{"id":1364,"date":"2015-01-25T05:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndturner.com\/gracePlus\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2015-01-25T05:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T05:41:23","slug":"our-american-sniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndturner.com\/gracePlus\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Our American Sniper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.\u201d -G. K. C.<\/p><\/div>\n

You shouldn\u2019t have to take more than a couple of steps outside of a movie theater to realize that this is a place worth fighting for.\u00a0 And to fight is to sacrifice.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is not apparent to a lot of people these days.\u00a0 Because evil isn\u2019t just, over there, it\u2019s here too.\u00a0 And not just in the sense that we are all fallen, that we all have sin, but it is deliberate and more pronounced in some.\u00a0 Some people don\u2019t appreciate good when it is right in front of their face, and some people actively fight for evil, right here in the good old U. S. A..<\/p>\n

Chesterton said that what\u2019s important about a myth or legend isn\u2019t what it says about the person, but what it says about the people who hold onto that myth.\u00a0 Every story is a partial story, it isn\u2019t a complete tape recording it is a picture, painted with words, an art.\u00a0 Every man who walks this earth has flaws, but there truly are great men.\u00a0 Only a fool spends his life destroying these men or telling stories about their flaws.\u00a0 It\u2019s not important if every detail of the movie is an exact replica of the life of Kyle.\u00a0 Of course ugly parts were passed over and his achievements were glorified.\u00a0 America loves the book version of Chris Kyle, America loves the movie version of Chris Kyle and that\u2019s not a bad thing.\u00a0 Because we become like our heroes.<\/p>\n

In the sixties movies about the wonders of free and open sex were aplenty, like The Graduate.\u00a0 Adultery was actually illegal in California at the time!\u00a0 And soon after it wasn\u2019t, and soon free and open sex were everywhere.\u00a0 In the eighties Van Halen was Hot for Teacher, and today you can read about female teachers having sex with their students almost daily.\u00a0 When you idolize bad ideals, you get bad people.\u00a0 Is it really so bad to lift up a man for his remarkable accomplishments, even if he was very flawed?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 Our children need role models.\u00a0 I wonder how many of these critics would like to have the entire force of the media picking through their lives with a fine tooth comb.\u00a0 Which is why we still know nothing of Obama\u2019s past.\u00a0 It has been erased by strong arming and bribes.\u00a0 Those who mock traditional heroes, make a mockery of themselves, they have heroes too, just the wrong kind of heroes.\u00a0 Heroes such as Clinton or Kennedy, no one even bothers to cover up their evil, they just lower the standards.\u00a0 And so today often sex isn\u2019t sex and lying and sleeping around are fine. Because too many people picked bad heroes.<\/p>\n

There are many heroes in the Bible.\u00a0 Abraham, Issac and Jacob, Moses and Elijah, or David.\u00a0 I remember mentioning that these men were \u2018righteous\u2019 to a friend and he was making fun of me because these man had flaws.\u00a0 I pointed out that it wasn\u2019t I who called them righteous, but scripture itself.\u00a0 They are also called \u201ca man after God\u2019s own heart\u201d and \u201cmen of faith\u201d. \u00a0 Their flaws should be a warning, but that should not overshadow the importance of remembering their greatness.<\/p>\n

So, just what does this movie say about our culture?\u00a0 First of all it says that we are divided.\u00a0 There are a lot of people who hate this movie and a lot more who love it.\u00a0 Of the latter, it says that they love someone willing to get up off the couch of their own selfish life, and protect the innocent.\u00a0 It says that they love someone who has sex before marriage. Ok America you get a fail on this one.\u00a0 It says that they love someone who is willing to stare evil in the face and deal with it.\u00a0 It says that they love someone who is very good at what he does.\u00a0 It says that they love someone who gives up what he loves for his family.\u00a0 It says that we realize that excellence is the result of hard work and trials.\u00a0 It says that we have a place for the Bible even if it\u2019s only in our breast pocket. It says that we would love it if the Middle East would spend their afternoons watching movies instead of living like barbarians and trying to kill us.<\/p>\n

But there is the other side, the evil within.\u00a0 Their heroes are Woodward and Bernstein, the iconoclasts.\u00a0 Because we all know there is nothing good in this world.\u00a0 Well, except for whatever you feel like.\u00a0 Their heroes are similar to the hero of the Middle East, the Prophet.\u00a0 A bloodthirsty, lazy, caveman, coward, polygamist, who married into money and fell into fame by a scheme so good it could have only been made possible by Satan himself.\u00a0 No I\u2019m not talking about our Secretary of State, John Kerry, I\u2019m talking about Muhammed. Hollywood and academia love this type of hero.\u00a0 Which is why the Tsarnaev brothers didn\u2019t really stand out at Harvard.\u00a0 Hollywood spends most of their time trying to destroy the heroes of middle America like Kyle.\u00a0 But they are not without their own heroes, men like Castro, Che, Mao, Marx, Darwin, and even Lucifer himself.\u00a0 As Bill Ayers, hero mentor of both Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, dedicated his book to Lucifer.\u00a0 Ok you can have your Michael Moore.\u00a0 We are quite happy with Clint Eastwood and his myth.\u00a0 Someday our kids will give their lives to protect the lazy bastard children of your hollywood academia.<\/p>\n

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