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To: RBStealth
What I know is that the left has made its progress mostly through sheer willfulness. It certainly hasn't been because they're right. The fact is that the world we live in, the world that God has given to us, is highly responsive to human will. We can beat the left but not if we retreat to the status of martyrs being fed to the lions. We must be more willful than that.
50 posted on 08/17/2013 8:02:13 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
Not sure what you mean...but a Christian walking into a den of lions knowing full-well he will be eaten is quite a testimony for God.

That takes quite a bit of faith and courage...and non-believers tend to stand up and take notice.

52 posted on 08/17/2013 8:07:51 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Yardstick

With education comes knowledge.
All of this has been my religion/hobby/focus:

Experts agree that five stages of a coming persecution can be identified:

(1) The targeted group is stigmatized; its reputation is attacked, possibly by mocking it and rejecting its values.

(2) Then the group is marginalized, or pushed out of the mainstream of society, with deliberate efforts to limit and undo its influence.

(3) The third stage is to vilify the group, viciously attacking it and blaming it for many of society’s problems.

(4) Next, the group is criminalized, with increasing restrictions placed on its activities and eventually even its existence.

(5) The final stage is one of outright persecution.


We are in the 4th stage, approaching the edges of the middle of the 4th stage. This is true for Republicanism but much more so for Christianity.


59 posted on 08/17/2013 8:14:02 PM PDT by RBStealth
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To: Yardstick

When the people in one of the 13 old Confederate States vote in sodomite “marriage” we can say that the Bible Belt has started to collapse. That’s not going to be any time soon.


87 posted on 08/18/2013 8:56:18 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Yardstick

When the people in one of the 13 old Confederate States vote in sodomite “marriage” we can say that the Bible Belt has started to collapse. That’s not going to be any time soon.


88 posted on 08/18/2013 8:56:23 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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