Follow the Leader-Which one?

     As a child, we used to play the game ‘follow the leader.’ This would entail the blindfolding of everyone except the leader; and where ever he went the rest of us blindfolded children would blindly follow! Of course, if we had a benign leader he would only lead us in safe places.

     But had we a nefarious one, he would not care where he led us, just for the fun of it. As we survey our world today, it appears that that is the predicament that the great mass of humanity is in-that means you and me!

I once read where someone cried out: Stop the earth! I want to get off! My friends, even if that were possible where would you go if you got off? What would you do?

     My friends, we daily witness violence, the murder of babies both in and out of the womb, of men, women and children. Evil men are destroying our beautiful young people and children to the sex trade as Epstein did. 

     In this lucrative business even government leaders, the rich, and the high profile are complicit, the fact that Epstein was allowed to be murdered (if that’s the case) in a top security prison bears stark testimony to this fact. We experience disasters of every kind, in the air, sea, and land. Hurricane Dorian may even have left over a thousand dead in the Bahamas according to one estimate. 

     Politicians have gone to the extreme in their denunciation of the opposite party. Political assassinations or vilification of opposing voices are endemic.

Our freedom has been abused to the extent that we no longer have real freedom; the only freedom that is worthwhile in our world today is the freedom to do what the other believes is right and not as I think, short of this you are almost free to harm or even kill me! Intolerance has taken hold of us like a dragnet and few there be that escape. 

     Our politicians are in the vanguard of this destructive and disgusting behaviour. Political party devotees are right at the heels of their wannabe leaders leaving no gruesome act to the imagination.

Many long for the ‘old times’, they say, when things were more civil, respectful, and compassionate. But we have thrown God and the devil away; for many they have lumped God and the devil together, blaming this world’s woes on them, as Karl Marx said, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people” (Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right).

     Due to this sad and liberal mindset humanity has been sowing godless, and bravado seeds to the wind and consequently we are reaping the whirlwind and sadly we are not connecting the two! 

     This has been the order of the day for Europe since the Fall of Rome in 476 A. D. This rejection of God all crescendoed in the 19th. century when a cry went forth, Where is God? How can I find him? Gott ist tot! God is dead! 

     The atheist Nietzsche understood that with the death of God in Europe Christian morality will also die and this will bring a great depression in Europe and produce more despair than good for the people. He felt that perhaps if it can be amicably worked out with the death of God, good results may follow, perhaps as Jean-Paul Sartre suggested: “life begins on the other side of despair.”

And that is where we are today, folks! Governments today seem to take delight in rubbishing and despising God’s morality. If humans continue in their unbridled lawlessness, and ungodly morality surely humans will only become extinct if we do not accomplish this earlier in warfare. 

     The only other side to the despair, that humans are already encountering, is that which God offers, His rules of engagement for a healthier, happier and holy life. But alas, by rejecting God’s rules of engagement for life on earth we are unwittingly opening our lives to manipulation by the great destroyer of humanity, satan and his evil host. 

     Already we see his deadly hand in the woes earth and humans are experiencing today.

I want you to know my friends, that all of this is déjà vu! Our world has been there and done that! In my next letter, we will look at that scenario.

Any questions please contact me at ronhende@outlook.com