Tales From The Twilight Zone

Lt. Col. Allen West

From: The Pen of Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Retired)

This month’s title is appropriate because Rod Serling could not have written this script any better. Everyday we wake up and have to ask ourselves, “Are we in some kinda parallel universe”? Actually Serling had an episode which fits appropriately.

Therefore I googled up what has to be my favorite Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man”. Here is the synopsis of the episode, which was available upon search.

“A race of aliens known as the Kanamits, they were tall, land on earth and promise to be nothing but helpful to the cause of humanity. Initially wary of the intentions of such a highly advanced race even the most skeptical humans are convinced when their code-breakers begin to translate one of the Kanamit’s books with the seemingly innocuous title, “To Serve Man”.

Sharing their advanced technology, the aliens quickly solve all of the Earth’s greatest woes, eradicating hunger, disease, and the need for welfare. Soon humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits’ home planet, which is supposedly a paradise.

All is not well, however, when a code-breaker discovers the Kanamits’ true intentions: Their book, “To Serve Man”, is a cookbook, and all their gifts were simply to make humanity complacent, much like fattening pigs or cows before they are slaughtered.”

Here we are today and the Kanamits are the far left liberals and their book is “Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alinsky.

How many people mindlessly followed, ok, well, I will not call him an alien, Obama’s empty rhetoric of “change and hope”? How many were hypnotized by the promises of everything being taken care of and the seas rising.

They just boarded that spaceship while others where telling them, beware. Now we are hearing people state, this is not what I voted for, too late, you have been served up on a plate.

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Living Close To Jesus

Quoting Charles H. Spurgeon:

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

The Climate Change Swindle

Majority Rules?

John C. Calhoun

Quoting John C. Calhoun:

“The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised… [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.” –American statesman (1782-1850)

Ten Reasons We Do Not Want The Nationalized Health Care Plan

Compiled by the Heritage Foundation:

1. Proposed economic incentives, plus a government-run health plan would cause 88.1 million people to see their current employer-sponsored health plan disappear.

2. Even if you [are able to] keep your private insurance, eventually most remaining plans will have to conform to new federal benefit standards. Moreover, the necessary plan “upgrades” will undoubtedly cost you more in premiums.

3. [I]f the federal government creates a healthcare plan that it controls and also sets the rules for the private plans, there is little doubt that Washington would put its private sector “competitors” out of business sooner or later.

4. The Fed Picks Your Treatment: President Obama said: “They’re going to have to give up paying for things that don’t make them healthier. … If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half for the thing that’s going to make you well.” Does that sound like a government that will stay out of your healthcare decisions?

5. President Obama is open to the imposition of an individual mandate that would require all Americans to have federally approved health insurance. This unprecedented federal directive not only takes away your individual freedom but could cost you as well. Lawmakers are considering a penalty or tax for those who don’t buy government-approved health plans.

6. A proposed surtax on the wealthy will actually hit hundreds of thousands of small business owners who are dealing with a recession. If it is enacted, America’s top earners and job creators will carry a larger overall tax burden than in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, etc., with a total average tax rate greater than 52%. Is that the right recipe for jobs and wage growth?

7. [A]mendments offered in House and Senate committees to block government rationing of care were routinely defeated. Cost or a federal health board could be the deciding factor. President Obama himself admitted this when he said, “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller,” when asked about an elderly woman who needed a pacemaker.

8. Taxpayer-Funded Abortions? Nineteen Democrats recently asked the President to not sign any bill that doesn’t explicitly exclude “abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan” or any bill that allows a federal health board to “recommend abortion services be included under covered benefits or as part of a benefits package.” Currently, these provisions do not exist.

9. The CBO says the current House plan would increase the deficit by $239 billion over 10 years. And that amount will likely continue to rise over the long term.

10. Rushing It, Not Reading It: We’ve been down this road before — with the failed stimulus package. Back then, we also heard that we were in a crisis and that we needed to pass a 1,000-plus-page bill in a few hours — without reading it — or we would have 8% unemployment. Deception is the only reason to rush through a bill nobody truly understands.

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Moving Beyond Self-Worship

Narcissus

The worship of God is not like the self-centered activities of this world. Worship is about the kingdom of God; a present reality that is invisible to us. The practice of worship was never meant to please or entertain ourselves. True Christian worship occurs when the Christian discovers there is something awe inspiring, fearful, and glorious that is infinitely above and beyond his finite experience of being. Our experience of worshiping God depends absolutely on our understanding of who God is. The growing disagreement among evangelicals these days on how we should worship God has manifested itself increasingly because in reality we do not agree on who God is and the nature of His being.

The invisible God can only be known through the evidence and complexity of His creation and His nature as revealed to us through the Bible. The holiness of His nature becomes quickly apparent with any serious study. Without an understanding of holiness our worship becomes more self-centered and less appropriate for the worship of a Holy God. It is a form of worship influenced more by the culture than by the Scriptures. The whim of the imagination is the limit if we decide that worship is driven by cultural relevance and our performance of this duty is dictated solely by our emotions. True worship is not driven by cultural relevance.

The church is experiencing a culture war on the subject of how to conduct the worship service. The question we are facing is, “Do we go to church to worship in order to feel good about ourselves?” If this attitude becomes the object of worship, then anything goes. The worship service, however, is to be directed toward God. The worship service must please Him. Therefore, we should be studying the Scriptures and learning how best to glorify a holy God.

The presence of the Holy Spirit and a desire for holiness are the characteristics of true worship contrasted with much of modern worship which simply represents the self-absorption of contemporary culture. The true worship of God is uncompromisingly based on obedience to His Word. People who attend church on Sunday to satisfy a felt need will never experience true worship until they have totally committed their lives to the service of our holy God.