The theme song for the 1995 movie (one my favorite) Leaving Las Vegas was a song by Sting entitled, Angel Eyes. The first line of the song is “Have you ever had the feeling that the world has gone and left you behind…?”. It is very easy for people to feel that exact way who value the Judeo-Christian ideals of faith, family, and freedom. I know I do. Society seems to be moving very fast in some very strange directions. It very much seems that the world jumped into anti-Christian legislation, anti-Semitism, different pronouns and the requirement to be explicit with them, world-level tragedies, and policemen being publicly humiliated by their ciites, quick. Even our “Catholic” president considers abortion to be just another form of birth control.

It is easy to feel left-behind, irrelevant, not-important, and just plain old, if you get your values from Judeo-Christian ethics, just like Ben in Leaving Las Vegas, it is easy to believe that you are alone and forgotten and decide to live life like there is no tomorrow (which is, ironically, is a value that the greater culture celebrates). In some kind of weird twist, I feel like Ben and Sera, outsiders who the rest of society points fingers at and mocks.

However, it is important to remember that you are not alone. But also, despite the idea that Hollywood wants to sell you, you are not the only person who values faith, family, and freedom. President Biden and his compatriots want you to believe you are alone–but actually your values are shared by the majority of Americans. I truly believe that we are the majority still. The leftist-media will not allow you to think that. China definitely does not want you thinking that. Those values built the United States into the country the world still looks to and the world still do everything they can to tear us down.

Now I know it is easy to be caught up in pointing fingers outward to Hollywood, “the left” and other amorphous enemies. The United States built its greatness through pointing at ourselves though. We learned from our mistakes and kept getting better and better–in our own and the Lord’s definition. We need to continue to do this.

I lie in my bed and think that the world has passed me by. I feel this because I believe that being transsexual is not something that should be treated as a fashion statement. I think that celebrating killing a baby is evil, and that people should fight in their own country to secure basic human rights—-like we had to here. I think that the Bible is the highest authority on life and morality and holiness. These ethics make me feel alone. But I am not. IF nothing else, I know that God and God’s Word supports me in these things. Yet the voices of the world telling me to move continue. Their voices do not make me want to give up like Ben did, but to plant myself like a tree, look the world in the eye, and say, “No, you move.”

“When people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders.” — Samuel Adams

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