Posted on 12/03/2015 7:19:41 PM PST by Kaslin
Interesting that during a time of tragedy when people come together through prayer and offer prayer as a comfort to the victims and families a publication would resort to deeming them as "meaningless platitudes."
While the Daily News only chose to profile Republicans who offered their thoughts and prayers to the victims of the San Bernardino shooting it would be wise to remember that prayer unites us and doesn't divide us. Prayer isn't a partisan thing, in fact prayer has no denomination and no political affiliation.
Now is the time where it would be important to note that our currency still has printed on it, "In God We Trust." Our nation's history is rich and is deeply rooted in a faith in a higher power, recognizing our human limitations. Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase instructed the Director of the Mint to prepare a motto for our currency back in 1861 that read:
Clearly, our government has no issue putting its trust in a higher power and supreme being so why should we shame policymakers who offer comfort through prayer during a tragedy? Our nation is rooted in the fact that no nation can be strong except in the strength of God. Isn't it only natural that we as humans turn to God, the one whom we trust, during a time of shock and despair?
Think back to the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, the American people turned to prayer in their darkest hours. Prayer truly comforted and united Americans when there was little hope and so much sadness.
The Daily News isn't trying to stop prayer, but they're trying to politicize a terrible tragedy and pointing fingers at Republican lawmakers who they view as a hindrance to a gun control agenda. For the record, California has some of the strictest gun laws on the books and it still isn't enough to prevent these horrible and heinous attacks. The point is, the motive of this crime has yet to be reported by the law enforcement officials who are conducting a full and thorough investigation, yet within minutes this tragedy was highly politicized.
However, calling for stricter gun control laws just doesn't seem sensible when combating true evil. Why should we render ourselves defenseless when lives could be saved? Mass shootings and acts of terrorism are pure evil and the intent is to kill–we need to call it for what it is. Restrictions on everyday law abiding citizens do absolutely nothing to prevent evil people who will stop at nothing to carry out their attacks. In order to combat evil, we need to as a society believe in the greater good, no matter what your faith. We need to comfort one another in times of tragedy but remain vigilant, prepared, and ready to not let evil prevail.
It is imperative that our nation doesn't forget in whom we place our trust, especially in times of great tragedy. We should never stop praying or offering prayers to those who are in dire need of comfort and strength when it seems as though all is lost. The last thing our country needs is more division in a time where we should all come together to lift up, love, and protect our fellow man.
The NYDaily News, of the dead tree media, declares that God doesn’t matter.
Hilariously, I do think God will have the last laugh, as the NYDaily News is sure to go under before God.
NYDN is taking a beating on their Facebook page, scroll to their post on this and join in.
This country has turned its back on God. So now He is supposed to “fix” things for us? No, we are seeing what happens when God takes His leave, as the country has desired.
To NYDN and to the those that want to get rid of even any mention of God, I’ll quote Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
Ya THINK???
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
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Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from the smoke of SODOM?
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
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We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Like Jesus said, it will be as in the days of Noah. BTW, just read a really interesting book by Jeff Kinley “As it was in the days of Noah.”
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