Posted on 08/16/2015 4:33:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
Our country is in a crap sling of gastronomical proportions. I was going to say astronomical but this thing is more gassy than it is interplanetary.
You wanna know how messed up we’ve become?
Well, for one, Kim Kardashian has 43 million followers on Instagram just waiting for her to post a pic of her ample ass-ets. Secondly, social media dipsticks think Cecil The Lion’s plight was/is more important than Planned Parenthood's dealing aborted baby body parts. Thirdly, there are actually people in this country, who call themselves Americans, who’re contemplating making Hillary Clinton president.
Look, as far as I’m concerned, Hillary shouldn’t be allowed to sell moon crickets at Skeeter’s Bait Shop on Lake Pontchartrain, much less run our nation; and if this was 1773 that evil clown would have been jailed for treason and left to rot in jail until her teeth turned brown.
In addition to peeps actually contemplating Hillary for President, the Right’s answer to the potential Hildebeest acid-trip is Donald Trump.
Now, don’t get me wrong … I love what Trump is doing both to the Left and the Right, in stirring the putrid political pot, but I’m a guessin’ that even Trump has to be befuddled that he has to pony up to fix this slop.
So, how’d we arrive at such a gloomy place, where we would elect Obama twice, a junior state senator whose claim to fame was writing two books about himself: and where many are actually thinking about heaving Hillary’s haggard backside into the Oval Office to sit behind the same desk where Bill shagged Monica?
While everyone is running around playing pin the blame-tail on the donkey, trying to super-glue responsibility for our nation’s decades long complicated demise, I’d like to put the church at the top of the culpability flow chart. Yes, I blame the brethren, in particular ministers, for not stemming the tide on our nation’s abysmal slide.
The last 40-plus years of ecclesiastical “influence” has allowed for political corruption to take place that would’ve never seen the light of day from pastors who were here during our country’s conception. Yep, the majority of ministers that were kicking around during our nation's founding and framing wouldn’t have let this smack go down on their watch. Oh, hell no.
No, matter of fact, America’s early ministers, unapologetically, poured lighter fluid on our original revolt against political tyrants. They weren’t ministers who were preaching for financial profit, longing to be Charisma magazine’s playmate of the month, but were instead veritable founts of political offense if you were peddling enslavement to government goons. Yes, they were holy, ticked-off fire-brands unafraid to rebuke political pigs that wished to enslave us.
The original pastors were rebels. Our current crop of clergy are like Obadiah’s “prophets” hiding in caves from Hillary… I mean Jezebel. The New England clergy fueled The American Revolution because they loved this thing called liberty and independence more than life and they had no problem whatsoever destroying political pariahs who sought to enslave people to big government jackasses.
If America is going to go forward into greatness then the Elijahs of God are going to have to come forth and get a whip and start clearing the punks.
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Got it. Thanks for clarifying. I sensed it was an Old Testament notion (and as a Jew, the Torah).
BTTT
...then shouldn’t that be _B_M_ ?
America seem to crave pastors, preachers and priests who are *not* lily-livered, socially amoral, personally corrupt, or who are willing to compromise their faith to be trendy.
Sadly, they are few and far between.
In the 1960s and 1970s, seminaries went to Hell. Many who joined were draft dodgers and homosexuals. Philosophies, most of which were atheistic, replaced theology as a core study.
The willingness to liberalize and compromise with their faith foretold the downfall of many churches.
In truth, the underpinnings for failure began in the 1940s, when clergy decided to dispense with the idea of Hell, that Hell even existed, as such. Likely wracked with worry or guilt with their own bad behavior, they became frightened of the idea of Hell, because if it existed, then they were toast.
The seeds of the American revolution were sown by the colonial pastors like George Whitefield. Its why the British were so aggressive with colonial churches and trying to impose government approved pastors.
Funny thing, this ‘pastor’ garbage, as I blame myself vs. blaming others, because I - like so many others - have LET those around me vote the way that led to our current cabal that presently has this train running away.
I’m of the opinion perhaps that we might have been better off beating the bejesus out of those that have led us down this track.
That stated, I also believe Cruz is the best choice to stick I up the a$$ of the establishment.
Palin in his cabinet would genuinely get me excited at the thought of libs’ heads doing 540 rotation and then exploding...
Funny thing.
I wish Ted Cruz and his father had been able to go to Cuba instead of Jeff Flake. It would have been a great jab in the eye to Castro. They could have returned with photos of the empty seats at the embassy opening after the White House claimed that there simply was no room for Cuban dissidents on the trip.
I’m in the Bible Belt; you can barely walk around without someone telling you how Christian they are - whether you ask or not.
When someone tells me unprompted that they’re oh-so-Christian, I ask them to list the Ten Commandments.
Not one of these people has gotten it correct to date, and that includes actual pastors. Also have had the same results with Mormon missionaries, who seem to always come in pairs, and even two of them together can’t do it. Best anyone has done so far is to get seven of them.
Try it. You may be shocked at the results.
I’ve concluded that someone who is really Christian is too humble to shove it in someone else’s face.
Commandment 1: See Commandment 2.
Commandment 2: See Commandment 3.
Commandment 3: See Commandment 4.
Commandment 4: See Commandment 5.
Commandment 5: See Commandment 6.
Commandment 6: See Commandment 7.
Commandment 7: See Commandment 8.
Commandment 8: See Commandment 9
Commandment 9: See Commandment 10.
Commandment 10: See Commandment 1.
Source: The Orange Catholic Bible, Artificial Intelligence Commandments.
Yep,when I refused to vote for a man whose prayers God does not hear, I was blamed for putting BO in office.
If I am reading your post correctly, that was an unnecessary and unkind slam. Disappointed.
dear biggirl,
I was under the impresssion that as Mr. Billy started winding down, easing back, due to health reasons, not in his fervor, there really wasn’t -any-one- individual.
Sure, there were a lot of bookselling-making-the-tour-preachers, but even THOSE books, had NOT the ‘Jonah on the shore talking to the Ninevites’ impact, Billy had.
Franklin, has come forward, and is, yes, Billy’s son.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
“Good men cannot save a great nation, because good men will not go to the lengths necessary.” - Horace Walpole
Both were members of Britain’s House of Commons during the late 18th century.
Americans are especially fond of this quote from Burke, but fewer are so much as aware of the existence of Walpole.
If we expect to succeed, we ought to contemplate the truth of both statments.
I could understand how insincerity could be a risk in a highly “Christian culture” region.
Try a more “moderate” area and you will not see that.
Keep in mind, however, that Christian theologians differ on the significance of the Ten Commandments to the modern Gentile church. The bible literate should know them but that does not translate into literal obligation.
I know.
Got to remember that a Christian is simply a sinner who has simply been forgiven by Jesus.
Look for America to be a new missionary area for those Christian missionaries from the countries which America used to send Christian missionary folks.
It’s certainly the case for American Anglicans who left behind the ruins of the Episcopal church and are now in African Anglican Missionary churches. Completely white congregations who have African bishops and archbishops.
Oddly enough, it couldn’t have happened at a better time for the African dioceses, as these American missionary churches are now sending them money, which they desperately need because of the vast number of black Muslims converting to Christianity. They can’t build churches fast enough, and they are SRO when they do.
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