Posted on 09/03/2006 9:59:52 AM PDT by UnklGene
I don't fault Centanni and Wiig doing what they thought they had to do to save their lives, but I do fault them for not repudiating what they said in no uncertain terms at the first opportunity.
Centanni, at lest, needed to get back to the U.S. to do an at-length interview laying out in unambiguous terms the savagery of the Islamic fascists.
That he hasn't done so leads me to suspect he has sympathy for their cause.
Well said!!!
well said
well I am fuggen ready dude, sick of sitting around while they pick us apart, death by 1000 cuts.
And who gives a big rat's a$$ what they think? We know the insanity that's in their heads and we know that they want to kill us all. That's all I need to know.
If I had to choose at gun point between being beheaded and a frat hazing, I'd choose the hazing.
The critics are forgetting Patton's maxim - the goal is not to die for your country, but to get the other bastard to die for his.
Exactly :~)
C.S. Lewis suggests in “The Abolition of Man” that it is the chest or heart that makes us men:
“As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the “spirited element.” The head rules the belly through the chest-the seat, as Alanus tells us, of Magnanimity, of emotions organize by trained habit into stable sentiment. The Chest-Magnanimity-Sentiment-these are the indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man; for by his intellect he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.”
A contemporary elementary text-book that Lewis referred to as the “The Green Book”, and “its kind” were the tools by which men would be produced without chests:
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
But despite “The Green Book” and “its kind”, as then, there is a generation today that is rising up and is ready to confront the enemy at the gate. But will our politicians let them?
It all depends on how you view eternity. Obviously for you, this life is all there is. I would rather hope for something better.
I have to wonder if they would give such a broad generous statement if Centanni's brother's family members had been killed in a suicide attack or Wiig's wife held hostage and mistreated. They have no case to base this statement on. Their family members are safe and sound....despite the Wiig wife's self-proclaimed heroism.
Unfortunately for those of us who are Christians, it really isn't a matter of who in the world is watching or what they see or think. Jesus didn't add any conditions, a denial before men is a denial before men. I can only pray that I would have the courage to deserve His grace.
Mt:10:33:
33 But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. (DRV)
It would not be one iota more peaceful. Those with evil in their hearts would hate you just as much for some other reason if religion was taken out of the equation. To think otherwise is soporific folly.
Been missing since Korea. A wounded enemy is still an enemy.
I cannot imagine how Peter felt after denying Jesus three times, but he was forgiven and allowed to bring the Gospel and his own testimony of forgiveness because of his momentary lack of faith. Would the world have been better off if he had not denied the Christ? It would seem God could still use Him for His glory.
Not knowing these two men's relationship with God, it's difficult to say what their very public and obviously forced conversion means in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps it's best left to the judgment of the One Who knows their hearts and how the rest of their time on Earth can be used for Him.
Men tread on worms.
I choose not be a worm.
Patric Henry bump.
I don't think that would help much; it would leave all those people willing to kill for their religious beliefs, and their non-religious beliefs for that matter. And no one willing to pull out all the stops to thwart them. Oh bother.
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