Have you ever heard the saying, "one crying in the wilderness"? I am starting to get an idea of how that guy feels.

It is said that if you talk about something long enough, people begin to believe it whether it is true or not. The liberal media has caught onto this fact and are on their own agenda.

Now, one hopes that an older mature Christian who has been in the church and serving God longer than I have been alive would be chocked full of experience and wisdom, and would be able to see things for what they are and not be duped into some socialist way of life. My hopes were dashed here.

Recently, I was expressing my concern to one of the ladies in our church over the president and the direction he is taking this country. She shared with me that she had been reading the Bible lately and believed it was a sin for a Christian to criticize the leadership of our nation, citing that God had put him over us and we should be praying for him. She all but accused me of having a demonic spirit of criticism. (And all this time I thought I was a patriot.)

Out of respect, I did not bring up the fact that I am no scholar, but I have read the King James Version of the Bible from cover to cover four times. I have come across several accounts of a handful of God's people willing to stand up to the wicked king or queen of the day on behalf of righteousness and their nation. Many times God delivered them from their plight.

I also did not relay to her that this administration has caused me to be on my knees like no other before. Never have the leaders of the greatest country in the world worked so diligently to turn us into a cheap, Third World, communist nation. Man's God-given instinct to have freedom is worth "fighting the good fight." I certainly didn't have the heart to tell her, if her messiah gets his way with his health care reform, she won't have to worry about who is critical about him; those her age are among the first he wants to euthanize anyway.

Among other things, this conversation did cause me to wonder where the conservative Christians are. Who is standing in the gap for the next generation?

If you are under 40 years old, you have been subliminally and systematically indoctrinated into socialist thinking for years by the government school system and public television, and you have a good excuse for being duped. But if you are in my age category and a little older, then shame on you for listening to the stupid box and believing that CNN or NBC or any of the other networks are telling you the truth.

Isn't it about time God's people picked up some rocks and started asking the question King David did: Who is this, that he should defy the armies of the living God? (1 Samuel 17:26)

Diana McDonald