CHECK OUT THE KOOK ON THE RIGHT
Daniel F. Cates

    In a recent cartoon from the Mountain Home Messenger there are seen three vehicles (only two are important).  The car on the right is just a simple vehicle with one simple bumper sticker that says, “PROTECT UNBORN CHILDREN.”  Also on the sticker is the outline of a child’s hand.  The vehicle on the left is a little more decorated, the bumper, tailgate, and rear widow sporting the following bumper stickers:  “NOW” (National Organization for Women-DFC), “WE BELONG TO MOTHER EARTH,” “I BELIEVE,” “SAVE THE HOOT OWL,” “PRO-CHOICE,” “ARMS ARE FOR HUGGING,” “FIGHT FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS,” “BOMB THE SERBS,” “PROTECT INNOCENT TREES,” and “THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY.”  And how does the title for the article fit in?  You guessed it, the speech bubble containing that text comes from the driver of the vehicle on the left.
    Isn’t it amazing how radical the swing is in society today from what God has dictated?  Human life simply is not valued as highly as it should be.  We live in an age when anyone sporting Christian values is automatically labeled a “kook.”  Notice how far off the values in America have become as demonstrated in the most recent Firm Foundation (The article is exactly as it appears in the magazine),

Babies and Cats
    Brian Peterson and Amy Grossberg were each given two and a half years sentence for bludgeoning their baby to death.  Barry Herbeck was given 12 years in prison for torturing five cats to death.  Neither killing babies nor abusing cats is right, but somehow these disproportionate sentences seem to suggest a perversion of justice-also new inanition.  All life should be respected, but human life has more value than that of animals-Hinduism not withstanding.

    It looks to me like we have a problem in America.  Psalm 33:12a reads “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”  In years past that could be said for America, but now?  The Gods of America are the men who populate her and the currency that drives her.  The blessing is quickly changing to curse.  We Christians are salt and light, and it is our job to do all that we can to spread Christianity in a nation that is quickly deserting Bible truths.
The words of God to Judah, in Zephaniah 2:1-3 well apply to America today, “Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;  Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.  Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.”