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                                   ESSAY 26

                                     THE
                          "CHARACTER DOESN'T MATTER"
                                    MYTH

              The character of politicians DOES matter.  And there are
         at least ten reasons:

         1. ALL OF US ARE ROLE MODELS.  We  cannot  choose  whether or
         not to be a role model.  We can only choose to be a good role
         model  or a bad role model.  For most of us, only a few chil-
         dren  and  youth look to us as pattern for their lives.
              However,the leadership of the nation have many that look
         to them as an example.   Elected officials  that steal,  lie,
         commit adultery, commit sodomy and statutory rape do not  de-
         serve the place of trust that the American people have placed
         in them.  Evil leaders must change, or be put out  of office.
         Otherwise, they  will  lead  our most precious treasures--our
         children--into  becoming  evil  also.  Eventually, the  whole
         nation could become corrupt.

         2. WHEN  A  PERSON  CHOOSES  TO PERFORM A WRONG ACT, HIS MIND
         AUTOMATICALLY BEGINS TO RATIONALIZE IN AN ATTEMPT TO  JUSTIFY
         THAT WRONG ACT.  In effect, he becomes blind in the area that
         he  has compromised.  Legislators who have  character defects
         are crippled in those compromised moral areas. They will make
         unjust  laws  in those areas or other areas.  Judges who have
         character  defects  will  tend  to be either too harsh or too
         lenient in those areas when  making  judicial  decisions  and
         passing sentences.   Executives  with  character defects will
         make  foolish, superficial  value  judgments  and tend not to
         solve root problems.

         3. PEOPLE WILL SUFFER ECONOMICALLY.  The  work ethic will de-
         cline  due  to  the desire for "something for nothing."   The
         popularity of lotteries in 35 states is a present evidence of
         this.  There  are an estimated 10,000,000 compulsive gamblers
         in the United States today.  Because of government encourage-
         ment, the number of compulsive gamblers will increase as will
         the social problems associated with gambling.
              Economic  parasites in government  bureaucracies, people
         on  welfare  and  prison  inmates  will  become  too great an
         economic  burden  on  those who still live productive  lives.
         The buying of votes by programs such as welfare and universal
         health care will push taxes higher.  Inflation and taxes will
         eventually help destroy the national economy.

         4. VIOLENCE WILL INCREASE.  The rejection of the Ten Command-
         ments  and  other  moral laws will spawn a new generation who
         will  not respect the lives and property of others.  Abortion
         as  a  convenience  has  been made legal and will beget other
         forms of murder and abuse of human beings.

         5. PHYSICAL  ILLNESS WILL INCREASE.  The  rejection  of  con-
         science will cause people to be morally weak. Promiscuity and
         perverted  sex  will  cause  sexually-transmitted diseases to
         rise alarmingly.  The use  of drugs will cause the  spread of
         disease, crime, and human suffering.  The lack of self disci-
         pline  will  weaken  our resolve for personal hygiene, proper
         diet, etc.  Socialized medicine will degrade the  quality  of
         medical treatment, as evidenced in other countries.

         6. "MENTAL"  ILLNESS  WILL INCREASE.  Irresponsibility causes
         depression, delusions, sociopathic personality, etc. (Read S.
         I. McMillen,  MD.,  NONE  OF  THESE  DISEASES,  and  John  W.
         Drakeford, EdD., INTEGRITY THERAPY).
              Abortion wounds the woman who has the abortion and we do
         not yet know the long-term effects on the rest of the  family
         involved. What will happen in the minds of children who learn
         that their parents killed their brothers and sisters?   Crack
         babies and AIDS babies will be among the  innocents who  will
         suffer psychologically as well as physically.

         7. THE UNITED STATES WILL BECOME A THIRD WORLD POWER. We will
         lose our place of world leadership.  The character issue will
         undermine our military. Our armed forces must have discipline
         and  the  lack  of moral character and self-discipline in its
         leadership will weaken it internally.  Likewise, our manufac-
         turing and gross national product will suffer due to laziness
         and hedonism.  Our lack of basic education in the  government
         schools will cripple our technological lead.

         8. RELIGION WILL DEGENERATE AND FAIL IN ITS FUNCTION OF  ACT-
         AS  A  NATIONAL  CONSCIENCE FOR SOCIETY.  Cults  and  Satanic
         groups will increase in number and influence.

         9. IF  THE  PERSONS  WHO  CAMPAIGN  FOR  OFFICE ARE CHARACTER
         DEFICIENT, WHAT  THEY PROMISE IS NOT BELIEVEABLE.  Therefore,
         the image that they project is just that--an  image. We could
         unknowingly elect sociopathic people like Hitler or Stalin.

         10. PEOPLE WHO LACK CHARACTER PROBABLY HAVE REJECTED GOD  AND
         THEREFORE HAVE CUT THEMSELVES OFF FROM GOD'S WISDOM  AND  HIS
         HELP TO GOVERN.  By rejecting God and becoming their own god,
         they also open themselves up for further delusion and manipu-
         lation by demons.
              Let  us  pray for politicians who are in office.  Let us
         carefully  study  candidates.  Let  us prayerfully choose the
         best candidate and vote for him.


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