The American Right has several weaknesses as we take on the left. Our greatest weakness is not using our greatest resource which is Jesus Christ.
We on the right don’t practice our faith. Oh, I pray. That’s good. How often?
Is it just when you want or need something or do you praise our Lord and Savior on a daily basis?
Do you read His Word regularly so that you know your faith beyond that God created Adam and Eve, sent Jesus to suffer and die for our sins, then rise from the dead?
Oh well, the Bible is so old! Well, you know what?
There is no statute of limitations on God’s Word. However, don’t take my word for it.
Read it. I suggest Christians start with the New Testament because the Old Testament is long and a little more difficult to read.
If you are a Jew, I would suggest starting with the Old Testament, then the new. You will see how Jesus brings your faith to completion.
When you actually read the Bible, you see that it is truly timeless. You find that human behavior and the lessons apply more today than they did say, pre-9/11.
When you finally get to the Book Of Revelation, you will realize we are likely entering the birth pains of end times.
Maybe the best way to know if we are living our faith is to get familiar with our Heavenly Father’s 10 Commandments. They are timeless commandments, not suggestions.
Let’s take a look at the 10 commandments and analyze some ways we may be violating them that we don’t always think about.
There is an argument between the King James Bible version and the Catholic Bible regarding the 10 Commandments. I am linking the difference here.
Though I am at times critical of my Church, I am going to list the Catholic version of the 10 Commandments for simplicity reasons as many reading may be new to this.
I believe I have broken every single commandment at some point in my life.
1-I am the Lord your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.
This basically commands against the sin of idolatry and the worship of false gods. You probably don’t pray or bow down to golden calves.
But do you consult fortune tellers or read horoscopes? Do you practice yoga which has roots in Hinduism?
A very common practice is placing earthly things in higher importance than God. Do you skip prayer for happy hour?
Do you place greater emphasis on coloring eggs or shopping than getting to Church on Easter and Christmas?
Some Protestant Churches commit idolatry by putting up sodomy flags. Some Catholic Parishes do so by canceling Sunday night Mass because LGBT is playing BLM in the Stuperbowl.
2-You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain.
As I have said in the past, I am a work in very slow progress with my gutter mouth, but rarely curse with the Lord’s name. It doesn’t necessarily have to be with profanity. Saying oh for C*****’s sake for example is a mortal sin.
3-Remember to keep holy the Sabbath.
This one often ties in with idolatry. If you miss Mass or your denomination’s Sunday service without good reason, you have committed a mortal sin.
Good reason are things like the bishop caving to Satan’s soldiers and closing the Church over a manufactured crisis, or illness, or you have to work straight through the Sabbath.
Timmy having a double header or intentionally booked travel plans that could have been changed are not good reasons.
4-Honor your mother and father.
Sometimes the truth divides families. We cannot put our parents over Jesus. However, even when we are right and they are wrong, we must show them a level of respect.
Sometimes this means hearing them out when we don’t want to. Sometimes it means just giving them the last word in a discussion, right or wrong.
It does not mean letting them make our decisions as adults. It means giving them their say out of respect.
5-You shall not kill.
Many think they have never done this. Never terminated a pregnancy? Never practiced artificial contraception? Never put a firecracker in a fish’s mouth as a stupid kid?
Never hunted for trophy rather than food and clothing? Never stepped on a bug for no reason? Never killed someone’s spirit or ambitions with mocking or gossipy words?
See? We all kill.
6-You shall not commit adultery.
I am not married, so I don’t do that. Well, actually you might. God says a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2:24)
First off, any type of homosexuality falls under this commandment. Jesus also says, Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery. (Matthew 5:31-32).
So if you are divorced without an annulment, it is a sin to fornicate with anyone outside your first spouse. This commandment basically encapsules all sexual immorality: sodomy (even with a female), oral sex to the point of ejaculation, masturbation, viewing pornography all fall under this.
Therefore we are all guilty of this at times, or at least most have been.
7-You shall not steal.
I never steal! Not even time from work? Never ate your roommate’s leftovers?
8-You shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
This basically involves lying. It can also mean omitting to change the frame of the narrative. Are you now or have you been a scandal starter through fallacy?
9-You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
This coincides with adultery because even if we fantasize sexually about a married woman, we commit adultery. It doesn’t even have to be dwelling on an attraction to a married man or woman. It can simply be jealousy that another’s spouse is more attractive than your own.
10-You shall not covet thy neighbor’s goods.
Women are the worst with this. Eh…eh…the Johnsons put an addition on their house. Why can’t we? Be happy with what God has allowed you to have.
Men can go this way too. Fuck that rich prick and his Mercedes. Again, be happy with what God has allowed you.
There is nothing wrong with wanting more if it is something you can strive for, but begrudging another’s fortune is not just toxic, it’s a mortal sin.
Yes, I can confirm that I have broken every single commandment at some point in my life. Thank God for Confession.
If the 75,000,000 people the lying media acknowledges voted for Trump all repented for their sins and used their greatest resource: Jesus Christ, how strong would we be?
We would be unstoppable by the left. Talk soon.
-Marksman
PS: My original topic was going to be the right’s greatest secular weakness. Then I realized this is far more important.
I would say the Holy Spirit took over. Soon I will focus on our greatest secular weakness.