By Olen Baker Disclaimer: At the bottom of this article is a short excerpt from the first book in my series published by Defiance Press that relates a little with this article. linkback to FB for comments

I know there are probably a lot of people following the Cold Dead Hands facebook page that are likely upset the content isn’t as much about guns as they would like.

Well the reason for that is not only because Regulator.Solutions is involved. I was writing and rabble-rousing from CDH for years before I started recognizing, our country has some serious educational and leadership gaps that need filling. Although trust me part of my heart agrees with the people who moan, “Can’t we have more of the gun stuff?”

Trust me I am way overdue for some range therapy and gunpowder treatment.

But what matters more? Guns, or the 2nd amendment? I know that is a chicken-egg situation to say which matters more? And a while back I threw some meat to the masses by asking “What right is the most important” and a lot of the feedback was aimed at the 2nd amendment in various expressions.

But, what matters more, the 2nd amendment…or what establishes the 2nd amendment? What even does that? The Constitution? Or We The People? What established We the People as an authority? When does God get any credit for any of it?

Maybe that is why I believe I can make a pretty sound argument for why “Freedom of Religion” is the most important right? Although I do not expect winning that many hearts and minds

with my defense for the right for people to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

I also stirred up a little controversy over my stance in defense of the American Flag against being burned in protest against free speech. Oh excuse me, as a free speech protest. Oh wait, that doesn’t sound good either…burning the flag as a speech against prot-…Wait.. That can’t be right either.

Oh…. the court-permitted activity that burning the flag in protest is “free speech.”

Just as long as it is the American flag… and not an LGBTQ flag, which has more protection than the American flag and you obviously can’t practice “hate speech” against it .

It should be pretty obvious we need to have some conversations in our country about what matters most in order for us to stop taking for granted…arguable privileges of being an American that is being stolen from all of us. Such as defending the flag.

Or would we be better off if the only law here in our country is the law of the gun?

At the point I accept that belief is the point where I have completely given up on humanity and am just waiting for God to hit the big red button so many people expect to happen. Especially climate change cultists who are likely experiencing some sort of identity crisis when their marketing labels have to be changed every so often when the expiration date on end of days floods hasn’t happened yet and appears less likely the more time marches on.

Small wonder our government believes talking about aliens is a safe topic for Congress to deal with. Rather than rising inflation and conditions that are starving and destroying families. Or the total disregard for the Constitution by the demented criminal creep occupying the white house through the aid of illegal votes that appeared from outer space.

But not nearly as safe as people think when someone is stupid enough to ask me how embarrassed I am going to be for not believing in ETALIENUFO’s when they come because I believe in Jesus and the bible.

You know… I have evidence I can describe as strong, compelling, and extraordinary proving why my faith in God is not in vain. But the only evidence people can try to use to convince me about aliens is based on logical fallacies. Such as appeals to ignorance. “Well you can’t know there isn’t some distant place far away where intelligent life is at”

Or one of my favorites, “God could have created aliens in a distant place in the universe!”

Hey, I get it. Arguing from ignorance can be a fun way to explore possibilities and play what-if games. That kind of thing has many a nerd getting their geek on over thor beating the incredible hulk.

But when it comes to the alien stuff… especially ETALIENUFO coming to Earth…. You have to convince me of some serious hard sciences being broken first before we even get to the topic of God and the bible. Short version…. I can see ETALIENUFO’s possibly coming here only if they are immortals and or time travelers. Again we can geek out over the laws of physics being suspended and broken to allow the miracles of time travel or death being defeated by such creatures…but hey, we are talking miracles now?

I find it sadly funny that atheists are more willing to believe in ETALIENUFOs than Jesus… but ok…

Of course, every atheist I run into admits miracles while contradicting themselves to deny it.

They can explain anything about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, the origin of morality, and other chicken-egg issues…… as long as you let them have at least one miracle first.

Because atheists don’t believe in “something from nothing” according to what they claim. No…. just self-replicating molecules that aliens created that intelligently designed the universe and everything in it… according to one of the atheist messiahs Richard Dawkins .

But let’s ignore miracles for the moment… because miracles are proof of God and we don’t want to take away two of the only three logic fallacy pillars that atheism is standing on before we get to why atheism is proving itself to be the WORST religious belief to have that promotes society. Now I won’t credit atheism for being destructive against society… although I could make the argument due to the fact atheism requires ignorance and or intentional irrationality in order to adhere to the belief that there is no God.

But Atheism enjoys the privilege of God Given Rights in order to remain atheist. And I wouldn’t take that away from them by force any more than my God will take it from them by force.

God created a universe that operates with functionality that can only be accurately and honestly described as purpose driven. Part of that functionality provides conditions for life to be supported on Earth. These conditions are identified as Anthropic Principles. Last I checked the list is still being added every time “science” turns around and discovers more. But in the list are conditions such as the specific distance from our sun. Too close we burn up, too far we are frozen out. Other variables such as the composition of our water, how the earth reflects light and gravitational pressure from other planets. The lists go on and on and on.

And nearly all of them refer to our living conditions in the bible I could easily make through direct analogies.

The bottom line though is the fact that such exact conditions that allow for carbon-based…intelligent…life to exist here… would have to be replicated in likely a perfect copy across the universe.

Now… what would the odds be of finding your perfect genetic clone on earth that was randomly born by accident? Short answer, impossible. It would not be an accident nor random.

But let’s take that a step further to make a more realistic comparison. What are the odds of finding your genetically perfect clone…… in another part of this planet…. Living in an identical “United States of America?” complete with a Constitution and Bill of Rights?

Because we are talking about conditions that promote intelligent life, otherwise called Anthropic Principles.

In America, we have Conditions that promote our lives too, they are God Given Rights. Among them, bearing arms….free speech…due process…freedom of religion.

Conditions that exclusively help promote our Life and Liberty and allow us to Pursue Happiness.

Conditions that do not promote that, do not apply. And conditions that are against it are not Rights. For example, just because you have the right to have sex, because being fruitful and multiplying is a God Given Right…does not mean you have a “right” to rape someone. Which obviously means there is a necessary moral condition that determines Rights from wrongs.

God placed that condition on us from the beginning, when He made us in His image.

But we are too smart to know what that means. God had to rescue us out of captivity from darkness time and again in our history. One such event was recorded and gave birth to the 10 commandments to help clarify our brilliant minds to understand what is meant by “Imago Dei” And still a lawyer came along with a chicken egg argument to throw at Jesus about it by asking Him what was the greatest law?

I would have LOVED being able to read Jesus telling the lawyer, “The Right to Bear Arms.”

“Treat your neighbor as you would yourself, and love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind with all of your strength.”

Being created in God’s Image is a privilege humanity has that no other creature in existence shares.

And the best way to understand some of the benefits of that privilege is through our exercise of moral judgment.

Without moral judgment, we are nothing more than animals. Which I have little doubt is why God placed animals around us to shame our behaviors at our worst by how they behave at their best. They arguably have no choice when we know the right pressure to use against them. We on the other hand?

A lot of people got offended that I defend the American Flag against enemies hellbent on destroying it. Maybe I get that attitude by posing the question, if the Flag could speak for itself, what might it say? And I have a general idea based on our Pledge of Allegence, and a little help from Red Skelton and Johnny Cash . But damn doesn't that make it an act of evil…. And wrong for someone to respond to what the Flag of the United States of America is saying to everyone that looks at it……by setting it on fire in response?

Maybe their excuse is being ignorant that the Flag is the image of our Constitution and people. It is one of the conditions that ensures our existence and ability to stay on the Right course as a country. It serves as a signal, a message…. It declares itself and who can find shelter and aid under its shadow? And it takes an act of aggressive force to be silenced or separated from us and leave us frozen in darkness away from its bright colors.

See the similarity here that I am talking about through this off-the-planet comparison between Rights and Anthropic Principles?

One if the challenges I make to people who are obviously taking their rights for granted is by asking them, “What is your problem with God Given Rights?”

Because… I am speaking about…basic human rights. Just using a term they would find hyperbolic means exactly that and is no different.

Basic Human Rights are not endowments by man for man…issued by permit and subject to revoke by decree. But I know some people think they can be taken away. And the truth about that is you can be separated from them by pressures exerted against you by outside forces. And if that happened through your fault of straying too far into darkness and away from the Son…good luck finding mercy from man to correct your path back on the straight and narrow.

Now imagine an advanced American immortal society that traveled through time and saw a primate acting chump burning our Flag… while imprisoning people who burned the pride flag?

Do you think the time-traveling immortal from “super america” might become extremely prejudiced against such irrational behavior? You know I gotta wonder what kind of advanced weapons a time-traveling immortal would have to exert pressure against dumb animals that didn’t behave the way they want.

One of the arguments from ignorance I have seen over ETALIENUFOs has been “I refuse to believe we are alone!”

I have seen that repeated through independent sources of people of varying religious beliefs.

But there is Good News. We are not alone.

No, there is no time-traveling immortal out there.. Unless we are talking about God who lives in a Kingdom very much like America just better in every way. You might even call it a Super America. But you should probably be careful about wanting to get too close to Him while acting a fool.

If you can’t even handle treating your neighbor as you would want to be treated because we are created in God’s Image… how much more will you disrespect God to His Face?

Little food for thought when you see the flag and want to handle it… how that reflects the way you regard your very own rights given by the Constitution that the Flag represents.

And somehow a person has the right to offend the flag, but I have no right to defend it. I have seen people who claim “Christian” as their title, and prove it to be in vain when they say people have the grace to offend Jesus… but I have none to defend Him with because I am being unkind, or offensive or not loving to that person. Because my Faith is militant? Under such hypocritical criticism, I can’t see that as a bad thing.

Unless you want me to stomp your militant unbelief into the dirt and set it on fire the way you have done mine and see if it will still rise from the dead.

For simply speaking what is True.

The 58 verses following my message reflect the teaching of Psalms 58. After that you will find the excerpt from my book.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—

1John 1:1

to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

1Peter 1:4

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1Corinthians 1:25

‘If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

Leviticus 3:6

Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

James 4:17

But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully,

1Timothy 1:8

They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you,” says the Lord , “to deliver you.”

Jeremiah 1:19

For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.

Jeremiah 31:11

“For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Matthew 22:14

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair?

Ezekiel 18:25

Then you turned around and profaned My name, and every one of you brought back his male and female slaves, whom you had set at liberty, at their pleasure, and brought them back into subjection, to be your male and female slaves.’

Jeremiah 34:16

And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

Isaiah 64:7

He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him— the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

John 12:48

“Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts?

Isaiah 28:9

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

Ephesians 4:11

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

John 3:34

When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.

John 2:15

For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:6

If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.

John 7:17

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord ?’ And those who handle the law did not know Me; The rulers also transgressed against Me; The prophets prophesied by Baal, And walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 2:8

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

John 1:29

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the Lord .

Jeremiah 23:1

The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:34

I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

John 17:15

“He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 21:16

Thus says the Lord , The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the Lord who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You.”

Isaiah 49:7

The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.

Isaiah 11:8

then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.

Hebrews 10:9

“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon her.

Jeremiah 5:1

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 4:24

We lie down in our shame, And our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, We and our fathers, From our youth even to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 3:25

But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Matthew 6:6

And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one.

Acts 9:7

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Romans 3:18

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

1Peter 2:9

But the Lord is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.

Jeremiah 20:11

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.

Exodus 16:4

Thus says the Lord : “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord .

Jeremiah 17:5

Give glory to the Lord your God Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble On the dark mountains, And while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death And makes it dense darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

John 20:27

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

1Corinthians 11:28

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:19

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, ” says the Lord .

Jeremiah 7:11

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”

John 5:14

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

John 11:25

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

Romans 9:16

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

John 14:17

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1Corinthians 5:8

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

1John 2:19

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

Romans 9:21

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

Romans 10:14

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

John 15:15

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Romans 11:6

Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”

John 18:37

And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:18

This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

John 6:39

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:1

Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

John 8:24

1John 1:1 Ephesians 4:11 Jeremiah 5:1 Jeremiah 7:11 Romans 8:1 Romans 9:21 Jeremiah 20:11 Jeremiah 23:1 Jeremiah 31:11

1Peter 1:4 John 3:34 John 4:24 John 5:14 John 8:24 Romans 10:14 Exodus 16:4 Leviticus 19:34 Matthew 22:14

1Corinthians 1:25 John 2:15 Jeremiah 3:25 John 11:25 John 15:15 Jeremiah 17:5 John 17:15 Ezekiel 18:25

Leviticus 3:6 Romans 5:6 Matthew 6:6 Romans 9:16 Romans 11:6 Jeremiah 13:16 Exodus 21:16 Jeremiah 34:16

James 4:17 John 7:17 Acts 9:7 John 14:17 John 18:37 John 20:27 Isaiah 49:7 Isaiah 64:7

1Timothy 1:8 Jeremiah 2:8 Romans 3:18 1Corinthians 5:8 Romans 6:18 Isaiah 11:8 1Corinthians 11:28 John 12:48

Jeremiah 1:19 John 1:29 1Peter 2:9 1John 2:19 John 6:39 Matthew 7:19 Hebrews 10:9 Isaiah 28:9