Posted on 10/08/2014 8:10:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde
Liberals increasingly want to enforce a comprehensive, uniformly secular vision of the human good. And they see alternative visions of the good as increasingly intolerable.... Palmer... expresses "ambivalence," "suspicion," and "visceral discomfort" ... that these men and women are motivated to make "long-term commitments to address the health problems of poor Africans," to "risk their lives," and to accept poor compensation (and sometimes none at all) because of their Christian faith.
The question is why he considers this a problem...
Gordon College, a small Christian school north of Boston, is facing the possibility of having its accreditation revoked... In accordance with traditional Christian teaching, Gordon College bans all sexual relationships outside of marriage, gay or straight...
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Libtards tend to believe in psychological behaviorism. They believe that the Christian environment is the cause of society’s problems, and that the way to fix them is to change the environment by destroying Christianity and establishing secular humanism and socialism by means of big government and tyranny.
Liberals thirst for power and control. They don’t want to answer to anyone. They want their rules, their way, and want to tell everyone else what they should be doing and how they should be thinking. Basically, THEY are god.
Liberals worship self and government as god. Christianity and its God get in the way of that. Christianity takes a dim view of “liberal” idolatry.
Liberals....I don’t use that term anymore.
They’re satanists.
Good post. Here is my take. Christainity is a religion of personal responsiblity. You decide that you cannot do it on your own and that you need help. Jesus is that help.
Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Luke 12:49
Not Peace, but Division
49 “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Because spoiled children rebel against their parents.
Historically, Liberalism in large part pursued Christian moral ends through rationalist, secular means. Contemporary Liberalism retains a legacy of Puritanism (a self-determined elect/elite directing the lives of the benighted) mixed with socialism and moral relativism (i.e., clouds and shifting sands).
I think most of you make this way to difficult. In this world, and it is abundantly more clear every day, there is only good and evil, GOD and satan. Determining where the line is drawing is very easy. Ditch all the other labels. One side is GOD, the other side is satan.
If they are obsessed with pursuing those behaviors, eventually one of two things will happen:
1. It will eventually kill them, or make them so unhappy that they want to kill themselves. (look up ‘suicide rate among homosexuals’, for example)
2. They will surrender, and admit that they can’t do it alone, that there is a higher power, and if that power is most likely the God of Israel, Abraham, and Jacob. They will come to find that Christ asks nothing but that they accept a gift already freely given, and that they begin to walk with Him.
After this acceptance of Christ, miracles pour forth. I have seen it.
Paul had it easy compared to some of the people I’ve seen accept Christ. God actually spoke to Saul, and told him what to do, and laid before him a ‘shovel to the face’ miracle.
Most of us didn’t have the luxury of God knocking us off a horse, blinding us, and then speaking to us out loud.
Saul used to kill Christians by the bushel. Moses murdered a guard before being called by God to lead His people. He was so stupid that God lost his patience with him and impressed Aaron into service to get Moses through it.
Solomon ABSOLUTELY knew better, as did David - it didn’t stop either of them from either apostacy or murder/adultery. These are heroes of the Bible, and they committed acts most of us would never think of committing.
The reason why Christians are hated is because Satan is the prince of this world. Full stop. Nobody wants to stop and look at the fact that they are in the square middle of a cosmic spiritual war.
As for individuals, our job is to bring them on board. We ask God for the strength and the protection, and we ask for the humility in our task. We ask that the memories of the life we had prior to being saved by Christ are never so far from memory that we can’t show fellow sinners that a celebration awaits them, but for a simple act of giving over their burden to the one person that is strong enough to carry it - Christ.
Then we give all the glory to God, we get over the rush of adrenaline and marvel that God used you personally to save another sheep, and you go looking for more sheep.
Then, finally, you die and get some rest. Permanent vacation.
It's a lot more fun to cast a stone.
Because they hate the truth. Judgement day will not be a good day for them.
I’ll repeat it again. liberalism leads to mental illness. Mental illness leads to delusional behavior. Delusional behavior and thought leads to demonic possession. Demonic possesion leads to Islam. Islam hates Christianity!
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
It would be a joy if real christians could all be on the same page.
Liberals = ISIS
They use the name God in the same fashion.
Darkness hates the light.
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