Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The lack luster, cowering, weak kneed, non sword carrying, Christians?

Several years ago, I decided to get rid of our television. Like all of the nay sayers say, "If you don't want your children to see the bad stuff, turn the channel". Well what I found was that pretty much every station had "bad" stuff on it. It was kind of hard to determine when it reared its ugly head. So I made the very wise decision to just get rid of it. We now will buy appropriate things to watch from online and not even have to weather the horror of the adult commercials that they will throw at you and asault you with and then say, "Well if you don't like it don't watch". O.K. so after many times of being horrified the TV is gone.

It has been several years since we have watched mainstream TV, and we are in a place where a TV was already there. So we decided to watch animal planet which was fine. But when we turned the TV on, the first image was...horrifying. There was no warning. No chance to "just turn it off" until the horrifying images were out and into my living room and into our unsuspecting eyes and brains.

Now as a orthodox Catholic, I completely trust the Lord to take care of me during these unsuspecting fecal flinging attacks from the devil. But here is the thing. There are many people out there that may be damaged for a long time if not for life by images that are put out there by these evil stations. Yes, they are evil. This was not a mistake on their part to put this programing out there. It was thought about, planned and executed in a very methodical manner for the impact that it has on the audience...no matter who the audience is!

These people know exactly what they are doing. They are worse then the crack dealer on the corner giving out a free hit, "the first one is always free...". There is no regard for children who might accidentally run across the channel. And mind you we saw this horror at 6:30 p.m., not at 1 a.m. in the morning on some obscure pay channel.

The point is this. My wife and I have fought these offenses for years. We have been on the front lines and have actively fought evil in many different ways. So for those out there that think (very naively) that I am speaking from a arm chair...I am not. I suggest you get out there and see how incredibly hard it is to get anyone to listen to anything about morality. Just look at what happened to Ken Cuccinelli in the race against Terry McAuliffe in the state of Virginia. Cuccinelli loses by 50,000 some odd votes. Why? Take a look at what Cuccinelli stands for, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage. He is moral, and has a moral platform. So why did he lose? Because good people do not want to get involved and the liberals know it and they have no problem taking advantage of it. Not to mention the Republican party did not say a word for him...or against him. They just let him lose and they did not say a word.

Kind of like people watching TV these days. Christians have forgotten how to fight, or just "won't" fight.

So what did Christ mean then when he told the disciples to sell whatever they had to and buy a sword? And St. Paul tells us to put on the full armor of God. For what? Who needs armor when your watching TV? Right?

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Are we all talk?

It is interesting the conversations that you can be a part of when you start asking the hard questions to men that are Christians and non-Christians alike. Just start asking the question, "so what are you doing in this battle against sin and the devil taking over the culture?" What I am finding is that it does not seem as though anyone knows what to do. Even the Christians. Oh, they may say they are praying and taking their families to church. That is good. But what are people doing about the fact that our country has made abortion the norm. Homosexuality is a tiny minority and is being allowed to take over our schools, and is pressing hard for laws not for "equality" but they want control enough to force their ideology on all of the world.

Just what will Christian men be willing to do to fight evil? Will they move out of the country? Will they do anything that makes them and their families uncomfortable but gets them away to a better place where they can raise their children and not be forced by law to teach their children evil.

So what is our resposibility as Christians in the battle against evil? There are those that take the position that we cant help what the world does and will just sit by and watch the world go up in flames. They are sitting waiting for the Lord to come.

So when The Lord says for us to take up our cross and follow him what does that mean? Does that mean passively? What responsibility do we have towards the society around us? Especially in a society that its mantra is "freedom" at all cost. No matter what the freedom is?

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Introducing Author of St. Olaf's Blog

People will inquire about why I picked St. Olaf to name my blog. He wasn't a great guy, he was a warrior. He had to constantly battle factions all over his kingdom. He was nothing but a warring king in our perspective.

However, God placed him at that time and at that place to bring unification of Christianity to Norway. This is what every Catholic needs to understand that at every level of education, in every situation God has placed you there to fight for the unification of believers and the salvation of souls. St. Olaf answered God's call.