'We Are Not Each Other's Enemies'

The Family Research Council ^ | January 14, 2021 | Tony Perkins

[Secret Agent Man]

yup

the side that loves evil (murder, destruction, theft, division) don’t listen to the pleas of the righteous saying things like this

[RJS1950]

Yes, they are and have always been our enemies. My longstanding tagline is a fact of life.

[snooter55]

Yep.
Why do folks live in denial when reality is slapping them in the face?

[Jolla]

On the other hand there is Love in the time of Covid, met this sweetheart the first week of March we went out a couple of times and it was just dandy, The second weekend everything was closed and all we had was each other, walks in the park. and spare time on our hands, what a year it was.

[RetAF_fedUP]

Every living being dies. We know not when that bell rings. The revelations of the last 10 days should have opened many eyes.

I refuse and I will not live under the hobnail boots of socialist & communist deciding which Americans can work, which get to live, how we pray/gather, which are allowed to breath and which die.

I’ll go out on my feet rather than kneel before false gods of the American left, the Chinese Communist Party or other haters of freedom and liberty!

[Frohickey]

Tree of Liberty needs to be refreshed, and it’s the blood of both of patriots and tyrants. It needs both. If they are not one, then they are the other.

[RetAF_fedUP]

Nailed it!

Nothing in common and we have every God given right to stand up for Nation and ourselves.

[RetAF_fedUP]

Well said!

[rlmorel]

Yes, I remember hearing something like...

"...Thirty days hast September, April, June, and November, all the rest have thirty one, except February, which has 5,238..."

[Jemian]

Actually, we are enemies. It is our side’s failure to stand firm for Truth and Justice that brought us to the precipice. I fly the Appeal To Heaven flag at my house because only God can save us now.

[va22030]

only stupid or diabolical people write such articles.

if you are confused about enemy - don't fight -you deserve consequences. e.g. trump

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

There are powerful people in this country coming for your rights, your platforms, your very livelihood. And they're using what happened at the Capitol as an excuse to shut Christians down -- permanently.

Agreed.

"We are not each other's enemies," he urged. "It's time to move toward peace."

Ben Carson is a fine man, but this doesn't make a damn lick of sense.

[Salamander]

Short version:

Yes.
We are.

[Noumenon]

You want ‘healing’? KTF - there’s your healing.

[LibertyWoman]

Tony Perkins...one of the most self righteous, sanctimonious pos' that exists. One of the original 'never-Trumpers'; poo-pooing Donald Trump/candidate. 'OMG, what a reprobate'! How dare 'Christians' back this man!' He and his radio program, on AFR and BOTT, dripped with complete disdain when speaking about Donald J Trump. Why, 'we' (Christians) are too good and righteous to back such a reprobate running for office. It was at that point I stopped listening to 'christian radio'. Now he dares to come out and state another ludicrous statement: 'We are Not Each Other's Enemies'. Get back with us in a few months Perkins, when your sanctimonious ass has been jerked off the airwaves. These people are absolutely our enemies because they are going to try and eliminate us and they now have the full reins of power.

No...I did not read the article. The title is/was enough to comment on. Perkins is in for a rude awakening.

[DoodleBob]

Enemy is a strong word. Al-Qaeda is our enemy, as was the Soviet Union and (at inception) England. I consider the rabid left to be like Cuba, bordering on NK.

I read lots of research that the rabid left that really haaaaates us (white, urban, affluent, educated, woke) is about 10-20% of Dems and Dem leaners. But this group of mouth-breathers is all over the media, entertainment, and big tech. Thus, they punch above their weight in getting camera time.

The remains Dems are roughly evenly split across three other groups...

I can probably have some of these non-rabid folks over for a barbecue. If we focus on things like the importance of the family, the value of hard work, how we should care more about domestic tranquility vs being the world's policeman, how the same big media that muzzles conservatives can just as easily muzzle minorities when they fall out of favor, and how God isn't a four-letter word, MAYBE we can agree to disagree on the environment but walk away as we began, in peace. That would be a start.

[TigersEye]

When an election in my country is brazenly stolen in broad daylight somebody out there is my enemy.

[Nateman]

During the original Convention they were , it seemed , hopelessly deadlocked. Ben Franklin then spoke.

Mr. President:

The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other -- our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.

In this situation of this Assembly groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine Protection. -- Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance.

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a bye word down to future age. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human Wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move -- that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that service.

Why did I post this? Because your prayers were already answered over 200 years ago. God put the solution into the Constitution and it is Article V

[TChad]

We are the enemies of the left more than they are our enemies because they need us to be racist and hateful to justify themselves.

Right. They are deeply invested in projecting their pathologies onto us, and in avoiding recognition of that fact.

[PerConPat]

When about 50% of federal income tax payers pay about 97% of the federal income tax, as they do, discussions of social/economic justice fall increasingly on deaf ears. And I've heard all the excuses for low incomes not resulting from old age and health issues.

Toss in continued attacks on natural rights, rights which Rats abhor, and you get more and more dissatisfaction. Now, top it off with more illegal aliens getting benefits and contributing to an increased crime rate; and trouble is always brewing.

My rat "friends", just to humor young Tony, are more responsible for the election of Donald Trump than they can or will choose to understand. These Rats are facing a dilemma they can scarcely imagine in their blind grab for more and more power.