Naming Jesus is Lawful, as Long as You’re Cursing
Naming Jesus is ok, But Offensive if You Show Respect
By Donald Hank
Did you know that it is ok to for a public official to name the name of Jesus when conversing with a citizen as long as the public official is cursing, but it is offensive for a member of the public to name the name of Jesus in a public place? That would be offensive.
Last week I picked up the morning paper and read, in the local news page, the headline:
“School made girl remove Jesus magnet, mom says.” The newspaper story said the confiscating school principal had declared this inscription might be offensive to someone.
I happened to know this guy quite well and went to the school right away. As I was walking through the parking lot, I asked God to give me love for him, and as soon as I saw him, I realized that my request had been granted. He is an easy man to love. His students adore him. However, I had known him to curse profusely in our past conversations.
So I said: “I’m surprised you would think the name of Jesus was offensive, because you use the name Jesus Christ a lot in your conversations with me and other parents, and I didn’t think you considered it offensive at all. And if you did, I must wonder why you didn’t think it would be offensive to parents, many of whom are Christians, to hear the name of their Savior used in cursing.”
He turned 3 shades of red.
I told him that I was from a strict religious background and that I had rebelled against my religion, but that later, I had discovered a new religion taking over America, which can be called Secular Humanism, and now I felt more rebellious toward that new religion than I had toward my father’s religion, because in my father’s case, that religion was confined to my home, but in the case of Secular Humanism, it is now the State religion of my own country and is vigorously enforced everywhere by officials like him.
We had a very productive conversation, during which he apologized very sincerely several times.
As I was leaving, he showed me a cross that was given to him by the brother of the girl whose magnet he had confiscated. The boy had given it to him in an Easter basket. Across the cross arm, the boy had written:
He died for you.
I believe this man was under conviction at that time, and I entreat believers reading this to pray for him to accept the Christ who offends all sinners by His Truth.
Just a word about the established religion in America:
Many will deny that secular humanism is a religion. However, during Ed Rendell’s gubernatorial campaign in the last election, someone asked him what his religion was, and he said, without hesitation: I am a secular humanist.
Thus, obviously, the adherents to this religion know that it is just that, a religion. Yet they are apparently oblivious to the fact that, according to their favorite interpretation of the Constitution, they are not to be promoting this is an establishment of religion. Yet they hypocritically go around silencing others who promote their religion—but only if that religion happens to be Christianity.
There can be no more poignant an example of this than the absurd decision handed down by the unelected secularist zealot Justice John Jones III, whose decision in Kitzmiller vs the Dover School Board, makes it illegal to discuss certain scientific theories in the public school in Dover because they are supposedly motivated by a desire to promote Christianity.
Yet, despite this dire situation, namely, that our ship of State is being led by a cult-like group of religious fanatics, the Christian has the same freedom he has had since the very beginning, because, as our Leader has indicated, just knowing the truth is freedom. So if we know beyond a doubt that the officials who promote the State religion are doing so at variance with constitutional precepts, we are entirely free to pursue our truth and even to confront the establishment, no matter how much power its representatives may have, because as government officials, they know it is their primary duty to uphold the Constitution. And with a modicum of constitutional understanding, it is disarmingly easy—child’s play in fact—to show them beyond a shadow of a doubt, that by suppressing Christianity while promoting secular humanism, they are doing anything but upholding the First Amendment.
And a little child shall lead them.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
There are two things needed to overcome the now almost overwhelming anti-Christian decisions being implemented everywhere that people are convinced that they mustn’t merge “church and state.”
The most urgent, of course, is to confront those who hastily and often officially impose the misunderstood edicts.
The second one is for Christians to get up to speed on understanding the issue themselves, and not to complicate matters by mistakenly obeying a Constitutional edict that doesn’t exist.
Perhaps a third one is also required — that of the need for Christians to pay more attention to things in the “secular world,” and not abandon the “public square” to the secular humanists who have reconstructed it, brick by brick, for many years now.
April 15th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Consider:
The missing element in every human ‘solution’ is
an accurate definition of the creature.
The way we define ‘human’ determines our view of self,
others, relationships, institutions, life, and future. Many
problems in human experience are the result of false
and inaccurate definitions of humankind premised
in man-made religions and humanistic philosophies.
Human knowledge is a fraction of the whole universe.
The balance is a vast void of human ignorance. Human
reason cannot fully function in such a void; thus, the
intellect can rise no higher than the criteria by which it
perceives and measures values.
Humanism makes man his own standard of measure.
However, as with all measuring systems, a standard
must be greater than the value measured. Based on
preponderant ignorance and an egocentric carnal
nature, humanism demotes reason to the simpleton
task of excuse-making in behalf of the rule of appe-
tites, desires, feelings, emotions, and glands.
Because man, hobbled in an ego-centric predicament,
cannot invent criteria greater than himself, the humanist
lacks a predictive capability. Without instinct or trans-
cendent criteria, humanism cannot evaluate options with
foresight and vision for progression and survival. Lack-
ing foresight, man is blind to potential consequence and
is unwittingly committed to mediocrity, collectivism,
averages, and regression – and worse. Humanism is an
unworthy worship.
The void of human ignorance can easily be filled with
a functional faith while not-so-patiently awaiting the
foot-dragging growth of human knowledge and behav-
ior. Faith, initiated by the Creator and revealed and
validated in His Word, the Bible, brings a transcend-
ent standard to man the choice-maker. Other philo-
sophies and religions are man-made, humanism, and
thereby lack what only the Bible has:
1.Transcendent Criteria and
2.Fulfilled Prophetic Validation.
The vision of faith in God and His Word is survival
equipment for today and the future. Only the Creator,
who made us in His own image, is qualified to define
us accurately.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by
nature and nature’s God a creature of Choice – and of
Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive
characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural
foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-
spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-
ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the
universe.
That human institution which is structured on the
principle, “…all men are endowed by their Creator with
…Liberty…,” is a system with its roots in the natural
Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are
necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and
nature’s God. Biblical principles are still today the
foundation under Western Civilization.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly
developed, and sensitive perception of variety. Thus
aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-
ing internal mental and external physical selectivity.
Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends
itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. His title describes
his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall
that his other features are but vehicles of experi-
ence intent on the development of perceptive
awareness and the following acts of decision and
choice. Note that the products of man cannot define
him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-
making process and include the cognition of self,
the utility of experience, the development of value-
measuring systems and language, and the accultur-
ation of civilization.
The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,
customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of
his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the
creative process, is a choice-making process. His
articles, constructs, and commodities, however
marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol-
atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth’s own
highest expression of the creative process.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. The sublime and
significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean
fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the
forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual-
ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a
natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and
bestows earth’s title, The Choicemaker, on his
singular and plural brow.
Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just
begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator,
The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever
learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates
the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and
delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect
cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the
criteria by which it perceives and measures values.
Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria
self-denies man the vision and foresight essential to
decision-making for survival and progression. He is left,
instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive hind-
sight, including human institutions characterized by
averages, mediocrity, and regression.
Humanism, mired in the circular and mundane egocentric
predicament, is ill-equipped to produce transcendent
criteria. Evidenced by those who do not perceive
superiority and thus find themselves beset by the shifting
winds of the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feelings, desires,
appetites, etc., the mind becomes subordinate: a mere
device for excuse-making and rationalizing self-justifica-
tion.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
The carnal-ego rejects criteria and self-discipline for such
instruments are tools of the mind and the attitude. The
appetites of the flesh have no need of standards for at the
point of contention standards are perceived as alien, re-
strictive, and inhibiting. Yet, the very survival of our
physical nature itself depends upon a maintained sover-
eignty of the mind and of the spirit.
It remained, therefore, to the initiative of a personal
and living Creator to traverse the human horizon and
fill the vast void of human ignorance with an intelli-
gent and definitive faith. Man is thus afforded the
prime tool of the intellect – a Transcendent Standard
by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate
results, and make enlightened and visionary choices.
Only the unique and superior God-man Person can deserved-
ly displace the ego-person from his predicament and free
the individual to measure values and choose in a more
excellent way. That sublime Person was indicated in the
words of the prophet Amos, “…said the Lord, Behold,
I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel.”
Y’shua Mashiyach Jesus said, “If I be lifted up I will
draw all men unto myself.”
As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality
and submit to the delusions of humanism, determinism, and
collectivism, just so long will they be subject and re-
acting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from
others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect
justice, find themselves weighed in the balances of their
own choosing.
Let us proclaim it. Behold!
The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV
“We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching
that we can choose either to accept or reject the God
who gave it to us, and it would seem to follow that the
Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be
equally free in our relationships with other men.
Spiritual liberty logically demands conditions of outer
and social freedom for its completion.” Edmund A. Opitz
“Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for
oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibil-
ity of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not
a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”
Thomas Jefferson
Q: “What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is
born of a woman, that he could be righteous?” Job 15:14
A: “Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He
teach in the way he chooses.” Psalm 25:12
Q: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son
of man that You take care of him?” Hebrews 2:6
A: “I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have
laid before me.” Psalm 119:30 “Let Your hand become my
help, for I have chosen Your precepts.”Psalm 119:173
– from The HUMAN PARADIGM
semper fidelis
vincit veritas
Joel 3:14 kjv
April 15th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Jim,
Could you sum all that up for us in a nutshell. From what I saw, it looks interesting, but like the average Joe Blow, I need to make a living and don’t have time to read more than a sound bite or 2.
Thanks, and God bless!
April 16th, 2007 at 3:00 am
It really is not possible for a range of good reasons, including, a byte will get a bite’s respect. Basically, our human definition touches every area of our human experience – for good or bad. Plus, human ignorance reachwes to the edge of our uiverse and far outweighs and distorts our knowlege, hobbled as we are in an ego-centric false center.
The Russians ran the full piece in a national magazine and two Moscow newspapers in 1993. We’re spoiled. You should allow some exceptions. In the meantime, please post this includsing my site where the full piece can be read.
“Human is earth’s Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by
nature and nature’s God a creature of Choice – and of
Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive
characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural
foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-
spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-
ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the
universe.” selah
http://www.choicemaker.net
April 17th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Hello Brother Jim Baxter: I really like your site! Thanks for all you do and for your faithfulness.