50 Americans I Wish Were Most Influential
The Church Report recently announced this year’s list of its “50 Most Influential Christians in America.” The list’s top 10 are Joel Osteen, Billy Graham, Bill Hybels, T.D. Jakes, James Dobson, Paul Crouch, Joyce Meyer, Leonard Sweet, John Piper, and Rob Bell. Other notables making the top 50 include President Bush, Robert Schuller, Franklin Graham, Rick Warren, Chuck Colson, Andy Stanley, Joni Eareckson Tada, Jay Sekulow, Chuck Swindoll, Jack Hayford, Richard Land, Charles Stanley, Max Lucado, John Hagee, D. James Kennedy, George Barna, Rod Parsley, Jerry Falwell, Sam Brownback, John MacArthur, Frank Page, and Creflo Dollar.
What strikes me most about the above list are the names of people I wish were listed but were not. Unfortunately, the people who are most consistently championing the principles that would restore America to its former self are mostly ignored by the mainstream media and even by the Christian media. The above list clearly illustrates this reality.
Therefore, without giving a ranking to each name, I would like to offer my list of “50 Americans I Wish Were The Most Influential.” I can tell readers this: If these people were America’s most influential leaders (Christian or otherwise), our country would not be in the shape it is in today. And that is a fact. Anyway, here goes.
David Alan Black, Derry Brownfield, Tom DeWeese, John Eidsmoe, Ezola Foster, Rick Jore, Alan Keyes, Stanley Monteith, Roy S. Moore, Ron Paul, Doug Phillips, Howard Phillips, Larry Pratt, Charley Reese, Paul Craig Roberts, John Stormer, Herb Titus, Ed Vieira, Paul Walter, Darrell White, Pat Buchanan, Jim Clymer, Ray Moore, Tom Parker, Phyllis Schlafly, William Shearer, Joe Sobran, Bob Barr, Joseph Farah, George Putnam, Jeromi Corsi, Jesse Lee Peterson, Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter, Ron Maxwell, Bob Dill, Devvy Kidd, Mary Starrett, Frank Fluckiger, Michael Peroutka, Randy Stufflebeam, Fob James, Jr., Tom Ambrose, John Hostettler, Jack McLain, Gene Howard, Greg Dixon, Don Boys, Thom Holmes, and Tony Romo.
Obviously, I would have differences to various degrees with just about everyone on my list. That is not the point. These are people who generally understand the “big picture” and are unafraid to confront the issues that are most necessary to America’s survival. Unfortunately, this is not something that everyone in the first list is willing to do. Perhaps that helps explain why our country seems to be without a rudder or compass today.
I realize that anytime one makes a list, he risks leaving out those who deserve to be on it. I’m confident I have fallen victim to that propensity. I beg the reader’s forgiveness, as he or she recognizes names (as I did in the first list) that are not mentioned. Feel free to share your names with me. Our combined lists are much larger than 50 names, for sure.
If America suffers from anything, it suffers from a lack of dynamic, principled leaders. Leaders who understand the real threats to America’s freedom and independence and who are willing to pay the price to address these threats. Men and women who cannot be bought or bullied, but who also possess the qualities of compassion and wisdom. Stalwart champions of character and conviction. Such leaders are needed as much now as at anytime in our history-maybe more.
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February 13th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Big problem for the professed Christian leaders: War has been declared on them by the ACLU, Homosexuals, big-brother liberals, muslims, and the allied liberal forces of the corrupt old media. Liberals cannot stand to be told that their behavior is sickening, dishonest, disgusting or whatever, and said behavior is not acceptable and needs correction.
Excellent list: I am particularly impressed with recent speeches delivered by James Kennedy and Alan Keyes.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
When I saw Bill Hybels name on that first list I cringed. As a leader of a cult called Willow Creek and Bill Clinton’s spiritual advisor, he should be tarred and feathered rather than applauded.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I have met and talked to Herb Titus at length.
He read the filings in my case and asked where I went to law school, then college, and then told me I should go to law school.
Then he lauded my case and ran from it as fast as he could get me to leave his office.
Ed Vieira, I had his home phone number. Talked at length. He was the one that got me in touch with Herb.
Devy Kidd, she had important ideas, but too close the the alcoholic lawyer Larry B. who proved what he was actually all about.
She needed shoring up in the Judicial Tyranny department to shore up her position regarding the Income Tax and the illegal actions of the IRS. More facts less rhetoric and emotion.
Last I noticed was her failing to evolve the message.
With the Ramos/Campeon case, the Watada Court Martial Mistrial, and the conflaguration in GA on their sodomy with a minor law, perhaps the picture of Judicial malfeasense as actually reported by the MSM will change the course of the conflict agaisnt the Judicial Lawlessness, as the Media reports show such claims are not increadible, but rather now openly common.
The substance of the law is no longer an issue of discussion of for the free people of the United States of America, since the government has attached injunctions and civil and criminal pentalties on those who talk, petition government, and help citizens exhaust due process of law, and the Courts have gone along with them while ignoring rightful defenses, requirments of specific analysis of speech and the facts of teh case, and jury instructions as set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court.
It has taken some 21 years since lawyers and law review articles specifically exposed the malfeasence of the Courts in the above fashion, but only 21 years later after a few Reporters go to prison for refusing to disclose confidential sources I guess the MSM is beginning to turn the tide is turning against the Courts, as the journalists no longer have any absolute protection under the First Amendment.
Interesting how that has happened after the government quietly made possession of guns and/or currency into a crime and sealed the borders to U.S. Citizens leaving without a passport?
February 14th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
D. James Kennedy helped convict me of beng a socialsit.
MND has helped me see that my view of Women was equally erroneous as my political views: feminista socialist/marxist.
Such hypocrisy and dichotomies cannot be sustained and a sane worldview presented.
Thank you Gentlemen, and the few precious women who dare to speak here.
Tom Tancredo for President.
‘Don’t Build a Wall, build Barrent Light Fifty huts with overlaping fields of fire.’