Good grief, I didn’t expect the onslaught of petty meanspiritedness and assorted darkness over Herman Cain’s death. It’s all over twitter and social media. The underlying root message is, “see, see this is what happens when you’re bad.” And underneath that message is, Look at me, I’m good, I’m compliant, I’m more virtuous, so death can’t come near me!
Are people really that shallow, lacking heart, and devoid of braincells? Don’t answer that, it’s a rhetorical question and I’m afraid to know the truth. I’m just saying, I live in a world where innocent people who have done nothing wrong are sometimes stricken by terrible tragedies, diseases, and sometimes deaths that leave you just bowed over at the injustice of it all.
Meanwhile, I got several people in my life who are “bad” as in they make all the wrong choices, poison themselves with substances, slam themselves into trees repeatedly, and walk away relatively unscathed. Not all mind you, I’ve been to plenty of funerals, too. I’m just saying sometimes you’ll see drunks kill innocent people in car wrecks and yet walk away from injury themselves. It is so unfair, so tragic, and pretty clear evidence that death is not always a simple reward for poor behavior.
I once wailed to the Lord, “only the good die young, the really rotten people always live to be 110! Wut’s with that?” You know what He whispered back to me? Make sure you’re one of the rotten people.
Very funny, but it all makes perfect sense to me after the fact! The Lord knew at the time I wasn’t particularly rotten, so such quips were not wasted on me. Even Jesus asks, “Why do you call me good?” He is perfect, sin free, but even He points us to the Father.
That perfect, sin free being lives in us. When we ask Jesus into our heart, we are inviting Him in and asking Him to take up residence within us. Our bodies are now a temple, a place for Him to live in. How we treat our own selves, now becomes how we treat Him. We ourselves are also, the least of these, and we house a King within.
Mel Wild taught me the term “Jehovah Sneaky,” which cracks me up because it is so true. I often do not see Him coming, He surprises me and catches me off guard. Lord, I never knew you! That answer was not at all what I expected.
Our own goodness will not save us from the grave just as Herman Cain’s alleged badness did not send him there. He did not get sick as punishment for questioning government and politics. I am astounded that anyone would traffic in such nonsense.
When I die, I should like to have lots of dancing on my grave. I do like dancing very much. Please sing and dance. I would also be honored if people would say, now see, serves her right, she met her vile end because she was so rotten. I am chuckling here, but it is my very rottenness that led me to Jesus Christ in the first place, that began a love story I wouldn’t have wanted to miss for the world.
Make sure you’re one of the rotten people. The reward for simply virtue signaling your perpetual goodness tastes something like dust and does not keep death from your door.
Also, “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” It says that in the Bible. However, it gets even better. One need not be absent from the body to be present with the Lord! We can all rest in His peace right now, right here, and embrace His life and life abundant, life eternal even. He is our resurrected Lord.
I love to say, His presence is the present, in the present.
The V Pub said:
Well, IB, he was on the wrong team. I’m sure if a “D” followed his name, he would be revered in his passing. RIP, Mr. Cain.
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American Daze Purple Haze said:
Everything you said in this post is right on! Self-righteous, judgmental people make me sick. “Sing and dance on my grave…” ha ha, I love it.
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seekingdivineperspective said:
Pretty sure they made Jesus sick, too. He sure had plenty of words for them.
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seekingdivineperspective said:
Many people – even Christians – lack the eternal perspective. So we die young? We die “old”? So what? Eternity makes it all look like a blink of an eye, if that. The good who die young get to escape from this evil world early – good for them! (Isaiah 57:1-2)
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Rjght? We should value life, it is very precious and should be treasured. However, those who have passed on have simply got to go be with Jesus before the rest of us. It is sad on our end, but not on theirs. They have won a victory, where we can often only see the loss and separation.
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seekingdivineperspective said:
Just a side note: Why do we call someone who has passed on “the LATE __________”? They may not have been early, but they got there before we did.
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insanitybytes22 said:
LOL! Exactly. 🙂
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Tricia said:
Just sickening but entirely not surprising the snarky glee which the left is celebrating Cain’s death with. By the way, he had Covid and probably died of it but he also battled and survived stage 4 colon cancer in 2006 which surely didn’t do his immune system any favors.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Yes, his passing is very sad and yet not totally unexpected. I remember his diagnosis back in 2006. It was so advanced he only had like a 20% survival rate and yet he got through it and lived another 14 years. That’s pretty cool, that’s worth celebrating.
I think I may well hate “snarky glee!” A bit of snark it okay and some glee can be good, but when you put the two together we just get this weird and nasty meanspiritedness.
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Guiltless Passion said:
Yes🙏🏼 and amen! I was ready to answer that! But Jesus IS the answer!
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insanitybytes22 said:
Yes, amen! Jesus is the answer to all our questions and the cure for all our troubles. 🙂
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Julie (aka Cookie) said:
I actually liked Mr. Cain—not on a personal level mind you as I did not know him personally but being from his home area—he was on our local radio airwaves—I found him refreshing and often quite humorous as well as truthful—
I hate that there are those who rejoice over the loss of life..no matter who it is.
They, whoever they may be, have family and friends who love them and are now hurting
so to pour salt in open wounds is truly cruel and certainly lacking in compassion.
Shame on those who rejoice over the grief of others.
I for one can’t tolerate the likes of ‘Madame Speaker’, but if something tragic should ever happen in her life, (God forbid) I would feel compassion and sorrow not joy.
That’s kind of what “normal” human beings do.
We hurt when others hurt—no matter the political line—that crap gets tossed aside when it comes down to basic humanness.
What the hell is wrong with everyone!!!???
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insanitybytes22 said:
Exactly, Julie! What the heck is wrong with people?? You’re quite right, “normal” humans feel compassion and sorrow when others are hurting, not gleeful joy. This is not okay, this is not how we behave.
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Julie (aka Cookie) said:
No and I fear a reckoning is on its way
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RichardP said:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/as_of_late
Lately. Recently.
The Late Mr. X = The Recent Mr. X
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Citizen Tom said:
@Insanitybytes22
When people celebrate every funeral as a political event, that just means they worship the state. Pity the poor Pagans. Imagine the fear they have of death. It rivals their fear of not being in power.
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atimetoshare.me said:
Since I intend to be cremated, there will be no dancing on my grave, although there are probably a few liberals who would love to. I agree that when someone dies, we naturally should grieve for that person and their family. For the Christian, we can join them in rejoicing the fact that death has no dominion over us. There is a perfect world waiting for us. Unfortunately in our world today, things are so upside down, it’s hard to know what’s good and what’s bad. We’re been baby spoon fed the devil’s porridge of untruth for so long that it doesn’t even seem abnormal that people hate the way they do today. All we can do, is put this in the hands of God and pray that Jesus returns soon.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Amen, Kathy! Well said. I grew up with a lot of non believers, but later in life I discovered a lot of Christians who didn’t really believe in an afterlife either, not really. Somebody smart once told me, “it’s kind of hard to be heavenly minded with no heaven.” We really are a generation who is trying to live out John Lennon’s song, “imagine there’s no heaven.” So the cure for our chaos is more Jesus, more heaven. Bringing Him into whatever is upside down, just helps to make everything right side up. 🙂
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atimetoshare.me said:
Amen.
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Mel Wild said:
This kind of stuff is just sickening. It borders on sociopathic behavior. More hypocritical virtue-signaling from the haters. Herman Cain was a believer and an honest man of integrity and moral character. He was featured in Larry Elder’s movie, “Uncle Tom.” https://uncletom.com/ (which every American should see!) People should mourn his loss and celebrate his life, not be so politically racist.
The truth is, Mr. Cain had survived stage-four cancer and had other health issues, along with being 74 years old, before contracting the virus. It had nothing whatsoever to so with his moral status. Any child could figure that out.
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insanitybytes22 said:
All true, Mel! It was really a miracle that he got to live another 14 years and with some genuine vibrancy, too.
“Politically racist” that’s a good term. I wish no one had to experience that, but it’s a real thing and it reveals some hypocrisy, where no matter how much success you achieve, no matter how much you are admired by others, you’re still not good enough to sit at the cool kid’s table in the cafeteria. So the wisdom to be gleaned from that is always seek the Lord’s favor and get your approval from Him, because people can be weird and downright fickle with their affections.
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Made Of Still said:
I always look forward to your comedic relief as well as critical thinking. This is literary genius. 🤩
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you for reading and for your kind words. Much appreciated. 🙂
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SLIMJIM said:
Some people can be so horrible…sigh
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