Posted on 02/06/2015 11:46:54 AM PST by xzins
As I think about it, Marron, your line “God intended power to be well distributed” speaks to the pre-diluvian and the aftermath diluvian world as well. With God’s people we aren’t introduced to kings and queens. We’re introduced to Noahs and Abrahams and Jacobs. I’m not saying they weren’t substantial people in their own right, but that wasn’t because of elevation in some human system. It was due to their relationship with God.
Melchizadek is both a priest and king....and a foreshadowing of Christ.
Speaking of the antediluvian... I don’t know if this means anything, but it occurs to me. The patriarchy is dead because we act like employees instead of patriarchs.
Time to start acting like patriarchs. Let God lead and you find yourself leading without really intending to.
Patriarchs have to deal with kings but they aren’t dependent on them.
I've been wondering over precisely that same question in recent times, dear brother in Christ.
What do I think?
I think it's entirely possible that 0bama can be both a Muslim and an atheist at the same time. Here's my reasoning:
(1) Both Atheism and Islam are religions though the former might deny it, that is how they are regarded by the Supreme Court of the United States.
(2) Atheism is the religion of Godlessness. I.e., it is the religion of FOOLS in the Classical and Judeo-Christian sense of the word. We are speaking of the nabal, the idiotes of the man who says in his heart, "There is no God."
Islam, on the other hand, has a "god." But I wonder, what kind of "god" can this be? To my point: Is this "god" Allah? Or is it the 7th-century Arab Bedouin warlord, Mohammed?
(3) Both Atheism and Islam detest Christianity, and will not live in peace with it. This profoundly shared animosity is their common ground. Atheism has its "no-God"; Islam has Allah.
Atheists demand "no-God"; because to actually have a God to whom one is faithful means having to adjust one's life to a Will outside one's own. Atheists believe they are entirely self-determined, and write their own moral laws as they go along. From whence expectation the rest of society is subjected to the doctrine of moral relativism.
The Arabic word "islam" means submission. It does not mean "peace," as is widely alleged these days. As a word, "Islam" and the Russian/Soviet "Mir" denote the same thing: One gets "peace" only when one "submits." Then human bliss erupts all over the place. Right.
But submission to WHAT?
This would be a problem for Atheists; for they submit to nothing outside of what their crabby little minds and depleted spirits can conjure.
Then again, one could say that Atheists live in submission to their own isolated selves. It must be totally suffocating.... But what do I know??? I'm not an Atheist.
On the topic of "submission," 0bama's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast a few days ago sheds much light. He took pains to poke every American Christian directly in the eye with his assertion of a moral equivalency between the Crusades of some 900 years ago, and what ISIS, Al Qaida, Boko Haram, et al., ad nauseam, are doing today.
In the first place, the long-ago Crusaders were military types, deployed to the Holy Land to protect Christian pilgrims visiting there, who had been subjected to brutal treatment gratuitous slaughter, beheadings, etc. such as still persists in that region to this day.
But the most egregious insult to a Christian like me was 0bama's allegation that human chattel slavery was sanctioned by Christianity. Whatta joke!!!
Slavery in the United States was abolished mainly because American Christians were viscerally opposed to it. And they had the majority back then.
Funny how our ersatz POTUS forgets that the slave trade mainly depended on Arab Muslim slave traders. They were the very first link on the slave-trade chain, the ones who swooped down on Africa every Spring to round up innocent human beings living there, to load them up like cordwood on ships destined for England....
The Koran itself legitimizes human chattel slavery, virtually on every page. We see it to this day, as female and child captives taken by, e.g., ISIS and Boko Haram are sold for money into slavery, sexual or otherwise. IF they're not murdered first.
0bama wants us to "submit" to total historical amnesia, to sheer irrationality.... He is the new "god," dontacha know?
Though much more could be said, I'll close for now. Thank you so much for writing, dear brother in Christ!
It is similar, as you say, with atheistic socialisms of all varieties. There is a leadership and there are the serfs.
Surprisingly, this ties directly into this article. What one who ‘submits’ does not have is ‘rights’. Atheism and any totalitarianism cannot logically argue for inherent rights. In atheism, any voiced rights are ephemeral, changing when convenient if present at all. And that is true of dictators, too. Whatever right you think you have is one the whim of the dictator disallows in his next breath. The various Kims of North Korea make the case. No one pretends there are such things as rights with those dictators.
So, we arrive again at the similarity between Islam, totalitarianism, and atheism being the absence of rights.
So, it is possible that Obama could be both atheist/socialist AND Islamic. The only problem would be his narcissism would see himself as the dictator caliph.
So very true, dear Brother!
The only problem would be [0bama's] narcissism would see himself as the dictator caliph.
So what??? That's 0bama's problem: He is never going to be the universal dictator caliph, no more than any of the other world-beating, would-be conquerors and hegemons of the human past, such as Alexander, Xerxes, Napoleon or Hitler, Stalin or Mao for instance.
What happens in eras dominated by such persons is a great deal of human cultural dislocation, chaos, and suffering. The would-be great ones don't even look at the problem at that level. They are so in love with themselves that there isn't even an ounce of love to devote to anything "other" than themselves.
But all such comes to naught, in due time, as Percy Bysshe Shelley reminds us, in Ozymandias:
I met a traveller from an antique landThank you for your wonderful insights, dear Brother!
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.
Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
If this is the case, then why do Dawkins and all the other atheists get so worked up over "homophobia," "discrimination," "sexism," etc? Isn't he implying that according to DNA those are evil?
Thank you so much for all you insights, dearest sister in Christ!
The judicial oath, or any oath for that matter, means nothing to them:
Most all the fruit of this Presidency has been bad.
I, too, have noticed that, Marron. There appears to be some sense among western liberals that they are immune from the brutality of Islam. They see their relationship to muslims as some kind of throwback to a colonial period in which they would be overseers, and the locals would continue their Islamic lives ignoring the liberals living near them and lording over them. It can only be some fantasy created for them by Hollywood or derived from that bygone colonial era.
They, of course, would be the 'good' masters, and the muslims would be the happy servants going about their daily lives.
It continues to (and continually) astound me how Liberals such as 0bama, and his trons, hold to the irrational belief that 21st Century behavior can be judged by 7th Century standards, in the one instance, and that 12th and 13th Century behavior must be judged by 21st Century standards in another, and that the glaring discrepancy will not be noticed.
0bama wants us to submit to total historical amnesia, to sheer irrationality.... He is the new god,
Precisely. And so goes the thinking of every Liberal, be he a professor, a Kenyan Pretender, or any other kind of Tinker Belle.
Thanks for the comeback.
I’ve posted this link many times here on FR, and I strongly recommend it for those that have yet to watch, and listen.
No Science, No Logic and No Morality: Atheism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxz84kS8k4U
This is from an open air discussion between the vice-president of the Cornell Universities atheist society and Jeff Durbin of Apologia Christian Ministries.
The discussion occurred at the “Reason Rally” in Washington DC in 2012.
While the young atheist is misguided, IMHO, he is very intelligent and Jeff Durbin is fantastic.
The video runs about 13 minutes and it really addresses your original post.
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