When I was in seminary in the

'70s it was popular for every professor and class mate to go around and

ask everyone, "How do you feel about this or that?"

To me it got nauseating and

didn't make much sense. It got carried to the absurd. In other words it

didn't seem to matter about truth or what God's Word said about an issue

or what the law said or even an issue passing the logic test. It was all

about "feelings."

Then the commercials began

coming out with slogans and logos like "Just do it." It was

a time when "feelings" were king. It also began a time when

divorce started rising off the charts. It began a time when every vestige

of decency or what had been considered right was being questioned and

in many cases trashed. The bottom line was that whatever you felt, you

did. It even got to breaking the laws of the land.

So here we are in the new millenium

with the election of our first president. Some people don't "feel"

right about the electoral college since Al Gore doesn't have enough votes

to take it over the top. So since some people don't "feel" that

he has enough votes they "feel" that we should continue to hand

count them, and hand count them, and hand count them, and hand count them

until they "feel" like he won the election.

What has always separated us

from other countries has been the fact that we are a country of laws and

our laws set up under the Constitution have served us very well. I personally

even believe that God has set our nation aside to do great things for

Him and His kingdom's work and we should never take that lightly.

Yet here we have an election

where the Gore campaign are attempting to trash our electoral process

because they "feel" if enough people sit there and recount these

cards enough times, they will get their desired results. It reminds me

of the monkey tests that if a monkey stays in front of a keyboard long

enough and hits the keys over, over, and over, he will eventually type

his name!

I wonder how these poor cards

will hold up being handled so much. I can see it down the road that they

will one day say they "feel" that a new election needs to take

place. They can then go on TV and declare that they "feel" that

the whole United States needs a hand count.

At some point their "feelings"

need to "feel" that the laws of our land need to be upheld.

Those are the "feelings" that need to be listened to.

We also need to pray for the

voters of Florida, especially when they go into the voting booth.

Enough is enough. Go to the

laws of the land. They have served us well. Our feelings can get us into

great peril. We live by facts, not feelings.

Dr. Knox Herndon is the pastor

of "His House Community Church" (SBC) and a substitute school

teacher in the Fayette County school system, and a former Army Chaplain.

The church is currently meeting in the American Legion Log Cabin across

from the fountain on the Square in Fayetteville, (but not for long.) We

will be moving to our new land location near Senoia in late November.

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