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Feeling helpless as the United States of America seems to be going crazier every day? Feeling helpless as Black Lives Matter and Antifa, supported by Main Sleaze Media, by our civil authorities, by our university intelligentsia, and by seemingly countless Woke people incapable of rational thought, conspire to bring violence, burning, and looting to our cities?

Well, join the crowd! Lots of us are feeling helpless and that includes me. But I think we can remember two things, the remembering of which may encourage us. One is very painful to remember at first, and one is very good. The first thing to remember is that all this going on in our country did not suddenly pop out of nowhere, with no visible source. We Christians earned this, by our behavior.

Remember 1973? That was the year abortion became legal, after Roe v. Wade. The deafening silence from the Christian church about abortion from then on–for the most part–spoke volumes about our brand of Christianity. It was and is pietist (applying only to a few churchy type things and with a little bit of family type things mixed in if you are very fortunate [but not a lot of family stuff, even at that]}, and it is antinomian (anti-God’s law). We didn’t want a brand of Christianity which was responsible and adult. We wanted to slide around pretending that there could be separation between a nation’s god and a nation’s laws and behavior. We lied to ourselves. We wanted our TV, our Medicare, our Social Security, our public education.

All this is painful to remember. But pain can be good. (I dislike pain as much as the next person, I assure you.) Pain can alert us that something is wrong. So let’s feel the pain, and change what needs to be changed. If that involves no longer hitting ourselves over the head with our pietist and antinomian hammer, well, good–we learned something!

The second thing we can remember is that one person can make a vast difference for good, because God is in control and the way He has organized reality is that one person really can accomplish a lot of good.

I realize that saying “God is in control” is often an excuse for us to shrug about things that are happening, and then because God is in control we need not take action ourselves. But I am not supporting such shrugging. I am celebrating that God is in control and has given us a hopeful reality in which one person can accomplish a lot of good.

That is not a painful fact. That is a wonderful fact. We tend to forget how much one person can accomplish. We feel helpless, but we are not as helpless as we think we are.

Here are a few individuals who accomplished a lot, despite being only one person: the apostle Paul, Jeremiah, the little slave girl (2 Kings 5:1-19; she accomplished what she accomplished while being a slave!), Ron Paul, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I’ve used all these example before. But one could add countless more examples, from the Bible and from world history.

Here’s an example in which nameless teachers in a slum in England had an effect far beyond what might have been expected. Theodore Dalrymple’s father was born into an English slum. But his teachers respected his intelligence, and he was taught a great deal. Theodore Dalrymple reports:

“When he died, I found his school textbooks still among his possessions, and they were of a rigor and difficulty that would terrify a modern teacher, let alone child. But he, who was never generous in his praise of others and often imputed the worst of motives to his fellow beings, remembered his teachers with the deepest respect and affection: for they had not only taught him his lessons, but had devoted much of their spare time to taking their intelligent slum children, himself included, to museums and concerts, to demonstrate to them that the life of the slums was not the only life there was. In this way my father was awakened to the very possibility of possibility.” (Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, pp. 155-156)

Dr. Dalrymple’s father turned out in some ways to be a very unsatisfactory man, as is hinted above! He became a communist. He was not a great husband or father. But his two sons were raised in an environment in which life included the possibility of possibility, the possibility that learning and the arts were of value. And how has that turned out for us? Well, Dr. Dalrymple became a psychiatrist and doctor, and–here’s the important part for the rest of us–is one of our generation’s leading writers, and leading defenders of civilization.

Those few teachers in the slums could not have imagined that the son of one of their students would rise to such a position of greatness. They just did what their consciences told them to do, and if they found out later that their young Dalrymple had become a communist, they may have been dismayed. But their investment in young Dalrymple paid off in the long run. Doing what was the right thing to do paid off for all of us in the long run. God was in control, and because of the way He created reality, the actions of those forgotten slum teachers brought forth good eventually.

Here I simply want to encourage all of us, including myself, that one person doing the right thing can have consequences for good far beyond what we expect. We feel helpless, but we are not really as helpless as we think. Here are a few things we can do. The benefits may not show up in a way that we can see, but the benefits may be there anyway.

1/Pray. “The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.” (James 5:16) I feel helpless to do anything of value for the millions of black people who are wallowing in the wickedness sponsored by groups like Black Lives Matter, by vicious black race hustlers, by our Woke idiocracy. But I can pray that God will send 10,000 black people, young and old, male and female, who will love and live the truth, and will be examples to their people. Who knows; perhaps God will hear my prayer and act on it. I also pray for one black person I know who I already believe to be on a wise path, that he will be strengthened and encouraged and used by God in a powerful way.

2/Obey. God has told us plainly that the way to theological astuteness starts with our willingness to obey Him. Jesus Christ said, ‘”If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself.”‘ (John 7:17)

3/Tithe. Even if you are relatively poor, and your tithe does not amount to much in terms of dollars, still your tithe is important. If you tithe you are setting an example. Your children will see that Christianity is not just words. The church as a whole gives about 2.5%–one quarter of a tithe–so your example is valuable to all of us.

4/Educate your family at your own expense. If we get off the welfare of public education, and accept responsibility for educating ourselves at our own expense, we are making an excellent start at becoming adults.

5/Use the gifts God has given you to do what you can. Every Christian has one or more gifts. We tend not to understand that, or to assume that because our gift or gifts may be modest, we can’t do much. But God asks only that we do what we can, not what we can’t. God can use what we do, in His own way.

Here’s an example on the latter point, from my own life. I have published 16 books. What I can do, what is natural for me, is to write books. However, the books don’t get read a lot. I feel helpless. But what if one person finds something of value in one of them, which helps him think things through more clearly? My books might have an effect for good in the long run, because that one good idea was taken up by somebody who was able to improve on it.

Or here is an even a darker thought. What if someone who knows me hears that I have written 16 books. He reads one of them, and says, “This is drivel.” Maybe he’s right–maybe it’s drivel. But instead of being discouraged by reading my drivel, he says, “I know Carl Wells, and I’ve always thought he was an idiot. Having read one of his books, my theory is confirmed. But if an idiot like that can write and publish 16 books, then surely I can write and publish at least one decent book. I can’t do worse than C. Wells.” And, inspired by his negative view of my character and books, he does indeed write his own book–which is a very good book. God can use even our foolishness to advance goodness. I did what I could do, and God found a way to use it for the advancement of His kingdom.

God can and does use one person to accomplish a lot, sometimes in ways we cannot anticipate. So do what you can in obedience to God, and He will find a way to use it for good.

Our nation is in a dark spot. We Christians have been most at fault to allow us to get where we are, but we need not despair. We can change, we can pray, obey, give, and act in our daily lives in a way which we know to be godly. God will use our intention to do good, in a way He knows is fitting.

I feel helpless, often, and so may you. We are not helpless, though, if we are on God’s side and show it by the way we live.

Last week we began by looking at five commonly heard phrases that may seem to make sense, but in fact are phrases which encourage us to muddy thinking. This week we will conclude with five more such phrases.

6/”The Constitution is a living document.” People saying that want us to believe that what the Constitution meant originally may not be what it means now. We learn and grow, right? So the Constitution can and must move with the times. Which ends up meaning that ideas that would have seemed nonsensical to those who wrote the original Constitution, end up being supported, supposedly, by the Constitution.

However, by this point in our nation’s history, the Constitution is a dead letter, no matter what. Probably the Constitution should never have been enacted. The Articles of Confederation provided for a restrained central government. The people calling for the Constitutional Convention pretended to want to revise the Articles. Instead, they gave us an entirely new Constitution, one which led to a powerful central government. The U.S., as a republic under restraint, was dead by 1861. By 2020, the stench of the dead republic has become increasingly foul. So in any case there is no returning to the Constitution. But we still need to be warned that those people calling for the Constitution to be considered a living document, are people who want power for themselves and for their silly ideas.

7/”I think we’re in the last days; Jesus Christ is coming back soon.” No, He’s not. I’ll say this for such a foolish phrase–it would be nice if those if those of you who say that were right! I would have a red face from being wrong, but it would be worth a bit of embarrassment for me, to have the Savior Jesus Christ ruling the entire earth in visible power. But, alas, that is not what the Bible teaches about how world history will unfold.

Those who believe that Jesus Christ is coming back soon have a plausible excuse for refusing to act to clean up the earth. But the Bible teaches that when we obey God, He finds a way to bless us. When we refuse to obey Him, we bring misery upon ourselves and upon the people living alongside us. When we Christians take the Bible teaching seriously, and begin to act in ways that bring honor to God, we have a great effect for good.

Do you expect to be raptured out of your problems? Ain’t gonna happen. Your problems (in this country, at least) are 100% caused by the spiritual and intellectual abdication of the Bible-believing church. When we drop our pietist and antinomian (anti-God’s-law) brand of Christianity, and begin to develop an active and obedient faith, we will begin to be blessed by God, and He will help us solve problems and to create good things which bring joy and protection to untold millions. We’re not in the last days; most likely we are barely in the first days.

8/”Adults in the room.” Often when you hear this phrase, it comes from interventionists who want to kill off the possibility of a more humble foreign policy which wants to leave other people alone. “Ah, the poor simple childish people who want to bring our troops home and not involve ourselves in the doings of other countries! The adults in the room know that we rightly bear the responsibility to influence the entire world toward freedom and democracy.” As if “our democracy” were such a shining beacon of goodness!

The adults in the room are not really children rather than adults. They are power-hungry adult sociopaths who want to boss everyone else around, without taking up arms themselves. They don’t mind if you and you and me and him and her, foreign or domestic, get killed or crippled. They, on the other hand, have to stay alive, because they are the adults in the room who know how the entire world should be run. Any time we hear the phrase “adults in the room,” we need to speak up and say how empty of truth and humility are the supposed adults in the room. Usually they are the sociopaths in the room.

9/”The end justifies the means.” No, that is the exact opposite of what the Bible teaches. Those using the phrase “The end justifies the means” are saying that if we are trying to get to a good end, we are justified in using any means we want. That gives us an excuse to use bad means whenever we want to do so. But the Bible says, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:21) We are always to use a good means; that is how we will defeat evil. This makes complete sense. We get to a good end by using good means. That is what we would expect of a reality created by the good God of the Bible.

Paul had been slandered. How? ‘And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.’ (Romans 3:8) That is, the condemnation of people who made such a slander, is just. Paul here has made clear that “The end justifies the means” is not a biblical doctrine. I’m glad he spoke so clearly on the topic, but in fact the entire Bible bears witness to the fact that God wants us to get to good ends, but He also wants us to get there by using good means. This, He might have told us, is not rocket science. It is quite what we would and should have expected of the God of the Bible.

10/”We are saved by Jesus Christ alone, plus nothing, minus nothing.” Of course there is more than a small grain of truth to that statement! It is quite true that we are saved solely by the grace of God through Jesus Christ. Our righteous acts are not going to save us. We are too wicked, and even the best among us can never gain salvation by our works. But that phrase is still very dangerous.

The phrase sounds humble, but it subtly encourages us to devalue what Christian obedience to God should be for us. True, we can never earn our salvation. But the Bible teaches in countless places that God wants heartfelt obedience from us.

There is close to zero danger that we are going to endanger our salvation by trying to work our way to heaven. For every person who is too focused on his works as a way to God, we will discover 10,000 people who are living carelessly because they are “saved by grace” and saved by “Jesus Christ alone, plus nothing, minus nothing.”

Many long years ago I asked more than two dozen people, people I had reason to believe were thoughtful Christians, to answer a question for me. Of professing Christians with a plausible connection to a church, what percentage had truly been regenerated and converted by God? Averaging out their answers, the math showed that they thought that about 30% of such people were truly Christians. Thus 70% were not Christians at all! (My own guess, not figured in the math, was a slightly more optimistic 40% converted.)

However, it is not only unconverted people who are hurt because they are careless about their obedience to God. It is also the ordinary garden variety Christian, people who have truly been converted by God, who are damaged. We have been taught to shrug at the quality of our obedience to God. Thus we harm ourselves and the people around us by the way we live, because we are not bringing forth as much spiritual fruit as we could be bringing.

The need of the hour (of the decade, of the century, of the millennium) is not that we stop trying to work our way to heaven. The need of the hour is that we begin to understand that salvation by Jesus Christ brings with it a concomitant responsibility to obey Him in every aspect of life. Our righteousness will never save us, but without an obedient righteousness, maybe we were never regenerated and converted in the first place!

So pastors, please, stop telling us that we are saved by Jesus Christ, plus nothing, minus nothing–unless you make extremely clear to us that we need to be obeying our Savior, or if we are not obeying Him we may not be saved at all.

That concludes our two-part series of phrases which annoy the socks off of me.

We hear lots of things over and over. It is human nature that if we hear something a lot, and everybody seems to agree that what we hear makes sense, that we too assume it makes sense. Who are we to go against the way everyone, or almost everyone, is thinking? But in fact we can go badly wrong if we trust the people around us to be thinking clearly. We all need to learn to think for ourselves, with our thinking soundly based on biblical principles. Which isn’t easy to do, or we all would be doing it. Or at least Christians would be doing it, since Christians claim to believe the Bible.

Today we are going to begin to examine some phrases that we hear a lot, and that we tend to assume make sense. But make sense is exactly what they don’t. When we hear them, we need to be warned: somebody is saying something silly, and quite possibly such people are trying to manipulate us. So here are several phrases to distrust. They are in no particular order, except I have saved my favorite for the last, for the end of part II.

1/”Our democracy.” What? Such a phrase is trying to tell us that our democracy is something special. We are supposedly a special people. We have a democracy–our democracy rather than anyone else’s democracy–which is wonderful and which no one else can match. But this is a pile of something brown and stinky. We are just a people. Our democracy is like any other democracy, capable of going badly wrong. Which we do constantly, such as killing 61,000,000 unborn children. Such as killing 600,000 of our own citizens when one portion of the country wanted, legitimately, to secede. Such as butting our noses into the business of other countries for absolutely no reason. Such as permitting the looting and destruction of property, as is going on right now in many cities. Such as furthering the homosexual agenda. I could go on and on, but you get the point. We are just one democracy among many, and we are moreover a foolish democracy. Anytime you hear the words “our democracy,” look out. Someone is probably going to tell you that we should be doing something which in fact we should not be doing. Someone who has done no honest thinking is likely going to try to manipulate you.

2/”We owe it to ourselves.” This is spoken of the national debt. Because we supposedly owe it to ourselves, that means we need not worry overmuch. But this is wrongheaded. We owe trillions because we want to live at the expense of others. We are bankrupt already, we just don’t know it yet. The debt will never be paid. On the bright side, the debt plus the endless financial obligations written into our laws, may eventually lead to the break-up of the United States. That will be a very good thing, but on the dark side there is no guarantee that this can be done peacefully. We may lose our savings. People may starve or be killed. If you run up an unpayable credit card debt, there are unpleasant consequences, both for you and for the people you owe. By our dependence on horrific debt, we are bringing unpleasant consequences upon ourselves and others. Notice also that our money is not soundly based on gold or on another precious metal. Our money is fiat, printed out of thin air. The more money that is printed, the less each of your dollars will buy. The sociopaths running our country enjoy stealing our money. We have shrugged.

Here is a link to the U.S. debt clock. We are at $26 trillion and counting. The debt clock won’t stop spinning until the country ends. I hope that happens without violence, but there are no guarantees.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

3/”The separation of church and state.” This phrase is used in order to keep the Christians from wanting biblical Christian principles be the foundation of our law. Almost all Christians have fallen for this trickery. But in fact if we think about it a little bit, we can readily see that all laws are based on the law word of some god. If the law word of the God of the Bible is ruled out, we still will have a law word from some god. It is mathematically impossible to have the separation of religion and state. Anti-Christians want to tell us that we must have the separation of church and state, simply because they don’t want Christian principles backing our laws. But the anti-Christians have a god. Their god is themselves. They will tell us what the laws should be. This means that their god tells the state what to do. And tells us what to do. But if Christians made the laws, would this not cause constant friction and often violence between Christians and non-Christians? Yes, probably. Which is one of the reasons that the break-up of the United States will be a wonderful step in the right direction. Let humanist anti-Christians rule much or most of the U.S. Fine. But let the Christians have their few broken off portions of the ex-U.S., where God is honored and His laws are followed.

Nowhere on the planet earth is there a place where there is separation of religion and state. Muslims, oddly, understand this better than do Christians. Their god Allah is, in my opinion, false, but the Muslims understand that Allah’s sharia law should be the law word which is followed in all Muslim countries. They want to make all countries Muslim, and they don’t mind using violence to reach that end. Christians have the true God, and we can afford to let other people alone to follow their own false gods. But we should be wanting to have countries of our own where we can worship and obey the God of the Bible. Even more oddly, it is biblical Christianity which restrains both church and state! Both need to obey God, but neither has full control of the other. This is not hidden wisdom. Read the Old Testament, where the civil authorities and the religious leadership both are restrained, although both are under God.

4/”I can worship God wherever I am.” Yes, of course you can. So there is a grain of truth to such a statement. But when someone says he can worship God wherever he is, what he really means is that he feels no obligation to join other Christian worshipers in the corporate worship of God. The Bible tells us not to forsake assembling together (Hebrews 10:23-25). This is a common sense instruction. We all need to learn from and encourage one another, we all need practice in treating one another with biblical love. We all need a place to give our tithe, so that the church has money with which to do a thousand useful tasks. And if we are at the weekly worship, nothing is stopping us from “worshiping God wherever we are” during the remainder of the week. People who refuse to attend the weekly worship because “I can worship God wherever I am” are looking for an excuse to do whatever they want without reference to God’s instructions. They are “Lone Ranger Christians” who often are not Christians at all.

5/”Thank you for your service.” This is spoken to members of the armed forces, by ordinary citizens. But in fact our people in the armed forces are a large portion of the reason the U.S. is able to do so much evil abroad. We engage in preemptive war, we kill and cripple countless people, we destroy property to an astonishing extent, for none of which we have a thread of right to do. Instead of thanking soldiers for their service, we should be helping them think through what they are doing. They need to get out of the army (or whatever branch of the military they are in) as soon as possible, and they need to be helping the U.S. to develop an attitude of minding our own business. The military can be an honorable calling–but only if it exists to defend our country from attack. Right now it is a tool in the arm of filthy sociopaths without honesty, integrity, or respect for other people–including respect for our own foolish service people who are killed and crippled in the pursuit of wicked policies. “Thank you for your service” is an idiotic comment to make to our poor foolish confused soldiers.

Well, there are five phrases which we need to learn to distrust. I hope to conclude next week with a few more phrases which often trick us into believing something foolish.

On March 5, 2020, Brian Williams of MSNBC was host to Mara Gay, a member of the “New York Times” editorial board. They were discussing Michael Bloomberg’s failed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Bloomberg had spent $500,000,000.00 of his own dollars, but it had done him no good. Here is a link:

https://www.thewrap.com/brian-williams-mara-gay-get-dragged-for-bad-on-air-math-about-bloomberg-campaign-spending/

Here is a transcript done by me, which transcript I think is fairly accurate. “Close enough for government work,” as the saying goes, although this is not government work. (My comments are in brackets.)

Ms. Gay: Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.

Mr. Williams: I’ve got it.

Ms. Gay: Yeah. [Smiling at all this.]

Mr. Williams: Let’s put it up on the screen. [The tweet was put up on the screen.] When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads, U.S. population 327 million. Don’t tell us if you’re ahead of us on the math. [This comment was to the television audience.] He could have given each American one million dollars, and have had lunch money left over. It’s an incredible way of putting it.

Ms. Gay: It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true; it’s disturbing. It does, it does suggest, you know, what we’re talking about here. There’s too much money in politics.

All right, back to moi. I sure wish Mr. Bloomberg had sent me a check for $1,000,000.00. I wouldn’t have voted for him, but I would have sent him a grateful thank you note.

Alas, the math was just slightly off. If Mr. Bloomberg had divided that $500,000,000.00 he spent on ads, among 327 million Americans, each one of us would have got a check for $1.53. Which is approximately $999,998.47 less than a million dollars. They were off by a factor of 653,594 times.

Think about it. Two of the top guns of Mainstream Media agreed on the math, and how true and incredibly thought-provoking this information was. The situation is worse than that, however. Someone has pointed out, correctly, that MSNBC has plenty of people behind the cameras, making sure that the show unfolds smoothly. Among all these people, no one could do the math and prevent this off-the-charts nonsense?

My favorite line is Mr. Williams’ “Don’t tell us if you’re ahead of us on the math.” I love the false humility–“Ah, the good old television audience will have figured this out before us simple media types.” My second favorite line is “It’s true; it’s disturbing.”

You will be encouraged to learn that pretty quickly the error was discovered. Mr. Williams and Ms. Gay admitted their error, although apparently not until the television segment was well over. Ms. Gay, interestingly, called it a “trivial” math error. I guess–off by $999,998.47, and by a factor of 653,594 times–is pretty trivial, unless it’s not. I vote for not. It wasn’t a very humble step-down by Ms. Gay. But what did we expect–that someone writing for the “New York Times” could make a serious rather than a trivial error?

There is a lot to think about here. These were not two interns hurried onto the set because everyone else in the studio was dead or dying. This was the famous Mr. Brian Williams. He has a net worth of about $50,000,000.00. (Hey, he could give a million dollars to at least 50 million Americans, if not to all of us. Sorry; I couldn’t resist.) He earns $10,000,000.00 a year.

We don’t know the salary of Ms. Gay, but according to glassdoor.com the average salary for a “New York Times” editor is $115,684.00. She’s doing all right, financially. Moreover, someone on the editorial board of the “Times” is near the top of the food chain of U.S. Mainstream Media. You and I could not be hired as janitor at the “Times.” She has vast influence as a journalist, and is interviewed on television.

Yet these wealthy and influential people gave us this nonsense. How can this happen?

I don’t know. And happily, reality did catch up to them.

What I think is at play here, and this is simply my theory, is that most Mainstream Media types have a very tenuous grasp of economic reality. They hate financial reality. Even more fundamentally, they hate reality itself. Deeper yet, they hate reality because they hate God. God demands certain things of us, and they don’t want to do those things. So such people are instinctively looking for a way to create a different reality than the one God gives us.

In biblical reality, we get money by working for it. And unless we are very productive, we may not earn a lot. We have to live in that reality. It is not unfair, but it can mean that we are not rich, and in fact that we are barely getting by and not able to save much. That is reality. And if someone tells us they are going to make us well-to-do by giving us tax money taken from our neighbors, we need to begin to smell a rat, and understand that we are being enticed away from God’s challenging reality.

It is not just the obviously left-wing types who hate reality. The supposedly conservative Republicans are usually giving us taxpayer money as well. We can expect more of the same until the whole rotten system goes kaplooey. We have fiat money, not money soundly based on gold. We are going to be stolen from until we become honest people ourselves, and refuse to try to get into our neighbor’s pocketbook. Will that day ever happen?

We Christians give God 2.5% instead of the 10% he requires. We insist on Medicare, Social Security, and public education for our children. Are we ready for honest financial thinking? You tell me.

So Brian Williams and Mara Gay, as ridiculous as they permitted themselves to be, are really only symptoms. They are not the cause of our problem.

Three final points on that brief television episode.

1/We are in a war for Christian civilization. When we see something like Brian Williams and Mara Gay on the TV screen, doing math that any competent fourth grader would be ashamed to hand in, enjoy it! It may be battlefield humor, but we should take what entertainment we can from these silly people.

2/Don’t envy these silly people. For all their wealth and influence, these are failed human beings. It is a reminder of the biblical teaching that ‘”the last shall be first, and the first last.”‘ (Matthew 20:16) Mr. Williams and Ms. Gay are first now, but they are going to be last. If you are earning an honest but minuscule living, and are trying to obey God and trying to learn how economic reality is put together, then you may seem to be last because you are poor, but really you will be first. You are really first already. (Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson and Gary North’s Honest Money are good places to start to learn about financial reality. Also the book of Proverbs.)

Think about your situation as opposed to that of Mr. Williams and Ms. Gay. If you could have their combined net worth of $50,000,000.00+, tax free, but as a condition you had to be as left-wing and intellectually empty as these silly people, would you make that trade? Of course you wouldn’t. These people are rich, famous, and influential, but they are last. Don’t envy them.

3/We are told to pray for our enemies, Matthew 5:43-48. To me that makes sense. Herewith a brief prayer for Mr. Williams and Ms. Gay. “God, please convert these people to an honest, Christian way of thinking, hopefully on this side of the grave, but on the other side of the grave if necessary. But please confound their ignorant and foolish attempts to end Christian civilization. Cause them and us to think and live more honestly.”

I cheerfully pray for my enemies and for the enemies of Christian civilization, but if I am asked to refrain from laughing at $500,000,000.00 divided by 327,000,000 equals $1,000,000.00 dollars per person, that is a bridge too far for me. I am going to go on having a snarky attitude toward such people, at least until my million dollar check arrives.