The internet is amazing tool.  You can find information in the blink of an eye.  You can spend hours absorbing information and drawing your own conclusions .

It also has  a dark side – when a news item can be blown totally out of proportion.  A story like that appeared this week and blossomed into an international tirade.  A man on a guided hunt has been put out of business because of it.  His employees no longer have jobs.  His family and his history has been under scrutiny.

One activist group can stir up so much damage while another group. which supports human life, goes largely unheard. It’s inconceivable.

When things flare up politically – like a couple of Republicans taking a stand against the establishment – the media begins to divert attention to something that has no real value – something that will enrage, anger or stir up the people so they don’t think about the issues at hand.  We are all guilty of becoming part of the sheep herd.

Our country is at a crossroads.  We’re already inundated with political rhetoric, a congress that doesn’t get anything done and leadership that has become more like a monarchy than a democracy.  Our freedoms are being spat upon along with the Constitution which was designed to disable the nonsense going on in Washington today.

We’ve always been a Christian nation, despite what our president says, and it’s time we start acting like one.  Christians as well as their churches must take a stand.  We can’t simply sit on the fence and do nothing.

Our prayers will provide God’s intervention, but our words and actions are needed to inspire the battle.  America has always stood on its trust in God.  We must become that again and the only way it will happen is to ask God to heal our land.

When scandal comes out, another story is spun by the almighty internet to divert our attention.