The definition of agenda for the purposes of this article:
an underlying often ideological plan or program
People who know me understand that I have no personal political agenda. Although my pen is more often directed towards the Democrat party, it has been directed at the Republican party also because the truth supersedes politics. My video channel on YouTube has 522 videos as of today but less than ten have my personal views embedded in their content: the viewer can draw his own conclusions based on the video’s content. And that is the point, we must start make decisions based on our own personal values and cognitive processes.
I started becoming active in the patriot movement in the Summer of 2008. Since that time, many people have asked and wondered what my agenda is. They cannot understand the countless time and personal monetary sacrifices that I and my wife have made.
But my wife does. Her words last week succinctly explain my (and her) motivation: Our children will never be able to say that we did not stand up. It would be simple to lay down in the pasture with the rest of the sheep and become easy prey over time based on a false sense of security. But hiding is not an option for sentient people who understand that evil never surrenders voluntarily. And for those who rise up from the ashes after the battle is won to reap the rewards of those who actually fought while they hid, the appropriate word is coward.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The above statement is a simple premise. If we do not stand up for righteousness and submit to evil, we will suffer God’s judgment. And the reason is simple: man’s time on this Earth is to be spent learning and growing spiritually. This process is honed in fire by the never ending battle of good versus evil. If we do not fight evil, we will not grow in the Spirit. Again, this is a simple premise.
But many people read the words and give no consideration to honor, virtue and morality required to succeed. Would anyone classify our government using these characteristics? And yet most people sit by and judge others fighting for them because they know the truth. They lack the moral fortitude and courage to defend their country and family.
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
— Samuel Adams
Mr. Adams’ words ring true today for many of our “countrymen”. Freedom and Liberty are to be cherished: anyone who is willing to submit to the tyranny of our federal government has already crouched down to lick the hand that feeds them. And enslaves them. A patriot understands that the love of Liberty is not an agenda, it is a God given right to be defended at all costs.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
–Edmund Burke
I do not use this quote from Mr. Burke very often. I have found that some of the most evil people use this quote to justify their actions. But then what would you expect of evil men and women but to twist the words that should be guiding us? How many times has our government cloaked the desecration of our Constitution by wrapping it in an American flag? Who would justify the label given to the “Patriot Act” as patriotic?
What course must we take? Again it is simple but for those who lack the courage and honor to fight evil, depart from us in peace. I will not suffer tyranny in silence. And if some call this an agenda to discredit me and others, again may posterity forget you and your words.
David DeGerolamo
Amen!
uh-oh…somebody done pissed you off…IRS isn’t bugging you again, are they? or is it just the same old tired Southern Policy Law Center? BTW, what is THEIR status? Someone might need to take a look at THAT, along with Media Matters and ThinkProgress.
I am not upset: just clarifying why I will not stand down. I still consider the IRS a distraction for Benghazi but people want to take this administration down at any cost. As I noted in this article, there is nothing patriotic about the Patriot Act which was passed by Bush. I see no “authority” in the SPLC and their attacks so they are irrelevant. As are the current attacks on me for speaking up. Again, this is simple: we are in a war against evil. People are just choosing sides.
Eze 9:4 and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
Your thoughts reminded me of another time.
This time:
Ezekiel 33 1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, 3 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.
and this time:
Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
All men are blind until they begin to search out the truth that is found in Scripture. According to your thought…”And the reason is simple: man’s time on this Earth is to be spent learning and growing spiritually. This process is honed in fire by the never ending battle of good versus evil.” This precept is found in the following Scripture…
Hbr 5:13 For everyone who partakes [only] of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
Hbr 5:14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, [that is], those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Those who are growing spiritually have allowed God to lead them through Scripture by the Holy Spirit to discern between good and evil. But we are warned in the last days…
2Th 2:9 The coming of the [lawless one] is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Those who choose to remain blind “did not receive the love of the truth.” As you wrote, “If we do not fight evil, we will not grow in the Spirit. Again, this is a simple premise.” And this premise, if not taken seriously by us, will be the reason for not growing in “the love of the truth.” It is this work of God, that enable us who continue on, to overcome the “deception” and withstand the “working of Satan, with all power, signs and lying wonders.”
If the world hated Christ, the world will hate those who follow Him. But the work of God, who creates a love for Him in us, will far surpass the hate we experience from this world.
Well said. I too keep going because of my children & grandchildren. And because I have to stand before God someday.
For something so obvious, why are people so blind?