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By Joseph L. McKnight

    I have heard and do hear so often people talking about the
situation that we confront in our daily lives. Whether we like to
admit it or not we all in one way or another look for someone
or something to blame for the circumstances that we find
ourselves in other than themselves. Until we come to the
realization that I am the on to blame for the circumstances and
situations that I find myself in.
     We take a position and we then are obligated to defend that
position rather than the truth and facts as they present them-
selves in the situation that are present. The position that I hold
may at times be contrary to the facts and even the truth. It is
not always easy to separate what is true from reality, or what
is from what ought to be.
   I have found in the times that I have looked at the situation
of the radio and television preacher, I found that people in the
context of radio preachers, even preaching in general wind p
doing what they think will work rather than that which they
say that they have been called to do.
   I do not believe that God duplicates services just to
satistify the whim of any man or woman. This is not only a
religious phenomenon, it happens also in the secular world as
well. God, nature, the higher power, However you may want
to refer to that which is somehow greater than any one
particular thing or person.

   I see in the radio talk shows that are around
today the attitude that they are in it as mush for the
money as for the love of the truth.There is nothing
wrong with the motive that is behind most of the
people in radio, except for the honestity.
     Often times the effort and attitude is portrayed
as as noble and altrustic. And like the radio and
television presches thet need to understand more of
how their words and attitude effect the people that
hear they for good or evil. There are for too many
people who from their lives and thoughts on the
basic of what these people broadcast.
     There is a responsiblity that goes along with the
position that these people are in that I think that they
take far to lightly. Many of these radio personalities
are responsible to not one but their drive to succeed
and money. This is not necessarily wrong, Hoever
when the competition to survive and trive cause you
to catter to a certain group to the exclusion of
others, this is not good, this is not what America is
all about. As the declaration of Independence put it:
" ...And decated to the propostion that all Humans
are created, and that they are endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable right , that among
thesr are life liberty and the presuit of happiness."
    It is no wonder that all people are not created
equal, For God has said that every people has been
give one or more gift, there are certain things that
the physical fact of a male can do that a female
cannot do. There are certain things that a person
with the gift of math can do that a person with the
gift of playing basketball cannot do. Now, this does
not mean that one or the other absolutely cannot do.
It does bring into play the issue of hard work and
dedicated effort it you don't havwe the gift
naturally. And there it the fact that there aere people
that may have the gift in one thing yet, they may
have absolutely no desire to do that thing, and
therefore they may have to work harder at that
thing that they may love, but are not as good at it
as someone else.

Many people are in a quandry about the
position that God as God is revealed in Jesus
Christ, should take in the daily lives of people.
We think that we understand the concept of
separation of church and state. There was once
apon a time when the religious ruled every aspect
of our lives, so much so that it became tyrannical.
We have come to the point now in the separation
of church and state that the state is dictating to
the people where and what we can do or not do
with the area of our religious.
It is just this sort of thing that the people that
that people that frist came to America we trying
to get control over. They were not trying to get
away from the religious nor the state. They were
seeking a situation where they could practice their
faith as well as build a state that honored the
freedom of the individual in the midst of the
community. To establish law and order in and
among people and communities.

I am proud
and grateful to
God to be living
in the USA

America is my
place, and by
God's grace, this
is where I place
my alligance.
The world and
the globe and all
creation is my
home...

I believe that in America God has designed
a unique example to show what we can do
when all people of the earth come together.
Yet, even in the midst ofg this beautiful
opportunity, we still have free will, and a
choice.