Posted on 10/24/2014 9:36:26 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
This year marks the 50th Anniversary since 68-year-old international icon Dolly Parton came to Nashville. The fourth of 12 siblings who shared a one-room cabin, the East Tennessee native was so poor growing up that her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a bag of cornmeal. The day after her high school graduation, Parton left the Smoky Mountains for Music City, where she shepherded her career from singing on The Porter Wagoner Show, a syndicated music-variety series that aired from 1960 to 1981, to winning seven Grammys and scoring 25 No. 1 songs on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart -- a record for a female artist.
Dolly Parton: The Billboard Photo Shoot
On a recent fall afternoon at Nashville's NorthStar Studios, Parton is an animated conversationalist, throwing her head back and laughing often. In person, the legendary entertainer possesses a down-home, self-effacing charm -- disarming for someone who helms an empire that includes the Pigeon Forge, Tenn.-based Dollywood theme park, which annually hosts nearly 2.5 million visitors, and a valuable publishing catalog of such songs as "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You," which she took to No. 1 long before Whitney Houston. In 2014 alone, Parton's 42nd studio album, Blue Smoke, debuted at No. 2 on Top Country Albums and No. 6 on the Billboard 200 -- marking her highest-charting solo album on the latter list -- and wrapped a successful world tour that included performing for 170,000 at the United Kingdom's Glastonbury Festival.
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There is a sin of judging hypocritically.
Like if you slam gay people and you’re a closet homosexual, for just one example. Or slamming someone on their weight and you’re obese.
What if you slam gay people and you're obese?
Is it really so clear that Jesus meant that you should only limit criticism if you can be accused of the exact same thing?
How are they “very conservative”? That’s what I was asking you. “Politically conservative” can include socially so, remember.
More revelatory than odd. The true colors come out. Makes me wonder if she’s intending to deliberately rekindle the rumors about her having a lesbian relationship with her best friend Judy Ogle.
Libs in country music: Dolly and Willie Nelson are the oldies... Garth, Brad Paisley, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw too.
Reba is also a bit leftist...and sadly even Carrie Underwood seems to have forgotten her Christian roots.
Breaks my heart.
Or slamming someone for not being a true conservative....
I think that's the right attitude for non-aggressive sorts.
I will never define it as anything other than a mental illness that they struggle with. As long as they are not aggressively inflicting it on others I will simply pray that they can reconcile themselves with God and the reality of the situation. You can't exceed design tolerances without consequences. That's all part of design.
We need more preachy Christians. Jesus was preachy. The disciples were preachy. The Bible calls us ALL to spread the gospel throughout the world.
Most so-called Christians, Dolly Parton included, are afraid to even quote the Bible in public. Especially the parts about homosexuals. It’s not “judging,” it’s simply quoting the Bible. Without the Bible as our guide, we are as lost as liberals are.
I agree. The essence of modern law (and modern society) is judging. What is judging but having a set of standards that people have to live up to. If nobody can be judged, nobody can be punished. If nobody can be punished, we have nihilism or anarchy.
What Dolly Parton means is don't say anything about other people...except for people like her who get to judge everybody else. If somebody is doing something wrong, they should definitely be judged.
Exactly. Why do we allow liberals, including clueless Dolly Parton and the dopey new Pope, from shutting down discussions by simply saying “who am I to judge?”
The question, “who am I to judge?” is a judgment in itself. It is a moral statement that condemns those who supposedly judge too harshly. But people are called to make judgments all the time. They have to make judgments, big and small, if they want to live an honest and decent life.
Yes, I have known homosexuals who were principled conservatives.
“...The sin of judging is just as bad as any other sin they might say somebody else is committing. I try to love everybody”.
It has been said hate the sin, not the sinner. But, G_D’s word is what it is. If HE says queers and other reprobates will not enter the kingdom of heaven, that’s good enough for me.
If queers want to question G_D’s word, then that is their prerogative. As a sinner, I will not cast stones, but I will not condone the sin either. It appears to me that if Ms. Parton believed G_D’s word, she would not willingly condone the sin. If you have condoned the sin, have you not sinned?
Finally, I think we are to make judgements and guide our lives based on HIS word even though many say judge not least we be judged. But then again, Jesus said “you will know them by their fruits”. To me that indicates we must judge them (agree/disagree) relative to G_D’s word.
I hope she has not let the love of money or her popularity override her better judgement. But I am not surprised as many have given their souls to the devil for less. Obviously, I do not agree with her sodomite views on this matter. She is much too talented to need their support.
These are only my opinions. Your mileage may vary...
And they won't, unless they repent and turn away from their sin. As long as we're breathing, it's not too late.
We need to repent as a nation, but it will never happen.
To say something is wrong is not always the same thing as "slam."
If the BTK met Jeffrey Dahlmer in prison, would he be wrong to say "you were wrong to murder. It is an evil thing to do"?
Wrong is wrong is wrong and right is right, regardless of the messenger.
In the sense the you get the speck out of your own eye first it is a bad idea to go around pointing out wrongs that you regularly practice yourself. But to say something is wrong that IS wrong, even if you practice it yourself, is still truth and truth is good for everyone be they guilty or not guilty.
The duty of the christian is to also share God's mercy and grace, His gift of forgiveness and redemption through the atonement made by God's Son Jesus Christ. There is hope for those enslaved to sin (which in one form or another is everyone). This is a truth a christian shares as a partaker in that forgiveness, not as some sinless example.
"Mercy there was great and grace was free
Pardon there was multiplied to me
There my burdened soul found liberty
At Calvary
So we’re the Dixie Chicks. I’m not buying any more of her stuff.
http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/Judging.html
God Expects Us to Judge
“The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.” (Psa. 37:30) A righteous person will talk of judgment. He will not REFUSE to judge. He will talk judgment.
“Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.” (Amos 5:14-15) How can you hate the evil and love the good if you refuse to judge? You can’t. You are SINNING when you refuse to judge.
Our generation is well described in Isaiah 59:8: “The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.” People have refused to judge, so there is no peace.
Paul said in I Corinthians 1:10 to “. . . be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” Why would Paul make such a statement if judging is wrong? In I Corinthians 2:15 Paul says, “But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.” Judging is not a sin; judging is a characteristic of being a spiritual person! Satan has been lying to us, hoping that we will NOT judge, because he knows that the right kind of judgment PLEASES God and betters our lives and Christian service.
Someone says, “But should we judge PEOPLE?” Yes, we certainly should. Paul actually REBUKES the Corinthians for NOT judging: “Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?” (I Cor. 6:1-5) If judging is wrong, then Paul needs to confess and repent for misleading these Christians! He clearly told them to JUDGE PEOPLE.
If judging people is wrong, how can we obey Romans 16:17-18? II Corinthians 6:17? II Timothy 3:5-6? I John 4:1? Friend, if judging is wrong, then God has contradicted Himself and His words cannot be trusted!
Notice Malachi 3:18: “Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.” WOW! Does that sound like it is wrong to judge?
What about Revelation 2:2? “ I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:” Why would the Lord be pleased with these Christians if judging was wrong? Is it not impossible to find someone a “liar” without judging them?
If the Bible is clear about anything, it is clear about the importance of judging on a regular basis in order to properly serve and honor God. To ignore this fact is to ignore all of the Scripture just presented and also the rest of the Bible. God expects us to judge.
“We need to repent as a nation, but it will never happen.”
Not likely in my opinion. As long as pagans murder children in the womb and sacrifice them to the heathen gods of social engineering, G_D will not bless this or any nation which condones that sin. One doesn’t have to look too far to note there are many other sins condoned by our society today.
We are still “One nation under GOD” but not the G_D of the bible. I don’t look back to what was, instead I look forward to what is to come as prophesied in HIS word. Meanwhile, I serve the MASTER, prepare, and wait for HIM to come for HIS bride.
And I will vote to elect godly men who serve the same master.
I am sure there just tons of fags in Bama. NOT! To hell with the sodomites and Dolly Liberal ass Parton.
I didn't want to chew up Jim's bandwidth by starting a list... :-)
Yes, judging right and wrong and making good decisions are a part of life. To make decisions not based on sound judgement has brought disaster and sorrow to many. And sound judgement depends on knowing G_D’s law.
Even Jesus did not come to change the law, so how are we to judge otherwise.
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