Freedom (This is a MUST READ!)

Eject Eject Eject ^ | December 22, 2002 | Bill Whittle

[Blue Collar Christian]

Thank you philetus, see you at 8:30 tomarrow.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[tom h]

Well, thanks, BCC for your comment. I seem to be having a robust disagreement with a couple of disgruntled posters (named nanny and RLK) who can't see the forest for the trees. As a 46-year old fellow with an aerospace background and many years of management, I have seen enough personalities in my life to know just what their problems are. Some people just revel in their ability to be angry and fling unhappy words at anyone and everyone who doesn't attend to their needs. Glad to find another poster at Freeper who isn't whining every day that the President had to compromise or isn't personally attending to their pet issue.

A late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, my friend.

[tom h]

Nanny: I'm going to conclude this dialogue by asking you to mellow out. I think you suffer from a diagnosis of nonspecific anger and you seem to think that George Bush, or I, are the cause of it. I wish you the best in overcoming it someday. Peace and Happy New Year.

[Happy2BMe]

"The Only One Standing . ."

[packrat01]

A Marine Corps officer wondered to himself whether such an order would be carried out in the United States. He was surprised to see that most of his men would not follow an order to disarm the populace by force.

most, not all. and the number who would follow the order is growing.

[packrat01]

glad to see you lump Catholics and Christians into two different classes. Carry that thought to its' conclusion, and re-read what RLK wrote. Maybe you'll get it the second time through.

RLK, look into Reformed Baptitst...

[tom h]

"... glad to see you lump Catholics and Christians into two different classes ..." [ /sarcasm off]

Uhhh ... sounds like you trying to start something. I intended nothing of the sort. But I will say with confidence that Catholics do not call themselves Christians and Christians do not call themselves Catholic. [Note the capital C -- I don't want to start a dialogue about the universal use of the adjective "catholic" as used in the Apostles Creed.]

[packrat01]

sounds like you trying to start something

started a long while ago, and not by me, and no sarcasm intended. I was born-and-raised Catholic. Continued in the RCC, until I started reading the Bible.

[tom h]

"I was born-and-raised Catholic. Continued in the RCC, until I started reading the Bible. "

That's exactly my story, also. My relatives are still Catholic and think I've joined a cult when I say I'm an evangelical Christian. Of course, 1/3 of our church is comprised of former Catholics. It doesn't take much more than a perusal of Matthew, John, and Romans to make a thoughtful Catholic wonder.

[packrat01]

thoughtful Catholic

thoughtful Catholic...???

there are a lot more unthoughtful Catholics than there are thinkers... Ex-Catholic runs high numbers in our church, too.

Let's make more!

[rooster1]

Excellent reading. Thanks for posting it on FR.

[MissAmericanPie]

I can attempt to explain this to you from my Christian point of view. I can give long examples but in the interest of space, I can tell you that God will effect entire nations or groups of people with different types of spirits.

There is what has been called the American Spirit, that immeasurable something that makes up the rugged individualist, the can do spirit, the innovative spirit that is actually from God. He poured out that spirit on a nation that honored him by building their constitution and founding documents on Christian principles. That spirit is fading of course but at one time it defined Americans.

God sent a different kind of spirit to the people of Germany, the spirit of delusion. He sent that spirit as an example of the spirit of delusion that he will send upon the entire world so that those who are perishing will believe a lie and be damned. The people of Germany adored Hitler, an adoration bordering on worship.

The evidence is in the faces captured by the news reels of that time. Fanatical, cultish, bandwagon, spirit of adoration.

The rider on the white horse in Revelations with a bow over his head is the fake Christ, the anti-Christ, as he approaches a spirit of paralysis effects human kind. Looking up the word "bow" in the Strongs as it relates to this passage means toxin. Those that know what is about to happen are powerless to stop it.

Today the spirit of corruption is having a field day, right is wrong, wrong is right, light is darkness and darkness light. Powerful and corrupt men, deceiving others and they in turn being deceived. There is a growing famine for the truth. Those outside the faith are in the hands of an angry God. About to bring wrath and judgment on the earth. So it's not racist, it's true, that different nations and the groups of people that make up those nations share a common spiritual influence between them.