Taking a Knee

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QUICK NOTE: this is religious in nature. If you're an atheist, an agnostic, or the like, this doesn't apply to you. This is more of a "preaching to the choir" thing. Thanks for reading, though....but this isn't directed at you. One of the biggest lies we have right now is that we are the United States of America. We are not. We are more divided now than we've ever been in my half-century-plus of life. I watch the news and think, no, this is not the country I served. The controversy du jour is the NFL players who "took a knee" during the National Anthem this past weekend. Yes, it infuriated me; however, the Supreme Court said that burning the flag is protected speech (no, it's arson). They have a right to do it. You and I also have a right to not support a bunch of multi-millionaires who wouldn't know "oppression" if it tackled them for a 20 yard loss. (Honestly, I think that, more than anything, is the "issue" that a lot of people have: not that they're protesting, but that they're making more money in a day than most NFL fans make in five years, and instead of using that money to try to solve a problem or two, they're telling people how bad they have it because they went to college for free and now make millions because they can play a stinking backyard game well.) And that works on "the other side," too. How many Christians are complaining about these crybabies but they aren't "taking a knee" -- in prayer for the country? Let me tell you something: if Kim Jong Goofybutt (I always liked how Letterman referred to the North Korean regime as "Kim Jong Il and his song, Men Ta Le Il." ) decides he's going to "drop the big one" and our "Star Wars" missile defense system doesn't work then people are going to die. That bomb doesn't care if you're white, black, Christian, Jew, atheist, Republican, Democrat, male, female, straight, gay, transgender, millionaire crybaby, stingy businessman, or anything else that we've divided ourselves into over the past ten years or so. It's not the notion that the politicians will get in a cage match for a MMA smackdown event. No, they're going to be safely in a bunker while you and I pay the price. Then the divisions aren't going to matter. It didn't matter on 9/11. It didn't matter at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It didn't matter at Pearl Harbor. It doesn't matter in the cemetery. So, instead of whining about the NFL "taking a knee," how about you believers taking a knee in prayer and pray for this country? Don't pray for "your party" to "take power" or "keep power." Don't pray for everyone to join "the right church" (which is always, coincidentally, the one that the person praying belongs to....). A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And, right now, our links are all weak and in danger of breaking. "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their evil, then I will hear from Heaven, I will forgive them, and I will heal their land." (2nd Chronicles 7:14) But you gotta "take a knee" in prayer first before we can get the forgiveness and healing. So do it.