Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers

The U.S. National Debt is at this writing, over $36.6 Trillion, and climbing so fast you cannot keep up with the digital read-out at usdebtclock.org. That's over $107K per citizen. Yet most in the national leadership, Congress and the President, have for decades blithely continued to add to this debt with oft-times outrageous spending bills - witness what occurred during the. Biden Administration - for which there is no identified funding. The U.S. debt is ignored and new programs are "funded" by borrowing against the future in a classic kick-the-can-down-the-road fashion, one that dumps the problem of responsibility, potential bankruptcy and collapse, and pain onto our progeny. DOGE, the Trump-appointed Department of Government Efficiency, is now working full speed ahead on reducing this national debt by identifying "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the federal bureaucracy. Needless to say, this has created a whole new cottage industry of Chicken Littles running around claiming the sky is falling and the end of the world. But is this happening, or is the U.S. experiencing a dose of common sense rationality that, if allowed to play out, might just keep the country around for our grandchildren? For more Christian commentary, see my website at www.rexmrogers.com, or check my YouTube channel @DrRexRogers for more podcasts and video. #DOGE #Debt #Deficit #USNationalDebt #Profligacy

Most Christian organizations, at least in the recent past, operate with foundational documents, not only bylaws but doctrinal statements, maybe a staff lifestyle statement, and possibly position statements on matters key to their mission. This is not news. What is news is that now, given rapid social or should we say moral change, many Christian foundational statements are ill-prepared and out of date. For example, while they may talk about alcoholic beverages, they typically did not speak to legalized marijuana, or while they might refer in the past to gambling, now gambling has gone mainstream and "everybody does it." More concerning, however, are social developments re abortion, LGBTQ+, same-sex marriage, sexual orientation and gender identity aka SOGI. Christian organizations, the conservative ones anyway, the ones that want to maintain fidelity to the Scripture, are working or need to work toward revising their foundational statements in a manner that addresses these new issues. Not to do so puts the organization at legal if not moral risk. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.

Contemporary American, if not Western, culture is engaged in a pellmell rush to embrace nearly everything historic cultures considered lacking in common sense. I call this a celebration of irrationality. It goes to worldview. The current cultural zeitgeist has rejected moral absolutes for moral relativism. Many negative social pathologies result. American culture cannot long sustain itself upon these baseless, senseless ideas, attitudes, values, and practices. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.

In the past decade, Western European nations and more recently during the Biden Administration in the U.S., the West has opened its borders to a literal flood of aliens or immigrants or migrants or refugees, or in the case of the US illegals, or undocumented or "newcomers," whatever the politically correct phrase. The logic used by political elites who endorsed and made possible this illogical behavior goes to multiculturalism, fear of population decline and tanking economies, and moral relativism. The number of unvetted immigrants from cultures with contrary values is causing disruption and may alter the identity of given nations. What is a wise policy regarding immigration? For more Christian commentary check my website at rexmrogers.com.

America has called the "First New Nation," a "Great Experiment," and a Christian nation. Each of these phrases have been the source of extensive historical research. Whatever your preference, clearly biblical Christianity made an enormous impact upon not onlly the United States but Western Civilization. The USA, God be praised, is still a land where religious liberty is honored, and with it freedom of speech. It is a place where all people, including Christians, can learn to discern how their faith can contribute to lives and culture. May this struggle, this Great Experiment, continue. For more Christian commentary and videos, check my website at rexmrogers.com or my YouTube channel @DrRex Rogers.
#America #CivilReligion #GreatExperiment #ManifestDestiny