Masking our identity or not

 When we go out in public, we're asked or, in some cases, compelled to wear a mask to prevent the spread of Covid-19.  So, now public places are full of masked up folks.    

Some folks choose to wear the usual surgical throwaway masks. Some have specialty designer masks to promote their brand or show off their fashion statement. Some folks have respirator masks like the N-95 or the like.  

I wonder what each mask says about our feelings about the virus or the politics and health concerns. Do they make a more in-depth statement about our reaction to the government and private-sector mandates? 

The no-maskers and rebels are sending their message out loud and clear. 

What are your thoughts about masks?

Living in perilous times

We are now entering strange and perilous times in our life here on earth. With all the fake news and lies we are looking for truth and objectivity. I believe my Christain faith holds the only final answers, 

I recently read two books on how we got to the place we are in the U.S.A. in 2020.

Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands by Roger Scruton.  A very academic read and I suggest getting it only Kindle or simular format because it uses a lot of words and phrases you will have to look up.

Live not by Lies by Rod Dreher. A singular book but from a different perspective. This book connects the action of the past to the present.

We really need to understand the times in order to keep our sanity.

Out of order comes chaos

The very foundation of society has cracked and weakened to the point where the cultures and countries built on it can do nothing but collapse. 

There is nothing but chaos on the horizon. That progression down man's heart of darkness leads to anarchy and madness. The Holy Spirit has been lifting his restraint on evil. Read the following and pray and meditate on it:

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 (NIV)

7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

The Democrats, media, and education have spoken. The pandemic and climate change cannot be left to sovereign nations to solve. Governments acting independent of one-world -governance can not control these things. Their anti-fascists paranoia will sweep in the anti-christ to a welcoming world. 

Read the book of Revelation and find out the outcome for yourselves.

Going foreword

Well, where do we go from here? Our country is divided almost down the middle. There significant issues of the two parties are polar opposites in critical areas. There is no meeting in the middle.

I don't know how we can unite and heal the country. What would that look like? We are listening to each other and not getting any closer. The winning side wants to delegitimize half of the electorate. The losing side intends to criminalize the other side.

Does this end in a revolution or civil war? Only God knows. But in the meantime, we will be at each other's throats.

The Divided States of America

 On June 15, 2020, I wrote a post titled " A house divided" on this blog. I wrote about how our country was irrevocably divided. I am not a prophet, but Wednesday, November 4, 2020, you are going to see the great divide, no matter who wins. 

The is no culture in America that unites us anymore. We are fractured beyond all repair. The only reasonable way to sort this out is to form different countries. I don't think either side can live peaceably with each other anymore. 

We could have several ways to break up the U.S. and still not destroy ourselves. We can come to a more peaceful solution than what looks like on the horizon.  Walmart has already taken ammo off its shelves.

Let's not kid ourselves anymore.  Bipartisanship hasn't existed in decades. Neither side can bring us together, and there is not enough support for a middle coalition. Polarisation is way too deep for that. 

The next couple of months will prove if my thesis is true.