Dear Bill O’Reilly,
I am writing to clear my conscious of any ill will I may have had against the Tea Party rally in Fort Worth on Saturday. I admit that I was dismayed to learn of the Glenn Beck inspired rally, when I wrote: “It is a somber gray rainy day in Fort Worth. To everything, there is a season.” (See email, Sept. 12, 2009, 1:11 pm). I had watched the rally broadcasted by FOX, and I received an email invitation to attend.
I was sad for America, because in the midst of it all, some of our children were being taught to hate… hate the President… hate his race… hate the poor and uninsured… hate whatever else is “hateable”, because there is not love within them.
I saw the rally in Fort Worth on FOX, and my own Congressman Michael C. Burgess in attendance. I thought he was my friend.
Then I wrote another email (See email, Sept. 12, 2009, 4:19 pm) with this P.S.: I'm disappointed that the rain in Fort Worth was so light. But then, God knows best.
I am ashamed that I wished more rain upon the heads of those who attended the rally for hateful purposes. I wished no ill-will upon the good-hearted people. After all, our church children had a picnic on the same day, at the same time, and it was forced inside.
No, I did not pray for more rain. Instead, I tried to find comfort in the scriptures which said: God causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust. I found it in Matthew 5:45. But I found, also, more than what I was looking for. It reads:
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Accordingly, I have adopted a different attitude.
Nevertheless, it has rained and rained and rained in North Texas, from the time that the first drizzle dropped on the head of the Tea Party attendees. Surely, the Lord causes it to rain on the just and the unjust. And, if you listen to the unjust, they will blame the rain on the just.
I am reminded to be careful not to pray for ill-will upon those who hate me.
Yet the rain fell... and the floods came... Who considers God in these matters.
Eddie Griffin (BASG)
http://eddiegriffinbiblestudy.blogspot.com/
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Assuming these people are full of hate is shortsighted. Hate isn't what drives them. Racism isn't what drives them. It is anti-socialism. Blacks, by-an-large, don't understand this anti-socialism because they have been enslaved by socialism ever since they were first brought here. People on the left and the right are both patriotic to the extreme. The difference is, those on the left think large government is the answer to social woes. Those on the right think that government itself is the problem and would rather it leave everyone alone. It is the difference between wanting a government handout vs. wanting the government to butt out. I don't have insurance, I am married to an Indian and most of my best friends are black. Racism isn't in me and I don't want the government pushing healthcare on me. So where does that leave me?
ReplyDeleteGovernment is not separate and apart from us. We created government out of a mutual need (to protect ourselves from British rule). We alienated ourselves from the government through iconization... that is the say the very thing we created (icon) become our despised ruler over us. People have been anti-socialist since the 1918 Russian revolution and the Big Red McCathy Scare. They hate the word "socialism", just as the American public were programmed to loath the word "communism" during the 1950s. When our hate was focused on the so-called Indian savages, it was called paganism... when it was Spanish speaking people, they called it totalitarianism... national socialism is called Nazism, which resembles closely the rule of white supremacy. Call it whatever you will, I call it jealous opposition and hate.
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