Who we are? Part 3 A new group is Born!
My wife and I were talking a few weeks back when I was toying with who we are and was bouncing some ideas back and forth when she made an interesting comment. “We don’t fit into any of the Categories’.” We are happy and we are prosperous. We are Christians and believe God supplies all our needs and do our best to keep Him first, study the Bible and not ashamed to tell folks, but don’t attend a local church. We do drink and smoke all organic tobacco. We love our kids who are now grown up, but don’t always act like it, but neither do we. We have been married 30 years and still love each other and share and depend on each other. We try not to curse and swear but sometimes do. We think life can be too complicated, if allowed to be and simple works for us. A person’s word is their bond, if you don’t mean it, please, please don’t say it.
Sure we are Redneckish, but not so Red that we fit completely in to this category, as we use our IPods’, IPhones’, manage our finances wisely (Thanks to Dave Ramsey’s wisdom and inspiration) and like a few of the finer things in life. We do like to eat and use what we grow, catch and hunt, but we try to keep things decent and in order. But we do think life should be simple.
Sure we are Conservatives, but not so right that we don’t think that folks shouldn’t be given the right to choose. After all God gives us all free will, and being a follower and believer, shouldn’t we mimic that also. We absolutely know that our Country was founded on and in Freedom based in a Godly fashion. That the Constitution, Our Constitution applies to all, no one is above it and should be the ultimate and final rule of the land applying ALL the rules. You see you can’t have just one or two that you live by, it is a package deal you have to live by all of them. That all work is honorable and every person should work and contribute to the best of their capability and no job should be beneath us, there are times you need to get your well-manicured hands dirty. Our Government should serve us the people and not the other way around and our government should be made up of average working people, not politicians. Full time politicians should be banned. We do believe in Capitalism, but with that goes Much Responsibility, to work hard and make an honest fair buck. And if you do that you should be free to make as much money as you like without somebody trying to take some. An agenda should never get in the way of success and happiness. It should be our duty to share and give freely to those that we decide need help.
We absolutely don’t prescribe to being politically correct, that is the whole free speech thing protected by the Constitution. But with that said, you don’t have the right to be or say mean things about folks behind their backs, if you are not willing to say it to their face, don’t say it and it better be true. Example: We have a Christmas tree, we do not have a Holiday bush. We personally don’t celebrate “The Holidays” we celebrate Christmas because we are Christians and we are proud of it and want to share and spread our Joy that comes with and goes along with it. So we say Merry Christmas and really don’t care if you like it or not, no malice intended and if you celebrate Hanukkah or Kwanzaa I will not be offended if you throw back have a happy or merry whatever you do.
Now with that said, we do have a little bit of Hippy running through our blood. We believe folks should be free to do as they please and make their own choices; particularly in the confines of their own home, when they are not hurting anybody else. We do eat, natural organic foods and like living off the land. We don’t believe that medicine cures all, and don’t like to take it, we would rather alter our diet or eat a God given herb or spice to heal our bodies. We do believe there is a cure for cancer, but unfortunately there is no way for someone to make enough profit or some other agenda that is keeping it off the market. No one should have the power or right to play God. We did homeschool our children for a number of reasons. We do question our government and big business, and view them as the establishment, particularly when it comes to giving us true straight answers. Yes we believe they will lie for their own preservation and for profit at the expense of those that they serve. We do believe in Love, but with that said, God’s type of Love.
Yes we don’t fit any of the stereotypes. Some would call us strange and weird and there is no name that really fits us, so we are making up our own name and coining it.
A new word is born to fit us: Redhippservative. And we sure would like to meet some other Redhippservatives out there.
