Another tangle from this morning. The premise is that Trump swears and that people who cuss are not good people. Trump’s swearing makes him unpresidential material.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3394747/posts?page=197#197
When I pointed out that we had good men our side who happened to cuss, this person responded ‘I’d rather God be on our side.’
To that, I said this:
If you don’t believe that G-d is on the side of the United States soldier, if you don’t believe that G-d is alive on every oil rig and at the top of every tower, then you are a knave.
These men are prayed home from every deployment and home at the end of every shift. THEY pray before stepping into danger. And we all say prayers of gratitude when they come home whole and safe.
These men pray more than the average American because that’s the core of their courage. (That, and really huge gonads.)
Now I really don’t like you.
Don’t bother to thank a soldier. You wouldn’t approve if the harsh language that they used when they saw their buddy blown up. I hear that they cuss quite a bit when they lose their legs, too. My son took a fall with another climber just two weeks ago and you’d be horrified at what came out of their mouths on the way down. My son just spent the night at the bedside of a friend with a brain bleed. Praying.
You are such a brat. And no, that’s not the word I want to use right now.
- Point is that many good men swear. A lot. That doesn’t make them bad men.
In many ways, those are our best men. They’ll actually put their bodies on the line for the rest of us and for their families. These are honorable and good men and should not be disparaged for their language.
I appreciate your reply and your family’s service to our country. After considering the context in which the post and the replies were made in, I hope we could agree that Trump was at a rally, not on a battlefield. Repeating the obscenity was unnecessary; the woman surely knew what she said.
It isn’t being holier-than-thou to expect a leader to be respectful of his audience. Christians are all too aware of our need for mercy and that God judges the hearts of men. Anyway, thank you again for the time you took. Emotions are running rampant on all sides. If posters here disparaged the rank-and-file military, they would obviously be trolls, and I don’t think there’s a troll on this thread.