What would you want Jesus to do?

Jesus got to shore and was met by a man who had been acting “crazy” most of his life.

The man lived naked among the graves and no one could control him. The man pulled to pieces any chains he was in and he often cried out; cutting himself with stones.

Jesus had compassion on the man.  But he couldn’t help him.

You see, this man was of another religion and it was against the law to convert him to following Jesus, which Jesus knew would happen if Jesus healed him.

Also, the media had been misreporting that when Jesus said, “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God” that Jesus was really rebelling against the government and advocating that people not pay lawful taxes.

What would they report if he removed evil spirits from a man not considered competent to give informed consent?

And what about the people who said mental illness was a myth?  What if they said Jesus should value the man’s differences, not judge his lifestyle, and coexist with him?

And what about the mental health community?  They don’t believe in demons. They would be offended if Jesus cast out demons into pigs, and the pigs immediately committed suicide, proving that demons do exist.  They might lobby to have Jesus’ license to practice counseling revoked.

And what about the owners of the pigs?  Did Jesus ask permission to send demons into them?  Was Jesus going to pay restitution?

What if you were the man or woman standing there in front of Jesus, with your future and your sanity hanging in the balance.  What would you want Jesus to do?

Just in case you didn’t understand, the above is satire. For what really happened see Mark 5 in the Bible.

The above was my response to the politics of 2016. The below is what might be actually happening now and may be worse and should be satire.

And so I have questions.

In the UK is politically incorrect thought/prayer near abortion clinics now a crime?

Was the U.S. president’s speech full of distortions about U.S. “MAGA” voters?  Were “MAGA” voters vilified by the U.S. president for the crime of having a different point of view?

Could emails that were found and released by Elon Musk be interpreted as First Amendment Freedom of Speech censorship prompted by the government?

Was a U.S. government agency weaponized to intimidate those who are against the legalized killing of babies in the womb?

Are pharmacy companies talking about creating disease so they can make money healing the people they infect?

Why would someone get “fired” right after standing up to big pharma? Would that cast suspicion on the Board that “fired” you?

Bad is portrayed as good.

Good is censored.

Dear Jesus,

we need

You.

Stand up 4 _____

Stand up 4 Freedom, including freedom of speech, including freedom from government censorship through private business

Stand up 4 personal rights (not the license masquerading as “sovereignty” by some), including all medical decisions, including no penalty for not taking mRNA

Stand up 4 those who have no voice, like those being murdered in their mother’s womb

Stand up 4 the elderly, the disabled, for those without personal power to help themselves and defend themselves and work in their own best interest

Stand up 4 responsible, law-abiding gun owners so they can defend themselves and their country

Stand up 4 Freedom of Religion, including Christianity, that at the founding allowed all religions into the country by not making this a Christian only country

Stand up 4 Election integrity, safeguards protecting the count from the counter

Stand up 4 the Constitution, that is being trampled on by the very people who took an oath to defend it

The Rise of the “Orwellian” Left

Series: Thinking Right in a culture whose Mind’s Left

I wrote most of this essay over a year ago but did not publish it because I thought it would be taken down or worse. We are experiencing less censorship briefly now because the Left wants to win the midterms and knows their cancel culture policies are unpopular. I believe they intend to end all our liberties if given the chance.

George Orwell, around 1948, wrote the book “1984.” This was after World War II and after millions of ordinary civilians had died at the hands of their own totalitarian government (which was driven by the deceit of communism/socialism ideologies and its resulting desire for control at any cost to others). Orwell wrote the book as a warning of what could happen again and how to detect it. With this book he also predicted 2020 U.S. politics; he was just 36 years early in his prediction. “1984” talks about our current illegal drive toward totalitarianism, governmental lying to citizens for political gain,1,2 changing the meanings of words to control thought,3 and the criminalization of free speech.2

“1984” talks about the totalitarian squashing of our freedom of speech.2 We have seen this done in both the private and public sectors this last year (2020 and 2021 as of this portion of this essay). They censor views they do not want to hear or be heard. They also coerce others to do what the censors think is right, regardless of what these others may think is right, and regardless of others’ Constitutional rights and objective truth. They do this because they are insecure and express that insecurity by being bullies, and so their insecurity drives an insatiable lust for power. They don’t rely on facts for their beliefs, but rather rehearse their negative emotions. Their beliefs do not stand up to objective scrutiny and so they cannot defend them and that frustrates them. In the end all they have left is to turn their frustration into anger and hate toward those with whom they disagree. And, ironically, hate is the very thing they say they are against.

Obama4 and Biden are adept at word games to lay the groundwork for subverting the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Obama questions the meaning of absolute God-given liberty and Biden asks if gun rights are “absolute.”

  1. Hydroxycloroquine and zinc were said to be effective in early treatment by Dr. Stella Immanuel after she treated over 350 people successfully with it at the beginning of the pandemic. See https://www.prageru.com/video/dr-stella-immanuel-we-dont-need-to-die-there-is-a-treatment-for-covid/. While thousands are dying Fauci/Biden wanted a “double-blind test” to determine “effectiveness.” This is reasonable during normal times, when there is time, but not in a pandemic emergency situation, while thousands are dying and over 350 people have already been effectively treated and hydroxycloroquine has been known to be safe.
  2. Google takes down true report. Medical doctors are overruled by politicians through Medical Boards threatening licenses if doctors dare to question the State. See https://www.prageru.com/video/there-is-an-orchestrated-attack-against-hydroxychloroquine/.
  3. “Defund The Police doesn’t mean defund the police” one rioter scoffs at the TV reporter’s “ignorance,” while another rioter shouts “defund the police” means exactly what it says.
  4. Former President Obama, in his second inaugural address, said:


“Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way. . .”

From <https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/21/full-text-of-president-barack-obamas-second-inaugural-address>

(Ben Shapiro astutely observes (and I apologize to him for my rough paraphrase) that if your definition of liberty means that you take my money and my definition of liberty means that I keep my money. . .  we have a problem. . . and the problem is because we don’t “define liberty in exactly the same way. . . .”)

Written by James Bruce McNaughton, I AM for You!, https://i-m-4-u.com

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