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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Tell me why “god” would oppose one fool for another as the leader of a pagan nation?

I take it you don't believe in Him. All right.

NOWHERE did I say that God "endorses" (so to speak) any given candidate. Christianity teaches PRINCIPLES, not CANDIDATES. Christianity teaches, for example, that so-called "gay marriage" is wrong, and that abortion is a particularly callous and evil sort of murder. It also says that we can never will any evil, even if some good would allegedly result. (Look up the "principle of double-effect" for details about how to parse that out in situations where some evil effects are unavoidable.) It also says that fighting such objective moral evils takes precedence over ANY worldly concerns. No one is morally justified in supporting (or even dismissing as an issue) abortion, even if the cost is the complete destruction of the United States.

Does that sound extreme? God was here long before the USA existed; He's be here long after the USA is gone. Our Founding Fathers would never have supported "USA, right or wrong---USA, at any cost!"; they knew that the USA was supposed to be "one nation, under God"... not "one God, under the USA". The second is idolatry, plain and simple.

46 posted on 01/27/2016 12:47:39 PM PST by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: paladinan

“I take it you don’t believe in Him. All right.”

You can’t take it however you want.
My relationship with Him is none of your business.

If I support Trump over Cruz, or vice versa it doesn’t make me any less of a Christian because some political zealot says so.


88 posted on 01/28/2016 7:58:41 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Amnesty advocates call me "Tio Tomas")
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