Redneck Review
No. 64 711/2016
A quick look at least week's RNR makes me blush a bit, as it dawned on me that I had used the term RED NECK rather recklessly! Perhaps, I am thinking, it is time to take a look back at that title, and see if I can legitimately use it!
For starters, a "Red Neck" was described in RNR #3 as "an out-of-date hard nosed old codger who somehow is out of sync with modern times." Hmmm! Many people I know would certainly say this is true! And more about this in a moment!
But Dorothy Walker's Central Idaho Post in its June 10 and 17 editions certainly made me feel more secure in using the term! I quote a couple of entries from her "Jokes of the Week" section those two days:
"You own a home that is mobile, and fourteen cars that aren't." Well, I qualify here since I have a '55 Chevolet bus made into a mobile home, which has not moved (and won't) for about 15 years, and until just recently, had four other vehicles I am emotionally attached to which will not run! And Dorothy's second joke says "Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years." Hey, my camper bus qualifies as it has not left in that time!
The following week in the Post we read: "You have a rag for a gas cap on a car that does run." Been there, done that... more than once! "Your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language." Well, not my grandmother, but certainly my step mother qualified, as she cut loose a time or two in ball games that threatened her and our team with technicals! And finally, "You can't tell which color your car is because of the dirt." Hey! We wash our dirt covered cars at least once a year!
But back to the description found in the first paragraph. Myself and many older folks like myself are definitely "out-of-sync with modern times." Following are some of the reasons we find ourselves baffled by what is going on today! And we urge any reader who can explain why we should not be concerned to let us know!
One! This is a Christian nation, everyone knows that, all sources verify that roughly three out of every four people in this country claim to belong to one Christian religion or another, though the percentage has dropped around 8 to 10 percent in the last several decades. How then I ask, can this nation tolerate the brutal removal of some 50 million babies from their mother's womb over the last five decades? Pre-mature babies under three pounds have survived birth and grown up naturally, yet our country still tolerates killing them in the womb much later than that! Even our laws are confused! Just the other day, a man who killed a pregnant mother was accused of murder, of the mother and the baby in the womb
And two of our presidential candidates endorse this process! I thought Commandment 5 states "Thou shalt not kill!" And we still fund Planned Parenthood out of our tax dollars! 
Two! How also can we legalize gay marriage" I am not one to say two people cannot choose to marry as they choose! BUT, the Bible which we claim we believe and is God's word, condemns the practice! Period! Don't think so? Read Romans, Ch 1, vs. 26-32 for a blunt comment on this practice! Or Leviticuis, Ch 18, v. 22! "Such a thing is an abomination." Is that blunt enough? Maybe read about Sodom and Gommorah! Yikes!
Hey! Out of space, and out of time! But other topics demand attention! Next time!
Jake Wren

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