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Darth, since you were not polite enough to reply to my post yesterday, I will post it again to you. You are very much like a swarm of gnats, who are incessantly annoying, and serve no useful purpose. I know you believe yourself to be above us, but your admiration of evil belies your self proclaimed concern for our welfare. No one wants you here........ever again.

Darth, I do not have a history of knowing, as Gretchen does, that you normally make thoughtful comments, and had no idea why you did nothing more than post a single Latin phrase, except that it was obviously meant to criticize us for our admiration of the President.

I don't know how often you come here, but if you knew most of us as individuals, you would know that we are fiercely independent thinkers, most of whom are dedicated Christians who worship a Holy and Almighty God, and are overwhelmingly thankful that in His Sovereignty, he placed George W. Bush in authority over us.

While I understand the danger of idolatry as a believer, it is my responsibility before God to be in prayer that my intense admiration not turn into idolatry (and believe me, I am). And I do not appreciate (that's putting it mildly) some complete stranger, who knows nothing about me, or my walk with the Lord, accusing me of idolatry, cult worship, kool-aid drinking, or the other things I have been accused of (some obscene).

For one thing, I assume you are male. And I would guess you have interpreted harmless comments about the President's appearance as being more significant than they are. We have a whole lot of fun on this thread. We admire the President. We like the way he looks, the way his wife looks, the way they love each other, the President's quick wit, the way he acts around kids and animals...... but there is a significant difference between us and a 'cult of personality.'

Because we are thinking, principled people here, the appreciation of those things is a by-product of our respect for the man, and what he stands for. We may disagree with him. We may not understand what he is doing, but we respect him, and that respect will not go away unless he does something to cause it to happen.

There is not one person here who does not understand that he is just a man. That, sir, is why many of us pray for him daily. But he is a man being used by God to do great things because he, himself is yielded to God, and as long as that is true, and, as I said earlier, the GLORY is given to GOD, you needn't worry about him......or us.

151 posted on 4/5/02 9:19 AM Eastern by ohioWfan