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Things That “Bug” Me

By Karl Priest (revised 9-1-2010)

I have a few problems with insects. I live in a rural area and have to battle them for my share of the produce and flowers my wife and I plant. I understand the situation both scientifically and biblically. Insects are great reminders of the curse and that this world is not our home.

Insects cannot tell right from wrong. They were not made in the image of God. Jesus did not die to redeem insects. There are some things that humans due that really bug me and I list them in no particular order.

This is merely a “venting” article and I recommend you not read it unless you want to find out if some of your peeves are similar to mine. Your time would be much better spent reading your Bible.

The truth is that I far too often disappoint myself. Of course, the more I try to do, the more opportunities I have to mess up. It is always when I get out of the will of God. I am grieved at the hurt that I caused--to friends, foes and family--while I was lukewarm. I made as many amends as possible and accept accept the forgiveness of Jesus Christ the Lord (If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. I John 1:9-10), tried to heal the hurt I caused, and continue to “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”. (Philippians 3:14)

After myself, my Christian brethren, deserve constructive comments.

Evangelical churches that claim “One Faith”, but cannot settle upon one Bible. I attended a church that had “Bible” as part of its name. When a visiting speaker started reading out of an NIV (I think) I observed folks shutting their Bibles because they could not read along with him. When I privately addressed this with church leadership I was accused of causing confusion. See why I only use the King James Bible.

Major creation ministries that proclaim their goals of “Battling for the Bible” or defending the Bible “from the very first verse yet they have no Bible that they can declare is God’s pure and sure Word without error. Sadly, they are building upon a sandy foundation that any atheist can undermine. The same groups influence naïve parents to sacrifice their precious children to dangerous and ungodly government schools because the children have been “trained” to argue against evolutionism.

Churches that sit empty almost all week that could be used for God’s work such as Christian schools or homeschool co-ops

Prosperity Preaches and “Name It-Claim It” message malarkey.

Some people are being “drawn like moths to an open flame to unsound and unbiblical ideas” like The Shack, Purpose Driven Life, Seeker Movement, Emergent Church and more. For information see “Troubling Trends in the Church”and “A Common Thread”.

Pastors who are more motivated to keep their jobs than key in on the sins of society. They are content to let the congregation sit contently on the pews (usually padded) as long as the pastor’s pocketbook is provided with a regular paycheck.

Christians (especially preachers) who do not stand up against baby killing and degradation of Biblical marriage.

Christians who shun other Christians over non-essentials. If we have Romans 10:9-11 in agreement, we have a foundation for friendship.

Christians who, if arrested for being a Christian, would not have enough evidence against them for a conviction. “Only one life, ‘twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.”* Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:14)

Christians who think Rush Limbaugh is near sainthood. The guy is a talented conservative, but (from what I can see) he is ashamed of the Gospel. He is just another Bug in my Ear.

FOX News is like the “fox in the hen house.” Besides supporting evolutionism, FOX has prominent personalities that pull their punches. I heard Sean Hannity arguing with a caller who wanted to call liberals "enemies." The caller was correct. FOX does not realize that the greatest danger to America is not terrorists or communists--it is levobortomites ((lev oh bor' tow mite) noun. Anyone who believes and/or promotes left wing extremism, evolutionism, abortion, and/or anti-family activities such as sodomite marriage.  These people are not limited to any particular political party.).   The United States is being destroyed from within.  It is like a huge oak tree that is infested with insects.  For years it looks healthy and then signs of decay start.  Eventually the little pests destroy the oak. In 1974 a group of West Virginians we sounded the alarm, "THE LIBERALS ARE COMING!"

Professing Christians who have less ethics and honor than non-Christians. I have even caught preachers lying.

While on the subject of the ethics of Christians, I should mention that heterosexuals (including many in the church) have done more to harm the God ordained institution of marriage (one man and one woman until death) than homosexuals. Again, a lot of the blame rests upon the pastors.

American Christians who feel that they are “persecuted” because someone sits in “their” pew, they don’t get through the line in time to get the preferred dessert at the church dinner, (more to be added to this list of "trials and tribulations")

An elderly relative who claims to be a Christian yet she does not fellowship in any way with other Christians. Her radio plays all day long on a secular music station. She never opens a Bible, but reads the liberal, atheist run, Charleston Gazette seven days a week. I guess I am not irritated by this lady. I am actually saddened and have tried to reach her for Christ.

I have witnessed to a Navy buddy for 40 years. Finally he is going to church, but I wonder if he is born again. Time will tell. Religion only results in a righteous ride to hell.

Guideposts magazine cons many good folks to believe it is Christian. Can you find any articles in Guideposts that proclaim Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation?

Masons do a lot of charitable and good work, but how do they honor Jesus? I know a man who has Masonic emblems on his belt, lapel, truck, and all over the place. I see no sign, except when he prays over a meal at a family gathering, that he has any interest in Jesus. Come to think of it, he never mentions the name “Jesus”--just a generic “Lord.” I noticed the obituaries of two of the men who were on the Board of Education during the Textbook War were Masons. There was nothing in their obituaries about what they did to honor Christ. The record of history records what they did to harm children. (See Matthew 18:6). It is a pity that some pastors are part of the Masonic Lodge and some, who are not, still see no problem with church members who are Masons. For more on Masons: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/mason1.htm and http://www.ephesians5-11.org/index.html. Also see the entry on Masonry at “The Common Thread.”

Good people (and lately far too many evangelicals) who focus on feeding and clothing the poor to the exclusion of meeting spiritual needs of those to whom they minister. Fundamentalist Christians have helped millions (more likely billions) since Jesus was resurrected. The Union Mission motto had it right: SOAP, SOUP, and SALVATION. Without salvation, all that is accomplished is clean well-fed people heading for hell.

Homeschoolers who condemn me for criticizing the government school system. That’s like telling a former alcoholic not to condemn demon rum. Those folks are content to let other people’s children be subjected to the evils of government schools without even a warning.

West Virginia teachers who have failed to take advantage of the rights I won (or clarified) in the battles against evolutionism. They exhibit a combination of cowardice and compromise.

Atheists cannot face the facts in something I wrote:
REALITY CIRCLE
An honest atheist is an agnostic. An intelligent agnostic is a deist. A rational deist is a theist. A realistic theist is a creationist. An unrepentant creationist is a fool. A stubborn fool is a psychopath. A normal psychopath is an atheist.
(The way out is to get saved.)

I have never felt comfortable around liars. As the saying goes—you know a thief is going to steal, but you never know if a liar is telling the truth. Of course, some folks equate lying and stealing as the same and they have a good point. People who teach and/or preach evolutionism are liars and they steal the truth from others. There are four reasons why society needs to be concerned about the LIE of evolutionism. (1) Evolutionism wastes millions (probably billions) of dollars annually from real scientific research. That alone, to most people, is sufficient to eliminate anything to do with evolutionism from using public money. (2) Teaching evolutionism dumbs down science education and wastes valuable classroom time. (3) Evolutionism, when taught in public schools, is a violation of the United States Constitution by establishing atheism as the state religion. (4) This is the one that really gets my dander up. Evolutionism harms innocent children academically, emotionally, and (most importantly) spiritually.

Politicians (I include lawyers here because many politicians are lawyers.) tempt me to believe humans actually descended from insects (evolutionists believe it). Republican Shelly Moore Capito spouts that she is pro-life. I found it odd that her office is nearly next door to a Charleston abortuary yet none of her staff offered a drink to some pro-life protestors during a horribly hot summer day. Also, for political reasons, Mrs. Capito refused to send a letter verifying that my son (who was in serious trouble) had adequately performed her lawn care. If homosexuality (sodomy) is such a nice thing why did Senators Byrd and Rockefeller refuse to answer this question: “Is anal intercourse normal and healthy?” For the truth about homosexuality see http://americansfortruth.com.

The Mindless Masses are uninformed and willing to let the politicians make decisions for them.

Democrats are not what my father was. They have sold out to liberals. Any Christian who remains a Democrat is in serious spiritual trouble. Republicans are just the flip-side of Democrats because Republicans have compromised with liberals. See my article “Political Bugs”.

Liberal Logic is lucus a non lucendo (a misnomer).

The liberal Charleston Gazette has been kind enough to publish several of my articles. The Gazette editors are in a dilemma. If they refuse my pieces it is obvious censorship. Therefore, they likely pray that my opinions will generate little support and much criticism.

I have to be a little cynical about the Gazette motives when I am limited to 500 words yet a liberal who gets as much (if not more) opportunities to opine in the Gazette recently had an anti-Christian/conservative piece that had over one thousand words. That is logical to me if I try to think like a liberal.

Speaking of liberal thinking, reminds me of a recent discussion with an atheist Gazette official. After we exchanged some emails I was struck with the thought that liberals (in this case a liberal atheist) are full of faith, fantasy, and faulty logic.

The man has steadfast faith that life will arise from non-life. He fantasizes that living things are evolving when all he sees (and anyone has ever seen) is that all things are devolving. In his fairy-tale world, he imagines that Bible-believing Christians (i.e. fundamentalists) should become perfect (even sprout wings and wear a halo). He, using faulty logic, thinks it is atrocious that America has killed thousands of mostly combatants in Afghanistan, yet has no qualms about the millions of innocent babies that are slaughtered in America. If thinking like that is called logical it must have a prefix. How about loony-logic? Loony logic can be a synonym of liberal-logic.

Liberalism is a form of insanity. According to Michael Savage in Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions) and in the The Liberal Mind by Dr. Lyle Rossiter, liberalism is a “product of psychopathology: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world's political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty.”
(http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/09/modern_liberali.php#). #). I think liberals are merely in state of sensibility stupor. Some of their political and social (immigration, national defense, the environment, gun control, and globalism) range from naïve to nutty. On certain issues, liberal looniness is lethal. They look at a cosmos which has been observed for thousands of years by billions of people as devolving and they see evolution--thereby siding with anti-science. They ignore the overwhelming evidence that homosexual behavior is physically and mentally devastating and promote it (sodomy) as a normal (See “Politicians" above). They look at ultrasound images of preborn children and say it is acceptable to kill the kids. People either leave liberalism, by taking a ride on the reality road, or slide into senseless stupidly and become levobortomites (See Addendum #2 of this article.)

I found out just how open minded liberals are when I teamed with some other military veterans to appose the 2004 presidential candidacy of the traitor John Kerry. It was personal, not political, with us--the group was formed by me, a life long Independent, and a friend, a life long Democrat. The first time we appeared, on a public sidewalk, outside of a John Edwards event, we were cursed and even nearly run over by a swerving SUV. Our group was (although quite unique and newsworthy) ignored by nearly all of the news media (actually all of the print media). Also, see my article “Traveling to Truth Transformation”.

Liberals don’t have a leg on which to stand.

There is no one more narrow minded than a self-proclaimed “open minded” liberal.

So called feminists are not feminine in a wonderful Biblical sense, they are merely liberal females. That, by the way, is not a compliment.

Allowing women in combat units or United States warships is an abomination. I know, personally, that going to sea is tough for a man. No woman should have to endure the experience. I can only imagine how that would be compounded in a combat situation. Insect societies such as wasps and ants let the women do the fighting—that is what God designed.

People (mainly Hollywood yokels) who exercise, energize, and surgically excise to look good and the shallow people who admire them. What makes a make-up covered talented human being have a more valued opinion than that of natural hard-working country folk? They both need deodorant. Folks who listen to Hollywood do not perceive the great common denominator—the grave.

Major weekly magazine (or any source) that condemn pro-life folks because abortions allow small families, or some other nonsensical reason. One conservative columnist opined that it should be OK to abort Downs babies. I wonder if he would abort them a few days after they were born.

Some of the most wonderful folks I know are of African descent. It’s too bad so many “Blacks” have sold out to a political party that promotes Black Genocide through the baby slaughter of abortions. (See below for more regarding politics.)

Abortion and sodomy are part of a strategy to attack creation. It is satanic based because it is Satan's goal to kill and destroy (The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: John 10-10). The people that are advocating it (with possible rare exceptions) are deluded by the slick satanic logic that they are doing good things.  They don't realize where their ideas originate.

I love dogs and it grieves me to see them (or any animal) mistreated. But it is outrageous that those who mistreat animals can go to prison and those who slaughter unborn babies walk free. A picture is worth a thousand words: http://www.abortionno.org/abortion_no.html.

We won’t even get into the incomprehensible cruelty of humans toward other humans. For evolutionists, it’s just “survival of the fittest” for the most part.

Like everyone, insects can irritate me, but humans really bug me.

*From the poem “ Only One Life” by Charles Thomas Studd, Missionary to China, India, and Africa.