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How about we just go back to saying whatever we want and then voting with our dollars?

Nope. I am canceling Hershey for firing those employees who choose not to take an experimental unapproved vaccine for which we are not allowed to even know what the ingredients are. Especially considering they are not making their employees safer, as the vaccines have near zero efficacy, but they also seem to make it so that the vaccinated become even more susceptible to the virus, as well as, other diseases.

It's the only way to fight back

Warren is an ecumenical heretic.

But the way I figure it, even if Bubba asks me to pray at closing time at the local redneck juke joint, I’ll jump at the chance.

I concur, but will you tell them what Bubba wants them to hear or what God tells you to say?

Because Warren supported Obama and told everyone what Obama wanted to hear. God had nothing to do with it.

I really like Phil, but he’s not actually talking to what’s going on.

We have been actively financially supporting things that are against Christian values. We have also folded to the PC imposed on us for decades, again, against our Christian values. In accepting their PC values, we have never gotten acceptance of us for our values in return. Effectively, we’ve told the PC crowd they were right, yet, we haven’t been willing to use the very rules and laws we agreed to, back against them. After all, doing something fair against evil is evil too, right? Wrong.

We have been far too permissive and unwilling to stand up and righteously proclaim the truth. We have been too willing to go along, offering near permanent forbearance to sin. We are not to accept sin or encourage it in ourselves or others.

We can work with such people, but it must be in reason and in love, and it must not compromise ourselves before God.

Jesus never partook in sin to help bring people to God. He only met them where they were and in a place He made no compromise in supporting others’ wrongs. We must do the same.

Phil is not saying anything unbiblical, but he is addressing a problem that is not effectively “there” with these current issues. Yes, if a person has gone after you in public, you can choose to not go back after them. Also, if a screwed up person has done something wrong to you, you can tell them so and say you can still work with them, but you now need to be more cautious.

For instance, if someone was a child abuser, you do not give them your daughter to babysit. You trust them with what is appropriate to share and not something that encourages their weakness. You also hold them to a higher standard—the same as you should have. If you cannot, you have not properly instructed or encouraged the other to the point you can trust them to that extent. You also do not provide any money to them for which you cannot assure its proper use, such as giving an alcoholic bum cash. This person-to-person accountability is important.

In the absence of personal involvement, we are left with our distant involvement to correct bad behavior. In our example with Whoopi, it is to hold her to her own words and to decrease financial gain to her and those profiting off her bad behavior.

Phil is correct with those we can more directly work with. Communication and distant transfer of monies earned completely change that one-to-one accountability. We are doing right when we impact what little we can, from far away.