I have a different theory, which is that the idea that man is so morally depraved that everything from spanking a child to war with another nation is a reality their mind just does not want to accept.
Bin Laden was too much a reminder of that reality so he could reluctantly be killed, but overall the liberal mind is so resistant to the reality of such evil, and in love with the fantasy that things like that were simply an aberration from man’s liberal goodness, as personified by them, and that there are no moral absolutes - Bush being even too much referring to such - that it refuses to deal with the latest example of man’s depravity until it is forced upon them, and which is often too little and too late, or choosing the wrong side. Or not knowing enough to let two evil sides alone.
In the 60’s thru drugs they sought a Garden of Eden, without God and His rule in which you just picked what you need from the government tree, then took over the administration building in their lust for power (”climbing up some other way”), to attempt to achieve a reality that only drugs and music could otherwise provide.
But what these secular seminaries turned out was a breed of souls who have largely taken over the administration building of the country by seducing a largely post-Christian populace to elect them with the delusion these pols are under, which normally one would have to be on hallucinogenic drugs to subscribe to. And which will turn the country into a Haight-Ashbury district of a sodomite francisco in the “summer of love.” And of course, provide need for more in the admin building to enforce their ideological vision of liberal Utopia, in which only the liberal elite can enjoy it at the expense of others. In a word, atheistic communism.
This is what happens when people turn from the living and true God to serve idols, silver and gold, mere pleasure and possessions, rather than putting the Lord and His kingdom first, by which blessings follow.
The focus of the true body of Christ is to look to Christ, and be in this world as He was, being a manifestly distinct people, presenting an alternative to a wicker and perverse generation, rather than institutionalized religion or longing for a return to Mayberry RFD.
Blessed be the Lord.
“Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.” (Hosea 8:3-4)
“I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.” (Hosea 8:12)
“For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.” (Hosea 8:14)
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Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.