you might want ot see a Doctor about that, people who only see natisness (intentional OR otherwise) tend to have shorter lives.
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Wow, do YOU ever have a wrong number. I see beauty and decency all around me most of the time — it’s the “sea” in which I’ve chosen to swim. Perhaps that’s why when ugliness, pettiness and nastiness make an appearance, it stands out to me.
Perhaps YOU need to see a doctor...if you haven’t recognized the nastiness in this thread you just may be BLIND. Or perhaps you just surround yourself with nastiness and so, when it makes an appearance, you don’t even notice it against all the background nastiness in your life.
By the way, I come from a large, robust family of survivors who are very healthy and long-lived...so that is likely to be my fate also. And I wish that same wonderful fate for you and yours also; along with recovery from your blindness.
Hmmmm... I find your response to Shadowstrike filled with nastiness. Have you looked in a mirror lately?
There are many people on this thread who are getting flak because they refuse to wink at sin — especially a specific trend of sinning. Remember, it was sin that sent the Savior to the cross. And, yes, He paid for it all and we do serve a loving and forgiving God, but His sacrifice was complete in that it paid for deliverance from sin as well. This means that we don’t have to serve sin as we did in the days before salvation.
Bristol has a problem. A very public problem. God is certainly able and willing to forgive her and the baby’s father, but His forgiveness doesn’t give them license to continue in that sin for the world to observe. I’m not a big follower of the Palins, so I wouldn’t know if either of them or the family as a whole went before the public in a church service or some similar setting and repented, explaining why the behavior is sinful. The whole family gives an air of “well, this is just business as usual,” without any apparent thought to what kind of message it sends to those who are considering Christianity. Does Christianity have loopholes? Can Christians live like the rest of society and never pay a price for it? Is it really necessary for me to live a chaste life if I’m a Christian? Does God really mean that Christians are supposed to be separate from the ways of the world or is it acceptable for them to blend in without detection?
I wish good health and happiness for all the Palins, not the least of which is the new little baby who has just been delivered. I hope the Palins get their spiritual house in order so that she can be reared in a Godly manner. I would like to see less of them as they step out of the public eye for as long as it takes to address their dysfunction as a family. And I would be thrilled for them to step back into the public eye with their spiritual foundation renewed and intact. Then and only then do they deserve the respect that so many tend to want to give them because of the Palin name. It’s the Jesus Name that commands respect, and I would like to see them, as public figures, represent it well. All Christians win when that happens.