An insight to what a geek I really am.
Ok, so for real, I sent this email to Rush Limbaugh. Laugh at me if you must. But I know only like three people actually read this, and those three people already love me, so here it is :
I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (AKA Mormon.) I was reading your transcript from today, about fighting for conservatism, and I couldn’t agree more. It got me thinking about a very similar story. Have you ever read the Book of Mormon? If not, let me tell you one of the stories. You are going to LOVE IT! There are two groups of people, warring societies if you will, called the Nephites and Lamanites. The Nephites are the good guys, and they have a system of judges with a chief judge for their judicial system, and more or less live in a democracy. Well, there is a man among the good guys who wants to be king, so he starts using flattering words, promising power and positions to those who lie, steal, murder for him, etc, in order to place himself on the throne. He creates a secret society, and they call themselves the Kingmen. Now, this might not be the worst thing ever, but right at that point in time the Lamanites are headed toward the Nephites with their armies. The Kingmen refuse to take up arms, even as the Lamanites begin attacking. They see this as an opportunity to further their agenda. Well, the leader of the Nephite army is Captain Moroni. He is a very cool dude. He sees the way these Kingmen are acting, and is just sick about it. He knows he has to do something about it, so he takes a piece of his clothing, makes it into kind of a flag, and writes on it, “In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children.” He fastens it upon the end of a pole, for all of his people to see, and calls it the Title of Liberty. Then he takes this from town to town and gathers all those who feel as he does and they get together and take down the Kingmen. He reminds the Kingmen of what they believe and even gives them an ultimatum that they can stand with him and fight against the Lamanites, in defense of all those things they hold to be true, or they can be put to death on the spot. Many of them choose death, and Captain Moroni quickly complies.
Doesn’t the leader of the Kingmen sound like Obama? Doesn’t he sound like he wants to be king and that he is setting up those who lied, cheated, and stole for him in powerful positions?. Not only that, but he’s willing to weaken our military in a time when we’re not very popular in the world. It just seems like his goal is to take away our freedom. And what can we do? We can’t do what Captain Moroni did and put him and his followers to death for treason, but people like you can remind us of what our country is about. That we don’t go looking for a fight, but that we will protect ourselves and our God-given rights. As I wrote this I thought of so many different stories in the Book of Mormon that are relevant to our situation now. Oh, you should read it, or at least have a Mormon tell you about the stories. You would love Moroni and King Benjamin. Anyway, I thought you should know that there are millions of people out here who recognize the similarities in the story and see Obama and his secret society for what it really is. Please hang our Conservative Title of Liberty somewhere for all to see.
Mega Dittos from a Rush Baby
Kori Haring
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.
I look at the headlines and see things about Cancer Genes being discovered and other technological breakthroughs, then I see a headline saying that Banning Gay marriage is a step backward. So, with technological advancements we regress in moral issues. This is such a funny concept to me because I have always believed there was Truth (with a capital t) meaning an absolute reality, unwavering for popular belief truth. During Pagan times it was the gods that controlled the weather, the crops, love, etc. Then we were enlightened and science explained it all, well maybe not the love thing so much. Why can’t others see the blend of the two, that God does exist, that He is an active player in this life and that he uses natural laws to govern the earth? There are laws of gravity, and other physical and chemical laws that hold our world/universe together. There ARE also laws, just as real, that God put in place to govern our societies. Why is that so hard to believe? Prop 8 just passed, and I am reading comments on articles and I am seeing ugliness on both sides. People for it saying “Go to Massachusetts, we don’t want you” and people against it saying, “you are ALL bigots, just you wait.” Such hate, such misunderstanding and refusal to look at issues from the other perspective. In a genuine, sincere love for others I understand why those who are gay would want to marry. I do. But I believe that the natural order of society, i.e. children being raised by a mother and father, would be horribly altered and that many of the minorities’ values would be enforced on me, even by law. That is why we live in a democracy. That is what makes us great. This is a difficult issue, that I don’t think any one person, or even a handful should decide. That is why we let the majority decide. And we did. It wasn’t to hurt anyone. It was to prevent future hurt of the majority. To me, God set up families to work with a male and a female (the whole making babies thing) and even though many heterosexuals aren’t honoring that either, I don’t see how it would help to further dishonor it. I am disgusted that Marriage isn’t as big of a deal for heterosexuals. It should mean more. If homosexuals are fighting this hard to get it, shouldn’t that tell you it’s not something taken lightly? I don’t believe in sex before marriage, I don’t believe in divorce (at least not taken so lightly, I don’t believe in staying in an abusive marriage either.) I also believe that we should all have the freedom to believe and say what we want in as much as it does not take away those rights from others. What can we do in a moralless society where everything is relative? There has to be some foundation of right and wrong. There has to be some Truth. Doesn’t that just make sense? How can we know so much and yet believe so little.
