Painting with a broad brush, one can describe
the government as significantly lacking in these two qualities: rectitude and verisimilitude.
The Merriam-Webster defines rectitude as:
- the quality or state of being straight
- moral integrity : righteousness
- the quality or state of being correct in judgment or procedure
The Random House Dictionary defines rectitude as
- rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives.
- correctness: rectitude of judgment.
- straightness.
Synonyms for rectitude include:
- Righteousness
- Morality
- Goodness
- Correctness
- Decency
- Integrity
- Uprightness
Merriam-Webster
defines versimilitude as:
- the quality or state of being verisimilar
- something verisimilar
Random House Dictionary defines versimilitude as
- the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
- something, as an assertion, having merely the appearance of truth.
Synonyms
for rectitude include:
- Truth
- Credibility
- Authenticity
- Reliability
- Plausibility
- Likelihood
When
we have a senator like Diane Feinstein telling us that gun control will stop
gun violence and that the amorphously-named assault
weapons are solely responsible for gun violence, it is clear that the government
in Washington D.C does not get it!
Statistics and narrative evidence clearly
illustrate the idiocy of the assumptions being proffered by legislators in the nation’s
capital.
Australia, Great Britain, and Chicago are
exigent examples whose crime statistics show not a decrease but rather an
increase in gun violence upon implementation of gun control through disarming law-abiding
citizens and requiring registration of firearms.
Criminals do not comply with laws and are
thus empowered to continue or even escalate their gun violence.
Common sense is sadly lacking in our elected
legislators. If a nation disarms its citizens, tyranny and increased criminal
activity will result as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow!
Focusing on the size of semi-automatic
firearm magazines shows an abject ignorance of equipping to accomplish the evil
intent of those bent on intentionally doing harm to others. If the size of gun
magazines is limited, all it means is that the shooter will bring more of them
to the event. It only takes a second or two of time to change out an expended
magazine with a full one.
So, the question should be: Are our
legislators just stupid or do they have another agenda? What benefit do they
get out of passing legislation that restricts the Constitutional rights of
Americans to bear arms? Are they benefitting in some other way from high
jacking the Constitution? Are they yielding to lobbyists and special interest
groups that have an agenda intended to emasculate our country and prepare it
for takeover by foreign powers?
Are they buying in to the incipient ethos of
the global society that wants to drain our national resources for the benefit
of those who never developed or earned them?
The one thing our nation has done since its
inception is to share our resources and ideology with the rest of the world. We
have not tried to conquer the world, but rather have tried to work with the
citizens of those countries to improve their own ability to prosper by teaching
them to use their own resources more efficiently.
From the beginning of the formation of the thirteen
original colonies into the United States of America, God’s blessing was evident
because of the covenant relationship of its citizens to God and adherence to biblical
principles of government. Overall as a nation, we have shared those blessings
with the world. Today, just as the Israelites did, we have veered from that
course and have become tolerant of the pagan principles of the nations of the
world. Without repentance and turning back to Bible values, we are moving out
from God’s canopy of protection. Rectitude is no longer a value we cling to.
Yes, mankind has veered from God’s intent
since the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, but when returning to obedience,
blessings have returned to those who make the bold choice to do life God’s way.
American philosopher George Santayana once
made a chilling comment about those who forget the lessons of history, saying: "Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it."
This describes out nation today. The apostle
Paul wrote to his disciple Timothy:
But
mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers
of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without
self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but
denying its power. Have nothing to do with them (2 Timothy 3:1-5 NIV).
The apostle Paul also wrote:
For
the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to
suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers
to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away
from the truth and turn aside to myths (2 Timothy 4:3-4 NIV).
As we, like the Jews and the early
Christians, turned irrevocably away from our core values? Are we in the end
times? World events that I discussed in my book, Spiritual Tsunami: Bible Prophecy and World Events are Converging,
may indicate that we are in times that are drawing near to Christ’s return.
However, scripture clearly says that no man can know the time. (See Mathew
24:36-39). All we can do it remain on watch for the signs and not be like the
five virgins who let their lamps dim prior to the arrival of the bridegroom. (See
Matthew 25:1-10).
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