Vote For Change?

Whom should we vote for? Which political party should we support? What about change?

Yes, we need change. But, what are we going to change? How are we going to change it? And what will we change it too? Change for sake of changing will not solve challenges we face individually and as a nation. Neither will wrong change. Karl Marx offered change. Mao and Stalin offered change. Hitler offered change. Many supported their call to change. Change came and multimillions died horribly—leaving a world still suffering from those changes.

As World War Two ended we too were undergoing negative change—slowly at first. Then, the late 1950s through the1960s, political and social attitudes underwent rapid radical change.

Playboy porno-pushers offered change. Mechanical sex and promiscuous affairs replaced love and intimacy. Change brought sexual emancipation—adultery and sexual promiscuity without guilt. More than 20 sexually transmitted diseases gained epidemic status. Marriages decayed then disintegrated. America’s men failed as husbands and America’s men failed as fathers. Change.

LSD Guru Timothy Learn offered change as did numerous other proponents of recreational drug use. LSD became the 1960's gospel. Street ministers without God preached chemical salvation. University professors without answers taught chemical unconsciousness. With drug blown minds and inflated egos, hallucinogen sorcerers cast their spell: "Tune in, turn on, drop out." Rebellion against authority ensnared America's youth. Youth without moral direction heeded the secularists’ call: "Do your own thing." They did.

During the 1970s, those believing "a little pot never hurt anyone," included aging hippies living in old Volkswagen buses and stockbrokers toking an afternoon delight in a Wall Street rest room. In the later 1980s, many graduated to cocaine abuse. Then crack cocaine and meth became another self-inflicted American epidemic. Change.

Men failed as husbands and fathers. A growing number of youth without direction dropped out. The next victim, wife and mother, the family mainstay.

Female liberationists offered change. Liberationists demanded equal opportunities and an end to the double standard—legitimate complaints. They also focused on belittling the role of wife, mother, and homemaker—the family mainstay. As go our Nation’s mothers so goes the family, and so goes our Nation. Change.

America established its greatness on the truth that human life has intrinsic value. Life is God given. Human worth today, however, is often based on secular materialistic values. Our U.S. Supreme Court legitimized abortion. The U.S. Senate legitimized late term abortion—the taking of a human life as he or she is being born. In 1990, Detroit Pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian proudly announced the use of his homemade suicide machine. And the "death with dignity" advocates not only wanted legalized physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, but "death-on-demand" for everyone. Change.

Lusting after materialism, our personal and public debt has reached pandemic dimensions. Our entertainment media once produced patriotic and family entertainment. Today’s media negatively manipulate tastes and values. TV, music, and movies push profanity, brutal violence, and promiscuous sexual behavior. Change.

Oh yes, the small in number but vocal "God is dead" publicity seeking revisionist church pastors. These tiresome apostates preach a secularist social gospel—a moral carte blanche. Change.

Six decades of wrong change. Change that mislead the bewildered. Change that ensnared the dissatisfied.

Yes, change is needed in many areas. But we need right change, a positive change. When a political party, a candidate, or a neighbor tells you they support change, ask them: What are you going to change? How are you going to change it? And what will you change it too?

"Without Christianity, our society is doomed" ____ Rev Dr. Peter Mullen, Rector of St. Michael's, England

Yes we have our problems. The "Blame America Firsters" and the "Sky is falling" prophets of doom are wrong. Ours is still a great country. To keep it great and make it greater, however, will take a renewal of America's spiritual strength. Without Christianity our society too is doomed. The good news, it is not too late, if, as a Nation we turn from secularism. Its moral void. Its call to self indulgence. It’s false promise of leisure without labor.

We need to reestablish Judeo-Christian moral values and the ideas of saving, hard work, self-discipline. It will not be easy. It will take prayer and the right political change. As individuals and as a nation we must pursue the promise of God’s best that can be ours.

_____________ Michael E. Odell

To help initiate right political change, go to Blog Archive May 11, 2008, "But What Can I Do? "

For Other Posts by Michael E.Odell —click on "Blog Archive" at upper right
05-19-08 Poverty & Envy or Hope & Prosperity
05-11-08 But What Can I Do? Christians Should Not Be In Politics
04-11-08 Sex, Debt, Drugs - America's Epidemic & New York’s Governor
03-28-08 Rare Coin Investments 101 & Choosing A Dealer
03-20-08 Gold Mining Stock Investing 101 - Booms & Busts
03-15-08 Gold Coin Investing 101
03-15-08 Investment 101 - only safe way to double your money
03-03-08 Real Men or Girly Men
02-29-08 A Cup of Hemlock for Washington State
02-13-08 Death & Suicide Initiative 119 Are Back
02-12-08 Thorns or Roses - The Choice Is Ours
02-12-08 Recession & Inflation - Government the Problem
12-08-07 A Hamburger Today & Pay Tomorrow