When you become more adult you think that a child is part of your responsibility! Hillary

Well, is this not a concept of the Christian faith that they take care of their own.   Nuture, care and teach all children, especially those that need more than maybe a single parent can give!  Something to think about and it may not be a socialist government idea after all. 

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Huckabee can a man with no money be president!

It is interesting, interesting because it has been said a thousand times that you have to be rich to be President.  It ought to attract a lot of people to at least consider it.

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So What is There to Say about Viet Nam

SO WHAT IS THERE TO SAY ABOUT VIET NAM 

You know the only people that talk about Viet Nam are those that were alive during that era.  I hear people talk about the Viet Nam War.

 

1.   I hear reporters talk about the roll of regular army and the roll of reserves and the national guard during that period.

2.   I hear reporters discuss the issues of the era.  Most don’t know what they were. 

3.  I see the attitudes of the day being created by he misinformation that is projected by those same media people.

 

Now, a story about the Viet Nam War.  Most of us were college students or college bound.  At the time of the late 60’s and the early 70’s the draft was dictating to the youth of America what to do and where to go.  It was a true test of American values.  There was such a sub culture movement with the hippies, the anti war group, the Black Panthers, the anti capitalist groups, the anti establishment groups. 

 

Each of these groups had a “new set of ideas and ways for the American society”.  I remember that you went to college to avoid getting drafted.  I know that many of our High School Buddies went to Viet Nam immediately.  They went to Viet Nam because the United States believed it was fighting the evils of communism and its expansion.  In fact those efforts indirectly helped the fall of communism  in Russia because of the expense that the Russian government poured into the war effort on a world front.  Now, history will show that those who served in Viet Nam were directly linked to the fall of communism. 

 

Will the media of the world ever concede this fact.  No, it is doubtful, why?  I will give you one example.  When the Viet Nam War was going on I was in the middle of college, on a wrestling scholarship and wanting to win a national title.  All my energies were consumed yet the thought of the draft and the war brought me to join the United States Army Reserves. 

 I found out that in the reserves you could be a high school teacher and wrestling coach and skip the Unit Meetings for the winter months (during wrestling season).  Oh, my did I just describe President George Bush? 

 Do you see what I am talking about,  it is hard to separate fact from fiction because most people alive today don’t know what it is that was happening.  Make no mistake.  We spent many a night discussing the effects of all the opposing sides and philosophy of thoughts.  And………………..today we are suffering the results of a society that has changed dramatically. 

 

I would like to leave you with a paraphrase that a friend of mine wrote to me just recently!

Dorman wrote, I don’t know how I survived Viet Nam.  There I was standing as a marine in the jungle of Viet Nam and the three guys in front me were shot.  Then the two guys on the side of me were blown up,  then the two guys that were behind me were blown up.

I can’t believe that there are so many people that want to make Americas policies that have never seen the blood or shed it!

 

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Can We Talk About God in the Classroom

GOD IN THE CLASSROOM-PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

I was asked to write my ideas about God in the classroom.  The idea of creation is approached usually in the science classes across America.  I would caution that I have heard preachers telling congregations that there is no prayer in the schools of America.  I for one am a teacher in the Oklahoma school systems and there is prayer in schools.  There is Fellowship of Christian Athletes meetings and before school there is praise and worship in classrooms.  So, I am sure I am approaching the topic from a different direction.  And I am saying first of all quit with the false alarms by people that don’t know what they are talking abou.  This is what turns people off.  Honesty is exactly what people want and that is so apparent with the political process today.

 

So, what about God in the classroom.  There must by a reason that God is not listed as a creation possibility.  I think that the only way to approach this problem is to list the reasons that God is not listed as a reason for creation. 

 

1. Teachers not truly convinced that God is the source of creation.
2. Teachers fear disciplinary action for presenting God as a source of creation.
3. Teachers are ashamed of their position on God.
4. Teachers are not truly believers.
5. Teachers are saying that they believe, when in fact they are doubters themselves about creation.
6. Teachers are weary about society and what its effect is on education.
7. Students are not receptive to the notion that God is the creator.

 

I would submit to you that the response that Governor Mike Huckabee had to the creation issue is the best answer  I have heard.  

 

He said:  Yes I believe in creation.  I believe in the account in Genesis about creation.  God created the heavens and the earth.  You either believe it or you don’t. 

 

If you are a believer of the creation theory and you are also a teacher it is imparitive  that you present the idea in a way that is consistent with the scientific process or in a totally revolutionary way as an opposing idea that students can consider the differences of opinion.

 

I hope you can share your ideas about this idea, concept, philosophy, etc.

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