Larry Miller

The lefties are weeping and wailing about the work Elon Musk is doing to remove wasteful spending from the national budget. They are complaining that his work is a threat to democracy. They may have a point if the American people voted for and were on board with spending our tax money on transgender…

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Christmas celebrates the birth of a child. The fact is that the actual birth took place sometime around the middle of March, but the important point is that this child is born. His birth was predicted hundreds of years before, and wise men, astrologers, who watched the movements of the planets and s…

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Apologists for the progressive/socialist/communist left will tell us they have nothing against people following their Christian religion, or Jewish religion or even their Muslim religion... as long as they do it in the privacy of their own home. They are the most adamant proponents of the mythical “…

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Known as the “godfather of mass surveillance”, James Angleton got his start in the spy business with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. However before that, his father bought a business and relocated the family to Milan, Italy. As a young man he developed a love of poetry an…

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The lefties are weeping and wailing about the work Elon Musk is doing to remove wasteful spending from the national budget. They are complaining that his work is a threat to democracy. They may have a point if the American people voted for and were on board with spending our tax money on transgender operas in Columbia or sex changes in Guatemala or sterilization of women half way around the globe.

I don't recall any time the American public was in favor of such foolishness and leftist orthodoxy. Neither do I recall the American public enthusiastically supporting government workers, who generally make significantly more than the private sector counterparts, “working” inefficiently from home, while holding down other jobs, golfing, shopping or loafing around the house.

It's been said that standing against Elon Musk's efforts to eliminate waste is akin to standing for a bloated national government that fritters away money taken from hard working taxpayers. This is not entirely fair as the leftist radicals don't consider these things wasteful, but see them as essential in bringing down western civilization as we know it and replacing it with their psychopated version of a just society.

A merit based society is like kryptonite to those who, although they can't or won't achieve, but still believe they should reap the fruits of American prosperity as the same levels of those who actually make the country function. They have nothing but disdain for the traditional two parent family as the most stable way to raise children in spite of the rampant crime and poverty in most inner city communities where this value has been abandoned.

So as we see the Department of Government Efficiency moving through the agencies of the District of Columbia and the infected areas of Maryland and Virginia, we see people losing jobs doing things that should not have been done in the first place. We also see the left deprived of a major source of their power – taxpayer money shifted from the common good to the machinations of people who believe they are smarter than the average American and who believe they are the one to straighten out the little people who still believe in God, guns and guts.

So when we hear complaints about cuts in government spending we need to look at what is actually happening and remember, it's not just about money – it's taking power from those who do not believe in America.

Christmas celebrates the birth of a child. The fact is that the actual birth took place sometime around the middle of March, but the important point is that this child is born. His birth was predicted hundreds of years before, and wise men, astrologers, who watched the movements of the planets and stars knew immediately that something big was upon them. They took this word so seriously they set off on a long journey for their time to go and see what this event was.

Closer to home, there were shepherds outside the town of Bethlehem who experienced a visitation from a band of angelic beings telling them of the birth of this child. Uncharacteristically, they left their flocks to see what this was all about.

If this was the end of it, we would just have a cool story, but there is much more to this that the young mother and her bewildered husband could comprehend at the time. Kids are cute and a joy to their families, but this was not just any child.

This child was conceived by the Holy Spirit, without the help of a human father. This alone would make him unique, but this alone enabled him to be and do what he came to live among us to accomplish.

Around thirty years later he and a group of followers traveled the countryside in the land we now know as Israel. He spoke of having a right relationship with the Creator, not by following a list of dos and don'ts, but by having faith in his soon to be accomplished task. He healed the sick and drove out evil spirits – something following a list or rules will not prepare you to do. His followers learned to do the same.

At that time people who did wrong and committed sins (and everybody does wrong and commits sins) would bring an animal to the priests to be sacrificed in payment to a just God whom they offended by their behavior. This had to be done over and over again as the blood of the sacrifice only covered the sin and did not provide permanent forgiveness.

What was needed was a sacrifice that, once and for all, provided forgiveness for sin. This is the point of Christmas as the baby, now a man, the only perfect man who ever lived said he would pay the price for the sins of all of us. He died a horrible death at the hands of the brutal Romans on a cross meant for thieves and murderers.

The difference between his death and that of the thousands the Romans crucified as they maintained their control of the Jewish territory, is this man, Jesus, did not stay dead. Three days later he walked out of the tomb, conquering the enemy of death for all of us. Now most of us will not return to life on this earth, but we do have a choice of where we will spend the eternity after our time here is over.

By accepting Jesus death as payment for the sins of our lives where we have fallen short of the perfection God requires, he takes us to the paradise he, with God the Father, has created for us. If we don't accept that payment, the alternative is to spend eternity in the place created as punishment for the rebelious angels who were thrown out of heaven following Lucifer's rebellion. None of us are meant to be there and that is why Jesus sacrifce was provided.

That is why we have Christmas. It's not just about the baby, but the man he became.

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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. I John 1:8
 

Apologists for the progressive/socialist/communist left will tell us they have nothing against people following their Christian religion, or Jewish religion or even their Muslim religion... as long as they do it in the privacy of their own home. They are the most adamant proponents of the mythical “separation of church and state”. Their political understanding is that such a separation means the church has no place in government or public affairs. There is a reason for this, and it comes down to the very core of their belief system.

For the state to function in the manner they envision, it depends on the uneducated and unwashed masses to look to the ruling elites for rules to run their lives and to be final arbiter of right and wrong, as well as truth and lies. Many of them really do believe they are smarter than the riff raff they seek to control and others just use the political philosophy as the source and reason for their power. They say we are all equal but someone needs to be in charge and make decisions. It is like George Orwell's Animal Farm where it was expressed as “all the animals are equal, but the pigs are more equal”.

When this elitist thinking is confronted by the American tradition of Judaeo-Christian ethics they see an obstacle to their total control. They run into people who have a measure of proper beliefs that is outside of themselves and their dictates. They have an absolute measure of right and wrong where they cannot come back and say because the leaders are smarter and more powerful, their concepts are better than those handed down by our Creator. Hence those with such beliefs Christians and Jews are told they can have them in private, but they are not welcome in the public square.

A recent example was seen at a Kamala Harris rally where two young men shouted “Jesus ism Lord”. The vice-president told them they were at the wrong rally and had them escorted out the door. Her party recites the Pledge to the Flag – minus the words “under God”.

The last three and a half years have been dedicated to destruction of the “freedom of religion” concept as they have promoted their humanist “man is the measure of all things” belief to the exclusion of any kind of accountability to a creative deity, often purposely moving in the opposite direction. The results of their efforts have been chaos in foreign affairs, chaos in the economy and chaos in personal lives.

The most time honored expression is the rejection of the idea that children are a gift from God and it leads them to see unborn children as a gift that can be rejected by killing it in the womb. They say “my body, my choice” while carefully ignoring the idea that the concept works well when it comes to injecting foreign substances such as unproven vaccines into it – the concept falls apart when the scientific truth emerges that the child inside is only residing in their body and not a part of it.

From this they have moved on to more advanced forms of madness. While telling us to follow the science when facing a pandemic, they purposely go off in the other direction, abandoning the protection of women, which they made such a priority years ago when they were living in a male dominated society. Now they tell us a man can become a woman with some injections and pretty major surgery. Then they take if even further by telling us if a man identifies as a woman we must respect that and treat such a man as if he were a woman using “preferred pronouns”.

When a Christian, or Jew or Muslim says this is not right or acceptable, they are told that they need to adjust their thinking to the new “realities” of our time. False “realities” they have created.

Others without the religious background may speak up about the foolishness perpetrated on our country. They may cite science or common sense, but these have long been set aside by our betters who believe they know more and are not about to let them get in their way. It's like they are telling us we are all equal but the members of the leftist ruling class are more equal and smarter so we need to follow their dictates.

Communism and socialism in their various forms cannot tolerate a religious people who understand that there really are absolutes of right and wrong and who are willing to stand up to the totalitarian state that tells them otherwise. This is why they are all atheist societies with those who believe otherwise driven underground and practicing their beliefs in secret.

This is why churches must change their beliefs if they are to be tolerated by the dictatorial elites... such as the churches in 1930s and 40s Germany who turned blind eye to the persecution and eventual extermination of Jews and other “undesirables”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer would not bend the knee to the Nazi regime and they considered him an enemy of the state.

How long will it be, if we allow these people to stay in power, until they determine that Christians, Jews and Muslims are enemies of the state. It is in their minds already, just not stated publicly.

Known as the “godfather of mass surveillance”, James Angleton got his start in the spy business with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. However before that, his father bought a business and relocated the family to Milan, Italy. As a young man he developed a love of poetry and British culture – which he felt superior to American. He also developed an appreciation for the efficiency of fascism. He wasn't completely comfortable with the slaughter that usually came along with it.

He spent much of the war in Italy and toward the end helped various high ranking Nazis escape the hangman's noose by guiding them trough the “ratline” that took them through Italy and often to South America. For a while he ran the CIA assassination efforts and was there when governments were overthrown that acted contrary to American interests... that is the interests of the CIA and American multi-national corporations. These included the “spontaneous” revolutions in Guatemala and Iran in the early 50s. His sites were on Cuba, but that never materialized.

He began tracing correspondence of Americans who communicated with the Soviet Union. This program was expanded to include many others – all the while being clearly illegal for the CIA as the FBI had responsibility for domestic issues.

As he neared the end of his life he began reconsidering some of the things he had done. Raised as a Catholic, at the time he believed in the righteousness of his actions. However, later he mused about many of his colleagues, “If you were in a room with them, you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.” And he added, “I guess I will see them there soon.”

This is probably what happened, however it was totally unnecessary. Mr Angleton was not a good man and neither were many of those he associated with though out his life. However neither he, nor his boss, Allen Dulles, who directed him in his work were too far gone to change.

The blood of Jesus could cover all of his sins, and they were many. Just like it covers all of ours if we ask. As I studied the activities of this man and some of his associates I had little sympathy for them because of all the death and destruction they caused. Yet, I still would have been compelled to tell them they don't have to carry all that into eternity. As long as you have breath you can turn around and ask God for forgiveness, even if you have spent your life filled with evil thoughts and deeds.

I never met Mr Angleton. I doubt I would have liked him. Yet I still feel sad for the man who recognized he did wrong and did not accept the remedy.