Posted on 04/22/2016 7:42:39 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
when the topic I was discussing is saving America you do not get to redefine it.
You are waging a magnificent battle but there are so many deaf ears....people must see something very different around them than I do when I look at the world and the country as it is. Some people love the glorious, noble defeat by sticking with their extremely unpopular doctrine. To die with glorious drama.
I think the article is brilliant - we need to become a true, revolutionary counter-culture - we need to humiliate the Left with their hypocrisy and dictatorial mindset. We need to be cooler and more daringly rebellious. If you go quoting the Bible to those who are not interested in it, which is by far most people in this country, they won’t give you the time of day. “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.”
If Trump were a bedrock conservative, he’d be just as ignored as Cruz is. Ask people in the real world about Cruz and most will just shrug with disinterest, of those that care most dislike him because he is doctrinaire.
We need something different, the Reagan coalition was 40 years ago - most of those people are dead now. It is a different world with different people in it. If you believe that politics has timeless, eternal truths, then you are missing everything in the world around you. The Left owns the culture of America - many of their tenets, from global warming environmentalism to multi-culturalism to the privilege of the white heterosexual male to the Star Trek fantasy culture they espouse, are generally and widely accepted today. We need insurrection - one that shows the dangers of their rigid, tyrannical ways.
Again....Cruz has nothing to do with it. He’s not the ‘establishment guy’ still in. If anyone is, it’s Kasich.
Too bad for you most conservatives say he is the establishment guy. See the Thread on here for that.
Actually I do care about politics, conservatism, freedom and liberty. Let me take each one individually.
Politics - electing Godly men to return this nation to obeying God’s laws is how we make America great again. That requires that I support the most God fearing candidate
Conservative - I am a conservative because being a Christian means that one supports the values of God over the values of men. Currently the values of the Conservatives align with Christianity.
Freedom - I am very much a freedom lover. Of late the government has been working hard to take away our freedoms. The Democrats and their supporters want to take away the 1st Amendment freedom of peaceful assembly by forcing private businesses to assemble for the purpose of business with people of their choosing. Sadly the GOP has been complacent in this attack on our freedoms. Further, the Dems have been attacking the right of private business from offering the service of their bathrooms to those that meet the requirements that the business sets for that use.
Liberty - I am all for liberty. Religious liberty, Personal liberty but liberty does not mean that another individual gets to take away, limit or infringe on another’s rights. A great comment was made about this space. Your rights end where my nose begins. Sadly this is what has been missing alot from the legal decisions that have been made by judges, representatives, senators and presidents.
Does that make me a zealot in your eyes. Truth be told, I don’t care about what you think of me. I am a christian first, patriot second and father/husband third. those are my values and they are not changing.
And no, I will NOT sit back and keep quiet. That is the whole reason for this thread in the first place. I will NOT grant to you the heckler’s veto. I am Christian along with MILLIONS of other like me, I will proudly proclaim my faith, in public, and proclaim those that I support. And when politicians are not supporting the Christian fight to oppose evil, I will point it out. I will use my faith in God to guide my decisions in life and that includes voting.
As for illegals, they are here illegally. They are breaking the laws of this nation and are not “...rendering unto Caesar...” As such then need to go back to their own countries and obey American laws about coming here legally.
Terrorism is murder ... murder of innocents. It is no different than murdering the unborn.
The economy works best when God’s principles and wisdom is applied to the nation. That is one of the reasons I vote for the most godly politician.
Zacchesus?
So since you have been involved since the 90s; and since then ‘millions’ have been ‘murdered’
How do you sleep at night?
Do you think you have done enough?
The old “church state is best” fallacy.
This is how we got some of the most extreme problems — the hijacking of evangelical zeal.
The godless liberal governments have killed Millions via abortion. World wide, the murder rate of 40 to 45 million per year from 1995 to 2008.
Half a Billion murders. Understand the scale of that number You have to assume the maximum estimated rate of casualties for the following wars to come to the same number.
World War II
Mongol conquests
Three Kingdoms War
Second Sino-Japanese War
Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty
Taiping Rebellion
World War I/Great War
An Lushan Rebellion
Conquest of the Americas
Dungan Revolt
Conquests of Tamerlane
So I challenge you to find a more extreme problem that the murdering of millions of babies.
Where would you put taking on and defeating political correctness on your priority list of issues?
Yeah, somehow, I’ll try to get over it......
OK, so we now have to fix the whole world’s abortion problem.
Cruz is the man! /s
If we can fix our attention deficit, we’d remember that this was why Trump succeeded in making a big splash on the scene.
Get people talking about facts rather than in the terms of the official meme du jour, and you’ve fixed half your “screaming liberal” problem right there.
And I challenge you to find a more extreme cure than Christ, in churches, not in Caesar’s palaces.
We start by following the teaching of Christ and worry about the stick in our own eye. Fix our house first.
Trump’s not a cultural warrior.
How about your house of worship, O pious one?
We don’t abort babies in my house of worship. In fact, my church as an outreach program to support teen mothers.
One thousand dead babies everyday THE BATTLE.
NOTHING ELSE COMES CLOSE.
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