“The Normal World”
By Richard P. Joseph
I have had a nice life so far. Sure there were times of struggle, and there still are, but for the most part I had a nice childhood, have a nice wife, have a job, and have great kids. I also have clean water to drink, food on the table and a relatively lawful society. I even get to vote, not for a king, but for someone who is “supposed” to represent me in government. Theoretically I can make as much money as my ambitions allow. Some people would describe this as the “normal world”. However, the more I educate myself on the history of this world, I am now convinced this is not even close to the normal world.
After doing a little “light” reading:
I have concluded that what we know in the United States is far from normal. The normal world as I have come to know from historical documentation is one of violence and treachery. Basically, the rule is: he who kills the most wins. After reading books like “Israel & the Nations”, several books from the NAZI era, some Native American accounts and other historical accounts, I have concluded that the general peace of the United States is an anomaly to say the least. In the United States we vote people in office and out of office. This is not the case in past times. You don’t “vote” people out of your government, you assassinated them, and their family, and their cousins, and their friends, and whoever else needed to be executed. When William Shirer (news correspondent) went to Afghanistan in the early 1930’s he found that there were 4 heads of state in the previous year; none died in bed. I always wondered what kind of story it was that King Herod (the Great) would order the execution of all male children in Bethlehem just because his family dynasty might be threatened in 30 years down the line. But after reading how he executed three of his sons, his wife, her mother, his uncle, his political opponents, and anyone else that I forgot to mention, I believe he made the decision to murder all of those babies while eating breakfast and didn’t miss a bite or even look up when he calmly gave that order. It was “just another day” for the tyrant. We all know how many people the despots like Hitler, Stalin, Mae, Pol Pot, and others have killed just to secure their tax base and their wealth. This brings me to current events.
When you hear of all of the Clinton deaths, one has to use sound logic and reason to figure this out. After reading how the normal world operates, I have no problem believing that those murders may be real. I can’t prove it, but I certainly believe it could be real. If I believed otherwise I would be going against all real historical facts. In other words, there is nothing odd about killing off your opponents because you are a despot. I highly recommend you reading F. F. Bruce’s book Israel & the Nations. The book basically covers Israel’ historical surroundings from the time of Moses to the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. There was hardly even one king that was not executed or died of old age in the entire book. They were either assassinated by their own kids, their own countrymen or another despot looking to increase his tax revenues. We all remember that even King David’s own son attempted to murder his father just to gain the throne. On page 209-10 of Bruce’s book there is this statement:
Gaius was assassinated by leading Romans because there was no constitutional means of removing an emperor who had become intolerable. The Roman senate thought of restoring republican government after his death, but the praetorian guards proclaimed his uncle Claudius emperor; and the senate had to accept their decision.
The main point is that in times past there was no civil way of removing your leader.
I remember when the United States tried to force Iraq to have an election. Of course Saddam Hussein won pretty much every vote. They understood that a vote against him was a vote to get your head, and your wife’s head, and your kid’s heads, and your extended family’s heads chopped off. So what is my real point here?
I suppose my point in all of this is that civility and peace really did not enter this world until the Christian nations arose and became powerful. I always laugh at liberals who make ignorant statements about how America is evil and we began as a nation of slavery and we are still racist today etc etc. I always ask them; “well, name me one nation in 1776 that didn’t have slavery”. That is when they realize how ignorant they really are. It was in fact the Christianized nations that “ended” slavery. It is only the backward Democratic party that keeps racism on the front burner. It is the Christian nations that allow voting instead of barbaric murder. It is the Christianized nations that allow freedom to the common citizen. When I see all of the rioting and looting I realize that we can at any moment slip backward into the messy violence of the past. On page xv of the introduction to William Shirer’s “The Nightmare Years” he says this: “To my consternation most Germans joined joyously in this Nazi Barbarism.” It is funny to see the same thing happening today in the United States. Once we darken the light of Jesus Christ, entropy ensues. The more Whimpey the church gets, the greater the violence. The more we reject the bible the more ignorant we become. I for one am not interested in regressing back to the days where kings went to war as if it were football season. I am not interested in the idea that if I want something, I just kill the other guy and take it. I am not interested in having a dictator like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to be. I am not interested in going back the the cast system like many nations still follow. It was actually depressing reading F. F. Bruce’s book because it is basically one murderous war after another but the book is necessary for the understanding of the Normal World and how blessed the United States really is. Most people look at English Imperialism as a bad thing, I actually see it as a blessing to the world. Maybe we can talk about that some time in the future.
Perhaps what I am really saying in a roundabout way is that we “can” easily regress back into those days. Our primal instincts are still there and all we need to do is erase Jesus Christ out of society and bam we are there. That is the ultimate goal of all liberal groups such as the Democratic Party, the ACLU and the homosexual activists. Many people do not believe we can slip back to that and many people don’t even know about that but it is actually happening right before our very eyes. History doesn’t lie and the gospel doesn’t lie. The United States of America is truly an anomaly and I want to keep it that way. God bless
