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The Left's Inability to Confront Evil
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| August 08, 2006
| By Dennis Prager
Posted on 08/08/2006 4:51:41 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
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To: Dark Skies
Agree wholeheartedly; see my previous post.
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:22:49 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: .cnI redruM
I don't think it is cowardice, this choice they have made. It is a very brave and very foolish things to do, to snub your nose at the Lord God Almighty.
Every man has revealed to them the truths of God and right from wrong. God places these truths in them and they are left with the free will and choice of choosing to accept and obey things as He has designed and layed out or accept some other way that is outside of His rules, laws and design. Romans chapter 1 tells of consequences when men reject.
When they reject Him - He begins to "give them over" to their sin, begins to darken their minds, decrease their wisdom and understanding like a spiraling down.
The Left's inability to confront evil?
More like they EMBRACE it and all who do like wise with every bit of energy they have available.
They have clearly made a conscience choice, rejected Him, embrace it and live to shut up and silence any reminder of their disobedience, their hearts icing over more every day.
God is not a liar of course and this IS what His Word says, that He is just, fair and gives all an opportunity to choose who they will serve.
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:29:16 AM PDT
by
Esther Ruth
(Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper!)
To: .cnI redruM
I see two distinct situations here, and Prager is ignoring the difference. The left is more preoccupied with fundamentalist Christians because they perceive them as capable of directly influencing our government and our laws. Some (most?) believe that it goes beyond capability to actual day to day influence, right into the White House. No such influence is (yet) perceived as happening in the case of Islam, which is an altogether different kind of threat. Its influence doesn't (yet) reach into our public school classrooms or our courthouses, so it is not perceived as a danger to constitutional liberties (whether you agree with liberals' view of what those constitutional liberties are is beside the point for purposes of this discussion). This, I believe, is the difference that more readily explains the dichotomy in reaction that Prager is talking about.
The comparison of the murderous muslim's killing spree in Seattle to Mel Gibson's drunken rant is really a red herring; of course Mel Gibson's conduct will receive more attention than that of some unknown shooter -- he's Mel Gibson. A famous Hollywood movie star. We in this country have a never-ending fascination with celebrities, particularly when they do something stupid and embarrass themselves. Prager ignores this obvious point too, because it doesn't help him make his point.
When and if Islam threatens to exert the kind of influence in our society that liberals believe fundamentalist Christians already do, I personally have no doubt that we will see the same kinds of reactions to it. By liberals and conservatives alike.
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:47:50 AM PDT
by
Bellows
To: wagglebee
Ping to wag and self for later pingout (or whoever gets to it first.)
To: Tolik
The liberal world fears -- and much of it loathes -- fundamentalist Christians considerably more than it does fundamentalist Muslims.
As I've said before much of the left has gone stark raving MAD!
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:50:49 AM PDT
by
Valin
(http://www.irey.com/)
To: .cnI redruM
Totalitarians for Cultural Suicide. The West is in danger of being euthanized as long as they are the power elite. they are ticks on the body politic.
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:59:19 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: ShadowAce
"I honestly do not believe that liberals are anti-American. I do believe that they are anti-confrontational. THis means that any time America confronts its enemies, they are opposing us. They are, in essence, cowards. They are scared to fight, insult, or confront any enemy."
I disagree with what you have said based on the fact that the libs LOVE confrontation with anyone who disagrees with them. They fight like rabid dogs on any number of issues (war, abortion, guns, religion, etc.). They never fight the country's enemies because they are naturally sympathetic to them.
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posted on
08/08/2006 7:44:24 AM PDT
by
BadAndy
("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
To: BadAndy
OK, I see your point. However, I'll also point out that they only "fight" those who will not physically harm them. They'll debate, protest, strike, fast, etc. because they know that we, as Americans, will not attack them physically.
Hwever, when it comes to an enemy who is known for physically attacking any ideological enemy, they shy away.
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:19:05 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Bellows
I see two distinct situations here, and Prager is ignoring the difference. The left is more preoccupied with fundamentalist Christians because they perceive them as capable of directly influencing our government and our laws...Its [Islam's]
influence doesn't (yet) reach into our public school classrooms or our courthouses, so it is not perceived as a danger to constitutional liberties The question is, is the perception of the left that Christians are presently more dangerous to constitutional liberties than Islamists connected to reality? Prager's point is that leftists have a skewed since of proportionality ("As Time magazine said about global warming (but never about Islamic terror"), "Be worried, very worried."
Of course leftists are preoccupied with the ability of Christian fundamentalists" to thwart leftist's perceived innate right to absolute power. That obsession is what leads to the incoherence that equates Christian fundamentalists with, or even makes them worse than, Moslem terrorists.
The attribution of leftists' who fear "Islamophobia" more than they fear Islamo-fascism to the left's perception that Fundamentalist Christians are capable of directly influencing our government and laws may be trivially true, but it seems to be oblivious to the overall insanity of the obsessed liberal mindset, which is what Prager is pointing out.
Cordially,
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:20:20 AM PDT
by
Diamond
To: .cnI redruM
The liberal world fears -- and much of it loathes -- fundamentalist Christians considerably more than it does fundamentalist Muslims. This is so true. Some time back, I asked a liberal friend to tell me how she felt about fundamentalist Christians - and I wrote down the gist of what she said. Then I read it back to her substituting the word "Jew" for the term she used - "evangelicals". She was shocked at how awful she sounded -- how intolerant and hateful. Then I told her this was what she sounded like to conservatives. In one flash she realized she was what she supposedly looked down on...
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:20:55 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Al Gore - the original "Millions Could Die" kind of guy....)
To: .cnI redruM
It's not that Liberals don't confront evil. It's just what they think is evil is so far off the map.
A case in point, in the 1930s the liberals were against getting involved against Hitler. Then, Hitler invades the Soviet Union, in 1941. Then they started demanding we get into the war.
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:21:32 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ShadowAce
Liberals are cowards in the worst way possible. Our enemies know how to take advantage of that. Yep, the cartoon episode was a perfect and practical illustration of your theory.
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:34:50 AM PDT
by
usurper
(Spelling or grammatical errors in this post can be attributed to the LA City School System)
To: .cnI redruM
Ironic, considering tommorrow the much awaited "World Trade Center" movie is set to come out to general theater showing around the country. These liberals cannot face the reality that these same terrorists are going to get after them also regardless of their political thinking.
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:45:31 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
(A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
To: Salem
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:45:31 AM PDT
by
EdReform
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To: .cnI redruM
As far as the left is concerned, there is no "evil", it's all relative!
To: angkor
We know the rest, and that is how far some must go to finally understand the danger. He died a brutal, heart-wrenching death. It caused me to weep for him, as it did others. But I think that it's entirely likely that even then, he didn't think of them as evil. The whole situation probably didn't even compute in his mind.
There have been plenty of blatant, clear, black-and-white, obvious evidences of the evils that we face. Yet the left continues to vehemently, even violently deny their existence. I believe that, for many of them, their blindness is willful, stubborn and complete.
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posted on
08/08/2006 8:52:12 AM PDT
by
TChris
(Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
To: usurper
Yep, the cartoon episode was a perfect and practical illustration of your theory.
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That was the defining moment when I realized that a driving factor of the elitist left is cowardice. They trip over themselves to bully, belittle, ridicule, and attack those they perceive to be unable to strike back (i.e. Christians). But they bend over backward to appease, condone, and placate those they perceive might harm them (at least that was their excuse for the cartoon fiasco).
This cowardice to confront the true enemy explains so much when it comes to the recent behavior of the MSM as far as Mel, the Seattle shooting, faked pictures, faked CNN stories, etc.
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To: .cnI redruM
All leftist thought is of and from Satan. If they confronted evil, they'd be confronting themselves.
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posted on
08/08/2006 9:08:47 AM PDT
by
dsc
To: upcountryhorseman
As far as the left is concerned, there is no "evil", it's all relative!Of course to the left there is evil, it's called Capitalism.
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posted on
08/08/2006 9:13:14 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
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