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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Colin Kaepernick and Moral Righteousness


September 25, 2016

Colin Kaepernick and Moral Righteousness

By Dennis Chamberland
Whether he is in desperate search for attention, naively misguided, or seeking to leverage his uncertain position as quarterback of the San Francisco professional football team, Colin Kaepernick has certainly achieved the former.  He has garnered as much attention as any superstar of the sport legitimately achieves in a lifetime.  And in so doing, his actions have focused on an essential and largely missing point in the shameful debate he has elicited: the limit of sacrifice.
It is utterly surprising how universal the feeling is in America that Kaepernick and his ilk have somehow earned the right to disparage the National Anthem in a ‘protest’ against law enforcement, or their cause de jour.  Likewise, Kaepernick’s legions of followers before and after his disgraceful and dishonorable behavior have been publically burning the American flag.  They stomp on it, and walk on the proud symbol of our freedom, and the physical image of our great Nation, like it is a doormat or worse. 
And all of these so called citizens and non-citizens do so claiming the supposed all-inclusive immunity of freedom of expression that is inevitably tied to the sacrifice of the men and women who have served our nation in the military -- many of whom have been permanently injured, disfigured, or even left behind to die anonymously in foreign prison cells. 
I know very well of the sacrifices these subversives claim were offered for their right to commit acts of public humiliation and disgrace to our great Nation -- for my wife and I are veterans.  I served my country for six years as a United States Naval Officer, and she served 14 years as an U.S. Army Officer.  And I can assure you, I also know that morally their claims are dead wrong, they do not have that freedom, and they never have, regardless of any liberal court’s findings of law.  In the moral universe, they are pariahs. Here is precisely why:
No American serviceman or servicewoman ever sacrificed anything to give anyone the right to tear down or disparage America directly or by symbology.  Indeed, in our oath, we swore to Almighty God specifically that when we arose each morning and put on the uniform of service to our nation, that we went to work every day specifically to “…support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”; that we bore true faith and allegiance to the same; and that we took that obligation freely, without any mental reservation.  Colin Kaepernick and his like-minded America-haters and America-destroyers have not earned the right to destroy and tear down our Nation using the blood and sacrifice of my brothers and sisters in arms as an excuse.  From many backgrounds and ethnicities -- White, Black, Hispanic, Arabic, Oriental, Native American -- of all creeds, both male and female, none of us ever went to war for anyone to have that ‘right’.  Indeed, we sacrificed our lives to ensure that such actions would never, ever happen in our great land.  We also swore to perpetually fight against such tyranny if it ever raised its disfigured, ugly profile on our soil.
It’s just common sense.  No one sacrifices, fights or dies to enable and empower someone else to disrespect, and thereby incrementally destroy, the way of life you sacrificed for.  But common sense is yet another victim of runaway progressivism, which seeks out every opportunity to destroy our way of life by redefinition and superimposition. 
In committing these lewd public acts of tyranny against freedom, Kaepernick has identified himself as an active enemy of this great land, against all that freedom is and stands for.  He has chosen to hide behind the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution as he commits his infamous acts of discouragement and disparagement.   When he and his kind commit these acts of hatred and disrespect for America, they have far exceeded the limit of our sacrifice, for none of us ever risked our all so that someone else could disgrace and tear down our great land and her precious people that we sacrificed so much for. 
Kaepernick and his classless kind have never had the ‘freedom’ to do what they are doing, for not a single Sailor, Soldier, Airman or Marine ever sacrificed anything to give it to them.  It never entered any service member’s mind that we sacrificed to guarantee his sickening flavor of PC anarchy.  Kaepernick has declared an illegitimate freedom, for the Constitution protects itself, just as it protects her citizens; and never does the Constitution give anyone the unalienable right to destroy it, disparage our Nation, or usurp any of our freedoms as leverage to disgrace America.  Such a sui generis interpretation of the limit of our sacrifice for our freedoms defines, in fact and in practice, the obvious, logical précis of the Constitution itself.  For once constitutionally-defined freedom is used as a leverage to destroy the very freedoms and document that engender it, then the limit of our sacrifice has been clearly surpassed.  
Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy did not stand alone on that hill in Afghanistan and willingly take bullets to save his men and our freedom so that this petulant game player could sit on his useless rear and disrespect the very national ethos that guarantees his way of life.   By his actions, Kaepernick has slipped quite beyond freedom and sacrifice, and thus stands alone and morally unprotected. No one ever sacrificed or died for him to have that right.  And those of us who took the solemn oath will never give him a pass, or lend even a single drop of valiant American blood, to his more than evident treason.
 Dennis Chamberland, PhD is an engineer, scientist, writer, and explorer.
I read this article on American thinker.com.  I thought it was wonderful.  I was going to just put a few quotes on my blog but then decided to post the entire article.

Our military takes an oath to defend not only against foreign enemies but also against domestic enemies.  Kaepernick is a domestic enemy.  He is blatantly committing treason under the guise of "freedoms and rights".  And his panseric followers are just spineless, weak zombies jumping on the bandwagon.

Anyone who sympathizes with or defends Kaepernick or any other American traitors such as Black Lives Matter and the like are themselves traitors.  They are all just a bunch of ignorant, weak little pansies who couldn't hold a candle to any true American hero or even to any average American citizen who stands up for their country, it's anthem, and it's flag.

That's my two cents.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

a have hope

We are all familiar with the typical end of the year high school/junior high yearbook entries.  Things such as, "stay cool!"  or "have a great summer".  Most of them are quite forgettable and very shallow.

Perhaps the most profound and memorable yearbook entry in the history of mankind is the following: 


It is an entry in my sister's yearbook by one of her friends from high school.  The author is someone who was considered "slow", yet her profound words were wise beyond her years.

A have hope is a phrase used often in our family.  And has been for years -- ever since my sister received such profound advice in her yearbook from her friend.

Why is hope so important?

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, "Each time a hope is fulfilled, it creates confidence and leads to greater hope." and "Hope has the power to fill our lives with happiness."

“Press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.”-- 2 Nephi 31:20

"This is the quality of hope we must cherish and develop. Such a mature hope comes in and through our Savior Jesus Christ, for “every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as [the Savior] is pure.”-- President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I echo the wise words of a young high school girl to her friend, "a have hope".

That's my two cents.
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Monday, September 26, 2016

College Football Picks 2016 Week 4

1 --Tammy -18 tiebreaker 53
2 --Chanelle -19 Tie Breaker 36
3 --Dad -21 tiebreaker 47
4 --Lisa -21 Tie Breaker 41
5 --Cody -21 tiebreaker 78
6 --Rex -22 Tie Breaker 60
7 --Ferreira family -25 tiebreaker 62*
7 --Kingston-25 , tiebreaker 54*
8 --Mercedes -26 Tie Breaker 45
9 --Mom -27 tiebreaker 59
10-Derrinda -28 Tiebreaker 52
11-Brandon -29 tiebreaker 27
12-Juliet-30, tiebreaker: 50
13-Elijah -30 tiebreaker 27

Actual Tie Breaker 58

*The Ferreira family and Kingston were both four off the tiebreaker so they tied for seventh place.
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Prophetic Promise

"As we strive to place Christ at the center of our lives by learning His words, by following His teachings, and by walking in His path, He has promised to share with us the eternal life that He died to gain. There is no higher end than this, that we should choose to accept His discipline and become His disciples and do His work throughout our lives. Nothing else, no other choice we make, can make of us what He can."
—Thomas S. Monson, "Ponder the Path of Thy Feet"
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Politics

It's unbelievable how many clueless and stupid people surround us.  In reading Rush Limbaugh this week I was blown away (pun intended) by the media and liberals response to the terrorist attacks this past week.  But first I want to start with a quote I liked from Donald Trump that I found on Rush Limbaugh.com.

TRUMP: Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people under one God, saluting one flag.

I'm not a fan of the Donald but he's definitely better than the alternative. One thing I do like about him is he speaks his mind.  And I like his play on the Pledge of Allegiance.  We are one nation, under God.  Or at least that's what we're supposed to be.

I'll bet all these thugs like Kaepernick and the like don't even know what the Pledge of Allegiance is, let alone are able to recite it word for word.

Something that stood out to me this week that Rush Limbaugh talked about was about the terrorist bombing.  Apparently there was an Islamic terrorist bombing/attack in New York and New Jersey and an Islamic terrorist stabbing spree in Minnesota this week.

From Rush Limbaugh.com:
"Saturday, a guy goes on a stabbing spree at a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, while "making references to Allah," as in "Allahu Akbar!" Nine people are injured. They have a giant press conference. The FBI, local police, everybody that you can think there was there at the stage to announce what they are doing vis-a-vis the investigation. Meanwhile, a device explodes in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
"About 80 minutes later, 80 miles away in New York City, a bomb goes off in Chelsea. In that, almost 30 people are hurt. An unexploded device found nearby turns out to be a pressure cooker bomb."
"So Minnesota, New York, New Jersey authorities are reported to be searching for a link between the incidents, while everybody in America can tell 'em what the link is: Radical Islamic terrorism. No! We're not supposed to say so. Trump's dead-on right calling it "bombing" and "terrorism," and he didn't just do that.
"He went on and attached Obama and Hillary to it. Did you hear, Hillary goes to Silicon Valley or she makes a plea? The first thing she said when she rips Trump, is it's because his rhetoric is creating all these terrorists. His anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic, anti-this, anti-that rhetoric is making all these otherwise worldly, peaceful people really mad. That's right. You have peaceful worldly people, highly sophisticated. They're minding their own business. They hear Trump, and Trump makes 'em so mad, they become terrorists. Hillary's out there warning everybody that's exactly what's happening."-- Rush Limbaugh
Here's the direct quote from Hillary Clinton given on Saturday, September 17, 2016
“I’ve been briefed about bombings in New York and New Jersey, and the attacks in Minnesota.” -- Hillary Clinton
More from Rush Limbaugh.com:
"The Drive-By Media was outraged at Trump for supposedly jumping the gun and calling the bombing in Manhattan a bombing. They were angrier at Trump for calling it a bombing than they were angry at the bombing! It's stunning to witness this!
"She called them bombings shortly after Trump called them bombings. Then she chastised Trump for calling them bombings, saying he jumped the gun. So CNN went in and edited her comments and took her reference to bombing out! You notice how much of that has been going on lately, the media editing Hillary to save her? And they did it in this case. She called the bombing a bombing as well, before criticizing Trump for calling it a bombing.
"So they end up being angrier at Trump for calling a bombing a bombing! They were angrier at Trump for doing that than they were angered by the bombing.
"Did she put the slashers and the stabbers and the bombers in her "basket of deplorables." She didn't, did she?
"I'll bet you a dollar to a doughnut that she didn't put the bomber and these slashers in the basket of deplorables. Well, the basket of deplorables is reserved for Trump and his supporters, half of his supporters. But the bombers, the terrorists? No way! They would never go into her basket of deplorables. Did she talk about the need for us to respect our enemies and have empathy for their points of view? Because she did that once, you know. "We just have empathy for our enemies."
"So here's Hillary wanting to empathize with the bombers, wanting to empathize with the slashers, wanting to empathize with the militant Islamic terrorists. And yet it is the Donald Trump and his voters who are the deplorables.
"By the way, it was pointed out to me that Hillary Clinton would in no way put the bomber or the slasher in the basket of deplorables, because it's entirely possible that the fathers of the bomber and the slasher might show up at the next Hillary rally.
"Well, you remember, the father of the guy that blew up the gay nightclub in Orlando ended up right behind Hillary on stage at a rally she did soon thereafter? And he was out there bragging about it! She said, her staff said, "Well, we didn't know." But it's entirely possible that the family of these perps could well end up at the next Hillary rally. So obviously, they will not end up being in her basket of deplorables.
"Look, this is the thing, everybody knows what's going on. And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are seen as -- I don't know whether they get this or not. They're seen as defending it. They're not seen as defending the actions. They are seen as defending the people who do it which then justifies or permits the action to be misrepresented in terms of who's behind it and why they do it. But at the end of the day, Obama and Hillary and the they talk about this essentially permit this stuff to continue. And they make it clear that there's no way they could ever make it stop because they will not admit that they know who is doing it and why.
"They will not admit that. To do that would be politically incorrect, and we can't do that as good leftists and so forth. And it is highly dangerous. You talk about Trump being unfit? For crying out loud, if anybody is demonstrating an unfitness for office, it's Hillary Clinton, particularly when it comes to the safety of the American people. Talk to the people in Benghazi. She cared not a whit about helping them out. There was no additional security when they were under attack, no help was offered, and after enough time went by, Hillary's reaction, "What difference does it make now? Four Americans are dead. What difference does is it make how?" She really said that at the congressional hearing."-- Rush Limbaugh
  It is really unbelievable how many clueless and stupid people are in this country.  It's unfathomable that anyone would vote for Hillary Clinton.  But that's what all of these clueless and stupid people are going to do.

A have hope.

That's my two cents
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Clueless

How clueless and stupid are people?  I just read an article about a 32-year-old man, Sean Thompson, assaulting the mayor of Sacramento with a pie in the face.  Sean picked the wrong man to assault.  Sacramento's Mayor, Kevin Johnson, happens to be a former NBA player.  He fought back. What is the assailants response,"I don't think that was an appropriate response to a pie to the face".  Seriously?  And what is an appropriate reaction to being surprisingly assaulted by a stranger?  Most people would fight back and defend themselves.  Sean Thompson is beyond clueless and stupid -- as most protesters are.

That's my two cents.
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Friday, September 23, 2016

The Second Parable of the Baby Son

A certain Baby Son made a series of bad choices in his life.  One of which was to abandon his wife and children for a harlot. Baby Son became miserable, bitter, and exceedingly angry. You can see it in his countenance. Baby Son started blaming religion and the wife he left for all of his ills. Baby Son made it a point to try to turn his family against the wife he walked out on and does everything he can to make her look bad to them.  But Baby Son underestimated his sisters' intelligence as they do not fall for his cunning lies and manipulations.They can see right through him.  This makes him even more exceedingly angry and he does what any miserable, bitter, angry narcissist would do and cuts ties with them.

Unfortunately, Baby Son's father is easily manipulated by his baby son and continues to enable him. Whenever Baby Son gets angry at the wife he abandoned, he calls up daddy and, befitting his name, cries about her to his father and slanders her name.  All the while maintaining that he wants his family to stay out of his personal business yet he's the one who keeps dragging them into it-- when they don't want to be dragged into it. Baby Son created the mess by walking out on his family, yet is constantly complaining to his father if things don't go the way he wants them to.  Just like a little two-year-old pulling a temper tantrum. Yet Baby Son is a middle-aged man. Baby Son threatens to cut ties with the entire family but never keeps that promise.  The only time he calls home is when he gets angry with the wife he left--then he calls up daddy to cry about it and tries to turn his father, and family, against her.  Baby Son can't stand that he can't control his family and turn them against the wife he walked out on. Baby Son's family is not as naïve as he thought they were.

Baby Son's family is saddened by his continual bad choices.  They hate to see him so miserable, bitter, and angry all the time.  But Baby Son has his agency and must face the consequences of his bad choices.  Baby Son's sisters understand that enabling him doesn't help, but in fact hurts him. Baby Son's family continually hopes and prays for him to start making better choices and come back before it's too late. Life is too short to continually make bad choices.

A have hope.

That's my two cents.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

100% Part Two

I have a few more things I want to say about religion.  I mentioned in my previous post that life is 100% about religion.  I want to expand on that.

I don't know who said it but there's a familiar adage that says we are spiritual beings having a mortal experience not mortal beings having a spiritual experience.  That thought couldn't be truer.  Mortality is but a drop in the ocean compared to eternity.  Before we embarked on this mortal journey we are now all experiencing, we lived as spirits with our Heavenly Father for a long time!  Our Heavenly Father gave us this mortal experience so that we could learn and grow and become more like Him.  That is why we are here.  It is part of our Heavenly Father's great plan of happiness, or plan of salvation.  Therefore, life is 100% about religion.

Granted, there are bad religions that teach bad things.  And there are good religions that teach good things.  Most religions teach some form of morality and accountability.  Most Judeo-Christian religions use the Bible as the basis of their doctrinal teachings.  But there is only one true religion-- or in other words one true and living church upon the face of the earth -- and that is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (See Doctrine and Covenants 1:30)

Some people may call that claim arrogant, but it is the truth.  So if you think truth is arrogance that's your prerogative.  But nevertheless, truth is truth.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is perfect.  Its doctrines are perfect.  Jesus Christ, whose church it is, is perfect.  The members of The Church -- including its leaders -- on the other hand, are not perfect. The members of The Church -- including its leaders -- are on the same journey through mortality that we all face.  We all have trials, we all make mistakes, we have all been given a physical body and must learn to control its appetites and deal with pains and physical limitations and sorrows. That's where a lot of people get confused.  They equate fallible members/leaders with the infallible Church/religion.

True religion, pure and undefiled is always good.  True religion, when practiced, brings peace and happiness into the lives of those who live it.  True religion helps us to navigate through this challenging maze of mortality.

In the New Testament, the apostle James said this about religion: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,and to keep himself unspotted from the world." -- James 1:27

To me that means to serve your fellow man and to keep the commandments.  It's not complicated.

I know people whose entire life is focused on sports -- whether it be playing or watching their favorite team, money and the acquisition of material things, or perhaps music or their favorite band, singer, actor or celebrity.  The list could go on and on but my point is, in the eternal scheme of things, none of those things matter one iota.

Granted, hobbies or other leisure activities can be part of a well-balanced life and provide excitement and entertainment.  But on judgment day, the Lord is not going to care whether your team won the Super Bowl or World Series or whether you were a rock star or had a Lamborghini.

But He will certainly care about whether you used your talents and blessings to serve others and help your fellow man along his mortal journey.  He will certainly care about how hard you tried to follow His commandments.  And He will most certainly care whether you made and kept your covenants with Him. And whether you received the necessary ordinances to enter His Kingdom.

 Yes, life is 100% about religion.  If yours isn't, I feel sad for you and I hope you get your life in order before Judgment Day.

That's my two cents.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Abraham

We had a really good talk in Sacrament Meeting this week. It was mostly about the Abrahamic covenant.  That's not what I am going to focus on though, I want to talk about Abraham.

Abraham is a familiar Old Testament prophet. If you'll recall, he is most known for being asked to sacrifice his son Isaac in similitude of our Heavenly Father sacrificing His Son, Jesus Christ. He is also considered the "father of the faithful".

Abraham was a very righteous man and it is recorded in Scripture that he was among the noble and great spirits in the pre-mortal existence and was chosen to be a leader among men (see Abraham 3:22-23).

Abraham's father, on the other hand, was a very wicked man. Scriptures record that Abraham's father turned from righteousness and from the holy commandments of the Lord and turned to worshiping idols and that his heart was set to do evil.(See Abraham 1:5-6)

Abraham's father was so wicked that he allowed wicked priests-- who also worshiped idols and made sacrifices unto them-- to take his son, Abraham, and try to kill him. But Abraham prayed to the Lord and He saved him from being murdered by the wicked priests.

Despite his father's wickedness, Abraham lived a very righteous life.  Abraham made covenants with the Lord and was promised many blessings in return. Anyone who lives a righteous life and obeys the commandments of God is entitled to receive those blessings through the Abrahamic covenant.

My point in writing this blog was to point out that no matter how wicked your own father (or mother) is or what kind of family you come from, everyone can live a righteous life despite the wickedness and evil around you. Even if evil and wickedness surround you within your own family.

A have hope.

That's my two cents.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

100%

The other day I heard someone blame religion for their ills. To paraphrase them, "It's all because of religion." That seems to be a common theme these days amongst secularists, atheists, apostates, and the like. They all want to blame religion for everything.

Well guess what? He is right. It is all about religion. Life is 100% about religion. The reason you --and anyone who has ever been born on this earth -- are here is 100% because of religion. By religion I mean specifically the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are all here on earth because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So yes, it is all because of religion.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland gave an excellent talk about religion about a month ago. I've been meaning to blog about it but have been too lazy up until now.

I absolutely love Elder Holland and his bold yet loving approach to teaching gospel principles. I wish I could be more like him. He reminds me of my uncle.

Anyway here are a few quotes from his talk: "Bound by Loving Ties", Jeffrey R. Holland, August 16, 2016 (Emphasis added).

"An omnibus word familiar to us all that summarizes these “loving ties” to our Heavenly Father is religion.Scholars debate the etymology of that word just as scholars and laymen alike debate almost everything about the subject of religion, but a widely accepted account of its origin suggests that our English word “religion” comes from the Latin word religare, meaning to “tie,” or more literally, to “re-tie.”2 In that root syllable of ligare you can hear the echo of a word like ligature,which is what a doctor uses to sew us up if we have a wound. So, for our purpose today, “religion” is that which unites what was separated or holds together that which might be torn apart, an obvious need for us, individually and collectively, given trials and tribulations we all experience here in mortality."

"What is equally obvious is that the great conflict between good and evil, right and wrong, the moral and the immoral—conflict which the world’s great faiths and devoted religious believers have historically tried to address—is being intensified in our time and is affecting an ever-wider segment of our culture. And let there be no doubt that the outcome of this conflict truly matters, not only in eternity but in everyday life as well. Will and Ariel Durant put the issue squarely as they reflected on what they called the “lessons of history.” “There is no significant example in history,” they said, “of [any] society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”3"

"If that is true—and surely we feel it is—then we should be genuinely concerned over the assertion that the single most distinguishing feature of modern life is the rise of secularism with its attendant dismissal of, cynicism toward, or marked disenchantment with religion.4 How wonderfully prophetic our beloved Elder Neal A. Maxwell was clear back in 1978 when he said in a BYU devotional: “We shall see in our time a maximum … effort … to establish irreligion as the state religion. [These secularists will] use the carefully preserved … freedoms of Western civilization to shrink freedom even as [they reject] the value … of our rich Judeo-Christian heritage.” Continuing on he said: “Your discipleship may see the time come when religious convictions are heavily discounted. … This new irreligious imperialism [will] seek to disallow certain … opinions simply because those opinions grow out of religious convictions.”5"

"My goodness! That forecast of turbulent religious weather issued nearly 40 years ago is steadily being fulfilled virtually every day somewhere in the world in the minimization of (or open hostility toward) religious practice, religious expression, and even in some cases the very idea of religious belief itself. Of course, there is often a counterclaim that while some in the contemporary world may be less committed to religion per se, nevertheless many still consider themselves “spiritual.” But frankly that palliative may not offer much in terms of collective moral influence in society if “spirituality” means only gazing at the stars or meditating on a mountaintop. Indeed, many of our ancestors in generations past lived, breathed, walked, and talked in a world full of “spirituality,” but that clearly included concern for the state of one’s soul, an attempt to live a righteous life, some form of church attendance, and participation in that congregation’s charitable service in the community. Yes, in more modern times individuals can certainly be “spiritual” in isolation but we don’t live in isolation; we live as families, friends, neighbors, and nations. That calls for ties that bind us together and bind us to the good. That is what religion does for our society, leading the way for other respected civic and charitable organizations that do the same."

"This is not to say that individual faith groups in their many different forms and with their various conflicting beliefs are all true and equally valuable; obviously they cannot be. Nor does it say that institutional religions collectively—churches, if you will—have been an infallible solution to society’s challenges; they clearly have not been. But if we speak of religious faith as among the highest and most noble impulses within us, then to say so-and-so is a “religious person” or that such and such a family “lives their religion” is intended as a compliment. Such an observation would, as a rule, imply that these people try to be an influence for good, try to live to a higher level of morality than they might otherwise have done, and have tried to help hold the sociopolitical fabric of their community together."

"Well, thank heaven for that because the sociopolitical fabric of a community wears a little thin from time to time—locally, nationally, or internationally—and a glance at the evening news tells us this is one of those times. My concern is that when it comes to binding up that fabric in our day, the “ligatures” of religion are not being looked to in quite the way they once were. My boyhood friend and distinguished legal scholar Elder Bruce C. Hafen frames it even more seriously than that:
“Democracy’s core values of civilized religion … are now under siege—partly because of violent criminals who claim to have religious motives, partly because the wellsprings of stable social norms once transmitted naturally by religion and marriage-based family life are being polluted[,] … and partly because the advocates of some causes today have marshalled enough political and financial capital to impose, by intimidation rather than by reason, their anti-religion strategy of might makes right.”6
"... I do wish to make the very general observation that part of this shift away from respect for traditional religious beliefs—and even the right to express those religious beliefs—has come because of a conspicuous shift toward greater and greater preoccupation with the existential circumstances of this world and less and less concern for—or even belief in—the circumstances, truths, and requirements of the next."

"...It has been principally the world’s great faiths—religion, those ligatures to the Divine we have been speaking of—that do that, that speak to the collective good of society, offer us a code of conduct and moral compass for living, help us exult in profound human love, and strengthen us against profound human loss. If we lose consideration of these deeper elements of our mortal existence—divine elements, if you will—we lose much (some would say most) of that which has value in life. The legendary German sociologist Max Weber once described such a loss of religious principle in society as being stuck in an “iron cage of disbelief.”8"

"But of course not everyone agrees that religion does or should play such an essential role in civilized society. Recently the gloves have come off in the intellectual street fighting being waged under the banner of “The New Atheists.” Figures like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hichens are some of the stars in what is, for me, a dim firmament. These men are as free to express their beliefs—or in their case, disbeliefs—as any other, but we feel about them what one Oxford don said about a colleague: “On the surface he’s profound, but deep down, he’s pretty superficial.”10 Surely, Rabbi Sacks says, it is mind-boggling to think that a group of bright secular thinkers in the 21st century really believe that if they can show, for example, that the universe is more than 6,000 years old or that a rainbow can be explained other than as a sign of God’s covenant after the flood, that somehow such stunning assertions “will bring all of humanity’s religious beliefs tumbling down like a house of cards and we are then left with a serene world of rational non-believers,”11 serene except perhaps when they whistle nervously past the local graveyard. A much harsher assessment of this movement comes from theologian David Bentley Hart, who writes, “Atheism that consists entirely in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance, made turbulent by storms of strident self-righteousness, is as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism.”12"

"...Charles Taylor, in his book with the descriptive title A Secular Age, describes the cold dimming of socioreligious light this way. The shift of our time, he says, has been “from a society in which it was virtually impossible not to believe in God, to one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is [only] one human possibility among [many] others.” In the 21st century, he writes, “Belief in God is no longer axiomatic.”14 Indeed in some quarters it is not even a convenient option, it is “an embattled option.”15"

"But faith has almost always been an “embattled option,” has almost always been won—and kept—at a price. Indeed, many who have walked away from faith have found the price higher than they intended to pay, like the man who tore down the fence surrounding his new property only to learn that his next-door neighbor kept a pack of particularly vicious Rottweilers...."

"In fact, religion has been the principle influence—not the only one, but the principle one—that has kept Western social, political, and cultural life moral to the extent these have been moral. And I shudder at how immoral life might have been—then and now—without that influence. Granted, religion has no monopoly on moral action, but centuries of religious belief... have clearly been preeminent in shaping our notions of right and wrong...."

"I am stressing such points this morning because I have my eye on that future condition about which Elder Maxwell warned, a time when if we are not careful we may find religion at the margins of society rather than the center of it, where religious beliefs and all the good works those beliefs have generated may be tolerated privately but not admitted (or at least certainly not encouraged) publicly.
The cloud the prophet Elijah saw in the distance, no larger than a man’s hand,18 is that kind of cloud on the political horizon today, so we speak of it by way of warning, remembering the storm into which Elijah’s small cloud developed.19"

"But whatever the trouble along the way, I am absolutely certain how this all turns out. I know the prophecies and the promises given to the faithful, and I know our collective religious heritage—the Western world’s traditional religious beliefs, varied as they are—are remarkably strong and resilient...."

"Brothers and sisters, my testimony this morning, as one observer recently wrote, is that “over the long haul, religious faith has proven itself the most powerful and enduring force in human history.”21 Roman Catholic scholar Robert Royal made the same point, reaffirming that for many “religion remains deep, widespread, and persistent, to the surprise and irritation of those who claimed to have cast aside [religious] illusion”22—those who underestimated the indisputable power of faith."

"The indisputable power of faith. The most powerful and enduring force in human history. The influence for good in the world. The link between the highest in us and our highest hopes for others. That is why religion matters. Voices of religious faith have elevated our vision, deepened our human conversation, and strengthened both our personal and collective aspiration since time began. How do we even begin to speak of what Abraham and Moses, David and Isaiah, Jeremiah, Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni have given us? Or of what Peter, James, and John, the Apostle Paul, Joseph Smith, and Thomas Monson mean to us?"

"It is impossible to calculate the impact that prophets and apostles have had upon us, but, putting them in a special category of their own, we can still consider the world-shaping views and moral force that have come to us from a Martin Luther or a John Calvin or a John Wesley in earlier times, or from a Billy Graham or a Pope Francis or the Dali Lama in the current age. In this audience today we are partly who we are because some 450 years ago men like Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, being burned at the stake in Oxford, called out to one another that they were lighting such a religious fire in England that it would never be put out in all the world. Later William Wilberforce applied just such Christian conviction to abolishing the slave trade in Great Britain. As an ordained minister Martin Luther King Jr. continued the quest for racial and civil justice through religious eloquence in the pulpit and in the street. George Washington prayed at Valley Forge, and Abraham Lincoln’s most cherished volume in his library was his Bible, in which he read regularly, out of which he sought to right a great national wrong, and from which, in victory, he called for “malice toward none [and] charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.”23"

"So the core landscape of history has been sketched by the pen and brush and words of those who invoke a divine creator’s involvement in our lives and who count on the ligatures of religion to bind up our wounds and help us hold things together."

"...I conclude with my heartfelt apostolic witness of truths I do know regarding the ultimate gift true religion provides us. I have been focusing on the social, political, and cultural contributions that religion has provided us for centuries, but I testify that true religion—the gospel of Jesus Christ—gives us infinitely more than that; it gives us “peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come,”25 as the scripture phrases it. True religion brings understanding of and loyalty to our Father in Heaven and His uncompromised love for every one of His spirit children past, present, and future. True religion engenders in us faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and hope in His Resurrection. It encourages love, forbearance, and forgiveness in our interactions with one another as He so magnanimously demonstrated them in His. True religion, the tie that binds us to God and each other, not only seals our family relationships in eternity but also heightens our delight in those family experiences while in mortality. Well beyond all the civic, social, and cultural gifts religion gives us is the mercy of a loving Father and Son who conceived and carried out the atoning mission of that Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, suturing up that which was torn, bonding together that which was broken, healing that which was ill or imperfect, “proclaim[ing] liberty to the captives, and … opening … the prison to them that are bound.”26"

"Because my faith, my family, my beliefs, my covenants—in short, my religion—means everything to me, I thank my Father in Heaven for it and pray for the continued privilege to speak of it so long as I shall live. May we think upon the religious heritage that has been handed down to us, at an incalculable price in many instances, and in so remembering not only cherish that heritage more fervently but live the religious principles we say we want to preserve. Only in the living of our religion will the preservation of it have true meaning. It is in that spirit that we seek the good of our fellow men and women and work toward the earthly kingdom of God rolling forth, that the heavenly kingdom of God may come. May our religious privileges be cherished, preserved, and lived, binding us to God and each other until that blessed millennial day comes, I earnestly pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen." -- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles, August 16, 2016

I put more of Elder Holland's talk on here than I planned on but everything was so good I didn't want to cut much out.  Prophetic words from a wise servant of God.

Elder Holland said it so much more eloquently than I ever could but I do want to add a few things to what he said.

Like Elder Holland, my religion means everything to me.  Everything I do, everything I say, every choice I make centers around religion.  I'm not perfect but I try to live my life centered on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

When someone calls me a religious zealot-- fully intending it to be a derogatory, persecutory comment -- I take it as the utmost compliment.  Webster's defines zealot as "noun  zeal·ot \'ze-l?t\ zealot: a person who has very strong feelings about something (such as religion or politics) and who wants other people to have those feelings : a zealous person."  I hope people see me as a person who has very strong feelings about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and who wants other people to feel the same happiness and blessings that I do.  I'll take that compliment all day.

Life is 100% about religion.  That's why we're here.  If your life doesn't 100% revolve around religion, you might want to do something about that before it's too late.

That's my two cents.
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Monday, September 19, 2016

College Football Picks 2016 Week Three

  1. Dad -11 tiebreaker 52
  2. Tammy -14 tie breaker 51
  3. Rex -14 Tie Breaker 69
  4. Chanelle -17 Tie Breaker 53
  5. Juliet missed 18 tiebreaker: 32
  6. Mercedes -24 Tie Breaker 43
  7. Derrinda -24 tiebreaker 37
  8. Lisa -24 Tie Breaker 36
  9. Elijah -24 tiebreaker 25
  10. Mom -25 tiebreaker 38
  11. Kingston missed 28 tiebreaker 45
  12. Brandon -28 tiebreaker 24
  13. Cody -31 tiebreaker 82
Actual Tie Breaker: 54
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The Parable of the Baby Son

A certain man had some daughters and a baby son.  One day the man was having a health crisis and needed a ride to the emergency room.  He called his baby son to ask him if he would take him to the ER.  Baby son saw that it was his father calling him and ignored the call.  The father left a message for his baby son asking him if he would please take him to the emergency room.  Baby son ignored the message.  Baby son was at his floozy's house and couldn't be bothered.

The father realized that his baby son was not going to help him and called his daughter.  The daughter dropped everything and took her father to the emergency room to seek medical help.  The daughter stayed with him the entire time and brought him home several hours later.

Baby son called his father the next day and feigned concern.

Who showed true love, care, and concern for their father?

Actions speak louder than words.

That's my two cents.
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Sunday, September 18, 2016

The Parable of the Two Sons

"28 ...A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.

30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first...."  -- Matthew 21:28-31

Actions speak louder than words.

That's my two cents.
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Daily message

"Your noble birthright, identity, purpose, and divine commission set you apart from all others. But neither your birthright nor your premortal ordinations and commissions can save or exalt you. You will do that through your individual decisions and as you choose to access the power of the Lord’s Atonement in your lives."
—Russell M. Nelson, "What Will You Choose?", Ensign, January 2015
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Friday, September 16, 2016

Daily message

Just got this in my inbox.  I thought it was apropos today.
"Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. There is no middle ground in that contest."
—Dallin H. Oaks, "Loving Others and Living with Differences"
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Walker Texas Ranger

Every night after Jeopardy!  Dad and I watch a DVD series.  We just finished Touched by an Angel and are now watching Walker Texas Ranger.

I like Walker because he always gets the bad guys. It's a nice reminder -- in this world we live in where evil seems to predominate -- that good will always prevail over evil. Eventually.

I want to blog some of my favorite quotes that I remember from the show.  Granted these are paraphrased as I'm just going from memory.

-- -- --

Bad guy surrounded by a bunch of other bad guys blocking the doorway, speaking to Walker.
Bad Guy: "Where do you think you're going?"
Walker: "To H if I don't change my ways." -- then he beats all of the bad guys up and walks through the door.

-- -- --

Two bad guys dressed as doctors go into a hospital room to kill the man in the hospital bed.   The covers are over the person in the bed.  When the bad guys take the covers off the man in the bed, they see Trivette (Walker's partner and fellow Texas Ranger).  Then they see Walker in the corner of the room.

Bad Guy: "We're doctors."
Jimmy Trivette: "And we're candy stripers." -- then Walker and Trivette chase after the bad guys as they run out of the door in fear.

-- -- --

Walker speaking to the bad guy.
Walker: "Get out of my way."
Bad Guy: "Make me."
Walker: "Okay." --then he does.  :-)

-- -- --

Wanting to immediately apprehend the bad guys after finding out the bad guys are located in a very dangerous place.
Walker: "Let's go, Trivette."
Trivette: "Nobody goes there without a SWAT team."
Walker: "We do."

-- -- --

Bad Guy: "God is going to curse you Walker."
Walker: "I don't think He's mad at me, but you're in a lot of trouble."

-- -- --

Walker -- pointing a gun at a bad guy after cornering him
Bad Guy: "You wouldn't shoot an unarmed man would you?"
Walker: "No I wouldn't."  "But I will beat the living daylights out of you." -- Then he does.  :-)

-- -- --

Walker: "The truly brave stand up for what they believe in."

-- -- --

I'm sure there are many more quotes that I don't remember but those are the ones that stood out to me thus far.  I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did.

Walker Texas Ranger theme song:

"In the eyes of a Ranger,
the unsuspecting stranger
had better know the truth of wrong from right.

'cause the eyes of the Ranger are upon you
any wrong you do he's gonna see
when you're in Texas look behind you
'cause that's where the Ranger's gonna be."

In the fight between good and evil, we know the eventual outcome.  Good will always prevail over evil in the long run.  You are either on one side or the other.  Which side are you on?  I hope you're all on the victorious side.  If you're not, I highly recommend doing what you need to do to get there.

That's my two cents.
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Monday, September 12, 2016

College Football Picks 2016 Results Week Two

  1. Tammy -10 tie breaker 47
  2. Rex -11 TB 61
  3. Lisa -14 TB 39
  4. Dad -14 tie breaker 38
  5. Juliet -14 tie breaker 60
  6. Mercedes -17 TB 49
  7. Derrinda -26 tiebreaker 45
  8. Elijah -27 tiebreaker 78
  9. Kingston -29 tiebreaker 54
  10. Brandon -31 tiebreaker 27
  11. Cody -31 tiebreaker 71
  12. Mom -48 tiebreaker 0
  13. Chanelle -60 TB 0
Actual tiebreaker 39
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Relief Society Lesson -- Preserve and Protect the Family

























I went the extra mile and made two different colors of handouts:



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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Dead Giveaway! Conclusion

Any of you who follow my blog regularly will remember the dead giveaway series I did a couple of months ago.

Well, surprisingly I heard from Nicky's wife and they agreed to a DNA test.

Results are in.  DNA proves that Nicky is Howie's biological father. 47.6% shared DNA.  They really share 50% but for some reason 23 & me does not include the Y chromosome in their shared percentages calculations. All fathers and sons always come back as 47.6%.  Dead giveaway!

Just for fun I want to post the DNA shared percentages of Nicky and Howie with my family members. You would expect Howie to share half of what Nicky shares because he is one generation removed.  Check out these beautiful numbers.  Dead giveaway!

                    Nicky   Howie    Respective relationship to Nicky, Howie

Dad             13.2%   6.58%  First cousin, first cousin once removed
Uncle Ron   9.97%   4.83%  First cousin, first cousin once removed
Juliet           8.67%   4.26%  First cousin once removed, second cousin
Tammy       6.80%   3.73%  First cousin once removed, second cousin
Lisa            5.40%   2.53%  First cousin once removed, second cousin
Michael      4.99%   2.45%  First cousin once removed, second cousin
Clint           5.07%   2.22%  First cousin once removed, second cousin
Chanelle     2.74%   1.41%  First cousin twice removed, second cousin once removed
Mercedes   1.61%    0.86%  First cousin twice removed, second cousin once removed
P. Osborn   3.61%    1.45%  Second cousin, second cousin once removed

The shared DNA indicated above is within the range of expected shared DNA for the respective relationships.

Dead giveaway!
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

College Football Picks 2016 Week One Results

  1. Tammy -8 tiebreaker 53
  2. Dad -13 tie breaker 46
  3. Lisa -14 TB 52
  4. Juliet -14 Tiebreaker 56
  5. Chanelle - 14 TB 58
  6. Rex -15 TB 72
  7. Mercedes -16 TB 52
  8. Cody -16 tiebreaker 67
  9. Brandon -17 tiebreaker 34
  10. Kingston -24 tiebreaker 55
  11. Elijah -24 tiebreaker 63
Actual Tie Breaker 34
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Sunday, September 4, 2016

Quote of the Day

“Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.”  -- C.S. Lewis
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Saturday, September 3, 2016

Daily Message

"The family is the basic unit of the kingdom of God on earth. The Church can be no healthier than its families. No government can long endure without strong families."

-- President Spencer W. Kimball, May 1978
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