A WORLDVIEW IN THOSE FIRST 100 DAYS.

PRESIDENT OBAMA REALLY DID PRETTY GOOD–depending on your worldview.

He actually got Congress to Give Him Things That Undermines Their Own Power.

-- Under the "economic stimulus" he was able to pass a $787 billion gift for his liberal special interest base–doing it so quickly that Congress voted for it before they were able to read it.
–He signed an appropriations bill loaded with 8,000 earmarks after campaigning on a pledge to end earmarks-- paying no political penalty–and not even a whimper from the media.

–He didn’t call it this but he was able to turn the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) into enormous machines for spending the equivalent of the entire federal budget for 2007–doing this without having to disclose where the money went.

COMING IN THE NEXT 100 DAYS?
We have the surprise offering of an out-of-control EPA forcing Congress to pass a $1 trillion to $2 trillion energy tax in the form of cap-and-trade legislation.

“A trillion here--a trillion there, pretty soon we’re talking real money.” Scoop Jackson

“* Just two weeks ago, the President presided over an unprecedented bureaucratic power grab when his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health. This seemingly innocuous decision opens the door to wholesale regulation of American life by government.
* President Obama has kept congressional Democrats marching with him in lockstep. House Democrats tow the party line an amazing 94 percent of the time and Senate Democrats vote Democratic 91 percent of the time.” Newt Gingrich

KOINONIKOS

WHY IS IT?

ONE MAN’S WORLDVIEW & TRUTH CLAIM

“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?"
“Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?
Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth?
That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?

President John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1837 when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts

TRUTH CLAIM

TRUTH CLAIM

There is nothing wrong with sex–I have 4 kids. I’ve been married longer than many of you have lived. The issue I’m raising about sex isn’t about whether sex is great. I believe it is great and is a gift of God. Sharing this in marriage with your life partner has very profound meaning in life. I believe the sex drive comes from God, but I also believe our culture has become too absorbed in it. Isn’t life more than that?.
Are we only muscle and bones? Extrapolating that–are we just a biological accident trapped in a body controlled by instincts?
There should be more than sex that drives us.

Let me lay something else on your mind.
I believe something that drives us–in fact how we act–how we think or feel is how we view the world.

So what is our worldview?

WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?

I BELIEVE OUR WORLDVIEW is our adopted set of truth claims that purports to paint a picture of reality;
This picture is really how we view reality and make sense of life and the world.
And as mentioned in a previous blog, something that drives how we act–in fact how we think or feel--how we really view the world. We may say different things about our beliefs, but this is how we really believe. This is our truth. What you do with these TRUTH CLAIMS forms your “ WORLDVIEW”
SO WHAT IS TRUTH?

SEX: IS THAT ALL THERE IS?

Our interests seem to be focused that way. Viewing the number of clicks on different blogs makes me wonder. So what’s wrong with that? At the least, sex definitely attracts our interest, and all the more if the writer is female. Again–so what? Sex is a natural thing, and really beautiful in the right circumstances. But that’s the problem, it often leads to abuse–sometimes very bad abuse.. Viewing some of those “stings” on T.V,. reminds me of a pack of male dogs chasing after a female dog in heat. Obviously we’re not all like that, and I don’t believe any person is like a dogs, nor an animal--man is made in the image of God.

The truth of it–maybe I should have written “Sex: is that all life is?”

Really aren’t we allowing our thinking–our minds to become absorbed in something that is really very very temporary–almost minute. Isn’t life more than that?.

I believe something that drives how we act–in fact how we think or feel is how we view the world.

What is our worldview?

Are we only muscle and bones? Extrapolating that–are we just a biological accident trapped in time?