Viva America

Alright I have remained silent on this for a while but now I am going to talk about it. WHERE DO ILLEGAL IMIGRANTS GET OFF SAYING THEY HAVE RIGHTS!!!!! To have rights you have to be a citizen that’s part of the reason for becoming one. But ok now that I have explained the constitution I can rant about all of the protestors. Come on it is absolutely ridiculous how many “Latinos” and “Latinas” decided to go out and protest. It was almost funny actually because on the free ways when they were protesting was about 60% of the crime in LA. If everyone that was protesting just disappeared we would be better off. About 10% of the students if the LA unified school district are openly illegal and openly talk about jumping the border on weekends. These are people that grow up to become criminals peddling drugs and living off welfare. And what do the illegals come here to do?? MAKE BABYS!! They come here and reproduce so that their children are American citizens. Time to change the laws so you have to be born to citizens to be citizens. So time to recap, illegals do not have rights, you should have to be born to citizens to be one, and now to continue, stop taking up our jobs. The most popular argument has always been that illegals do jobs no one else will, well that not true. A recent study showed that young people and the unemployed would gladly do these jobs but since they are citizens and get minimum wage it is easier just to higher an illegal for 2 bucks an hour. Further more they are not spending their money here they are sending it back to madre y padre back in Mexico. So they drain our resources.

Another thing that burns me, seeing the mayor of LA out there protesting with them. And he got elected because the week before any voting in the U.S. all the Mexicans jump the border and use their fake ID to vote (actually happens, saw it on nightline). So none of our votes for president are even fair. In closing all I have to say is that it is time to build a wall.

Sacrifice

I was recently reading an article about a man who was sentenced to death for his heresy, trying to make an English version of the Bible. This got me thinking, will I do anything great for my faith. Would I be willing to die for my beliefs. Well I hope the answer is yes to both of those questions but I have control over the answer is the scary thing. Now yes predestination, God decided everything, but there is free will in there somewhere and I need to use it. I need to find a way make a difference like this man if not for him it is possible that the progression of Christianity could have taken much much longer. Now I know that most Christians when asked if they would die for their faith say yes but I just don’t honestly believe that. I just have a hard time swallowing the idea that 90% of the people at my church would actually die. If someone pointed a gun at me and asked if I am a Christian I don’t know what I would say, let alone if I would be willing to die. The faith needs people willing to sacrifice to spread it and I want to help spread it but I feel as though I can never live up to the examples of great Christian men from the past, but then again not many can.

Apathy

Apathy is one of the largest problems facing the world as we know it. Whether you are a Christian or not apathy, has become a plague on modern society. Apathy has led to youth and adults alike feeling as though the things around them are out of control or simply not worthy of their attention. Examples of this are prevalent in our day to day culture, for example in Iraq no matter how you spin it we are saving lives and the quality of life has gone up. To say such an act is reproachable is not only wrong but shows the apathy of that person towards the well being of others. If people in the world just thought about how they would like being in that situation the world would be a better place. Apathy towards the world is just a plague plain and simple.

Aid for Close to HOME

Why is it that churches in America send missionaries off to foreign countries to evangelize there when there are so many people unsaved within 1 mile of pretty much every church? Shouldn’t we take the thousands that save a few and use them closer to home where it will go farther and save more people. If you factor in the cost of plane tickets and lodgings for church groups that go overseas you could easily witness to many more people in the local area. The exact same amount of money would last much longer or just go out to more people. Maybe logic doesn’t belong in the church but I feel that foreign missions are just expected now but not necessarily the best choice. This brings me to the way that the church and the government send so much aid over seas, in the form of medication and wheelchairs, has no one ever been to downtown LA? No one ever took the time to drive a mile and look at all the people who need help here? Come on there were people in need before Katrina hit, but it took a natural disaster to get attention. There are just as many poor people in the Midwest in need from losing their jobs. Why do people always see some mentally ill guy on street (by the way we can thank the ACLU for getting that guy out of a mental hospital) but instead of giving him a nickel they give it to some organization for Africa. It is almost like you would rather help the person farthest from you, like the farther away they are or what country they are in makes your donation more righteous.

LAME STUFF

I am making a list of things that are lame, here we go.
1. Objectivism-Because it is a cop-out
2. Liberals-They like taxes and they are pacifistic, and they blame everything on conservatives
3. The ACLU-They take what is bad and make it worse, and make what is good bad
4. SAT tests-They do not accurately show intelligence
5. Katie Couric-She is a liberal
There is more to come and if you disagree don’t bother drinking kool-aid just hit your head against the wall till you black out.

CREED PART ONE

The other day my Bible teacher gave my class a very interesting project, to create a creed. This is something that I really look forward to doing but I feel extremely serious about. This project has me actually declaring all of my beliefs that I think are core to being a Christian. As I have previously stated I am not a fan of predestination but I feel that I am at the point where I can accept it now. So for the first part of my creed I will be talking about the omnipotence of God, since God being all powerful is central to my belief. So here is a first draft of the section of my creed specifically about God. By the way comments on this and ways to defend it would be much appreciated.

God is all powerful. God controls all things past, present and future. The Lord has preordained all men to either receive his amazing mercy, or his just wrath. Everyone in heaven or hell is there because they were preordained to go there before the beginning of time according to God’s perfect will. In short God knows and controls all things. By the way of controlling all things the Lord is also in all places (omnipresent).

I AM FEEBLE

I finally thought of something worth saying. I don’t like being eternally feeble. God has put things in the and in the world and in the universe that I just cant understand, and to my knowledge know one knows the answer to some of these questions. I guess I should be content to know that god is in control but that also makes me feel insecure. Now anyone who knows me knows that there are two doctrine in the Bible that kill me; Predestination, and Election. I cant wrap my head around the idea of a loving, perfect God sentencing some of us to death. But then I am confronted with the fact that those going to hell do not get injustice they merely receive what we all deserve. The few elect receive mercy(I really really like that word). This means we simply receive better than we deserve. So not a single person truly receives injustice. Now some may say why would God do this he made us, so on and so forth but he is glorified in all things. The execution of mercy and justice, no matter how difficult justice is to accept. I can accept this, I am of the lucky few elect who receive mercy and knowing that there is justice makes mercy even more of a thing to relish no matter how cold that may sound.
I just cant deal with predestination. I don’t like the idea of not controlling my own actions but at the same time I like the idea of trusting in God, so I am somewhat conflicted. Predestination humbles me every day because I know that free will also exists. This discussion runs through my head at least once every day (usually more than once though). God never stops reminding us of how much greater than us he truly is and I guess it is a good thing, as long as you open your eyes or listen or just stop to think God will find a way to manifest his omnipotence and glory.

JUST A COOL PICTURE

I give you a sweet dive.

the meaning behind the title

I just realized that I never explained the reason for the title of this blog. Truth is not relative is the name because to many people in the world see the world in shades of gray. No truth, only what feels good for me or for you.
There are rights and wrongs and they are not based on opinion. truth whether in the context of right and wrong or any other sense is not relative to what you feel. Truth is truth right is right and wrong is wrong. The Bible is truth the sins of the flesh are wrong it doesn’t matter how you try to spin it. The Lord will not be swayed by your views he will only tell you that you are wrong, and punish you for it. Sola Scriptura Soli Deo Gloria Solo Christo Sola Gratia Sola Fide and there you have it, all you need to know about truth in five easy phrases.

LIBERALS YE BE WARNED!!

I just realized that now I have a place to bash all the flaming bleeding heart hippie liberals that have always angered me. So for my first attempt I will be bashing every one that says the war in Iraq is hurting us. The truth is that at the very least it is a way to take the terrorism back to their own country’s instead of waiting here to get blown up. I feel better knowing that terrorists are busy blowing themselves up in the middle east. They are so busy killing themselves there they don’t have any one to spare to blow up innocent Americans. So I have finally been able to rant a little and there is much much much more to come. To quote my illustrious friend, Pat O'Rily if you disagree .............................
DRINK THE KOOL-AID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

more than book smarts

I feel as though something I have been trying to say for a long time has finally been said by one of the teachers from my school that I look up to. I have always said that just because I cant spell very well and am not very good at math, that doesn’t make me stupid. I can do other things. I am not sure what exactly but I feel as though I am capable of discussion beyond some of my friends (I am not bragging I just hope that I am not imagining this as a strength). I cant solve geometry problems quickly, I cant name every major part of a mitochondria (sorry Mr. Smith) and I cant write an amazing paper off the top of my head. But I feel like if I have someone who challenges me in a belief I can defend myself rather well. I know that I can easily be put down (in a teacher to pupil positive learning way) by certain teachers i.e. Mr. Hervey, but I feel like I can at least form somewhat of a discussion. Maybe I am wrong, maybe I do not have this strength but I feel like its all I have going for me so I hope so. Either way I have gotten off topic but the point was that there are different strengths and different forms of knowledge than seem to accepted. This partially ties into my previous entry about knowledge, I feel like I try my best and this is just what I am good at. I also feel like SAT testing is worthless because of this (just had them).

crazy beach night

This last Friday night some friends and I got bored so we packed my family's old Chevy Corsica with all five of us and drove to the beach. We left my house about 11:30 and got to the beach about 12:00. It was pretty fun. We blew past a cop on accident and the car is old so it is unregistered and uninsured so if we had been pulled over it would have been bad. When we got to the beach all the sand we kicked up had crazy glowing stuff in it. It was a great night.

what happened to knowledge being a good thing

What has happened to the world? All the sins of the world originated from wanting as much knowledge as God, to be God's equal. Now people are content to be idiots. The average person in my high school doesn’t care about how much knowledge they are able to obtain. Now I am aware of the fact that not all knowledge is book knowledge and I myself do not always have the best grades but I still want to gain knowledge. We are all God's creations and so many of us are wasting our lives just because it is not cool to be smart or we are just lazy. I am just as guilty as anyone but why cant we at least attempt to make something of ourselves. Why is that only the poor struggle to better themselves? We should all try to better our standing in the world instead of taking on the sad excuse of a life slogan that is some where around fatalism and apathy.