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Time To Engage God's (America's) Enemies
Ths Holy Spirit of God
| October 16, Year of Our Lord 2003
| Gargantua
Posted on 10/16/2003 7:34:12 AM PDT by Gargantua
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Let those who have tongues, speak.
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posted on
10/16/2003 7:34:13 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
To: Gargantua
Please, would every Christian on FreeRepublic take a stand, here and now? If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, then who?
;-/
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posted on
10/16/2003 7:35:37 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
(Embrace clarity.)
To: Gargantua
You are too late.
Most Americans now think for themselves.
BUMP
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posted on
10/16/2003 7:51:19 AM PDT
by
tm22721
(May the UN rest in peace)
To: Gargantua
The noun, Pledge of Allegiance, should not be used to describe the derivative and atheistic pledge. I suggest conservatives quickly rename the atheist pledge to prevent it from smoothly transitioning from the actual Pledge of Allegiance to the secular humanist pledge.
In fact all such secular humanist acts in the culture war need a modifier. I once heard the ages of history described as the age of faith, and the age of reason. I might suggest we are now in the age of aggressive rebellion or persecution. So maybe the new pledge is the pledge of rebellion or the pledge of persecution.
To: Gargantua
" now reviewing whether the phrase "under God" should be removed from our Pledge of Allegiance"
like it was before 1950, when America was truly fighting God's enemies of Nazism and Japanese imperialism?
Sorry, but "God" was put into the pledge for political reasons and hasn't always been a part of the nation's Christian heritage.
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posted on
10/16/2003 8:01:20 AM PDT
by
Blzbba
To: Gargantua
The other religions are going to demand equal time, equal billing, etc...and they will get it.
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posted on
10/16/2003 8:04:37 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: Gargantua
I thought God was on the Taliban's side. Just ask them.
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posted on
10/16/2003 8:08:33 AM PDT
by
Jim Cane
To: Gargantua
This missive has some interesting implications:
1) One cannot pledge allegiance to the country without pledging allegiance to the Christian God.
2) The Christian religion cannot survive unless it is propped up by the government.
I don't agree. I just don't see how a "pledge" written by a Socialist is so desperately crucial to the survival of the nation or the Christian religion.
Yes, before anybody starts ranting, those are not direct quotes from the article. But if there are better explanations as to why this issue is so titanic I would be interested in hearing them.
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posted on
10/16/2003 8:12:22 AM PDT
by
alpowolf
To: Gargantua
"
...Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
One pledges allegiance with their heart.
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posted on
10/16/2003 8:25:21 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: Blzbba
You're giving unduly exclusive focus to only one example of the current all-out assault on Chritian America... that of the Pledge of Allegiance.
This editorial is about much more than that. Read it again, more slowly if necessary.
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:00:14 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
(Embrace clarity.)
To: Gargantua
SPOTREP - CALL TO ARMS
To: tm22721
"Most Americans now think for themselves." What wonderful news! That's what this article is asking them to do, as well as imploring the Christians on FreeRepublic to make it known that they are willing to stand up for what they believe in.
;-/
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:15:40 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
(Embrace clarity.)
To: Consort
What the other "religions" do, or do not do, is of no consern to Christians. All Christians need concern ourselves with are the commands and covenants of Biblical God, whose Word provided the founding of America.
Which, by the way, happens to be the thrust of this post.
;-/
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:20:36 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
(Embrace clarity.)
To: Jim Cane
Do you live in Muslim Afghanistan? Or do you live in America, where it is "In God We Trust"?
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:21:55 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
(Embrace clarity.)
To: Gargantua
What the other "religions" do, or do not do, is of no consern to Christians. All Christians need concern ourselves with are...That's a terrible indictment of Christians and belittles their intellect.
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:26:41 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: Gargantua
We must raise an outcry that reaches not only to the ACLU, not only to our schools, not only to the courts, not only to the Congress of the United States... I stand with you. But the battle is much bigger and deeper than the "under God" issue. It is a battle of worldviews - secular humanism vs. Christianity. Only one can dominate society.
Francis Schaeffer in "Christian Manifesto" says that Civil Disobedience is called for when governments or courts make bad laws. We should DISOBEY them just as the abolitionists did, just as Roy Moore did! It is time to DEFY the evil rulings of bad judges. What are they going to do if millions of people defy their rulings? NOTHING they can do but watch it happen.
Why didn't that doctor defy that judge who ordered the feeding tube removed from Terry Schiavo? I would have! That doctor is no better than the Nazis who "were just following orders." I don't follow bad orders - I don't care who issues them. I answer to God, not men. When men believe they are God, they have forfeited their authority, as God ordains all leaders to do good. When they stop doing good, they have forfeited their authority. That is what the American Revolution was all about ultimately, wasn't it?
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:26:47 AM PDT
by
exmarine
To: Gargantua
So you think this is a nation under God?
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:28:34 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Hating Democrats doesn't make you a conservative.)
To: alpowolf
"This missive has some interesting implications:" Your response makes the same mistake of focusing on but one of the peripheral examples given to illustrate the thrust of this post, while ignoring completely the point.
Let me repeat the point, lest it get lost in the shuffle.
Our Rights as enumerated in our Constitution are inalienablethat is, cannot be taken from us-because, as our founders wrote, they are granted to us by God the Creator Himself.
What, praytell, becomes of those "Rights" once God is forbidden His rightful place... or even any place... in our society or Government?
This is the actual question most forcefully raised by the editorial I wrote and posted here.
A furtherance of that same thought-line is: Are you willing to give up your God-given, Constitutionally-protected rights just because, as our Founders wrote, God the Creator gave them to you?
;-/
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:29:34 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
(Embrace clarity.)
To: Protagoras
I do.
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:31:19 AM PDT
by
biblewonk
(Spose to be a Chrisssssssstian)
To: azhenfud
You, too, have chosen to attack the salad and ignore the steak. Here it is again.
Our Rights as enumerated in our Constitution are inalienable-that is, cannot be taken from us-because, as our founders wrote, they are granted to us by God the Creator Himself.
What, praytell, becomes of those "Rights" once God is forbidden His rightful place... or even any place... in our society or Government?
;-/
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posted on
10/16/2003 9:32:35 AM PDT
by
Gargantua
(Embrace clarity.)
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