Why are we Forgetting God?

Wasted Honor -

Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Why are we Forgetting God?

Why are we forgetting God?

Reaching out for the answer to this question has taken me down a road that is anything but simplistic or logical in most sense. I found mixed clues of why we are forgetting God in our daily lives and have a hard time putting it in words that would make sense to you or anyone else that is interested in seeking the answer to this question.

I guess the first thing we have to do is determine how God impacted us in the past and how His centuries lasting but slowly dissipated influence within our society has taken us to another place where the Bible is no longer the main reference book on daily behaviors and influences on decision making and self-discipline.

We must all agree there was a time when the Bible was instrumental in bonding us together with a common sense of devotion and high-commitment towards Christianity and other related religions that preached the Ten Commandments as well as other important parables of the scriptures written.

There was a time when society gathered together with an abundance amount of faith that kept us all spiritually bonded with each other and fosters mutual respect and self-discipline. As a result people had respect for each other and mended their ways to find common ground to live together in harmony and share mutual community interests for the good of many if not all.

Since then, society has formed new priorities and has become divided into different cultural groups with different priorities in life and their pursuit of happiness. In this journey they chose to leave behind much of their spiritual institutions and substituted religion with other man-made institutions.

The more society drifted away from religion the more indulgence was created to allow more freedoms of expressions and acts that were not necessarily words or deeds guided by the scriptures unlike in the past. Ignoring repeated warnings from learned scholars there was a movement to abandon God and seek new ideals unfounded by any religious purpose.

Along the way we destroyed nature and its pristine settings as the earth was robbed from its beauty and minerals to attain wealth and power. Such movements to control natural resources such as oil, gas and other energy sources continued to boost exponential growth of industries harmful to the environment but totally ignored for the sake of profit and riches killing God’.

The pattern repeats itself through history but as these riches and corruptive patterns increase, so will the character or qualities of man diminish in pride, respect, anger control and most of all love. Love for mankind, love for human beings and love for nature. Technology and the internet have erased faces and names and only leave an IP footprint that can be traced around the world in seconds.

Now that we have cheap slave labor through thriving prison industries on domestic and foreign soil and our nation continues to destroy itself from within by fighting wars and ignoring peace, we are attending to the basic values of life less and less than ever before. It appears this self-destruct cycle has reached catastrophic proportions and nobody has taking the first step to stop the destruction of our country as we once knew it.

We are taking down crosses and other religious items in our churches, our schools and our government buildings. We are becoming less and less spiritually motivated to accept God as our Savior and more and more emphasis on those things the scriptures describes as evil and demonic in nature and influence.

We have abandoned the words “in God we Trust” and thrown away our Pledge of Allegiance to our Flag that represents the very fiber or morality we once believed in and fought for.

This human cycle of destruction began with Adam and Eve but has escalated into mankind’s inability to handle the new technology that brings prosperity to the selected few and ignores the welfare of those that can’t compete or maintain such growth as those with more wealth or power. Today we have turned face on God and have forgotten what God has given us as we no longer revere and thank Him for such blessings from above.

In this process of change we have forsaken real leaders for pseudo make believe man-made idols and forgotten that it is wrong to do this in hopes this idol gives us riches and prosperity with false promises and well-told lies.

Americans have abandoned their own faith for the hopes of receiving something intangible and unreal from false prophets that walk the Earth today as elected and non-elected leaders of governments that intend to destroy our own moral fiber through corruptive and illicit behaviors ignoring our religious foundation, our Constitution and our check and balances in our government branches that keeps liberty in the hands of the people and not the government.

Faced with oppressive ideas and third world thinking, we are slowly dying as a nation of non-believers. No longer eager in faith and servitude to God, we are in a midst of poverty and complacency as well as apathy slowly giving up our individual rights to entities that control the nation’s debt internationally and supportive of terrorist nations.

No matter how many times the Bible warned us about these famines and wars and self-destruct happenings, we continue to be self-centered and arrogant that we could in fact survive this abolishment of our faith and live without the self-discipline and faith we had once before and what made this nation so great. Instead of being the rich we are now the poor and persecuted by those in power out of sheer desperation to control our way of life and to rule the world’s wealth and power.