I tuned into Glenn Beck today. He outlined for his audience a 16-day scenario for the devaluing of the dollar. This being supposedly the result of a leftist conspiracy to destroy our economy and establish a new world order. At one point, the dollar loses 10% of its value. It is pointed out at the same time that gold increases in value by 200%.
Even before the analysis is complete the show goes immediately to a commercial for Goldline International, telling people to buy gold. Other commercials for gold follow, of course, including one hosted by G. Gordon Liddy, the most trustworthy felon in the U.S., who did 4 1/2 years for masterminding the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972.
Glenn Beck's program is an informercial for gold. His website does a fair job of selling it too. If you are reading this, please don't buy into it. His whole pitch is geared toward making a profit off of you. If this is obvious to you, congratulations. If it is not, wake up, someone is making a fool out of you.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
From Mere Christianity
Just read this tonight and it makes sense. I'm taking this from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, Book II: What Christians Believe, Chapter 4: The Perfect Penitent. Keep in mind that Lewis wrote this at a time when it was common to refer to humanity as "Man" and "Mankind." Here he asks "what was the sort of 'hole' that man had gotten himself into?" He answers (Lewis, not Mankind):
"He had tried to set up on his own, to behave as if he belonged to himself. In other words, fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realising that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor - this movement full speed astern - is what Christianity calls repentence. Now repentence is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need to."
Christians believe that Jesus was that perfect person.
"He had tried to set up on his own, to behave as if he belonged to himself. In other words, fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realising that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor - this movement full speed astern - is what Christianity calls repentence. Now repentence is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need to."
Christians believe that Jesus was that perfect person.
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