We hoard it up and store it up from sea to shining sea

Okay, now I am really outraged. I happened upon a book review on boundless.org - a website "for Christian young adults" sponspored by Focus on the Family. This entire article is chockfull of racist, bigoted, and America-worshipping views. Read the last of it for yourself:

But does it have to be this way? Will immigrants inevitably overrun us, just as the barbarians gradually overwhelmed ancient Rome? Outside our borders, hundreds of millions of potential immigrants look in enviously at our riches and freedoms, often with little understanding of — much less respect for — the values of western civilization which gave rise to our prosperity. Unless we learn again to reproduce our own civilization — to have children and to teach them how to be moral citizens of a great republic — these immigrants will happily take our places at the banquet table, having a hearty laugh at our expense. After all, they didn’t even need to tell us to commit cultural suicide: we are doing it to ourselves.
Buchanan’s warning really hits home, if you, like me and most of my Stanford classmates, are in your late 20s and haven’t even come close to tying the knot or having children. When I briefly considered the marriage question for the first time with my girlfriend last year, many of friends thought I was crazy for even thinking about marriage — at age 27! (What would it do to your career plans? I was asked by nearly everyone — as if that were the most important consideration in life).
If everyone in my generation waits as long as I have to get married, and even longer to have children, then the outlook isn’t good. Buchanan has some intriguing ideas to "get us going," so to speak — everything from enacting pro-child tax policies to advocating a return to the "family wage," under which fathers are paid more than single female workers, so as to allow more mothers to stay in the home and care for children.
But Buchanan knows perfectly well that America’s cultural suicide will not be reversed by dollars-and-cents incentives. If we’re going to fight for the future of this country, we have to capture the hearts and minds of the young, taking back the schools and universities from the multiculturalists and the blame-America crowd. Spread the word around campus about the dangers posed to America’s fragile civilization by declining fertility and uncontrolled immigration. And above all, have children!
In the end, though, I’m just not sure that any of this will be enough to stem the tide of the West’s unwinding self-destruction. Even if the de-Christianization of the schools is reversed, even if a long-overdue moratorium on immigration is called (and don’t hold your breath for that), the demographic catastrophe overtaking us may still run its course.
But that’s no reason not to go down swinging. Despite all her many flaws and the depth of her current cultural malaise, America is, in Buchanan’s words, "still a country worth fighting for and the last best hope on earth." Let’s all of us do our part to make sure this great country doesn’t vanish into the dustbin of history.

What I hear here is that the richness and selfishness is something we Americans have to keep in only for ourselves. Reproduce so that others can't take it away. If I recall correctly Jesus had great contempt for the rich. (Luke 6:24) The author here is saying, Don't let the immigrants -those nasty barbarians- in! They must not be able to share in our banquet table! I would also argue that Jesus is our last best hope on earth - not an earthly nation full of selfish hoarders. The demographic "catastrophe" is happening as he mentions earlier in the article - soon white people will be the minority. Oh no! Then the multiculturalists will truly have hold of this "great nation." He also is appauled that these "new" immigrants are resisting assimilation earlier in the article, as if it is something to be desired, as if it is a biblical command. ( Fewer immigrants are fully assimilating today than in earlier immigrant waves in large part because the multiculturalist orthodoxy all but forbids them from doing so.) Again, Paul reminded us in Romans to not conform to this world - in other words, do not assimilate to the mainstream culture. (Romans 12:2)

And my last question is, if Focus on the Family is so pro-family, whose family are they for? Surely not the immigrant family. Them we must keep on the other side of the fence, thirsting for our prosperity which we so happily hold at arm's length.

Read the whole article here:
http://www.boundless.org/2001/departments/pages/a0000550.html

I pledge allegiance....

I recently received an email warning me about the fact that Barack Obama does not pledge allegiance to the flag. It does not concern me that he does not pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. I don't either. Pledging allegiance to a nation implies that you abide by their laws first, and then God's - as it is "under God" and not to God. Jesus said you cannot serve two masters (Matthew 6:24), so therefore I choose to pledge my allegiance to God, and not to an earthly nation.

Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his "Paul's Letter to American Christians":

"Your highest loyalty is to God, and not to the mores or the folkways, the state or the nation, or any man-made institution. If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God."

As with any post on this blog, I welcome your comments, criticisims, support or outrage.