Jesus hung on the cross His last words were “It is finished” (John 19:30), this is actually the Greek word Tetelestai, a business term of the day that meant “paid in full”. Why would Jesus use this phrase as His last words before He died? Jesus live a sinless life and had no debt of His own to pay. What He did was to pay the debt that you and I owe, and by repenting of our sin and rebellion against a real and personal God, and trusting in the payment that Jesus made for us, we can have that payment apply to our sin.

That is why God entered into our real space and time existence to live a real life and die a real death to pay for our real debt that we could never pay by ourselves. Again, Phoenix Lady, you spent a lot of column space to convince me that separation is illusion; Jesus gave His life to prove that the separation was real and had real consequences. Whom shall we trust? “But I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able
to keep that which I’ve committed unto Him against that day.” (Well known hymn)

Phoenix Lady
Using scriptures, you cannopt ascertain what you wrote.

That is incompatible with what God, what you are calling only reality, says. You are also mistaken on the nature of God. Granted, He is bigger than all of us, and beyond full comprehension in his fullness, love and capacity, He is still a living being.

He is not some object or separate idea that we cannot know. We can know Him personally, if not fully understand Him.

You're argument is very agnostic and off target.
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