I am an anachronism.
I was told that, in no uncertain terms, yesterday, by “Libertarians”, on a Conservative website I frequent.
My crime? I refused to be in favor of legalizing marijuana, and I had the nerve to say that I felt that it was more dangerous than alcohol. What’s more, I refused to say that there was a moral equivalency between them.
But, that’s a discussion for another day.
Dictionary.com defines an anachronism as
something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.
I suppose that’s me.
I started this Blog as a way to vent my frustrations with the ever-evolving “societal norms” and political mayhem around me. A lot of things just grated on my nerves. They still do.
I was “reared” (as we say in Dixie) by a Mother and Daddy (Southern colloquialism for a Male Parental Unit) who were members of the Greatest Generation. In fact, I was born 3 days before my mother’s 40th brithday. To this day, I believe that they were going to name me “Oops”.
My view of the world around me was shaped and nurtured by my Daddy, a Christian American, and the finest man I’ve ever known, who served with an Army Engineering Unit, as a Master Sergeant, in World War II, and who jumped off of a perfectly good boat into a hail of gunfire to join his American Brothers in the tide-turning American Victory known as “D-Day”.
Between him and my Mother, they taught me what it was to be a hard-working, Middle Class Christian American Conservative….and, to be proud of it.
But now, at 54 years old, having just seen an anti-American, Muslim-sympathizing, political-pandering, class warfare-preaching, card-carrying Communist, get re-hired for a job in which, if he were in the private section, his butt would have gotten canned within the first 7 months, I’m beginning to feel like I’m beating my dadgum head against the wall until it’s bloody, and for no cotton-pickin’ reason at all.
Why am I feelng that way?
Well, there are several reasons.
1. This country re-elected an idiot. Now, I realize that’s been done before. But, they all paled in comparison to this guy. I believe that “Scooter”, my pet name for Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmm), burnt up the vast majority of his gray matter during his “Choom Gang” days in Hawaii, and now, as an old friend, a former Meth-head, who, sadly, later committed suicide this time of year, used to tell me, he has “2 brain cells left and they’re fighting to the death”. I pray we survive the next 4 years.
2. Evidently, Americans, at least the majority of the ones that actually got up off the couch (Pookie, included) to vote on November 6th, want the Federal Government to take care of them, cradle to grave. Rush Limbaugh labelled this symptom, “The Baracky Claus Effect”. I pray, that, just as the Proletariat eventually figured out in the old Soviet Union, Americans are going to wake up one day, to find that mega-dependence on The State to run your life, leads to the loss of personal freedom. And those, who believe that they are “the most enlightened people in the room”, will be the first ones hollering, when they discover that their freedom has been taken away.
3. America seems to be devolving into a collection of Libertines. Notice, I did not say “Libertarians”, although, both descriptive words come from the same root word. A Libertine is, per Merriam-Webster.com,
a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality: one leading a dissolute (lacking moral restraint) life
Being a Libertarian used to mean you wanted less Government in your life and less restrictions on your personal happiness. Notice I said used to mean. Now, Libertine and Libertarian both seem to mean the same thing to the majority of posters self-identifying as members of the latter group on Internet chat boards.
Caligula’s Horse approves.
I suppose I could pontificate on the fallen nature of Man at this point, but, that’s fairly self-evident…and, as the late Freddie Prinze used to say, “Ees not my yob, man.”
4. Finally, I was told the other day, during the before-mentioned “discussion” on that Facebook Page, that my blog was considered a “joke”. I allowed this to hurt me very deeply. You see, since April of 2010, I have devoted a lot of time and effort to putting my ideas, however old-fashioned and cornball they are, down on paper. I truly enjoy doing it. I must. I haven’t made a dadgum dime off of it. Although, as I’ve previously written, it did help me land my present job.
A while back, I was asked to define what it means to be a Christian American Conservative. After all, that’s how I identify myself and that is what it says on the top of this blog, since I began this exercise in ranting and raving in April of 2010.
Let’s perform a dissection, shall we?
First word: Christian – A follower of Jesus Christ.
I was raised as a Christian by my parents and accepted Christ as my personal Savior many years ago.
Here are some interesting things about Christianity to consider, written by Dr. Ray Pritchard and posted on christianity.com:
1) The name “Christian” was not invented by early Christians. It was a name given to them by others.
2) Christians called themselves by different names—disciples, believers, brethren, saints, the elect, etc.
3) The term apparently had a negative meaning in the beginning: “those belonging to the Christ party.”
4) It was a term of contempt or derision.
5) We can get a flavor for it if we take the word “Christ” and keep that pronunciation. You “Christ-ians.”
6) It literally means “Christ-followers.”
7) Over time a derogatory term became a positive designation.
8) Occasionally you will hear someone spit the term out in the same way it was used in the beginning. “You Christians think you’re the only ones going to heaven.”
9) There was a sense of suffering and reproach attached to the word in the New Testament.In working my way toward an answer to “What is a Christian?” I decided to check out the dictionary. I found these two definitions:
1. One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. 2. One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus.”
That’s actually quite helpful because it gives some content to the word. To be a Christian means that you . . .
Believe Something
Follow Something
Live Something
A Fully Devoted Follower To borrow a contemporary phrase, we could simply say that a Christian is a “fully devoted follower of Jesus.” As I think about that, two insights come to mind.1) It doesn’t happen by accident. You are not “born” a Christian nor are you a Christian because of your family heritage. Being a Christian is not like being Irish. You aren’t a Christian simply because you were born into a Christian family.
2) It requires conversion of the heart. By using the term “conversion,” I simply mean what Jesus meant when he said that to be his disciple meant to deny yourself, take up your cross and follow him (Luke 9:23). The heart itself must be changed so that you become a follower of the Lord.
Second word: American – A citizen of the United States of America.
Stephen M. Warchawsky, wrote the following in an article for americanthinker.org:
So what, then, does it mean to be an American? I suspect that most of us believe, like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in describing pornography, that we “know it when we see it.” For example, John Wayne, Amelia Earhart, and Bill Cosby definitely are Americans. The day laborers standing on the street corner probably are not. But how do we put this inner understanding into words? It’s not easy. Unlike most other nations on Earth, the American nation is not strictly defined in terms of race or ethnicity or ancestry or religion. George Washington may be the Father of Our Country (in my opinion, the greatest American who ever lived), but there have been in the past, and are today, many millions of patriotic, hardworking, upstanding Americans who are not Caucasian, or Christian, or of Western European ancestry. Yet they are undeniably as American as you or I (by the way, I am Jewish of predominantly Eastern European ancestry). Any definition of “American” that excludes such folks — let alone one that excludes me! — cannot be right.
Consequently, it is just not good enough to say, as some immigration restrictionists do, that this is a “white-majority, Western country.” Yes, it is. But so are, for example, Ireland and Sweden and Portugal. Clearly, this level of abstraction does not take us very far towards understanding what it means to be “an American.” Nor is it all that helpful to say that this is an English-speaking, predominately Christian country. While I think these features get us closer to the answer, there are millions of English-speaking (and non-English-speaking) Christians in the world who are not Americans, and millions of non-Christians who are. Certainly, these fundamental historical characteristics are important elements in determining who we are as a nation. Like other restrictionists, I am opposed to public policies that seek, by design or by default, to significantly alter the nation’s “demographic profile.” Still, it must be recognized that demography alone does not, and cannot, explain what it means to be an American.
So where does that leave us? I think the answer to our question, ultimately, must be found in the realms of ideology and culture. What distinguishes the United States from other nations, and what unites the disparate peoples who make up our country, are our unique political, economic, and social values, beliefs, and institutions. Not race, or religion, or ancestry.
Third word: Conservative -A person who holds to traditional values and attitudes.
J. Matt Barber wrote in the Washington Times that
Ronald Reagan often spoke of a “three-legged stool” that undergirds true conservatism. The legs are represented by a strong defense, strong free-market economic policies and strong social values. For the stool to remain upright, it must be supported by all three legs. If you snap off even one leg, the stool collapses under its own weight.
A Republican, for instance, who is conservative on social and national defense issues but liberal on fiscal issues is not a Reagan conservative. He is a quasi-conservative socialist.
A Republican who is conservative on fiscal and social issues but liberal on national defense issues is not a Reagan conservative. He is a quasi-conservative dove.
By the same token, a Republican who is conservative on fiscal and national defense issues but liberal on social issues – such as abortion, so-called gay rights or the Second Amendment – is not a Reagan conservative. He is a socio-liberal libertarian.
Put another way: A Republican who is one part William F. Buckley Jr., one part Oliver North and one part Rachel Maddow is no true conservative. He is – well, I’m not exactly sure what he is, but it ain’t pretty.
Even the Brits understand what American Conservatism is.
Conservatism is thriving in America today because liberty, freedom and individual responsibility are at the heart of its ideology, one that rejects the foolish notion that government knows best. And its strength owes a great debt to the conviction and ideals of Ronald Reagan, who always believed that America’s best days are ahead of her, and for whom the notion of decline was unacceptable. As the Gipper famously put it, in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1988:
Those who underestimate the conservative movement are the same people who always underestimate the American people.
In conclusion, I, a Christian American Conservative, am a follower of Jesus Christ and a citizen of the United States of America (by the Grace of God), who holds to traditional values and attitudes.
So, where do I go from here? Do I run away, with my tail between my legs, and live out the rest of my days in quiet desperation?
To any of you who repled, “yes”…you don’t know me very well.
Greater is He who is in me, than he who is in the world.
My Creator, while endowing me with certain inalienable rights, also endowed me with an indomitable will. Then, somewhere along my journey, He gave me the gift of being able to express my thoughts and feelings on this computer keyboard.
I will not give up. I will not surrender my Christianity, my love of the greatest nation on God’s green Earth, or my Conservatism, to appease those who wish everybody would just get in line and acquiesce to the prevailing “societal norms”. I follow another set of guidelines, written a long time ago, but which remain as relevant as the moment in which the Hand of God guided those who wrote them down.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, – Colossians 3:23 (ESV)
I pray that you, the reader, are able to glean that from my blogs. Because, as Matthew 6:21 tells us:
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
May God bless you and yours,
KJ
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Amen! KJ
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Reblogged this on Natural Conservatism & Common Sense and commented:
I am right there with ya brother !
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Thank you!
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my blog was considered a “joke”. I allowed this to hurt me very deeply. You see, since April of 2010, I have devoted a lot of time and effort to putting my ideas, however old-fashioned and cornball they are, down on paper. …………
I’d rather you not be hurt…I look for your thoughts daily now…yesterday you slept in or something and I left for work thinking I didn’t have thoughts to read when I got home later…kj was taking a break!
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Don’t let anyone get you down. I read your blog and it is not a joke. If you only do it for yourself, it still shines and it still matters.
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Thank you, ma’am!
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Don’t let them get to you my brother. I’m turning 53 myself. Many of these purported “Libertarians” on these other blogs and Facebook pages are one trick ponies; really only concerned about total drug legalization. They really don’t understand the concept of the Constitution or what Freedom means. They associate Freedom with “free-for-all”…anything goes. Ah, the hubris of youth. I’d rather be an “old fuddy-duddy” than just a “dud”. Hang in there my brother. The battle doesn’t necessarily belong to the “young and strong”….we have “wisdom and experience” on our side. Viva la maturité!
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Your blog like all of our blogs are just our public diary. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If we spent more time listening to each other we would have a better country. I have had similar experience and even stop producing my podcast for awhile. Now to your individual points and to the solution I found.
1. This country re-elected an idiot.
Actually it did not. It elected a man who is committed to fundamentally transforming America. Just like it did during a right after the Civil War, just like it did when they passed the “Great Society” to make a War against Poverty and voted into the constitution itself socialism. I have no evidence that BHO is an idiot, far from it. He as legalized gay marriage in the federal government, and he has taken over 1/6 of the economy. He is achieving the goals of the progressive-socialist nicely.
Also what I say all the time is that BHO is not the problem. He is not. He is just s symptom of the problem. The problem is all the people that voted for free stuff. Because guess what, we will vote again, and BHO will be gone, but the people who want free stuff will not be gone. And they will vote again. And the “only other party” the Police State party will put up another Bush-McCain-Rommny guy, maybe even Bush the III. And guess what, I (and I assume others) will not vote for the lesser-of-two-evils and the “next” BHO will be elected. The problem is not BHO, it is the people who voted for him, who are your neighbors, they go to your church, and they drink with you. The ones who are honest will tell you “I voted for him.” The ones who are collecting government checks who are cowards will lie, but no matter, this is the problem.
2. Evidently, Americans, at least the majority of the ones that actually got up off the couch (Pookie, included) to vote on November 6th, want the Federal Government to take care of them, cradle to grave.
You are right. And when that number becomes 51%, we are permanently screwed. 51% will keep voting to take from the 49%. That is what has happened in places like California and other “blue death spiral states. However how did this happen? It was not BHO, it was when we passed the 16th Amendment and voted for people who implemented the Fed. That put socialism into the constitution (and control of our money to the Red Shield people) and we passed that (the amendment), 3/4 of the states. And the SCOTUS just said Obama-care is constitutional based on the 16th amendment. Any thing the government wants to take from you (tax) is legal based on the 16th. No one living passed that amendment, our (collectively) great-grand parents did.
3. America seems to be devolving into a collection of Libertines.
Also true.
4. Finally, I was told the other day, during the before-mentioned “discussion” on that Facebook Page, that my blog was considered a “joke”.
This does not deserve a response other than, it is your opinion, and you have a right to it. I will share (my opinion) that you are wrong about pot. There are two reasons I support rolling back most drug laws that attempt to regulate what I call “non-deadly” drugs. And by “deadly” I mean more deadly that alcohol or cigarettes. One; I don’t think the federal government should have the power to kill people who are dealing or smoking weed, or eating mushrooms or other “naturally” occurring drugs. I do not trust the federal government with that level of power. Second, if it is a naturally occurring drug, that anyone can grow on their own land, how can you stop that without turning us into a police state? The government should not have the power to see what I am doing on my own property. I guess again, my reason is I don’t trust the government with that level of power. Any way it is my opinion. The facts are pretty straight forward, there are multiple illegal drugs that have (apparently) caused less damage than many legal drugs.
Now the solution I have found. The solution is simple and you may benefit from it also. It is called Christian Libertarian Republic. It is the concept that I believe in a libertarian (republic) form of government accept where it conflicts with my morals as defined by Natural and Diving Law that comes from the Holy Bible. Basically it is like this. I really don’t want to be in your business. However if you make your business, my business than I will give you my opinion, and a large part of my opinion comes from my understanding of the Holy Bible.
If you want to do (do whatever) to each other in the privacy of your bedroom, I don’t know about it, don’t want to know about it, and don’t think the government should know about it. But if you want to march up and down my street and try to teach my kids your sodomy is normal, you will get my opinion, partially formed from my understanding of Natural Law. Both barrels.
This goes for most things prostitution has to remain illegal because it is immoral. The state cannot divorce anyone, it is part of the Divine Law, that “no man” can separate what a Christian minister has joined. Now how you enforce so-called “victimless crimes” it is questionable.
Most of this can be solved by strictly limiting the power and size of government by limiting how much money the government can spend. If we limit the money they can spend, perhaps that will keep the militarized police from creeping around our property planting cameras ON your property to watch you, without a warrant, which the courts have said … constitutional.
Any way, if you visit my site and look along the top you will see a menu for Catholic Libertarian (I am Catholic). Here is a link to get your started: http://charlescarrollsociety.com/2013/01/21/christianity-and-libertariaism/ Also there is a book I high recommend on the site. This is my understanding of what many founders thought they were voting for when then voted for this nation to be built (Christian Libertarian Republic). It is what I think we should be building towards. And no, I do not want to force anyone into this, however I also have the right to move (vote with my feet) and try and surround myself with others who feel the same way.
BTW, if we had 10 pure libertarian presidents in a row, our lives would most likely be better. So basically, at this time, I would support a pure libertarian a lot faster than I would support a Police or Nanny State person running for office.
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Oh my! I’ve found a new home!!! I may have been raised in the great white north, but I’ve always been a southern duckie at heart, and American. First I am a Bible believing Christian, second I’m an American even though I haven’t got my citizenship yet. I’m not an R or a D- I Constitutional Conservative.
I’ve been called a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, bitter clinger, racist, xenophobe, a right winger, wacko bird, motherf***, SOB, racist, and told to go to hell. That’s just from many in the government and Hollywood. I’ve been called worse on my blog from regular tolerant loving folks.
I love this country. I’d defend it with my life if it’s meant to be. I desire to be a legitimate part of her, even with the meanness coming at us from the tolerant loving leftists. Even with the present occupier in Chief. I still love America. I believe God once blessed this nation in incredible ways and if we stop kicking Him out of every place public, private and even in many cases out of His own church, and seek His face, He will Bless us again.
You said you were called an anachronism. I never knew the word for it- but that’s what I am and always have been. I feel like I was born in the wrong country, in the wrong time. My mind feels like I’m a 20 year old girl waiting for life and excited at what will come. My Spirit feels the same. My body is not that of a 20 year old, it’s older feeling than my actual age which is not 20. And my soul is ancient.
I may feel like an anachronism, but I believe God put us all where He intended us to do the most work, even if it seems like we’re not accomplishing much. He knows I have never felt like I’ve done much through my own blogs- which are my own opinions. Your blog is your own, but it echoes a lot of me.
I think you’re just in the right time and place. And I thank God for it, because I got to read this incredible message. Thank you so much!!!
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Thank you so very much. You have made my day. God bless you.
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“I think you’re just in the right time and place.”
Something we could all take a moment to remember from time to time. 🙂
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Keep at it. I look forward to and read your blog every day. Like you, I am a Christian American Conservative who is heartsick at what has happened to my country in the last five years. You articulate the thoughts that many of us have as we swing between anger, frustration and helplessness. I am also heartened and encouraged every time you sign yourself, “Until He Comes.” May it be soon.
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I love your daily blog and can’t wait to read and share it with friends. Never stop!
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I’m here every day, and with good reason. I like to hear people talk sense. Some of the people who think you’re an old fool may wise up later.
“When I was 14 I realized my father was one of the most ignorant men alive. When I was 21 I was amazed at how much that man had learned in 7 years.”
–Mark Twain
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“I am an anachronism”
You have how MANY legs?…
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Good one! Now we know what the problem is. His detractors are suffering from anachrophobia.
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I look forward to your daily “take”.
When I get discouraged I remind myself what Jesus had to deal with when He walked this earth. He told us we would be persecuted for following Him. I take that as a compliment although it can be painful at times. Don’t forget the “spirit” that tries to dissuade you from doing God’s work. You obviously are making a difference in people’s lives otherwise that “spirit” wouldn’t bother with you! Keep fighting the good fight and know that you will be rewarded greatly when you meet Jesus face to face 🙂
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Thank you! God Bless!
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Aside, KJ – I wasn’t going to put this up yet, but you might get something out of it, so I posted it after I read you this morning. It reads like it’s Judgement Day, but it’s a bigger idea. Anyway, the thought here is to remember how small a dog the big-barker really is. This is what sneers at your blog, in other words (not people, not who, but what). And no hard feelings should you get this note I’m passing you and nuke my comment. 🙂 Just saying.
http://sketchbook.ercles.com/stuff/2013/07/29-09264100-the-waste.html
And should it miss the mark, “Meh.” <- My standard missed-mark response. 🙂
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I follow several Conservative sites and several personal blogs such as yours. I don’t know what you do for a living, but it must have something to do with the written word.
That being said, I don’t believe you could never hold a position in any government office, because you speak too clearly.
You could never be a teacher or a professor in our educational system, because you wouldn’t follow the Progressive guidelines and would try to teach actual History instead.
You could never succeed as a Community Organizer, because you have morals and ethics.
I hope you like what you’re doing, because by all measures, you’re simply not qualified to do anything else.
All in jest, Jester. You are one of the most eloquent individuals I have ever had the pleasure to meet. It is pure pleasure to read anything you write.
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Thank you very much. Your compliments are humbly appreciated.
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