If a letter that was published in the Voices Section of the Sunday, July 31, 2005, Arkansas Gazette, isn’t proof that FDR’s New Deal is responsible for converting millions of minds to socialism, then nothing will ever convince anyone of what has occurred over the years. The writer from Jonesboro, Arkansas, laments that he doesn’t have a clue about a whole host of conditions in this nation and every one of them centers on socialistic thinking.

First, he says that we as a nation have millions who can’t afford health care insurance and that the present administration doesn’t seem to care.  How many times do these people have to be told that it isn’t the business of the government to provide health insurance or any other kind for that matter? It is the responsibility of each individual to look after their  own health needs. Health insurance was affordable until Lyndon Johnson hijacked the health insurance industry with Medicare in 1965. Ever since then health care and the insurance costs have sky rocketed because more and more people think the government (i.e. taxpayers ... rich taxpayers to be more exact) should provide for their health needs.

He then says that in a nation where each one is created equal we pass laws limiting freedom because of a person’s sexuality and all of us face more eroding freedoms every day.  Anyone who makes the first statement hasn’t a clue about homosexuality which God declares is sin. This nation was founded on Godly principles by a moral people who looked to God for their guidance. Apparently the writer hasn’t heard of Sodom and Gomorrah and if he has, he may not believe it happened. As for eroding freedoms, he needs to look at the erosion over the years that have come from the laws created by liberal Democrats, who are following the mold of their patron saint, Franklin Roosevelt, the great champion of big government and taxes on the rich.

Then he goes on to question why the idea of separation of church and state doesn’t rule the nation when it was founded on religious freedom. He calls the way things are now religious fundamentalism. To say the man is confused is an understatement. The nation was founded on the precepts of God and that was called religion by the founders. If the writer would study a bit of history he would find that the nation was created with religious freedom in mind and that God was the basis for all that they did. We are seeing what happens when God is removed from guiding individual lives. The godless end up in public office and push their ungodly ideas onto the rest of us. Some of the godless are judges who make rulings that deny God’s place in our society. They in effect have become the gods who make the rules for us to follow. Separation of church and state indeed, the letter writer can’t see the problem due to his own muddled thinking.

The writer concludes the letter with, “this liberal doesn’t have a clue” and says he wonders how this nation founded on freedom will ever survive.  He is correct about not having a clue. His letter proves he knows little about the form of government that we were given and that some behaviors are properly restrained because they are sin, though people don’t like to use that word; after all it might offend someone.

If those of the writer’s mind set prevail this nation won’t survive. We are wobbling badly and the God denying socialist direction is the reason for the problems we are having. When people accept the fact that government isn’t responsible for their lively hood, and that sin in the life of everyone is real, then he may see the light and thus will see that he might be part of the problem. As for now he is clueless about a lot of things, including his own contorted  thinking.

© 07-31-2005 DEC