Food, war, famine and why the U.S. needs a STRONG and a CHRISTIAN MILITARY

Friends, having been to Guatemala three times (two mission trips, along with a month-long intensive language study), having been to Mexico twice, and having been to South Africa twice as well, I have seen the absolute worst of the potential for human poverty.

Whether it was Mexicans displaced from all other societal connections who were forced to dig for trash in the Monterrey city dump OR whether it was little black boys & girls playing in the dirt around their corrugated iron shelters (shanty towns) just north of Johannesburg, South Africa OR whether it was homeless men & women lying on the sidewalk of Antigua, Guatemala, I have seen what a decaying infrastructure can do to providing employment, food and shelter to the earth's human beings.

Truly horrific living conditions exist throughout MUCH of our world.

This is why the United States of America MUST clean up its act NOW, before it is too late.

We in the U.S. have been blessed with affordable housing, clean, safe water, food in abundance both in amount and variety and an Armed Forces to protect these resources from evil people like Islamic terrorists who would literally starve us to death if given the chance (e.g. the minority Christian population in the Sudan starved by their Islamic conquerors).

This is why the United States of America needs a STRONG MILITARY. Through our military, rather than fighting useless wars for oil when other options are available, perhaps we should focus our efforts in safe-guarding food, shelter, and clean water throughout Africa. With a multi-national peace-keeping force, we should re-build Africa that has been brutalized from within by corruption and brutalized from without by European bankers who have sucked the blood out of Africa through the sin of usury.

The United States of America also needs a CHRISTIAN MILITARY. Without a Christian military, we are left with primarily two political ideological options, both of which are utterly HORRIFIC to even contemplate. Namely, outside of Jesus Christ, the twentieth century has seen post-Christian societies EITHER degenerate into fascism (Nazi Germany) OR degenerate into communism (former Christian Russia). We need to stand and FIGHT within the military for the Constitutional RIGHT to pray in Jesus Christ's NAME. Like nazi Germany which started out claiming Christianity only to develop a state cult of personality, so also has our military actively persecuted Christian chaplains who dared to stand in front of ALL soldiers, seamen or airmen and say, "I pray this in Jesus' Name." The country founded on the freedom of religious expression (to include Quakers, Catholics, Congregationalists, Methodists, Baptists, etc.) has now taken on the LORD Jesus Christ directly. Since Jesus Christ IS LORD of the universe, if one is ever censored for being a follower of Jesus Christ, know that the hand of the LORD of the universe is now turned against you. You may persecute the followers of Yeshua (Jewish name for Jesus), but know that your time of illegitimate rule is now over. Jesus Christ, working through both the Democrats (Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama) and the Republicans (Mike Huckabee, George W. Bush) has maintained Christian Rule in these beloved fifty states.

Love in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, Pro-Life, Pro-Family, Pro-Military

Military abuse, fraud, waste, etc.

I am both a product of and constant critic of the United States Military. My father was a career military man, and as such, I learned many valuable life lessons from him, sometimes lessons of Virtue, other times just pragmatic lessons of how to work hard. Sadly, I also learned "from the inside" how the U.S. Military could be quite fallen.

Sadly, such a realist appraisal of the U.S. Military is often difficult to uphold.

Many are so overly uncritical about the U.S. Military that they fail to see the many abuses and cover-up that such an institution has always done and still does. I have known an Officer forced to undergo intense psychiatric testing just because this branch of the service needed to "down-size" their personnel. I have known Officers forced out of the military. I have known Officers who were almost forced out and now left with a bitter taste in their mouth. Rank without honor nor justice is a recipe for tyranny!

I have also known how thousands and thousands of dollars have been utterly wasted in Iraq. Finally, with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, it is now legal for someone to be forcibly detained solely on hearsay evidence and immune from any external court even knowing about it!!! (i.e. the normal legal procedure known as habeas corpus in which an external judge can demand that a particular court turn over its evidence to another authority for review and possible repeal of verdict in case the other court had been mistaken or potentially skewed). Truly, with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, like Senators John McCain and Patrick Leahy, I am also extremely concerned about this descent into fascism. By the way, Senator McCain actually lived in a P.O.W. camp for five and a half years in Vietnam and Patrick Leahy is the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Blessings in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, Protector of Constitutional DUE PROCESS

POWER, what is it, how Christian can it ever be

POWER is something I do not like to wield.

Like my Father, a career military man, I do not like to ever 'crack down' on anyone (Rudy Giuliani-style!). Stay in authority. Speak the TRUTH in love. Then you simply do not have to resort to violent options.

Along these lines, two of my greatest political heroes are Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ironically, although technically 'Hindu' Gandhi was deeply indebted to the teachings of Jesus Christ on non-violence. Similarly as a well-educated African American pastor, Dr. King used Jesus' teaching on non-violence to change the evil disenfranchising southern political 'good ole boys' club that was excluding African Americans from voting.

This, really, is the ONLY POWER that Christians can wield. Whoever lives by the sword dies by the sword. In the present case of Iraq, if one joins the military in order to pay off student loans, make higher wages, etc. then one is simply living as a mercenary and one will eventually die with blood on one's hands.

This is not to say that Christian Kings cannot exist. According to the LORD Jesus Christ's Providence Christians have ruled for centuries, some even as saints. In Paul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 13, provision is even made for the JUSTICE of GOD to be wielded THROUGH the "magistrate" in order to punish the evil doer.

But, just because Christian Kingship can exist (in the U.S. as either the President, the Senate, Congress or the Judicial branch) does not mean that whatever is in the supposed 'national interest' (i.e. oil, expansion, threatening our enemies with shows of force . . .) is necessarily a Christian endeavor. Christians must be very reluctant to ever wield the sword, and ONLY do so as a dispassionate execution of Kingly authority.

Love in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, Barack Obama fan because the man loves Jesus (just not ready to be Prez yet . . .)

Psychotherapeutic State Civil Religion

The founding of the entire discipline of modern psychology was the beginning of the new imperial western state as a 'new religion.' Gone were the days of state churches such as Anglicanism, but when Sigmund Freud first began his 'theories' about the modern mind, so the west entered the period that I like to term 'the dark ages.'

Case example: In a hot off of the presses internet article, apparently a "Dr. of Psychology" has determined that it is somehow "healthy" for women to have secret fantasties about men to whom they are not married while still being married http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21256467/?GT1=10450.

I kid you not. Adulterous thoughts are now not only acceptable, but are determined by modern psychology to be 'healthy.'

The growth of modern psychology, sadly, has also been accompanied by the growth of the modern nation state as the primary form of human governance. In steps psychology. Instead of a state church such as Anglicanism being in charge of what constitutes a 'healthy psyche' through things like the examination of conscience and other spiritual disciplines, now the modern psychotherapist assumes the role of "high priest" or "high priestess" of the modern West. To be frank, as an Army Reserve Chaplain I even had to endure about one half of my training in this garbage. Instead of being able to you know, be a Christian Theologian, instead I and my colleagues (including the Jewish rabbis) had to endure training in how to be a "jr. shrink." Oy vey!

So, there you have it. State civil religion in which we all had to learn how to be 'shrinks.'

Love in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, for a healthy mental illness awareness network of scholars, politicians and military friends

Who Will Be the Next President of the U.S.A.?

Who will be the next President of the United States of America?

A 'manager' from the Mormon sect named "Mitt"?

A Pro-Abortionist from NYC named "Rudy"?

A good Senator from AZ named John?

OR is it too early to tell . . .

My own thoughts are that it is too early to tell. Similar to calling a Football Game "over" when the score is 3 - 0 with 13:33 left in the First Quarter, so also is it way too early to name a new President . . .

My own personal favorite is well, me :-)

Okay, setting aside the Davidson College-Duke University-University of Notre Dame "ego" (pretty large ego at that . . . verging on "super-ego" to use Freud's terms :-), I really do believe that I am much better qualified than any of the contenders. Men of lesser character, men further removed from upholding Judeo-Christian Moral Teaching and men, well sorry for the "ego" but men much less intelligent than I am.

Okay, really the only person running for President who is even close to my intellectual level (full tuition scholarships to Davidson, Duke & Notre Dame, I must remind you!) is, well, Hillary Clinton. Hillary, in spite of her flaming liberalism (she is from New York now apparently . . . :) is nonetheless a worthy intellectual foe. She is an attorney.

Well, setting aside "intelligence for hire" (a.k.a. being an attorney), unlike myself, General Petreus (Ph.D. Princeton) or Condoleeza Rice (former provost of Stanford), Hillary, although intelligent, is still not that intelligent! Stanford, Notre Dame, Princeton doctoral level far exceeds ANY attorney whom I have met . . .

So, if you want an intelligent choice for President, consider Rob J. King. I will tell you ahead of time that I will "load the deck" not with "cronies" but with straight up intelligent, virtuous leaders. Men & women of the caliber of Condoleeza Rice, General Petreus, et al. If you are some telemarketer with a 2.0 GPA from a community college, well then I am sorry, even if you donate tons of money, you are simply not intelligent enough to serve in the King Administration and similar to the Graduate School at Notre Dame, you need not apply. No Monica Lewinsky interns, please. Only people who are serious about their studies. Only people who are intelligent. Only people who are willing to serve.

Thank you for supporting a "new vision" of America based on Virtue, based on Intelligence, based on Loyalty.

Love in Jesus,
Rob J King, B.A. 3.6 GPA; M.Div. 3.6 GPA; Th.M. 3.9 GPA; Ph.D. studies 3.74 GPA