An Inconvenient Truth

Earlier this year, I had the blessed opportunity to defend my faith (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) as well as my own personal convictions pertaining to marriage with a slippery member of the Church. I rejoiced in the opportunity to do so as standing for truth and righteousness is the only real evidence of religious conviction and testimony. Like the prophet Jeremiah in the Old Testament,  I "felt His word like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I could not stay." I spoke in favor of Proposition 8 and of the divine sanctity of marriage. Some time has passed since that event but the same passion remains. Truth is truth after all and once spoken by the Lord does not ever change.

With this understanding do I now expose the falsehood because I cannot tolerate wickedness. The world now has it where "moral excellence" is considered bigoted, racist, sexist, and homophobic. The prophet Isaiah foresaw our day and man's corruptible nature when he exclaimed:

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" - Isaiah 5:20

Oh the nothingness of man! How far we have descended toward the beast in our culture! Tragic. Like the Prophet Joseph Smith, one cannot sit still during times of moral crisis but choose instead to speak boldly in its defense, oftentimes offensively. One such occurrence happened during the early years of Church, a short time after its restoration, while Sidney Rigdon and the Prophet Joseph Smith were at a church in Philadelphia. The account is as follows:

 “A very large church was opened for [Joseph Smith] to preach in, and about three thousand people assembled to hear him. Brother Rigdon spoke first, and dwelt on the Gospel, illustrating his doctrine by the Bible. When he was through, Brother Joseph arose like a lion about to roar; and being full of the Holy Ghost, spoke in great power, bearing testimony of the visions he had seen, the ministering of angels which he had enjoyed; and how he had found the plates of the Book of Mormon, and translated them by the gift and power of God. He commenced by saying: "If nobody else had the courage to testify of so glorious a message from Heaven, and of the finding of so glorious a record, he felt to do it in justice to the people, and leave the event with God.’ ”

Elder Pratt continued: “The entire congregation were astounded; electrified, as it were, and overwhelmed with the sense of the truth and power by which he spoke, and the wonders which he related. A lasting impression was made; many souls were gathered into the fold.” 

 What an experience! I would have loved to be present during such an event. But as you can see, standing firm for one's beliefs gives power to those who are not ashamed of theirs. Certainly, a bold testimony provides lasting impressions and indeed "electrifies" those who hear it with open hearts. It is my belief that those who attempt to dismiss the truth once it has been spoken plainly to them immediately lose their sandy platforms on which they have stood to deny God and His commandments as the rushing waves of Truth and Righteousness clear away all deception and fraud from their crusted eyes until standing becomes no longer possible. Now upon their knees, the humbled are now in a better position to "give in" to reason and truth.

On this point do I now relay the aforementioned experience I had with a group of people about my support for Proposition 8 and the sanctity of marriage. It read:

"Gay marriage is contrary to the plan of God. The first line of the Family Proclamation to the World (http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,161-1-11-1,FF.html) states that "marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God." To deny this fundamental truth is to also deny the most important fabric of society - the family. And once the family is gone, the moral strength of our nation crumbles. It is not surprising then why Karl Marx in his Communist Manifesto sought the destruction of the family as part of the triangle of control needed to enslave the masses. Sadly, we have become a nation who feels it is "over God" rather than "under Him." And the moment we forget Him, we begin our slippery, yet gradual descent into wickedness, which, never was happiness. The adversary is extremely cunning and will stop at nothing to destroy the family. With every broken home he gains more power. And as Alexander Pope once wisely stated, with every vice we begin to endure, we then pity, and finally embrace. It is in this slow and gradual fall into spiritual darkness that we find ourselves questioning what we once knew as true, and then the very doctrines of Christ themselves. As Doctrine of Covenants 121:16-17 states: "...but those who cry transgression do it because they are the servants of sin, and children of disobedience themselves." These are the last days and require us to choose whom we will serve. Will it be to serve God with all our heart, might, mind, and strength, or will we, as Elder Marion G. Romney stated, seek to "serve the Lord without offending the devil." One cannot serve two masters and do so with equal conviction. Or, as the prophet Elijah exclaimed to the wicked priests of Baal: "How long halt ye between two opinions?" (1 Kings 18:21) Many have said that adopting such "religious views" makes one narrow-minded and "unenlightened." Such fools could never be more complementary!  Surely, to be "narrow-minded" is God-minded as the pathway to God is just that - straight and narrow! If gay marriage is to be passed, then so be it. Speak out in support of it with all the passion and zeal to be mustered if you so desire. But I for one, as a member of the narrow-minded religious right, stand firmly against it."

The world is worsening. Men lust and fail miserably in their attempts to find happiness in sin. The only happiness to be attained in this life is the joy experienced through Christ and His infinite Atonement. We have become a nation of sensitive Sally's who are past feeling and against all that is holy. And the only way we can be turned heavenward is if we are visited with "death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence (Hel 12:3). These are indeed the times that try men's souls and if WE do not stand for what is right, and preach and testify our convictions with those around us, then Satan gains momentum. And I for one, will not allow that to happen. Make Satan work uphill by fortifying yourself against all temptations in the same way Captain Moroni fortified the Nephite strongholds, with large mounds of dirt and high walls. If evil never rests, then let us overcome temptation ever the more through testimony and spiritual conviction. Perhaps Goethe said it best when he said, "Truth must be repeated again and again because error is constantly being preached round about us." To be sure, the failure of faith invariably precedes the failure of the will. I cannot stand for wickedness nor for the do-nothings who worry more about placating and compromising their first beliefs and values for the sake of the godless few. I pity them but only for a moment. My mission is clear: To defend God and the liberty of my country; two revolutionary concepts considered as offensive and terrible in their outcry in today's world than Aristotle's unpopular argument that the world was round and not flat.

Trust in God and in His uplifted arm of Virtue. If there are to be any heroic last stands on a religious scale today, I choose to fight to the end.

Long live the fighters

A Republic Gone Bad

We are a Republic gone bad. Government has acquired too much power and therefore exercises unrighteous dominion over its citizenry, which in truth is its own employer. In the Book of Mormon, Nephi quotes the prophet Isaiah and entertains a very clear point about power and control with respect to man prospering against God:


"Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no wood?  - 2 Nephi 20:15


I have always loved this scripture for it speaks so correctly of man's nothingness before God and his foolish endeavor to usurp Him. Similarly, this same illogic can be applied to the way our government enacts and legislates policies on its own without our direct and total involvement. Free healthcare anyone? It could never be more expensive than if it is disguised as "free" but the wise and powerful Oz cares not for our opinions let alone the sound of discontent. This example illustrates a democracy. Conversely, in a true Republic the voice of the people is paramount and acts as death-knell to any policy, notion, or credo proposed by the elected few. In a Republic everyone has equal voice and responsibility to stand up for their rights and freedoms, much like the Great Council in Heaven before we all came here when "the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7) at the opportunity to come to Earth to be proved. More democratic forms of government, like our current one, are elected by the people but then those appointed grow above their constituents thereby passing laws and spending money with impunity. To put it simply, democratic governments and those therein view the people as too dumb and unsophisticated to decide for themselves. They falsely assume a caretaker role that takes rather than gives and assumes power that was never really theirs to begin with which leads me to my main point:

Today I read of Obama sending 25 million dollars to Libyan rebels for their efforts. As a citizen of a Republic, I did not receive word of this until it had already happened. This is unacceptable to me as well as countless other examples of insane amounts of money being sent outside our borders, which in reality speak have altogether crumbled and disappeared thanks to woeful government inaction. Thankfully though, the Book of Mormon sheds further light and truth on the purpose of a Republic. During the Nephite - Lamanite wars, Captain Moroni is constantly seeking the voice of the people in matters of the law and criminal punishment. For example, in Alma 51: 13-20 he becomes so wroth with those of high nobility (king-men) who wanted to overthrow the free government that he "sent a petition, with the voice of the people, to the governor of the land to be given power to compel those dissenters  to defend their country or be put to death." (v.15) It was quickly decided that his desire be "granted according to the voice of the people." (v.16) Even in his anger he had the wherewithal and clear-headedness to consult the voice of the people rather than react and do as he pleased. Such wisdom! Earlier on, after King Benjamin delivered his powerful oration on Christ, service, and man's own nothingness, he:

"...sent among them, desiring to know of his people if they believed the words which he had spoken unto them." (Mosiah 5:1)

After their resounding yes! he then:

"took the names of all those who had entered into a covenant with God to keep his commandments" (Mosiah 6:1) as a testament of their will.

Surely, the Nephite nation was a Republic, by the people, for the people, and of the people. To be clear, I am not against humanitarian aid or succoring those in need of succor, within reason. Indeed, with great prosperity comes great responsibility for "are we not all beggars?" But I do not feel that government has the right to waste our money nor the power to collect and disburse it at pleasure, especially at this given time when we are close approaching $15 trillion dollars in national debt. We the People have the responsibility to ensure this does not happen and to hold those accountable who do so with impunity in the same way one honest man did many years ago.

In The Life of Colonel David Crockett by Edward Sylvester Ellis, we read of Congressman Crockett, also the famous frontiersman and defendor at the Alamo, and the lesson he learned from a constituent on how Congress should utilize taxpayer dollars. The excerpt details a great fire in Georgetown one night observed by Crockett and others and the compassion he felt for the suffering victims. The next morning, a bill was quickly passed appropriating $20,000 for the town's relief. Come election time, about one year after the event, Congressman Crockett was approached by a man who had been plowing in his field. This humble citizen then began to articulate and defend the Constitution and the limited role of Congress, expressing the violation that occurs when money is appropriated without the consent of the payer. In the end, Congressman Crockett "felt streaked" by the man's words and then told him that he was right; that he did not understand the Constitution as well as he should and that "if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot."

The point I am attempting to drive home is that the President has zero authority to appropriate our money for charitable purposes or for any reason for that matter without our consent, stimulus and all. Such action opens a very wide door allowing for fraud, corruption, and favoritism. Sound like today? It does. We hold the real keys to the office and can lock the doors and turn off the lights at any time. Most importantly, we can fire those who do not perform to our satisfaction and within the guidelines of the Constitution. We must fight the good fight beginning with town hall meetings and calling your congressman to ensure that he votes for limited government and responsible spending. Remember that a Congressman must return to his constituents ever two years for re-approval. Otherwise, the time will come when we will all be compelled to stand with one accord to ask our elected officials to do as Congressman Davy Crockett once promised: "...if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot."

Long live the fighters

The Naturalized Traitor

So our impious President has finally admitted his citizenship as hereby legitimate and valid, with form and all! Well that makes everything all better now doesn't it? No! Same animal different fur. It is strange, though, that his very actions and policies continue to define him as more of a foreigner and stranger to America's laws and Constitution than those of a true and proud American. Indeed, Barack Hussein Obama has never really walked upon the same American soil as we do. He seeks glory and honor for himself and his party rather than uphold the divine principles set forth under the Constitution and the voice of the people. He is no more a true patriot of this country than I am to his Soviet Russia. My allegiance lies here. America is great, exceptionally great. There is but one flag. The flag. Heaven's banner. America is the most powerful nation in the world because of its values and morals. Evil is evil in American's eyes and good is good. There is no room for gray or divided allegiance. In the face of evil we stand firm insofar as we stay close to the true leader of this promised land, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. I cannot fathom a man who thinks as our President does but still he persists in deception, using taqiyyah before an ignorant and uninformed public eye. Though, I can appreciate the man who chooses to think about what he does and then act appropriately rather than nod his agency away in blind obedience without delay.

The best indicator of what something or someone will be is to analyze how it or they have already been. Obama will not change in 2012. He holds as much substance and promise in his speeches as cotton candy. Perhaps his lapel will change but most certainly not his nature. Any non-thinker who votes for this anti-American is no better than the very people who hailed Adolf Hitler as their supreme leader, thoughtless and unscrutinizing they were in their minds. Or as Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen declared in his emotional non-fiction masterpiece about the comprehension of evil during the Third Reich, Diary of a Man in Despair: "These people are insane." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe elaborated this concept even further when he said, "There is nothing more odious than the majority. It consists of a few powerful men who lead the way; of accommodating rascals and submissive weaklings; and of a mass of men who trot after them without in the least knowing their own minds."

A leader's mistakes are only amplified by those who follow him without question. Obama's lack of qualifications and political naivete only suspend him higher from the ground in whose corded movements the Grand Puppeteer manipulates himself, the father of lies. We should all take seriously the counsel offered by Theodore Roosevelt when he declared: "...every man who parrots the cry of 'stand by the President' without adding the proviso 'so far as he serves the Republic' takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the king could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent freeman could take such an attitude."

"What luck for rulers that men do not think?" - Adolf Hitler

This is the collective anthem for tyrants and dictatorships - the control over men's minds. If they can shape your thinking, then you can be manipulated. Realize that they are the fish swimming dependently in a vast ocean of which we the people make up. They fail to thrive without our presence and soon choke and die beneath the exposure of the burning light of revealed truth. This is how gangs, terrorists, and dictatorships operate - on the recruitment and usurpations of weak minds. Corrupt leaders are only as powerful as we permit them to be. Let us not shirk in our responsibilities as citizens and freemen and to hold accountable their devious actions. Surely, it would be much harder for a burglar to rob a home if the spotlight is on him.

Think. Scrutinize. Analyze. Ponder. Pray. Stand up and be counted with head high. We must not compromise. Examine the luster of your spiritual blade and then ask yourself if you are prepared to fight for what's right. Is the image of God engraven on its steel countenance? Does your own reflection show the Savior right beside you? Government is not the answer. Personal responsibility is the answer. You have the power to change and the will to succeed insofar as you do not suffer fools. The answer to 1984 is 1776.

Long live the fighters

An Unsurprising Tragedy

The world grows darker and sicker. I just read two articles on Foxnews.com today, both on different topics but still members of the same wicked head. First, the EPA has now blocked Shell Oil Company from drilling in the most remote area of the Arctic due to "air pollution concerns." This comes at a time when gas prices will soon break $5 a gallon and the human debris occupying the White House and Capitol Buildings continue to dither and wane, talk and not act, placate rather than fight (God bless Trump right now). This oil reserve is estimated to hold about 27 billion gallons of oil that would supply the US with two and a half times more oil than the Trans-Alaskan pipeline has for over thirty years! 

The second story was detailed in New York where public libraries are now allowing pornographic material to be viewed on their computers under the premise that it is a First Amendment right. Protection for wickedness? Protection for irresponsibility? Protection for godlessness? That is like an atheist referring to scripture to claim no God. In the same way, the Constitution can give no protection to such reprehensible behaviors nor even resource those who willfully seek wicked practices! One cannot cry God during his embrace with the devil. The founding fathers knew this and stated that the Constitution could only work for a moral and virtuous people. This whole story disgusts me as libraries are places for learning, inspiration, and growth rather than as bastions for immoral anti-Christs to erode their spirits and interpersonal relationships with every click of the mouse. Surrounded by pure knowledge they instead choose to limit their vision to a small computer screen. 

It is unsurprising to me now the dark path this country is on. And there at the helm, displayed in his false aura of reason and moral superiority stands Comrade Obama and his back-room cronies, in defiance to God, liberty, and everything between. All behavior is purposeful I say. Wickedness is not just some thing "done in a corner." There is motive and gain to these types of things and someone, somewhere profits thereby. Perhaps Martyn Timoleon said it best in his famous play, A Tragedy:

"The impious man, who sells his country's freedom, Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own.

His are her slaughters, her oppressions his."

Long live the fighters.

Welcome to Virtue's Arm!

The goal of this blog is to enliven the soul. Today, the average person is dead inside. They lack passion, strength, and stamina. By this I mean an unwillingness to stand up for the truth in the face of evil, no matter the consequence. Too quickly and easily do many forsake their first principles and values for fear of reprisal. For this very reason do we now find ourselves and our country in such a terrible state of affairs. As well do many not uphold such moral excellence; succumbing to the evil one rather than follow the still small voice of the real messenger of Truth, the Holy Ghost, of whom Jesus Christ can only be known. For me, this voice no longer speaks in soft tones, but resonates within me as loud thunderings through a deep valley. I cannot stay any longer. "Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings." I am tired of the willful ignorance of man and his fear of the arm of flesh. It is my God whom I fear.

"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matt 10:28)

I am weary with sorrow for the sins of the world and the depravity of my country. There is a reason why we live in such dark times. We are the strong and noble ones. We are the warriors of God. As such, we do not cower or falter in times of adversity nor retreat when confronted with evil. For it is written in Proverbs 24:10: "If thou faint in the days of adversity, thy strength is small." Or, as the ancient samurai used to say: "If you refuse to retreat in the face of something, you gain the strength of two men."

Now is the time for our offense and for our swords to be pulled from their scabbards, with steel straight and true, bright and sharpened, purified as the revealed truth. Surely, one sword out keeps another one sheathed. It is time to choose sides and declare whom you will serve. The Lord has provided us with the tools necessary to win the war on evil. We have the scriptures, prophets, revelation, and above all else, testimony to serve as witness to our efforts. Wickedness never was happiness and can never stand on its own in the face of truth. And why? "Because sin is weakness," as James E. Talmage declared in his inspired tome Jesus the Christ: "Because there is nothing in the world so abject as a guilty conscience, nothing so invincible as the sweeping tide of Godlike indignation against all that is base and wrong." Christ knew this and performed His work with exactness and with honor. He was unwavering, unfaltering, and secure in his knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. He did not run or shrink in despair. He was not quiet or ashamed. Nor did he fear the reprise of man - at all. He knew that in the end the truth would overcome and set us free. Evil cannot prosper while Good stirs. To be sure, "Vice cannot stand for one moment before Virtue's uplifted arm!"

Welcome to the war. You are not alone. God is with us. We will prevail. "Fear not; for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." 2 Kings 6: 16-17. 

Long live the fighters