Posted on 07/04/2020 12:57:14 PM PDT by rktman
NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker responded to the growing tensions across the country by appealing to the Bible, stressing the power of forgiveness and asking, Why are we penalizing people for what their ancestors did?
I was reading the greatest book ever written, the Bible, and I read But if you dont forgive others, your Father will not forgive your offenses. Matthew 6:15, the NFL great wrote, appealing to the words of Jesus.
Why are we penalizing people for what their ancestors did? he asked. Forgiveness doesnt mean you get something in return.
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Because it’s a convenient tool for demonizing the entire United States, its history, and everything for which it stands.
As in judge the majority here on FR who went into hiding begging for government protection from an itsy bitty virus? All the time selling out liberty while staying safely at home drawing a monthly checks from the government.
This forum needs strip Free out of its name.
The appeal for reparations obviously should not make sense for those trying to live a Jewish or Christian life.
" The fathers eat the sour grapes, But the childrens teeth are set on edge?
As I live, declares the Lord God, you are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore. Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die."
-- Ezekiel 18:2b-4
The sins of ancestors are not to be visited upon their descendants.
My ancestors were too busy trying to scratch out a living in a field full of rocks on top of a mountain in the Appalachians to exercise their white privilege. The only white privilege my Indian great grandmothers got was marrying white men.
In a sense, they did.
Article III Section 3 Clause 2:
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Even for the highest crime in the Constitution, the Framers knew that punishing the descendants for the crimes of their ancestors was wrong.
-PJ
Met Herschel in Germany while he was doing a tour for the troops. Stand up guy.
It all goes back to elite, lawless Democrats pulling the kitchen sink race card to try to get a Democrat in the Oval Office so they dont have to go to jail for breaking the law to try to keep duly elected PDJT out of the Oval Office imo.
Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government desparate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a “third term” in office imo.
LOL! Just the messenger. Other folks thoughts are not necessarily mine. Happy 4th of July.
Nor are the hundreds of thousands of europeans that were taken by the moors and other islam POS groups and placed into slavery. More than were sent to North America.
Well, if they’d been black they wouldn’t have been allowed on the mountain top so your kin automatically, allegedly, had WP. See how that works? LOL! Happy 4th.
Best answer so far. It also works. It's directly out of the Marxist/Communist playbook: "By any means necessary." The Communists are in league with international bankers, big corporations the Uniparty and others who want global governance under the UN flag. Power and money. They don't want no stinkin' Constitution that gives electoral power to the "little people."
Yep. Of course.
Though, I think the the only reason they ended up on top of the mountain is that they were running away from something worse at the bottom.
To condemn someone as guilty who needs to pay penance because they are white is the essence of racism. It is also the logical fallacy of composition which infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part). This is a fallacy because not everything that is true about every part of an object is necessarily true of the whole, much less about the entire class that the object is part of. Composition assumes that, because some black people are victims of racism or other oppression, all black people are victims of racism or other oppression. The fact is, there are many who are not. In terms of American history, they assume all black people are descended from American slaves, when in fact many are not.
My dad didn’t come here until after the Japanese concentration camp in.............wait for it-—China. He came in about 1946 after WW2, he was a high school student.
Plenty of blacks owned slaves here, too. Let's find their descendants.
Oh my word. I was beginning to think there were no people left with common sense.
My ancestors were Black Irish, so do I get reparations (even though I freckle)?
I have been preaching this sermon for the last five years.
The black church has entirely failed the black community.
most whites don’t have any slave holding ancestors
many more whites have ancestors who died in the civil war though.
several thousand blacks were slave owners
first american slave owner was black
A-fricken-men
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