Posted on 05/09/2023 6:12:59 AM PDT by Heartlander
I remember soon after I became a Christian in the late seventies and learned just enough of the Bible to become a “loose cannon,” I got into a heated discussion with my uncle, who was an atheist. In response to one of his comments, I replied with the utmost of confidence (and probably cockiness), “But the Bible says, “Xyz!” As I stood there, so proud of myself for remembering that scripture and expecting him to drop to his knees in repentance any second, I was shocked to hear him say, “Yeah, but I don’t believe the Bible.”
That completely threw me for a loop, and I had no comeback. I mistakenly thought that we were somehow beginning with the same “square one” and then diverged on some subsequent square. Like maybe he believed the Bible was good and true but that it was written solely by the wisdom of man. I didn’t know for sure what he believed, except that he was an atheist. But given my maturity level at the time, I knew our conversation was over. When two people can no longer debate using the authority of the Bible as the starting point, the conversation has to change into a completely different conversation. And I was not prepared at the time to go there.
It seems the right and the left have reached a similar point in the debate regarding the Constitution. We on the right keep screaming, “But the Constitution says, “Xyz!” But sadly, the response is never, “Oh, wow … you’re right. There it is in black and white. Got me.” No, they only see it as obsolete and a roadblock to implementing their agenda... there’s a growing number on the Left who appear to hate the Constitution and all that it stands for....
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No. Irreconcilable differences with complete loss of trust. Nothing good comes after that.
Yes the United States will endure and will flourish. In 3-4 years things will be vastly different than they are now.
the government of the US may not endure, but Americans will. Americans know the value of freedom and will fight to retain and maintain it.
I wish I had your optimism, but I don't. Or, did you forget the "/sarc" tag?
You’re right! We’ll vote and blog angrily forever, because that has proven to be quite effective.
National Divorce. They will lock us all up given the chance.
A living constitution is a dead letter.
When I was a boy, growing up in New York City, we thought of ourselves as one country, from California to the New York Island, from the Gulf Stream waters to the redwood forests.
No longer.
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Well, we’re already on the US 2.0, the original having died at Appromatox; I’m sure we could put something together and convince the country that it’s the same as the first one.
Third world black markets ..drug cartels..people disaPpearing
Third world black markets ..drug cartels..people disaPpearing
I do not want to be part of a country that includes Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, by the way. The less said about San Fransicko, the better.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”—John Adams
“Can the United States Endure?”
No, it can’t and will not. America, as a nation, is not an integral part of the end times as prosephied in the Bible.
We tolerated the inflation of the federal gov’t by Democrats.
We tolerated the socialist programs like Welfare, Food Stamps, etc.
We tolerated politicians who were openly aligned with the USSR
We tolerated anti-American policies
We tolerated the destruction of black familes
We tolerated the destruction of all other families
We tolerated the destruction of individual liberty
We tolerated collectivism
We tolerated crooked politicians
We had a Republic, if we could keep it.
We could not keep it.
No, I’m very serious. The US and the whole world are on the cusp of a new age of enlightenment. Its a wonderful time to be alive. Its only depressing if you allow yourself to believe the lies and propaganda of the MSM.
More people now follow alternative media than MSM. There is a lot of factual information to be had and you can hear the truth if you look for it.
Trump isn’t going to prison, we are not going to be slaves to the Federal digital coin. The deep state isn’t going to continue its illegal hijack of the government. They aren’t taking our gas stoves or forcing us all into electric cars and tiny apartments.
Just watch as in coming weeks and months as events unfold faster and faster. The deep state cabal is on its last legs. They will cause some near term trouble in their final desperate days but it won’t last very long.
Not for long economically, with Marxists Dems running the gov’t.
After Title 42 is killed and another million or so convicts, rapists, gang members, mental hospital patients etc stroll across the border I’ll bet the Demoncrats will start insisting we need to make them citizens or just give them the right to vote for “equities” sake. Then, lo and behold a one party socialist totalitarian government appears.
We’ve been effectively Balkanized.
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