By W.H. Lamb
Category: W.H. Lamb
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Some have suggested that the "Twilight Zone" series was more "realistic" than modern-day America! What a sad commentary on what we have brought to pass if that is true!

I’ll wager that some of you also feel like we’re living in some kind of “reincarnation” of Rod Sterling’s great old TV series, ‘The Twilight Zone’, where things never were what they appeared to be.  For certain we’re no longer living in ‘normal times’ (if indeed we ever did), nor are we living among a population of mostly ‘rational’ people, sad to say. What is our modern ‘twilight zone’? Plainly, it’s a formerly great and Christian-oriented nation still euphemistically called the “United” States, where once plain-as-day and totally accepted FACTS are denied and absolutely preposterous propositions and outrageous beliefs are asserted by hordes of mouth-breathing buffoons with “straight faces to a sea of nodding heads”, as William Allen recently observed in Impact (a publication of D.James Kennedy Ministries)

So what do I mean by that statement that we’re now living in “the twilight zone”?  Consider the following UNTRUTHS (with some “explanatory” comments from me in parentheses):

  Violent rioters who loot, burn, destroy, or damage private property, and injure or kill the innocent, are misunderstood societal “heroes”, while people who protest peacefully via marches and picketing according to the “outmoded” First Amendment, must be denounced as “enemies of the people”, and should be shunned or “doxed” (by their mouth-breathing, brain damaged fellow citizens). Those extremists who don’t support the Black Lives Matter Movement or who don’t support and encourage the patriots who belong to “AntiFa” should be identified and harassed at every opportunity by the true patriots of the nation.  For more information on how to harass these extremists, refer to recent “pronouncements” by Maxine Waters on how to handle these “nuts”.

ARE YOU “WOKE” YET?

Looking at the above list of certifiable “twilight zone” craziness (ALL of them anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Bible LIES), a case can be made that “our” various levels of government have long ago exceeded the “ethical limits” of our common culture, and for certain either we, the people, or our government, are now living in a world of fantasy or illusion.  At least some of us are—i.e. those who are considered to be “WOKE”. These confused and DANGEROUS citizens exist in a society-approved fantasy that telling lies about other groups or individuals and threatening their livelihoods or their very lives if members of those ‘other groups’ do not subscribe to the “woke” agenda, is good for society as a whole because it keeps us all reading from the same liberal ‘news’.  Right?   (Pardon me while I use the “vomitorium”—which was quite popular among the ancient Romans).

So what is meant by these “wokesters” when they consider themselves as the ultimate enlightened members of humanity, and is it an insult to be considered “woke”?  According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, woke “is now defined…as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice), and identified as U.S. slang.  It originated in African American English and gained more widespread use in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.  By the end of that same decade it was also being applied by some as a general pejorative for anyone who is or appears to be politically left-leaning.”  In my book anyone who is “woke”, as opposed to being politically “awakened”, deserves the ridicule of his betters, and they get it from me, in spades!

HAVE YOU BEEN ‘CANCELLED’ YET?

Most of us surely realize that over the past decade the accepted meaning of “woke” (by the slimy denizens of the left) has ‘evolved’ with the rise of the cowardly and despicable and anti-freedom/anti-American “cancel culture” which is increasingly afflicting our people, for those mouth breathers among us who are “woke” now believe that their duty—their ‘crusade’—their reason for existing--is to SILENCE their critics (either their personal detractors or those “disreputable” people who believe in “free speech”) rather than listen to them.  “Woke” and “canceled” are now pretty much intertwined in our consciousness, and we all know examples of people who found themselves “cancelled” from social media, their jobs, their friends, even their family members, after they said something deemed to be “insensitive” (but probably true) by the herd of human misfits and vermin who practice this evil.  “Woke”, we must surely know, has expanded in its application from the internet/social media, to academia and even the corporate world.  In both of these human dis-organizations the concept of “free speech” has been severely restricted, and violations of “Big Brother’s” code therein will get you demoted, ridiculed, physically violated, shunned, or fired.  Such is “freedom” in 21st century America because we American “wimps” have let it happen!

A sizable number of the disgusting cretins of the left in this nation love the concept of “cancelling” someone with whom they disagree. That’s what leftists (socialists, Nazis, Fascists, communists) do. That’s the very point of “Cancel Culture” which grows initially from someone’s TOTALITARIAN IMPULSES—i.e. you get to ELIMINATE those you consider to be ‘thought criminals’ from “polite society”.  Not eliminate as in killing them (yet), but to make them disappear from whatever platform they’ve used to ‘offend’ those who are perpetually offended!  If this disgusting mob of human debris can’t control what someone says, then they do all they can to deny your right to function in American society.   This mental sickness and its attending incipient violence was practiced with gusto by the evil totalitarians of Europe and Asia over much of the 20th century, one of the bloodiest times in human existence.  At least 100 million victims (probably far more) were “cancelled” by the people who ran the governments of the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics (communist Russia), Nazi (SOCIALIST) Germany, Fascist Italy, and communist China (plus many other places). 

We, as sane, conservative, Christians, law abiding citizens of the no longer “United” States, MUST stand firm and resist these devious and devilish “wokesters” and “cancelers”, and let them know that we’re not going to tolerate their efforts to oppress us.  The Christian News Journal recently quoted an article from Harper’s Magazine, titled: A letter on justice and Open Debate.  Supposedly this letter was signed by “more than 150 well-known writers and public intellectuals, most of whom are perceived as being on the cultural left”.  It is interesting to note that even some liberals within our nation are growing concerned over this “cancel culture” danger.  Here is what they said:  “Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.  In their view, the restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation.”  As difficult as it is for me to agree with liberals in most circumstances, I surely do agree with their concerns voiced in this article.

These writers called for “exposure, argument, and persuasion” rather than trying to silence those with whom one disagrees.  That has always been the American way, has it not?    I may not agree with your views, but I will defend your right to have them.  And I expect the same from you!  What, pray tell, is wrong with that, at least in the minds of rational people?

WHAT IS GOD’S WAY OF RESOLVING DISAGREEMENTS?

Of course, there is now, and has been for many centuries, another way of resolving disputes or disagreements.  It is God’s Way.  So let me close this rambling with what God tells us to do in these circumstances:

Matthew 18:15 (N.I.V.):  “If your brother or sister (or a fellow disciple) sins (or sins against you), go and point out their fault, just between the two of you.  If they listen to you, you have won them over.”

That, of course, is easier said than done, and may require prayer and extensive efforts at open communication with whoever is disagreeing with you or who is attempting to “cancel” you or your free speech and, as God’s Word tells us, may require the intercession of “elders” or friends or professional negotiators to resolve issues.  In many cases it is beyond the ability of one person or one threatened group to effectively resist the cyber threats from mostly ‘invisible’ attackers, for these “cancelling” attacks are almost always done anonymously from the safety of a coward’s computer terminal or his parents’ basement.  That we in this nation have used modern technology to sink to the level of “hidden assassins” is despicable, but such is modern American life.  Resist these attacks, “turn the other cheek“ as long as  you can; ask God in prayer to resolve the attacks against you.  But in the long run NEVER submit to their threats, to their bullying, or to their backstabbing antics.  Whatever the cost—whatever it takes-- NEVER SUBMIT TO THEM! 

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