Blog Kinsey and the sexual assault on kids in schools & libraries
At one time the Kinsey report was considered the last word in human sexuality. Yet, years ago the report was revealed to be a fraud. It was anything but scientific.
What I hadn’t realized was the depth of evil Kinsey and his cohorts stooped to. I knew the report was skewed because he used prison inmates in the study of normal/average experiences and responses. I didn’t realize the horrors children, even babies suffered.
Kinsey reported children experience orgasms from birth. He reported orgasms in children. He actually used pedophiles to rape young children—repeatedly. These men were taught how to write up the results of these rapes in scientific terms. Of course, they reported the children enjoyed the experience.
Kinsey used these so-called findings to fight for laws that released these predators with a slap on the wrist. He said sexual molestation of children actually helped their sexual development and the problem was not the rapist predators, but parents and police trying to protect the children.
What was not asked was his definition of orgasm in children. Now we know. He said it was when these kids cried, screamed, and tried to get away from their partners (read rapists). Some even went into convulsions. He called these orgasms. Any sane person would call these children tortured, traumatized who were trying to escape a horrific situation.
Worse. These predators were allowed to assault not only children but also babies. Yes, babies. It’s all in his charts. Over a full day a four-month, that’s right a four-month-old baby was repeatedly assaulted. So-called orgasms were numerous leaving little time for this infant to have time to sleep or eat. Consider the body of a four-month-old and the repeated invasions from an adult male. Think of the enormous pain and, most likely, physical damage done.
These kids were subjected to graphic portrayals of sex. It makes me think of the books many school and public libraries are offering young children today.
Kinsey was a monster who did a lot to convince state governments to soften laws of protection of women and children. He lied and we’re still picking up the pieces that began with his horror show of the repeated rape and assault of helpless children. And he had the audacity to declare these screaming children enjoyed it.
Where were parents, protection for these kids? We know graphic depictions are used by pedophiles to groom children for sexual assault. I have to wonder about school officials, teachers, and even pastors who are fighting to get this material into our schools and available to kids. Are they simply a modern version of Kinsey? Pretty frightening. Are we going to allow Kinsey’s evil to continue to assault our children? Or will we stand up and insist such material has no place in our schools?
Kinsey destroyed the innocence of hundreds of kids. Are we going to protect our own now or allow public schools and libraries to destroy the innocence of our children by allowing pornographic material that grooms our children for sexual assault?
It starts with doing our own research, being involved in what our children and grandchildren are being taught, and what they are reading or being shown in media presentations. It is also important to vote for school boards and others in authority who truly care about our kids. What will you do?
I recommend watching Kinsey Syndrome.
© 2022 Carolyn R Scheidies
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Blog Martin Luther, Reformer, Agent of Change and All-too human
We live in a culture where if someone on your political side does something wrong, they deserve a slap on the wrist. However, if someone from another point of view does something similar, the knives come out and there is a clamor for destruction—even if that person has done laudable things in his lifetime.
Maybe that is why historians tend to gloss over the darker sides of those with whom they agree, but seek to destroy those with whom they do not.
I have read a great deal on Martin Luther who not only was at the forefront of bringing Christians back to an understanding of salvation as not to be purchased or earned but also as a gift of grace from a God of love. In many ways, he changed the culture of his day to a Biblical view of the dignity and worth of each individual. Recently, I learned of a darker side.
In the 1520s, Luther showed some compassion for the Jewish people. Twenty years later, his views mirrored the skewed beliefs of his society. He advocated stripping them of their rights and property, among other things. He came to believe some horrible lies circulating about Jewish people. Because he had influence, what he wrote mattered. Unfortunately, he perpetuated common assumptions and myths. That view seems absolutely unacceptable to us today. It seems hard to reconcile the Luther who cared about others with the man who came to despise Jewish persons. Yet, for all that, we cannot dismiss all the good he did in his time.
He lived in a time when the current church structure was corrupt. Priests had enormous power and wealth. They thought nothing of forcing payment from peasants who scarcely knew where their next meal was coming from. One large source of income was from the sale of indulgences, a paper that was supposed to get loved ones out of purgatory and into heaven. Fear was used to make the sale. It was outright theft from those who could least afford it. Of course, those indulgences did nothing at all, but give people false hope.
As he more and more understood the message of salvation as a free gift, Luther confronted the Church about this and other corrupt practices. He hoped to clean up the corruption. Instead, a price was put on his head. Eventually, as he preached and wrote, his following grew as more and more followed a God of love, rather than a restrictive taskmaster.
Marriage laws were a mess. A young man could have his way with a young woman, yet get out of marriage by citing some archaic, and often twisted, restriction of kinship, regardless of how distant or not even by blood. Luther would have none of that. His influence simplified marriage to a sacrament that gave more protection to both parties.
He broke away from the celibacy forced on priests. He assisted in helping some nuns escape and helped them find husbands. He married as well. His wife was a true helpmate. He highly valued her faith and intelligence. Luther was a generous man. When there was a need, he’d give. This didn’t work when he had a family to support. Kate started taking care of the finances. He didn’t believe women were less than. In fact, in a government structure that left women without many legal rights, Luther left his wife property in her own name,
Luther believed in the education of children, and not only the males (especially wealthy ones) as society at that time dictated. He believed in education for all children, boys and girls, and wrote material that was used to educate.
Peasants were considered so much fodder for those in power. Luther cared about the average person, desiring everyone to know His loving God and treating even peasants with dignity.
I have no idea what experiences Luther had over the years that hardened His heart toward God’s people. I don’t know why someone who valued and lived by scripture could not see how much God loved the Jewish people. It is evident he took seriously a book written at that time that posed some of what he came to believe, but surely there is more.
What we need to realize about even the greatest of individuals is that we’re all human. While we may accomplish wonderful things for others and our society, we are far from perfect. We need only look at ourselves and know how often we say and do things we regret. No matter what we’ve said or done, when we realize we’ve done wrong, we absolutely need and can find wholeness, redemption, and forgiveness in Christ.
While the Lutheran church has rightly disavowed Luther’s Jewish stance, they stand on what he accomplished—especially bringing us back to a God who loves and cares for us. Though our culture seems to have forgotten that you don’t have to agree with someone to treat them with respect, let’s choose to respect and show compassion for every person—regardless of who they are, where they come from, what they’ve done—good or bad, or what they believe. How? By allowing God to love others through us. That we can do.
© 2022 Carolyn R Scheidies
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Blog Politics What Happened to Free Speech & Freedom of Thought?
One of the foundations of America has been free speech which is founded on freedom of thought. Both seem to be disappearing. We have a generation who has re-interpreted tolerance to mean “anything that agrees with my point of view (POV).” If you have a different POV this segment of the population will do everything possible to shut you up and change your mind or otherwise silence you. This violent response to a different POV is especially evident against anyone with a conservative or Christian POV.
Even relatives, including those they care about, do not escape. If it is someone they care about the excuse is, “Well, their minds have been polluted by such as Fox or other conservative talk shows or other hosts or information outlets. Instead of allowing their loved one the right to hold a differing view, they badger the person to change, almost becoming bullies to force a change of thought and POV.
To say bright, intelligent people cannot hold views on their own, but simply accept whatever these conservatives have to say is a huge put-down and an insult. They actually believe we are too stupid to form our own opinions. It never occurs to them that some of us are drawn to outlets such as Fox not to be indoctrinated, but because, finally, we found a place that REFLECTED views we already had.
I am tired of bullies who seek to force me to their way of thinking.
Believe what you want, but how about giving me the same courtesy?
In fact, it is the conservatives who are the closest to the foundational beliefs of our founders--
Faith, freedom, family, tolerance (like free speech & thought), and personal responsibility. It is believing citizens should be, as the Constitution dictates, in charge & run the government—having the right to speak out without being labelled a threat.
Big government is not supposed to be in charge—becoming little better than another dictator with mostly unelected persons forcing their will on the citizens—government agents who often restrict free speech. This is completely opposite of what our Constitution is about.
How about returning to a nation of free speech with the right to differing POVs and stop seeking to shut down everyone who disagrees?
© 2022 Carolyn R Scheidies
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Blog Abortion, the Bible and Guns
Some cherry-pick passages in order to claim the Bible allows for abortion. The question is, do passages such as Numbers 3:15 and Leviticus 27:6 really support abortion—the taking of a preborn baby’s life? Is a child of less than one month in the womb of less value?
Numbers 3:15 “Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.” -KJV
Leviticus 27:6 “And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. –KJV
Actually, one has to force a meaning on these passages to assume they refer to abortion. According to the WELS Center for Mission and Ministry, these passages refer to “…the amount of money a person would pay the priests in order to redeem, to buy back, an infant who had been dedicated to the Lord in a solemn vow (Leviticus 27:6) and the minimum age for the census of the Levites that Moses was going to undertake (Number 3:15).”
Another passage used is Exodus 21:22-25. If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. --KJV
Some Bible versions translate the passage as miscarriage and is used by the pro-abortion crowd. Other versions translate the phrase as premature birth. There is a word used for miscarrying, but the word here is not that word, but the word used refers to a live birth. Either way, when taken within the text and original word uses, this passage has nothing to do with abortion.
Even if the first translation is correct, the passage does not support abortion. This is about an accident. Abortion is a deliberate act. Because a penalty is attached, this shows the value of the child. In this and other passages, an accidental death engenders lesser consequences than a deliberate killing. This affirms not destroys the humanity of preborn children and human life itself. Further, many who seek to twist Scripture to prove abortion don’t even believe in the Bible as God’s Word. The sole intent is to harm not deal honestly with the issue.
The overall message of Scripture is about a Creator who loves and acknowledges and values His creation even in the womb. Scripture backs up the value of life even for the preborn. "Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.'" --Jeremiah 1:4-5
"The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name."--Isaiah 49:1b
“For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works…. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret” --Psalm 139:13-15, NASB
In the New Testament, Jesus has bad things to say about those who harm His little ones. The Bible is not a book that promotes abortion. Instead, the Bible affirms life from a caring, deliberate Creator, and Jesus who came to heal and set free those in bondage, to the Savior who chose to give up his life to save His human creations, offering life in Him. Jesus is about life and love.
Abortion, on the other hand, is about torture and violence against the most innocent among us. Too many abortions, which is the deliberate killing of a preborn child, are done when that child could survive with medical care.
Planned Parenthood likes to abort in a way, when possible, to produce an intact child with a still-beating heart. These living babies are cut up, with no anesthesia, to sell for parts to be used for experimentation or for cell lines. There is big money in the sale of baby parts. Why? Because these babies are living and are fully human.
Abortion is a basic outcome of not believing in the preciousness of each human life. It discounts the value of life itself. This comes from pretending knowable truth doesn’t exist and there is no higher being who values life.
This affects the gun argument. Again, guns don’t kill, people do. It is a choice. When our young people are taught that life doesn’t matter, that it is ok to kill unborn babies, the sick, the elderly, why should they value life? What difference if society or they kill? Murder becomes simply another outlet. After all, those killed might legally have been killed before, and now in some states, even after birth.
The problem is not owning guns nor is it about abortion per se. It is what we feed our and our children’s minds and hearts. Why not instead, teach our children they are precious and special— because they are. Why not lift up a God who loves and cares for them, cares about life, and cares enough to be there for those who follow Him? Why not promote a culture that treats every person born or preborn, disabled or elderly with care and respect? Allow our culture a foundation of faith and the mental and physical health of the nation will rise. We’ll once more become a nation of life instead of death.
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Blog Politics Is There a Reason to Ban certain Books?
Years ago, when I did the research for someone working to stop pornography, I learned about grooming. A pedophile chooses a child and seeks to spend time gaining the child’s trust. The pedophile shows the child explicit pictures to help normalize the act in the child’s mind.
Eventually, this leads to sexual assault. Such graphic material if found by someone near a playground or a school or on a computer might well get that person arrested.
Now we’re hearing about parents calling for banning books at schools and libraries. The idea may make a person cringe. I remember when a group tried to get Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn banned. More recently some schools and libraries are banning Bibles and even historical documents that mention, as many do, God.
And yet, there is a place and time to ban certain books. Today when parents call for the banning of certain books, not all may agree on the precise list. However, I can scarcely conceive of the administrators, teachers and librarians, and others who insist certain books should be available--even for elementary-age children.
These books with graphic text and pictures show adults performing sex acts with children. Some are child-on-child assaults. This isn’t a gender issue. It is an age-appropriate, health and well-being of children issue.
These books groom our children for sexual assault, yet too many adults are pushing for such access. I doubt I would let any child I know be alone with any adult pushing for such access for children
Parents and grandparents and anyone who truly cares for the mental and physical health of a child need to step up and say no. It is time we take a serious look at what books are being offered to our children and teens, what books they are allowed access and what books they may be assigned to read.
Check out what books are available at your school or public library. Check out those running for office, making sure they don’t condone such books. It is truly a time to stand up and ban certain books.
For more specific information and books check: https://omaha.com/news/local/education/nebraska-ed-board-member-says-books-are-hyper-sexualizing-kids-others-say-it-s-a/article_e8bbd00c-8dee-11ec-a2a8-e79907017a0f.html
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Blog Politics Don't Forget Russia
While we focus on Ukraine and what they are going through, it is easy to forget about the needs of the Russian people. Putin never consulted the citizens on whether or not they wanted him to go to war and try to take over Ukraine. Some citizens are courageous enough to protest.
But Russia has a long history of ignoring its own people or simply cutting them down when certain segments prove rebellious. While we pray for the believers in Ukraine, let us not forget the 87% or so in Russia who claim to be believers.
While the Russian constitution gives lip service to freedom of religion, there is a specific law making Christianity unconstitutional. Those caught sharing their faith may not ever be heard from again, or they are made an example of. Those attending the elegant stained-glass churches, those still open for services, are mainly attended by the elderly who are left alone if that is all the attenders do.
Christians meet in secret, behind closed doors, and in unexpected locations. They move often and meet in small groups. But they do find ways to communicate and meet. Even the decades and decades of repression hasn’t managed to stamp out Christianity nor has repression managed to stop the sharing of the Christian message of hope.
The church may be hiding and underground, but it is real and thriving--despite persecution, despite the risk. When we pray, let us not turn anger at what the Russian government is doing onto its citizens. Instead, let us pray for them as fervently as we pray for our Christian brothers and sisters in Ukraine. The key to change is fervent and serious, believing, prayer. Let’s pray.
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Blog Politics Covid, vaccines, exceptions, and common sense
There are some who claim that those who have hesitations about taking the Covid shot—it isn’t a vaccine— are uninformed, uneducated or simply stupid. That attitude shows the incredible bias of those who make such claims,
A Pfizer VP quit his job when he didn’t like what he saw his company was doing with the Covid shot. This was a highly intelligent and educated man with a good job with excellent benefits. Yet, he left that job and its perks because he felt he had to speak out. This is only the tip of those truly behind those suggesting caution, suggesting more exceptions, and rightly pointing out that one size does not fit all.
You and I know that a garment manufacturer claiming, “One size fits all,” shouldn’t be taken seriously. A ten-year-boy and my six-foot-five husband are not going to fit into the same clothing. It is the same with medication. If you listen to ads, you hear a host of cautions about not taking it if you are allergic or pregnant, etc. etc. etc. Don’t give to children under six, or under 18 or….
Yet the manufacturers of the Covid shots tell us that they are safe and effective for anyone of any age, under any and all health circumstances. This is improbable at best. A falsehood at worst to promote their product.
Consider this. The manufacturers of the Covid shots are the same manufacturers who have paid out millions and millions over the years to individuals and groups when they lost lawsuits because they created, promoted, and sold products that caused health issues—often cancer.
Yet, we’re supposed to believe that this time they have only our best interests at heart. Really? Are you that trusting? As for “safe and effective,” were we not told when enough individuals are “vaccinated,” our lives would return to normal? Didn’t happen!
Instead, we hear of more and more cases of fully “vaccinated” persons getting Covid. Now we’re told that may be true, but the case will not be as serious. So which is true—the shot works or it doesn’t? Documentation from the pharmaceutical companies reveals the shots neither keep one from getting sick nor keep one from spreading the disease to others.
Yet, those all-in for Covid shot seek to blame the unvaccinated for outbreaks without considering natural immunity and recovery with medications that are cheaper, less harmful, and more effective than an expensive shot.
Oh, but you don’t pay for your shot. The shot is not free. It is paid for by government agencies (that means you) or insurance. Covid cases and shots net manufacturers and medical facilities ready cash.
If you have the flu, but you die from a heart attack, your death certificate reads you died from the heart attack. But with Covid, if you have Covid but die from a heart attack, in many facilities your death certificate will read, “Died of Covid.”
This nets the medical facility government money and hugely inflates the cases of death to Covid itself. It is smoke and mirrors to engender fear in the populous who will be more likely to give up freedom for restrictions and unconstitutional mandates.
The media will not report the growing number of deaths—not to Covid which is 99% (yes 99%) survivable, but from the Covid shots. Others suffer irrefutable harm to their health. What about the young healthy teen who is now confined to a wheelchair? Or the single mother, in healthcare, who felt she had to get the Covid shot to keep her job and support her kids. She suffered neurological damage and can now scarcely take care of herself.
My daughter knew someone with a peanut allergy who had such a severe peanut reaction after a shot that she ended up in the ER. Health issues are happening.
What is being cataloged but underreported are seizures, neurological problems, loss of feeling in extremities, heart problems, especially in healthy young men. Those who hear and read these disquieting stats, of course, have hesitations and rightly so.
Yet Bidden and his cohorts demand everyone get this shot regardless of health indicators, allergies, age or religious concerns. (Example: every one of the Covid shots, while not including pre-born baby cells in the shot itself, nevertheless used aborted fetus material for testing. These shots cut to the very heart of the pro-life message—life begins at conception.)
Large and small companies are following along, including medical facilities, forcing one and all to get this shot or lose their seniority, benefits or even their jobs. This is for a shot, that by law, since it is still experimental, cannot be forced on anyone.
But these would-be dictators, believe they are above the law—for your good, of course. Those who support the mandates are doctors, medical and government personal with lots of letters behind their names. Education means some training in some field. It doesn’t necessarily indicate intelligence and certainly doesn’t indicate honesty or integrity or lack thereof.
How many really believe what they’ve been fed or simply believe the disinformation regularly pandered to the populace? On the other hand, not having a degree doesn’t make one unintelligent or stupid. Doctors who are coming forward with their concerns are not stupid either. Many have as many letters behind their names and as much experience as the medical professionals promoting Covid shots.
One of these doctors even helped develop the Covid protocol. Many were not against the shots at the beginning—until they witnessed the reality of what was happening to their own patients.
Stepping out was not easy and not something taken lightly. Unlike many professionals (but certainly not all) promoting Covid shots, the doctors advising caution aren’t making money from stepping forward. In fact, they are risking their reputations, careers and livelihoods to do so. (Of course, the media, some medical persons and others have done everything possible to smear those who’ve had the courage to speak out.)
Of course, they get banned from social media, but that’s happening to conservatives and Christians from our Senators to a mom who had concerns about things being taught in school. Many of my friends and I have gotten “Watch out” warnings.
Being banned from social media doesn’t mean there is a problem with the information. It does signify a problem with the liberal slant of the platform.
There are real reasons for not taking the shots and these should be honored. Since it is getting more and more difficult to hide those either suffering permanent disabilities or even dying, maybe it is time to take another look at mandates and toss them where they belong—in the trash.
Let’s voice our opinion that all sides of this issue be allowed in the media. Let’s allow the publication of exceptions that protect those with religious, health, pregnancy, age, or other exceptions that are automatic for any other medication.
Let’s stop calling names and casting stones—from either side. Stop making ridiculous claims about those with hesitations. Most are not anti-vaxxers. Most are intelligent, many educated, most with basic common sense all of whom have the right to question the current politically correct thought. Time is already starting to prove many of their cautions were right on.
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Blog dangers of historical ignorance
My brother Paul’s birthday is June 22nd. Since his passing in 2019, we remember him by taking his widow out to eat. This year, my sister Karin from Kansas chose to join us. But she had another reason for visiting.
When Dad died in 1988 in International Falls, MN where he made his home, my sister, brother, myself and his wife and family went through his things to make choices for our families. Some items, such as his pastor's collection of books, were given away to other pastors, with other items going to his close friends. We were far from home and needed to return home so much of dad’s things were packed up.
Paul brought them home with the idea Karin, Paul and I would go through the boxes later. Only we never did, and years passed by.Then Paul died and now we had to deal with his things and Dad’s things. Two years later, we’re still going through things.
Part of Karin’s trip to Kearney included going through items from World War II he collected while he was overseas as well as Minneapolis newspapers Mom saved from the end of the war.
We divided pictures and got rid of negatives we would never turn into photos. We found any number of Bibles. one was special. It was a small worn Bible with a zipper that Mom gave Dad and, we suspect, the Bible went through the war with Dad.
There were maps, and books to help soldiers make their way around a foreign country. Dad was a medic in Italy and North Africa right behind the front lines. These soldiers went overseas to protect their own families and nation from the evil perpetuated on European citizens, especially Jewish people, evil that included torture, starvation, experimentation, and death.
At great sacrifice, American and other soldiers defeated the Nazi dictatorship that threatened the entire world. Yet today, and especially since many schools do not teach actual history, many individuals have no clue of the importance of the World Wars to keep America free, It gets worse.
Before Independence Day I heard a reporter ask regular persons on the street what we celebrated on July 4th. A great many had no idea. Our young people aren’t turning away from our Constitutional principles of faith and freedom--they’ve never been taught about them.
Many in schools are taught a form of history that is twisted, bigoted--such as the Critical Race Theory (CRT), and altogether false. If a nation loses its history, it loses its foundation and a nation without a foundation will crumble. There are far too many in places of education and government who are hoping for this result.
I was thankful that we had Dad’s reminders of what Dad fought for so long again. I was even more thankful, that when I contacted our kids and grandkids, they wanted those WWII mementos.
As long as we have citizens who care about the past and share it with the next generation, America might actually survive.
I pray the sacrifices of our soldiers have not been in vain.
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Politics Lost Generation
Where are the doctors to treat the ill,
Researchers to find the cures,
Scientists, inventors to solve problems galore,
Creative entrepreneurs?
So many questions unanswered,
And the minds which might have found
The answers to many a thorny problem
Lie forgotten in the ground.
A generation gone,
Sacrificed to selfishness and fear,
But in the holocaust of unborn children,
Have we made a sacrifice too dear?
Did we abort one who might have found,
The cure to many a disease?
Or maybe another Einstein, Madam Curie,
A Plato or Socrates?
In destroying a whole generation
Have we not lost humanity as well?
And, in choosing death brought closer still,
On earth a living hell?
As we choose active euthanasia,
Tomorrow who shall decide your fate,
When no longer can you speak for your life?
Your mother? The doctor? The state?
Today as we play executioner,
(Though given many a fancy name,)
By whatever term we take human life,
We diminish the compassion
of all who remain.
Let us halt this senseless destruction
Of a race bent on killing its weak,
Remember the love of He who died,
The helpless lost to seek.
Replace hate with compassion,
With love like He offers you and me,
To value life as did our Creator,
A love that sets us wholly free.
Thank you, Lord, for making each of us unique. Help me, help others recognize the value of each individual human life. Amen.
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” —Mtthew 19:14
(C) 2016 Carolyn R Scheidies
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Blog Politics Remember History
History is but people,
And our country's had its share,
Who did their part to make us great,
So let me take you there.
The father of our country,
George Washington of long ago,
Led our land to freedom,
In spite of famine and snow.
There was Thomas Jefferson,
Who helped pen those special words,
Of freedom in the Declaration of Independence,
The entire nation heard.
Don't forget tall Abe Lincoln,
President who freed the slaves,
Though he lost his own life,
The United States he saved.
Speak of Clara Barton
Who brought the Red Cross to our shores,
Or Harriet Tubman's rescue of her people,
And so many, many more.
Yes, I shall proudly stand,
With those who did their best,
To bring us freedom with honor,
And ever stood the test.
For those who bravely went before us,
For all they did for you and me.
Let us honor them with gratitude
Doing our part to ensure
America’s people remain forever free
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So thankful for those who served—including my dad and father-in-law.
I sat in the car not far from where individuals and families, including the Scheidies family, gathered to honor those who fought, and many died for their country.
After a very cold, rainy, muddy Sunday, Monday was warm with enough breeze to show off all the American flags decorating the Minden Cemetery. A few puffy white clouds floated in the blue sky, a change even from the darker clouds showing on our drive to Minden.
At times, the only sound was the flapping of the huge flags and the soft, reverent voices of those searching for graves of loved ones. A variety of flowers on most of the graves added color to green grass and brown, off white, and gray marble grave monuments. I watched parents point out graves to younger children and adults stooping down to carefully place flowers. Memorial Day was solemn, but also peaceful.
The Scheidies family has gathered for years twice a year the last weekend in April and the weekend after Thanksgiving. Last year we had no large gathering as a family--except one, In June we laid to rest LaVern Scheidies, my husband’s beloved father. We’d also gathered, at that same time, to remember Keith’s next oldest brother Mark. Neither died due to Covid 19, but both deaths were unexpected and difficult.
This year, we chose to get together, not in April, but in May, Memorial Day weekend. We’d already spent Sunday together at the Scheidies’ farm--eating, laughing, playing games, crying a bit, and, finally, hugging one another. It was a comfort to be together.
We chose Memorial Day weekend because Keith’s dad was a veteran, and proud of it. A couple of years earlier, two of Keith’s brothers took Dad’s letters and other information and items from World War II and created a book for each family. We have that reminder of him now.
What made this Memorial Day special was on this day, a flag would be dedicated in LaVern’s honor as a veteran. I stayed in the car because the walk to where the service was held would have taken far too long and been too tiring. I couldn’t actually make out the words spoken by the speakers, I heard the background hum and later got to view the new flag flying in the gentle breeze.
In the quiet of the late morning, I thought about those from around the country, my dad included, who answered the calls to fight, many long ago in the World Wars, to leave behind family and friends to protect the country from a horrifying menace of evil, torture and death. These brave men and women accomplished what they set out to do. America survived because of those willing to fight evil. I closed my eyes and gave thanks.
We still have those in the military and on the police force doing their best to protect and serve. Yes, some make wrong choices. Most do not. We must not paint them all with the same brush. Instead, let’s support and give thanks for the many, many who keep us safe.
© 2021 Carolyn R Scheidies
Published in Kearney Hub column 6/21/21
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Politics Racism, abuse and ignorance=Critical Race Theory
What goes around, comes around. As far as America has come in stamping out slavery and its tentacles, a new generation of so-called intellectual elites now teaches that race isn’t inherent.
Instead, according to Critical Race theory, the concept of race was invented specifically to oppress persons of color and that the US was racist from its inception.This Marxist- based theory divides humans into classes based, not on character or location or any other criteria, but race.
They conclude that so-called white persons are less-than, less deserving than, other races, and inherently more oppressive. This theory throws away everything our Constitution stands for –individual rights, equality under the law, freedom to strive and achieve happiness. They also vilify hard work, initiative, and the family unit.
This theory, which is creeping across this nation in our schools and courts, actually takes us, not forward in race relations, but back to pre-Civil War. Many in the segregated South firmly believed, as do those who hold to the Critical Race Theory, that how a person thinks derives from skin color—rather than environment, culture, family and. or national ties.
They encourage everyone, including the courts, to judge not on the basis of the facts, not on the basis of what actually transpired, not even whether or not the action was criminal—but solely based on race. This theory codifies discrimination into law.
If you are black, no matter what you’ve done, you should get a pass. If you are white—even if you are the victim, since you are automatically the oppressor, your rights are to be stripped away, again, regardless of the situation or facts. This hideous discriminatory theory has very real-world consequences.
Many who are growing up with a European ancestry are made to feel shame just because they are who they were created to be. If they are attacked by a person with darker skin, they are to bow and scrape and apologize, rather than to protect themselves. Sounds a lot like reverse racism to me.
I read a news story about a schoolteacher who made the back and white students in class form two lines. Remember, these are just innocent little kids. She forced the white students, who’d done nothing wrong but be born with a certain skin pigmentation, to go down the line and apologize to the black students. How confusing for all the students.
This is an abuse of the children in her care. This is not the America envisioned by Martin Luther King jr. whose wish was for skin color not to even be an issue. Yet today, we see the race card played anytime a person with light-colored skin disagrees with a person with dark skin.
According to Critical Race Theory, issues aren’t important, because only skin color matters. But, blaming one race for all the ills of the world, will not bring peace or hope or unity.
Critical Race Theory is based on historical ignorance of slavery. In Bible days, the Jewish people were enslaved by the Egyptians. That’s what the story of Moses is all about.The great American experience freed many oppressed people including Swedes and the Irish to become something more in America.
Even in the early 20th century, Swedish children of poor families in Sweden were sold, supposedly, as indentured servants. Some children became almost members of a family, others became slaves to those who purchased them. So this is White Privilege?
Those with European ancestry make up only a part of the world. Those with Asian ancestry make up a large slice of the world from China to many smaller nations. Arabs dominate in other countries and do a brisk business trafficking in blond, blue-eyed white women—who become sexual slaves.
Something similar happens in countries dominated by those with a black background. Do these so-called intellectuals of this theory even know how slavery came to Europe?
African nations were tribal-based, as were some of the Indian cultures in America. They fought killed and captured enemies. Many became slaves of the conquering tribe. When Europeans made contact, entrepreneurial Africans saw a way to make slavery pay. They sold their captured slaves to the ship Captains until slavery was spread throughout the countries dominated by Europeans.
Slavery did not have its beginning in the United States of America, nor was it set up to do so. Many opposed slavery from the very beginning. Like other peoples, many black persons came over as indentured servants, until someone brought slaves. Even so, slavery was dying out until the cotton gin was invented which made slavery profitable again.
The inventor wasn’t trying to enslave, he was only trying to make a product to help planters have the means to clean the cotton more simply and easily.
Critical Race Theory is not progressive in bringing people together—nor is it intended to do so, It is a throwback to an era of discrimination and evil. Instead of liberating a race, this theory when practiced, enslaves with lies, division and the encouragement to hate, encourages bullying, at behavior at least on par with the attitudes of deep south slavers.
Why would we encourage the spread of such a devastating theory? The invented idea of White Privilege goes along with this discriminatory theory. Each of us is a special creation of a loving God who wants us to accept who we are without apology or shame—just for being who we are. Accepting who we are and respecting one another means letting go hate to see beyond skin color to care about the person within.
That was the dream and goal of Martin Luther King Jr. That is the goal we should strive for—not some flawed theory that hurts not helps, tears down, not lifts up and divides not brings together. Let’s fight, not each other, but ideas and theories that seek to divide us through hate.
Let’s look for and promote the good in ourselves and others. Also, let’s make sure the new health and sex education proposal coming from State Board of Education will not be accepted until rewritten to exclude both inappropriate sex content and this discriminatory Critical Race Theory.
© 2021 Carolyn R Scheidies
RESOURCES:https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-critical-race-theory/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRPlsa-Y-0https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory
(c) Critical race theory (CRT), intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans.
©Critical Race Theory — a Marxist framework that views society only through the lens of race-based oppression — is everywhere these days. In corporations, federal agencies, schools, and even the military, it sows hatred and division in the name of “dignity” and “equality.”
This ideology teaches that “Whiteness” is oppression and that all its manifestations — including “the nuclear family,” “objective, rational linear thinking,” and the idea that “hard work is the key to success” — must be stamped out. It rejects the most fundamental beliefs of our nation, that we are all equal under the law and should have the same opportunities to prosper and pursue happiness based on individual merit.
At its core, it rejects classical liberalism, especially its emphasis on equality under law, neutral legal principles, meritocracy and individual rights. It propagates racial stereotypes and teaches that the way people think and act is tied to their skin color, the same type of racist views taught in the segregationist South decades ago.
©The vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa, who had been sold by other West Africans, or by half-European "merchant princes" to Western European slave traders (with a small number being captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids)..1, 2
"Implications of the slave trade for African societies". London: BBC. Retrieved 12 June2020.
^"West Africa – National Museums Liverpool". Liverpool: International Slavery Museum. Retrieved 14 October 2015
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectweden aives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/The information on how Sweden handled the children of destitute families came from a manuscript I was asked to evaluate. It was the life story of a Swedish man who became a well-known pastor both in Sweden and in the US around the early 1900s. It was put together from his own notes, journals and letters, along with the memories of his family members.
Blog Politics Tolerance should always be in fashion
I almost don’t want to get on the Facebook pages of our representatives at any level of government. The vitriol is almost unreal. It is as though, for many Americans, tolerance and basic decency aren’t part of their thought processes or behavior.
For example, what many individuals say on Representative Adrian Smith’s public page should make them hang their heads in shame. Many express opinions with name-calling, accusations, and absolutely no tolerance for someone with another point of view.
This has been building for years as our culture of respect and tolerance has disintegrated. It became especially nasty with those whose hatred for President Trump became almost pathological. Didn’t help when certain Representatives and Senators egged this on by encouraging the public to get in the faces of those in the Trump administration to the point some were accosted on the streets or run out of restaurants.
Have Americans become little more than an angry mob with no sense of looking for facts beyond rumors before reacting? This goes for too many media outlets that spread little more than innuendoes and half-baked assumptions instead of fact-based news.
Such behavior certainly does not speak well for us as citizens. Liking or disliking a president should not lead to such hatred. Even though I really saw Obama and now Bidden as destroying our Constitutional Republic, I refuse to hate them.
I may seek to change things, but never with name-calling, threats, or the spewing I see and read constantly now—behavior that is anything but tolerant. Such behavior changes nothing.
Want to make a difference? Get involved and make changes in a positive way. One way is to get involved with the candidates you like. Another way is to communicate with those who’ve been elected.
But there is a right and a wrong way to do so. It starts with letting go of irrational fury which freezes rational thought.
I have written articles, shared at conferences, and included in my book “Especially For the Christian Writer” how to communicate in a way to be “heard”—in a way others won’t turn you off. This includes letters to businesses, government representatives, and letters to the editor.
If you wish to be taken seriously, make sure you have the facts, let go of the anger that stops rational thinking, and write with passion, but with respect, without name-calling, intimidation, or nastiness. Why should anyone listen to an angry rant that is full of emotion but devoid of facts?
Consider how you want to be approached or treated. Think tolerance. In other words, communicate with respect for the office if not for the other person. If you would not spew garbage to the person face-to-face, then it is certainly not appropriate in print where everyone sees you at your irrational worst.
Ask. What do you really wish to convey? What is the best way to do that in order to be taken seriously? How will I feel about this rant five, ten, and more years down the road? Is this what I wish to teach my kids?
Respect and thoughtfulness will get you much further than spewing anger. Wish to communicate? Calm down, think beyond your anger, and consider long-term consequences. Then communicate in a way to gain a listening ear.
Remember tolerance should always be in fashion.
© 2021 Carolyn R Scheidies
My column published in the Kearney Hub 4/26/2021
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Blog Politics Are we harming, not protecting our children with Covid mandates?
Note: I know not all schools are this restrictive. I will not argue or discuss. Use this for information and consideration only.
In our desire to protect our children from Covid-19, we’ve placed them in a protective bubble. Our school children are told to self-distance and teachers no longer give a hug, pat a back, or touch the students in affirmation.
Parents have been told this is for the safety of the children. But this lack of personal interaction and touch goes against decades, even hundreds of years of research, study and common sense.
I’ve read about orphan children in places like Russia and China where there are too many children and not enough caretakers. These children are left without physical love and attention. When these children are adopted, many show signs of detachment disorder.
Kids, especially younger children, absolutely require constant physical interaction in order to be mentally as well as physically healthy. Mental health must precede physical health but in our rush to “protect,” adults have totally forgotten this important connection.
Because of their isolation from teachers and each other, how many of these children may exhibit long-term mental and emotional health issues? This isolation is even more peculiar since Covid-19 does not target children. Data reveals, most children do not get nor pass on the virus.
In fact, why are we taking such drastic steps considering Covid-19 has up a 99%, yes 99%, survival rate? That is more than the survival rate for the usual flues passing through each year that often clears out schools due to sick students. Many of these yearly flues DO take the lives of quite a few children, yet we don’t force kids to wear masks or self-distance.
As for masks, the virus particle is smaller than the open weaves of masks and can easily pass right through. I don’t know how many stories I’ve heard about adults, including teachers, who can’t wait to get out in the hall, out of a store or other place where masks are mandated, and tear off that mask so they can breathe deeply.
Yet we force even young children to wear masks all day in school. Young children are just learning how to breathe. They need to be able to breathe deeply in order to develop and strengthen their lungs. Wearing masks short-circuits healthy breathing and lung development.
Will these children end up with bronchial problems due to muzzling them with masks not even adults can tolerate long-term? Also, how often do the children change masks during the day?
Masks are quickly saturated with bodily germs and discharges. If masks are not changed regularly during the day, it is like blowing your nose in a tissue, then holding that tissue to your nose for the next hour, two, four, etc.??? In effect, we’re forcing children into an unhealthy, unsanitary situation.
Masks are not a magic bullet and data on their usefulness from around the world is mixed. (The data is now in. States and countries that masked against states and countries that didn’t. Result NO significant difference. None! Wearing masks is useless. Too bad even medical doctors and medical persons don’t do more than follow instead of doing their own research.)
What appears to be a positive solution, isn’t a solution at all. So why force children to wear a mask when they are not the target of this virus?
Then there is the fear factor. We scare children. If they don’t wear a mask they will get sick. If they play or interact normally with other students or friends, they may get sick. This fear is much worse than the usefulness of the protective measures. Fear, once instilled, will affect these children for a lifetime.
What effect will this fear have on the ability to bond, and on long-term relationships, such as marriage? Worse is the anger and nastiness toward those who, for health reasons, are unable and are not supposed to wear a mask. Are parents informed that if their child has respiratory difficulties or is unable to put a mask on and take it off by themselves that they should not wear a mask?
If a student doesn’t wear a mask, is that student shunned or vilified by teachers and other students? It certainly is happening in the general populace. Generally, nice people have become vicious over this issue.
My question is this? Are our protective measures actually harming our children? Are these measures, in effect, abusing the very ones we wish to protect? These factors are worth exploring--rationally and without the jump to automatic denial or fury.
© 2021Carolyn R Scheidies
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Blog Derek Chauvin Trial and a Broken System
Note: This article not for argument or discussion, but for consideration and thought
One headline screamed, “Derek Chauvin Found Guilty Of George Floyd's Murder.” Let me be plain right now. Did Chauvin do something wrong? Yes.
However what most do not realize, many don’t want to realize, is that there were mitigating circumstances. Floyd was so pumped up on drugs that he was already a possible “dead man walking.” (Floyd had fentanyl, methamphetamine and more in his system.)
The media went out of its way to paint this drug addict as a mild person seeking to get his life in order. Of course, he wasn’t all bad. Yet, Floyd served five years in prison for aggravated robbery--with a weapon. He was also arrested on drug and theft charges.
Still, the media hammered and hammered their manufactured version of the story, including racism, inciting violent protests across the country. Few even tried to find the truth beyond the media twists on the truth. Racism was not a factor in the court case. The racist twist was manufactured by the media and violent protesters.
It is easier to get angry and use that anger as an excuse to burn down property and assault others, causing untold damage physically and emotionally. How many realized when people were seriously injured or may have even died that their protests, their actions, were at least as egregious as the original cause--the horrifying death of Floyd. Are not the violent protesters also guilty?
Worse was the hit to a justice system that first is supposed to assume a person is innocent until proven guilty by the preponderance of the evidence. Second, all evidence pro and against is to be considered seriously. Third, jurists are supposed to find on the evidence, not on assumptions, not due to an agenda, and, certainly not because they feel intimidated and threatened.
Do you believe jurists felt threatened when blood was smeared on what was believed to the home of one of the defense witnesses, though, he no longer lived there? What was the jury supposed to believe when both violent protesters and the media made threats, letting the jury know their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as cities, persons, and property, were in jeopardy if Chauvin was found anything but totally and irrevocably guilty?
These threats very much affected the trial. How could they not? Mob rule and intimidation are scary. Such tactics mean you may not ever have a fair trial in this country again, because your participation may well put a target on your back.
Chauvin was isolated and locked up with a verdict given by scared jurists and a court system no longer able to function with truth, balance and safety. This court case was little more than a vigilantly hanging. Chauvin did not get a fair trial.
If his sentence is not mitigated through appeals, we can no longer call ourselves a civilized country. Watch out, those of you who were sure of their hate. Next time, the mob may come after you or those you love, Who is going to be there then to protect your person and your rights?
(c) 2021 Carolyn R Scheidies
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Blog Politics No safe place for females of any age
It took most of the last century to raise women from the legal and natural consideration that women were little more than appendages to the men in their lives. Women finally came into their own.
They gained the right to vote. In WWII they handled factory and other jobs men were used to having, except now most of our younger men were far away fighting for freedom from the Nazi menace. Women also followed the soldiers as nurses and in other critical roles.
After the war, many women chose to remain in the workforce and earning their own money. Still women struggled. Women were at a disadvantage in men’s sports. They fought hard and finally founded the right of women to hold sports that highlighted their unique abilities. This was followed with higher pay for those playing in women’s sport and with scholarships that helped young women attend college.
Women also struggled with safety in vulnerable places such as lockers and bathrooms. Eventually, such places were designated for gender and they had safe spaces for women and children. They could go into public female facilities without concern they would be intimated, threatened or assaulted.
Then the culture changed, wiping out the gains women strove so long to attain. This change is once more, making women into second-class citizens whose wishes and desire for privacy and safety no longer matter. This change comes on the heels of the transgender movement.
This didn’t seem all that important when there was a definition for who a transgender was. That, too, has evolved into something deadly for women. Many in our culture say that science doesn’t matter and biology doesn’t matter.
What matters is who I feel like being today. This means that without any medical changes, anyone can wake up one day and declare “today I am...”
Manly Craig likes women. He likes looking at them, fondling them, and exposing himself to them, which is intimidating. He may even have a criminal record for assault. It doesn’t matter.
Craig has the key to feed his lust and violence—and it is perfectly legal. The key is a simple phrase. Without any background, any stated desire to change, without any therapy or drugs or even desire to become another gender, all Craig has to say is, “Today I am Candy,” and he has legal access to every safe space meant for women.
He doesn’t have to be transgender, just state that “right now” he feels like a woman and no female is safe. This fluidity of self-identifying gender opens the door for pedophiles and perverts to assault women at will in their own spaces.
Without definitions, no woman is protected. This is already been played out in the courts. A man in prison for assaults and rape of a child, claimed, when it was time to transfer to another facility, he was now transgender—though he’d made no efforts in that direction.
On his word alone, the court forced a women’s shelter to accommodate him. The women at this shelter were already traumatized by assault, rape, and other violence perpetrated against them. They were in what they believed to be a safe space.
They were not safe. This man assaulted women in the facility, leaving them more traumatized than before. I read of a man entering a women’s bathroom to assault a young girl. In this case, the girl’s mother and the other women stopped him. Do you believe that girl will ever feel safe in a public restroom again?
The media is all in on these laws that refuse to define who a transgender is and seldom refuse to report growing attacks on women by men claiming the right to invade female sanctuaries simply by repeating the key, “today I am female.”
No one realizes how this degrades women and shreds everything women have fought so hard and for long to attain—an acknowledgment of their uniqueness and safety.
Time we let those making these decisions and laws know that saying something doesn’t make it true and has opened the door for every male out there to intimidate and threaten women because public bathrooms, even your daughter’s locker room, is open season for bullies and voyeurs.
Meanwhile, females have no say at all and are basically told, “Move to the back of the bus.”
Wake up parents, grandparents, pastors, and teachers. Stand up for biology, science, and reality for the safety and security of women.
(C) 2020 Carolyn R Scheidies
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Politics Do you pray for our leaders?
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.
Can we in America expect God's blessing when too many of our leaders are anti-life, anti-God's standards for sexuality, and anti-faith?
We need to be on our faces before God in repentance. We need to not assume the media is truthful in what they say or write and look for truth beyond a media more interested in headlines and causing division and conflict than in dealing in truth. Don’t let media dictate attitude.
Instead, wherever we stand, we need to be in constant prayer for our President/leaders that they will truly seek to know the truth and will listen to wise, Godly counsel. Prayer is the key.
Scripture tells us to pray for our leaders. Do we?
(c) 2016, 2020 Carolyn R Scheidies
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Blog Masks are not for everyone
Remember when coronavirus started making news? We were told a good thing which was to wash your hands often. When I grew up both parents and teachers not only taught the importance of hand washing but made us kids do so after playing outside, before eating, etc.
Roll down the years and someone got the bright idea that this simple sanitary practice wasn’t fair to everyone or some such nonsense and this simple practice that saves lives and health went by the wayside. Now it is back and I hope this will once again become a normal practice in homes and schools.
The other thing we were told was not to touch our faces. It was like being told not to think of a pink elephant and all you can think of is that pink elephant. Telling us not to touch our faces suddenly made us self-conscious about how much we touched our faces. Hard to stop.
Then the “wear a mask” mandate came down and everyone hurried to find something to over their nose and mouth. In certain cases this was voluntary, but more and more it became a mandate. I have watched those who wear masks. Many are constantly touching their faces pulling the mask up, adjusting the nose covering or the strings that fit around the ears.
When you consider this is supposed to be sanitary protection, then the whole idea goes south. After leaving the business establishment, some throw the mask in their pockets, purses, or in the glove compartment until the “next time” it is required.
Doesn’t take long for these masks to become saturated with germs. If you wear masks, for your well-being, please keep them clean
There are enterprises who geared up to make this product and now entice potential customers to wear a mask in the privacy of their homes or in an open-air park. Really! Where ads used to sell their products with sex, now products use fear.
Many who mandate masks have little concept of the unintended consequences. Very young children should NOT be forced to wear a mask. They are just learning how to breathe. Others report getting dizzy trying to wear a mask for even short periods of time. Many with asthma or other breathing problems simply cannot wear a mask for physical health reasons. Those with claustrophobia problems suffer panic attacks.
Some, like medical personnel and those showing symptoms, should probably wear masks—short term. According to the CDC some definitely should not. These include Children under age 2. Anyone who has trouble breathing. Anyone who is unconscious, incapacitated or can’t remove a face mask without help.
Some medical and government acknowledge this problem, but many do not. I’m one who cannot wear a mask. Add to panic and breathing problems, consider how am I to wear this mask.
I need someone else to put it on me. Someone to adjust it when needed and someone to remove it. In an era of self-distancing that doesn’t work. I don’t go get my hair cut because those who go to a business to get their hair cut have to wear a mask. How does that work?
Many of today’s restrictions make little sense and have more to do with assumptions of good rather than scientific or medical proof. I can’t help but wonder about the balance between drawbacks and benefits. Now we’re afraid to go outside and simply breathe fresh air.
I’ll be glad when we put them away for good. (Real, not fake data comparing the states and countries who masked against those that didn’t. The result. NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE. Wearing a mask is a fairy tale, not science. Don’t you wonder why so many authoritarian organizations including medical establishments try to prolong the usage?
© 2020 Carolyn R Scheidies
Published in Kearney Hub 7/6/2020
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Blog Politics Freedom—historical context
Read: I Peter 2:13-17
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.--I Peter 2:16 (KJV)
Fireworks boom in the ears and marvel the eyes as they spread colorful displays high in the night sky. For all the buildup and excitement, not to mention money spent on fireworks for Independence Day, how many of us sit down with our children or grandchildren to teach them, and to remind ourselves, what it is we celebrate on July 4th and why this celebration is so important?
Do our children and grandchildren understand the struggle the Americans had against an autocratic king across the ocean who refused to grant basic liberties accorded to other British citizens, while continually finding ways to raise taxes--on almost everything?
Do they understand that many of our founding fathers, the ones most committed to making sure Americans were treated with dignity, lost property, lost their money, and lost loved ones in a war they believed critical to freedom?
Do our children and grandchildren know aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins who have gone to war to preserve a nation of freedom--some even paying with their lives? What of families, wives, mothers, and children, who lost loved ones far across the ocean in foreign lands?
Do they understand the true cost of growing up in America?
These days, schools don’t often teach history without spin and revision. It is up to us as parents and grandparents to pass on the faith and freedom that is the basis of America. If they do not know, if they aren’t taught the actual history, if they take their freedom of faith for granted, they will lose freedom and the right to worship.
It is already happening. America’s freedom started with men and women recognizing the true source of freedom--Jesus Christ. We need to pass on this faith as well.
Do I?
Thank you Jesus that, despite all the problems, I am privileged to live in America. Help me not take either my faith or my freedom for granted. Help me pass these concepts on to a new generation. Amen.
Meditations:
Monday: John 8:32
Tuesday: Galatians 5:1
Wednesday: Galatians 6:13-14
Thursday: Romans 6:7-8
Friday: Romans 6:22-23
Saturday: Romans 8:20-21
From Listen? Who Me?
(c) 2018 Carolyn R Scheidies
Politics Deliberate Destruction of Property, a Crime?
Deliberately stealing, damaging, or destroying someone else’s property is a crime. Pandering to those who do is almost as bad. Either we are a nation of laws or we are a nation of thugs.
There are lots of good people and good cops. There are bad people, some of whom are cops—and they will do bad things. That gives no one the right to harm people or property and commit crimes as a result.
Such incidences give some the excuse to do wrong. Often there is a paid element to riots that egg on those who do not consider the consequences of their actions.
Those who commit crimes need to have consequences, not let off with a slap on the wrist.
What we need is a nation that returns to a sane and moral base of faith and personal respect and responsibility.
By Carolyn R Scheidies
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