Posted on 08/16/2008 4:57:08 PM PDT by UFC Pride K1
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Will Warren throw softballs on the issue of abortion?
Will he give both candidates free passes?
Will this be an attempt to minimize the lives of the unborn while giving higher priority of less urgent social issues?
Stem cells? How about cord blood banks? There ARE such things.
I think Rick Warren may want to be the “kingmaker” who can claim that it was HE who got Obama elected, IF, God forbid, it should actually happen.
Rick Warren is leading Obama and telegraphing the answer he wants to hear. Obama just has to fill in the blank. Let’s see if McCain is given the “hints” for the right answer.
On evil...”Will good men do nothing?”
evil: 4 uhs.... 5...6....7.... 8...9...10,11, 12,13,14,15,16
Conclusion: Bush is evil.... good for him.
Warren is the False Prophet.
NO HE DIDN”T - he dissed my guy Clarence Thomas!
Clarence has more grace in his pinkie toe than Obama has in his whole body.
On confronting evil...”Evil must be confronted”, and then what??? Negotiate?? Aaaarrrggg!!!
Yeah, Obama sees more evil in the US than he does the rest of the world.
I’m starting to believe that, too, Brother Blogger.
I'd get your posts in now, then. Won't be long before you can't find the computer keyboard. :-)
Clarence Thomas - Evil and incompetent.
Scalia - Competent and evil.
Roberts - Compelling but evil.
SC Justices: 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,
Conclusion: Bush’s are evil as a family.
NMow he is trashing Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Trying to be more polite about John Roberts even though he is clearly against these types of Justices.
Warren asked him which Supreme Court Justice would he not have nominated.
He answered Clarence Thomas or Scalia. He disagrees with them, of course.
He finds Justice Roberts to be compelling and thoughtful.
M Scott Peck on evil:
There really are people and institutions made up of people, who respond with hatred in the presence of goodness and would destroy the good insofar as it is in their power to do so. They do this not with conscious malice but blindly, lacking awareness of their own evil — indeed, seeking to avoid any such awareness. As has been described of the devil in religious literature, they hate the light and instinctively will do anything to avoid it, including attempting to extinguish it. They will destroy the light in their own children and in all other beings subject to their power.
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness. My second conclusion, then, is that evil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme. As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.
Truly evil people, on the other hand, actively rather than passively avoid extending themselves. They will take any action in their power to protect their own laziness, to preserve the integrity of their sick self. Rather than nurturing others, they will actually destroy others in this cause. If necessary, they will even kill to escape the pain of their own spiritual growth. As the integrity of their sick self is threatened by the spiritual health of those around them, they will seek by all manner of means to crush and demolish the spiritual health that may exist near them.
I define evil, then, as the exercise of political power — that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion — in order to avoid extending one’s self for the purpose of nurturing spiritual growth. Ordinary laziness is nonlove; evil is antilove.”
I think he has already fell off the keyboard!
Obama’s make up looks like he is auditioning for Robert Downey’s role in Tropic Thunder 2.
Maybe spending a week in the sun wasn’t such a good idea.
The extremely annoying head tilt validates his weak spine.
This is worse than a root canal without anesthesia.
His position would make more sense if he didn’t think there was a moral and ethical aspect to abortion wouldn’t it?
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