Posted on 09/04/2010 5:07:20 PM PDT by Palter
Bookmark for my 8th grade American History class.
Not in mine, and that’s getting to be quite a while ago.
Shark Sir "Thank You" for your service...and the vid...
"In GOD We Trust"...
been meaning to tell you that yer tag is most excellent as well...
Well, I grew up in a small town in southern Missouri. Admittedly, that’s been a few decades, but I vividly remember some of the lessons about American heroes and the place they carved for themselves in history. The American “history” being taught to current students dishonors those brave men and women who carved a nation out of a savage continent.
> Shark Sir “Thank You” for your service...and the vid...
You’re quite welcome.
> “In GOD We Trust”...
Indeed; though I disagree with the non-violence-at-any-cost philosophy that some think that should manifest as [one of the issues I disagree with Glenn Beck on]. If we look at the book of Ester we see that yes God *did* provide a way for His people to survive that was legal even in the sight of the government (despite that government already having issued a general death-warrant for *ALL* those people); it was not a “stay at home” solution, it was not a “passive resistance” solution, it was a VIOLENT solution: the Jews were legally authorized to band together into groups [for the defense of themselves and their kin] and KILL those who would do them harm.
We Citizens, likewise, have a similar legal authorization to defend ourselves against those who would do us harm: the Declaration of Independence. And technically speaking, members of the armed forces (possibly past, and certainly present) are bound by oath to THE CONSTITUTION, not any person, or group, branch of government, nor even the WHOLE INSTITUTION of government and so it could be argued that they have the legal OBLIGATION to do violence to whatever member of governance was to exercise his authority/power against that Constitution.
>been meaning to tell you that yer tag is most excellent as well...
Thank you. I notice that a lot of people in Religion are heavy on the “mercy” side of things, but the command is to DO Justice and LOVE Mercy. The reason, it seems, is that Mercy cannot exist without Justice. Consider, for a moment, the scenario of a foster family who takes a kid in (and these kids can be SERIOUSLY screwed up) and decides when he acts inappropriately to ignore it because “it’s the understanding/kind thing” & “Love covers a multitude of sins” and so extend ‘mercy’ without *doing* the Justice part of informing him a) that he was in the wrong, and b) why he was in the wrong. Say this continues on and on until some day the kid “does it one too many times” or something particularly egregious and the foster parents, who can no longer act in their usual ‘merciful’ manner, blow up at the kid. Granted that the kid may deserve EVERY ounce of anger and condemnation, but how is he supposed to know what is acceptable in the family if nobody is to teach him?
Thus, I believe it to be shown that ‘mercy” without Justice is not Mercy, but rather injustice.
from my checkered past, and only really scratching the theological surface so far, I must agree that meek and weak shouldnt be synonyms...
Luke 22:36 is THE single verse that caught my attention, after 30+ yrs of indifference to Scripture...i used it fer a tag for a loooong time...
with the Lord on our side,'walk softly, and carry a BIG stick' takes on a whole new meaning...
the story as told by Luke, speaks of preparing to venture into a cold 'world' of hate...I know that the Lord Jesus was well aware that many of them were goiing to be martyrs, in a 'civil disobedience' source of resistance...
and that many would rise with arms too [Peter surely didnt surprise God with his sword in the garden]...
different parts of the body have different roles to play in the Will of god...all to His Glory...
These commie tools are in fer a rude awakening...
'discipline' is mercy when the punishment is just...a lil sting of correction will possibly curtail a lifetime/eternity of 'death'...
>BTW...pastor is working thru Ephesians, and was drillin home today on 6:1-4...
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>’discipline’ is mercy when the punishment is just...a lil sting of correction will possibly curtail a lifetime/eternity of ‘death’...
*nod, nod* far better a little pain and learning now than punishment FOREVER.
Bump & bookmark
The Frontiersmen was great. So was That Dark and Bloody River. When you read Eckert's books you begin to understand how "up close and personal" the fighting was in the east between the indians and the settlers.
” now lets just factor in 1-9 million heavily armed and highly motivated and pissed off citizens...”
More like 10-12 million.
10-12 would be great too...but the logistical nightmare of even 1,000,000 has to twist some commie panties...
“..i hope they have regular nightmares often...”
I’m Proud to be one tiny part of those nightmares, brother!
I still teach it in school.
“..heavily armed and highly motivated and pissed off citizens..”
WHY do I get the immediate image of that old black-and-white newsreel footage of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Division (NG) marching down the Cmaps Elysee’ in 1944 Paris at those words????
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