Ask anyone in the United States, “What is your nationality?” and they will invariably respond incorrectly. They will insist they are American. While this is true, Canadians are also Americans. We have North Americans, Central Americans, and South Americans as well. What many in the United States do not realize is that America is a continent and not a nation. Some are offended by me even stating this reality!

Tell persons in the United States this, while pushing them even further about their nationality, and many of them will insist (also incorrectly) that their nationality is German-American or African-American. While these may be the birth countries of their ancestors, they are not the lands of their birth if they were born in the United States!

Why are we in the United States confused about our nationality? Why are we unable to instantly recognize we are uniquely United Statesian?

One reason is that even my spell checker does not recognize this term as a word. Neither do my countrymen. Yet, United Statesian is my nationality. United Statesians are confused because we have allowed the disease of multiculturalism to rob us of our honorable birthright, our common language, our unique culture, and our Christian heritage. It is also the reason why we continue to be divided by foreign races and cultures.

I am proud of my heritage. I proclaim it. I advocate it. I teach it. I promote it. I advance its honorable and divine principles. These are the only principles that will sustain those of us who truly desire to remain one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

There are five brothers. These brothers, like most families, disagree from time to time. Their most recent disagreement threatens the entire family.

Edward hates Ben because Edward has been forced off the family farm when Ben received his inheritance. When Edward was removed he dedicated himself to destroying Ben to get back the family farm. Al and Charles came to the defense of Ben’s legal claim. Edward now is angry also at them and threatens to destroy them for siding with Ben.

Dom is trying to stay neutral. Edward will not leave him alone. He is threatening to hurt Dom also if he remains unwilling to unite with Edward to destroy the other brothers. Dom successfully gets the brothers to compromise and give Edward back part of the farm, but Edward sees their conciliatory gestures as weakness. It does nothing to assuage his anger. Instead, he not only refuses their offer but raises the stakes demanding the farm AND Al's and Charles’ properties! He now wants everything or nothing. He is willing to die to get it all.

Local authorities refuse to get involved although Edward violently attacked Ben, Charles, and Al. The brothers feel they no longer have any choice but to arm and defend themselves, even killing Edward if necessary to protect themselves, their homes, and their families.

The situation is volatile. What are your suggestions for resolving this fight?

Some want to live by religious law. They would force all children to live by law. They don’t know what they are saying.

In Scripture, Abraham had two sons. One son was born of a slave, Hagar. The other son was born of a free woman, Sarah. The son of the slave woman was born in a natural way. But the son of the free woman was born because of God's promise.

Each woman represents an agreement God made with his people. Hagar stands for the agreement made at Mount Sinai through law. Her children are slaves. But our mother is the city of Jerusalem in heaven. She was always free. Her children breathe freedom.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a fight over land between sons of the slave woman. Every child born of religious law is born to the slave woman. Every son born to the slave woman persecutes the children of the free woman.

God says, "Get rid of the slave woman and her son! He won't be given anything. The son of the free woman will receive everything."

Christ died to make it possible for all persons to be born free.

It’s a familiar story. Kids steal a car. The police give chase. The kids wreck the car and are killed. The neighborhood cries in protest, “Police brutality!” In this case, the kids were electrocuted when they crawled into a power station. Cities started burning, but not for the reason you may believe.

Second and third generation immigrants are burning France. These immigrants have been unwilling to assimilate into French culture and society. They want France to give over control of her neighborhoods to their law and culture. France refuses. So, France burns.

My children, at times, felt neglected and angry when I refused their wants, wishes, and demands. Would they have been justified in burning my house down? Also, if France is so bad, why did these millions stay for two and three generations? France isn’t burning because she has mistreated her immigrants. France burns because she refuses demands of her spoiled children!

France must not give up control of cities, neighborhoods, and communities to extremists. The law-abiding, French citizens in these communities deserve government protection. Many of them are young women forced to wear religious garb. These same women are being tortured, stoned to death, persecuted, confined to homes, and pressured into arranged marriages. They are French women by birth. They have been abandoned to a foreign culture in their own country! It isn’t France keeping them in poverty and second class citizenship. It is their Islamist brothers!

[Credit Nidra Poller, “Eurabian Fights”, on Tech Central Station website.]

It began as a way to get the kids to take their bath. Every evening the argument started as the children prepared for bedtime. Who would be first to bathe? No one wanted to be first. Being first meant first in bed! To settle it, my wife created the bath list. It was a stroke of brilliance. She listed all three children each day of the week in rotation.

The list grew in usefulness. We referred to it often to settle such questions as, "Who gets to ride up front with Mom?" We merely had to ask, "Who's first on the bath list today?" when the children argued over a toy or television program to watch. It was always settled instantly by referring to the bath list. The first child watched what they wanted, then the next child got to choose, and then the third on the list, for that day.

The bath list allowed each child to be the privileged child for the day!

Someone once visited our home and jokingly asked after seeing the list, "Where's your names? When do you bathe?"

Well, the natural answer is that we created the list. We could set aside the list as we determined best.

This is similar to the answer Christ gave to the Pharisees when they questioned his faithfulness in keeping the Sabbath, Matthew 12.

The great thing is that Jesus died on the cross and nailed the Old Law to it. By doing so, we all became privileged children!