I have heard all of this misdirection from the right I want to hear. I am a pro-life Christian. When I say Christian I believe that children are special in that Jesus said they are special.
Matthew 19: 13-15 (GNT – Good New Translation)
(Mark 10.13-16; Luke 18.15-17)
13 Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and to pray for them, but the disciples scolded the people.
14 Jesus said, “Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
He placed his hands on them and then went away.
I can only interpret that passage as God will take them in heaven if they die before they can make their own decisions. I don’t agree with killing anyone without a reason to do so, but I don’t believe in bringing a child into this world without loving it.
I believe in reasonable gun control, but I can’t see a reason why any civilian should have an automatic weapon in their home. If we need fire power like that, our government will give us what we need. If we need protection we have wonderful men and women that are eager to serve.
At this point in time the far right is not representing the country I served when I was in the Navy. I took an oath to defend and protect the constitution when I joined because I believe that wise men under God’s direction wrote almost all we needed at the time. Some tried to make all men equal, but it wasn’t to be at that time.
I am very satisfied with all men and women of any color having the same rights as me. What we look like doesn’t matter. It is what we do and say that matters. Isaiah describes Jesus 700 years before He was born.
2 Isaiah 53: 2-3 (GNT) It was the will of the Lord that his servant grow like a plant taking root in dry ground. He had no dignity or beauty to make us take notice of him. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him. 3We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him. We ignored him as if he were nothing.
People didn’t listen to Jesus because of how he looked. It was because of who He was and what He said and did.
What we are seeing from the right is people who don’t believe the bible the way is was written and in God who loves even His enemies. It is misdirection fuel by the devil to split a country that God gave to us with a set of rules to live by. The points that the right are using to divide us have nothing to do with running the country.
The far left is still dividing our country giving more than is needed to ecourage everyone to get ahead by working. I am not talking about people who need things like those on drugs, have lost their job due to something they could not do anything about. They are also fine with putting people in jail with no opportunity to renew their situation that would allow them to rejoin society. The ACLU was a good idea that went too far in somethings and not far enough in others. A very badly run organization.
We need a congress that is zoned in on what the nation was founded on. The Constitution of the United States is very clear. Separation of religion and the government is not in my Constitution. What the Constitution says that the government cannot tell us what to believe. However, every session of congress is opened with a prayer to our savior. If someone is an atheist why should it matter to them what anyone believes. However they took it to our Supreme Court and convinced nine justices a non-believer had a right to overturn our constitution.
We need to get back into the middle of the road and govern like the ones that started this nation. The founders wrote the Constitution fairly quickly, but it took twelve years to get it ratified to begin our government on March 4, 1789. It took the original thirteen states that long to agree on a government that has held together for the past 133 years.
All we have to remember is what Jesus said.
Luke 11: 16-17 ( GNT) Mt 12.38; 16.1; Mk 8.11 Others wanted to trap Jesus, so they asked him to perform a miracle to show that God approved of him. 17But Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he said to them, “Any country that divides itself into groups which fight each other will not last very long; a family divided against itself falls apart. 18So if Satan’s kingdom has groups fighting each other, how can it last?
If we don’t show the other countries we can love each other, how will we ever be able to help them love God. If those who don’t vote do not register in vote we are showing the country that we don’t love this coutry.
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