Remember: It’s all narrative. It’s not a question that you cannot possibly get something approaching objective facts, but that you won’t get much of it from the voices so willing to tell their story. People are generally incapable of being objective.
At a bare minimum, anything approaching objectivity requires an otherworldly commitment. That’s the foundation. So long as you care much about this world, you cannot handle it with any degree of honesty. You will be unable to resist the temptation to slant things to your desires. Once you let your self-honesty slip, everything else is subject to heavy filtering.
So I don’t pretend to tell you objective facts; I confess openly that what I write is just my own narrative. Take it first and foremost as entertainment. God’s Truth cuts its own path through the heart, so however much of His Truth you see in my work is to His credit, helping you take what He wants for you from the mixture of words I splatter on your screen.
My path is not for you, but in my blather may be clues to the path God has for you. What we need more than anything else a removal of obfuscation. By some miracle, it would seem God uses my words to reduce confusion for some. If nothing else, writing it out this way clarifies things for me. God’s Truth about this world is not a matter of objective fact because He can change it on-the-fly to suit His whims. Rather, the business of revelation is to grant you a perspective, a characterization of things that will guide you through your personal darkness.
One of the worst lies that keeps confronting me in my daily surfing is the notion that we can somehow recover the American Dream. The American Dream never was, because it was too many different things to too many different people. Further, the variations were mutually exclusive to one degree or another. All of them grew out of the false assumption that we could somehow agree on something no two people could possibly share.
But getting beyond that, whatever it was we did have in America is gone. It won’t be back. Government will never obey the Constitution, if it ever did. People who are in power won’t even consider it, though they’ll lie about it an awful lot. The police agencies in this country will never, ever protect the public from threats. They will always and forever protect the government prerogatives from the people. You never had a voice in the first place, but it’s now becoming more painfully obvious. Even where we can agree on what ought to be, you can be certain that won’t happen.
I am utterly convinced that if I can just get people to put aside that myth, we can go forward into the future on the basis of what God is actually likely to provide. Don’t ask Him to return us to something you might imagine it ought to have been, because it wasn’t what He wanted in the first place. Stop blaming God for inspiring that filthy nonsense. The original concept for this country as commonly explained to us today was a blatant rejection of God’s Laws. So we should hardly be surprised when He decides it is time to let it die.
If you intend obeying Him, discard the nonsense and prepare for what God is actually doing.
