Posted on 09/20/2014 5:36:51 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Holy crap. Yes, this world is very screwed up, if having someone suggest we behave more lovingly to one another is now regarded as Luciferian.
Jesus certainly disagrees.
Jesus has a different definition of love than Lucifer; particularly Crowley’s Lucifer.
http://hermetic.com/crowley/little-essays-towards-truth/love.html
Also, it’s bad form to speak as if you know exactly what Jesus agrees with or disagrees with, unless you can quote chapter and verse. Otherwise, it sounds sacrilegious, as if you’re saying Jesus personally related it to you over fish tacos and Budweiser.
I think you should record your own slam poetry rant. And get those Robert Palmer girls to back you up.
Mark 12:31 And the second commandment of all, is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Actually, I would get preachy. If I’m asked to comment on the complexities of life and offer complete solutions then I do turn spiritual. After all, there are no economic or political answers to the life or death questions we human face, the only true options we have are eternal ones.
I’m as guilty as most every FReepers. We spend so much time arguing against the democrats or for true political conservatism, but in view of all eternity, what good does that really do us?
That would be awesome.
(Sung to "I didn't mean to turn you on")...."I really want to hit that good, oh baby please, I really want to hit that good."
I think we agree on much.
Well said.
Mark 12:31 And the second commandment of all, is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
That’s better. I’d add Matthew 5:44-45 for good measure:
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
You do understand though, Laz, that the Devil is not averse to using the Truth but in a twisted, perverted, yet very persuasive way? That’s how I see that young man’s video, as I saw in Charlie Chaplin’s version of it:
http://youtu.be/QcvjoWOwnn4 (start at 1:05)
Laz, the main point is that the world really changes—one person at a time.
And yes, we have to make a decision to change, before change can begin.
While you and others have related some of what was said to Jesus Christ, I would submit to you, that a man is not capable of true change to the heart apart from the power of the Holy Spirit.
Only then can you see things for what they truly are.
And that power only comes when you give your life over to Jesus.
Jesus said that he was the way, the truth, and the life—and that no man comes to the Father but by Him(Jesus).
Man doesn’t like to hear that—he would rather find his own way. Trouble is, he can’t, because of the sin which separates us from God.
Jesus came to provide a remedy for that sin—the sacrifice of an unblemished Lamb on the cross to pay for each of us.
When we believe that, then the barrier comes down between man and God.
The Holy Spirit comes to dwell inside of us and to teach us what is right and true, and gives us the power to do the right thing.
Otherwise, our fuel is our own efforts, and that is never enough.
In one sense, Prince Ea is correct—change starts with you.
But true peace, strength and wisdom comes from another Prince—the Prince of Peace—Jesus.
I don’t find anything to disagree with in your message.
Darn you,Mikey-—that made me all weepy.
(Old lady nostalgia)
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Personally, I’d like it if the damned world bought ME a coke, for a change.
Given the amount of stuff Ive bought for the world I can see how you’d see it that way!! YES
Aint nostalgia just too much....
The problem we are seeing played out here is the cognitive dissonance that the Conservative mind experiences when faced with the objective truth of Ayn Rand economics and the imperative message of Christ.
Crony capitalism is offensive and immoral not because of the profit motive behind it, but because of the use of government mandate to subvert the free market process. Our natural inclination should be to support profit making businesses, but only through the mechanism of the free market.
At the same time we, as members of a Judeo-Christian society, are mandated by our Gospel to love our fellow man and care for those unable to care for themselves. Left to our own devices ours is the most charitable society that has ever existed. This only becomes a problem for us when The State is used as the vehicle for administering that charity. If we live our Christian faith then we reach out to help our fellow man, but we do it as personal initiative, not as a government mandated social program.
In both cases, the encroachment of government into the lives and business of the people is the problem, not the profit making activity or the charitable work.
As Dinesh d’Souza pointed out in a debate on government run health care, the worst thing about it is that it removes the morality of the individual act of kindness and sharing and replaces it with the authoritarianism of the State.
Bottom line - The message here is good. People seem to be assuming that the messenger is advocating a particular method of implementing his goals. In fact, as far as I can see, he did not.
Amazing that a little video like this would spark such a well thought response. Thank you sir.
No, no...Thank *YOU* for posting it.
The *love* of money is the root of all evil. Otherwise pretty good.
“I feel he is right but perhaps for the wrong reason. Business has teamed with government to become oppressive here in America. The revulsion I feel for big business AS IT PRESENTLY IS INCARNATED is due to the fascism (combination of business and government to manage the populate) it exhibits today. I miss the old way business used to operate, before Crony Capitalism.”
I just watched the FDR doc on Netflix last night. I had no respect for FDR because of his socialism, but came away from the documentary with some respect for him because of his leadership during WW2. FDR realized that in a capitalist country he needed to team with big business for the good of the country to win the war. And we were enormously successful. That success would never happen now because we have a piece of excrement in the WH, and we have big business in the business of greasing the palms of government not for the good of the country, but for their own individual interests.
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