I chose the name "WindCaller" because I doubt if my posts will be read by a whole lot of people.  With so many other blogs out there, why would people willingly read mine?  I certainly want people to read what I have to say.  And I wouldn't write it if I didn't think anybody at all would read it.  So if you're reading this, "Thank you!"

Well, now that I've got that out of the way...what to say?  This being my first blog and all, there's a lot that needs to be said.  Why didn't the topic selector include an "all of the above" choice?  For what I'm writing about includes more than just the subject of "faith and family."

However, since that is the topic chosen, I will try to limit my words to that topic.  First, faith is failing in our families:  our faith in God, our faith in each other, and our faith in our government to do what it is supposed to do.  In writing this post, I am assuming that the readers will be mostly conservatives, and mostly "Christians."

As such, we hate driving down the road and seeing "X-mas trees" for sale.  It is indicitive of our society:  Christ has been taken away.  He was once very prevalent, but little by little, like a bad cancer, He has been iradicated from our society.  We are invited to practice religion in private, but it should go no farther than that.  To suggest otherwise would be to "push religion down their throats."

To a large extent, we have accepted it.  How long does it take for people to recognize that we are Christians?  I'm not suggesting everyone should go around wearing Sunday clothes with cross lepel pins on them, with a 20-lb. King James 1611 Bible under our arm when we go to the grocery store, but then, it sure wouldn't hurt either.

I look at old photographs, and I see people that were dressed much nicer than the way we dress today.  As I say that, I can here the naysayers in my head repeating the oft-heard slogan that people weren't treated as well in those days either.  Blacks drank at different water fountains than whites, bla, bla, bla.

OK, so we weren't perfect back then, but I think we were a lot closer than we are today.  Which is worse:  having blacks and whites drink at different fountains, or seeing a couple of sodomites kissing, and one of them wearing a dress?  Don't get me wrong.  I'm not condoning the treatment of black people back then.  And no (since I'm on that topic), the Bible doesn't condone slavery either.  But we were, as a general rule, more moral.

The Bible was a much more well-read book than it is today.  And since I'm on that topic, let me ask you, Mr. or Miss, or Mrs. Conservative, when is the last time you read your Bible?  Do you have to wipe the dust off before you take it to church or synagogue?  Is it just a paperweight?  How can we expect the world to understand our faith if we don't show them any?

Having faith is more than wearing a cross around your neck.  After all, even Madonna wears a cross.  Christianity is more than just symbolism.  It's the substance of faith that carries our prayers to heaven when we take the time to get on our knees and send them.  And if we chose to live a life of prayer, the world will not help but notice it.  And as they see that our God is a God who answers prayer, they will not help but be able to respect it.

Why doesn't the world believe the Bible?  Because they don't see it being lived in us.  Why do liberals disdain religion?  Because the only examples they see are of fake religiosity that goes to church on Saturday or Sunday, then promptly goes on unaffected throughout the rest of the week.  I think it's high time we showed the world just how real our God is.

-Windcaller