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hosepipe: Remind you of anything, anywhere, it does me...
Obama is PUNISHMENT for 75,000,000+ aborted babies.. in terrible ways...”

Spirited: Indeed. Obama is a self-serving narcissist, a sophist consumed by envy elevated to a position of power by self-serving Americans consumed by the same in part or whole.

Envy is a major theme in the Law, Psalms, Prophets and New Testament. Scripture combines envy with pride, covetousness and selfishness into a single manifestation of idolatry of self and belief that there isn’t enough ‘good’ to go around, hence the idolater’s burning compulsion to destroy by way of lying, sophistry, gossip, slander, ridicule, scorn and destructive criticism Higher Truth, Moral Law, and the good name and spiritual virtues of people who are the objects of envy as well as to consolidate all goods (i.e., recognition, honor, status, privilege, wealth, natural resources) into the hands of one or a privileged few.

Envy/covetousness ultimately leads to abortion (child sacrifice) and other forms of murder including genocide. Among the self-serving social elite of Punic Carthage for example, the institution of child sacrifice may have assisted in the consolidation and maintenance of family wealth, of eliciting favors from the gods, and as a convenient way of disposing of unwanted and illegitimately conceived babies.

In 1921 the largest cemetery of sacrificed infants in the ancient Near East was discovered at Carthage. Hundreds of burial urns filled with the cremated bones of infants, mostly newborns but even some children up to six years of age were uncovered there. All of the victims had been burned to death on the altars of self-serving idolatrous men and women.

The actual rite of child sacrifice at Carthage has been graphically described by Diodorus Siculus:

“There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire.” (Abortion and the Ancient Practice of Child Sacrifice, Andrew White, MD, 1/5/2012, Associates for Biblical Research)

Plutarch, a first and second century A.D. Greek author, adds to the description:

“...the whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums so that the cries of wailing should not reach the ears of the people.” (ibid)

Church Father Tertullian not only condemns child sacrifice, saying that no matter how it is rationalized (i.e., reproductive concerns, choice), it is still murder but destroys the myth of macroevolution:

“....murder is once for all forbidden; so even the child in the womb, while yet the mother’s blood is still being drawn on to form the human being, it is not lawful to destroy. To forbid birth is only quicker murder. It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.” (Tertullian, Apologeticus IX.- 6, 8)

Today our land is being filled with the blood of innocent babies, spilled not on the altars of Cronus, but in butcher shopsrun by men like Kermit Gosnell, the executioner who murdered the unwanted and illegitimately conceived babies of self-serving Americans.

The beginning of idolatry (and sophistry) is pride (or self-esteem), which together with selfishness demonstrates preference for one’s self instead of God, Truth and neighbor, and just as no violation of the Law can occur without one first being an idolater, envy/covetousness, lying, sophistry and murder are its’ final results, for where ‘self’ is primary then ‘self’ deserves everything it can get, no matter the cost to other people.

Envy/covetousness will even drive men so far as to conceptualize the murder of God (theocide) as exemplified by Nimrod, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Teilhard de Chardin for example.

In “Death by Envy,” Fr. George R.A. Aquaro points out that Christ’s earthly ministry centered on convicting the world of idolatry by provoking people (represented by the Pharisees) to envy and then murder. By becoming the scapegoat, Jesus Christ allows mankind to place their sins upon Him so that men might repent at the sight of His blood. (p. 101)

The tragedy of the fall is that man has lost his introspection. Judas had no hope of looking within himself and seeing his own personal envy which inevitably destroyed him. The Cross is thus a messenger of mankind’s envy/covetousness and murderous intentions. Therefore we are obliged to search ourselves for envy and its root cause, idolatrous self-centeredness, and repent of them because,

“Look, I am coming soon! Says the Lord. My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” (Rev. 22:12-16)

Everything that has been thought, said and done will be revealed. There is nothing “covered that shall not be revealed; nor hidden that shall not be known” (Luke 12:2) and just as it is “...appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27) so there will be eternal life in Paradise for those who love God and Truth and have kept His commandments but for those who have done evil, whose lying, sophistry, murderous intentions and “hardness and impenitent heart” has treasured” up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God...for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.” (Rom. 2:5)

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the cold clear fire of lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment (2 Pet. 2:4) then He shall say to all idolaters that shall be on his left hand:

“Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels.” Matthew 25:41

Source: Envy, covetousness and the cold, clear fire of hell, by Linda Kimball (BroJoeK’s favorite author :-) Renew America