Posted on 10/12/2012 4:33:42 PM PDT by Morgana
We should indeed pray for them. Pray that the bondage and power that satan has over their lives will be revealed to them by God and they will confess and repent of their sins and accept salvation through Jesus Christ.
These people have no idea the powerful evil forces they are dancing with. Nor do they conceive that they are no match for those forces and that satan desires their own destruction. I shudder for these people.
Yes, but ....
For emotionally crippled people, recovery isn't simply a matter of "grow up and snap out of it." Some people are scarred for life. Many act out or compensate in a wide variety of ways. There is a huge gray area here, but politicians as a class are somewhat suspect, and the more driven they are, the more one suspects that there is something wrong at the core.
Radical movements in particular are heavily overpopulated with behavioral and emotional basket cases. That is not to say that everyone who marches under a radical banner is dysfunctional -- that is certainly not the case, but it is equally clear that dysfunctional types are disproportionately attracted to political radicalism ... some combination of therapy and "the god that failed." Obama does not seem to be an especially extreme case, but the coldness, the arrogance, the narcissism, the (usually) masked anger, the obvious contempt for adversaries, the contempt for the truth ... these are all classic markers.
Psychohistory is a tricky subject and it is best to resort to such methods as a last resort. But from time to time, we are confronted with folks whose behavior is outside normal ranges. Obama strikes me as borderline, but the artificiality of his public persona and the fierceness with which his past is guarded raise big red flags that something is amiss. But you already knew that.
One of my disappointments with Obama is that he hasn't used his bully pulpit to preach on the importance of fathers. He may have touched on it from time to time, but he is uniquely placed to carry the message where it is needed most. No government program in the world would do as much for the underclass as a reduction in illegitimacy rates. I wonder if Barack understands this. He should, but he chooses transference and projection instead.
I have compassion only for those that act in (take out their frustration on themselves), not out. If you feel you must be destructive, don't take it out on a bunch of innocent people.
It sounds like something out of the French Revolution. If Christianity had never happened, they would most likely be peasants under the heel of some warlord.
Little Baraq had more advantages than untold millions of other "abandoned" children, most of whom didn't grow up to be narcissistic wannabe-Napoleans.
If I'm ever raped or murdered, pray God you and those who think like you aren't on the jury of my attacker, making excuses as to why it wasn't really his fault, it was "society."
For many hell will be/is a place of total isolation coupled with eternal torment. They are like their father the devil.
I pity them, their lives are bleak and their eternal lives most desperate.
I didn’t say I would make excuses. I’m for hanging murderers and rapists. All I’m suggesting here is that the pathologies often run deep, and “grow out of it” isn’t an adequate response.
Seriously, you should be ashamed. It is a sin to pray for anyone to go to hell.
He clearly and passionately sees abortion as something he is morally obliged to champion. The abortionists are the one constituency he has never betrayed.
It is, in some ways an intimately personal malformation, in some ways a cosmic tragedy.
The vengeful wrath against enemies in the Psalms must be read in the light of the prophet Ezechiel who said,
Ezekiel 18:23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
Ezekiel 18:32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
and (remembering that Jesus Christ is THE Divine Revelation) understand everything in the light of Christ who said
Matthew 5:44 You have heard it said, "Love your friends and hate your enemies," but I say to you, Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you.
Show respect also for the Lord's Apostle Paul, who explained the Lord's intention:
1 Tim 2:4 He wills that all men be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Reeks of antisemitism.
Bears repeating. Spot on.
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