Good points Jythier.

 

I have a basic distrust for anyone who teaches that there is nothing bigger than, nor anyone more important than, one's self.

Thanks, ParaTed. That's a healthy distrust. After all, if nothing is bigger or more important than oneself, one can justify any behavior in the name of self.

Hi Jytheir,

Good article.

Man's love of himself over love of God epitomized in ideologies such as atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, consumerism, materialism, hedonism, libertinism, modernism, radical feminism, homosexualism eventally lead to personal, governmental and societal chaos. Just look at the history books.

Thanks Lula, nice to have you agreeing with me.

I like your Pastor....  

My Pastor's been preaching on Revelation....guess what I'm blogging about?   

Here in our neck of the woods we had a triple murder. A young man blew three people away in a store for no other reason than they were mean to him he said. He later (while police were on a manhunt) took a ride from an elderly couple and did nothing to them. When asked why...he replied that the couple were nice to him.

It's all about me society coming to fruition and it's going to get rougher. We've only begun to reap what's been sown the last 30 years. This man is 31.

Well, at least one under 30 guy is going to turn out all right, I think. Me!

My pastor seems to think the end is near, but also thinks that we still have a chance for revival. I hope he's right.

Truth is every generation since Jesus' Incarnation has thought the end was near.

Jesus told us what to do....watch and pray for we don't know the hour or the day.

We must be ready as best we are able to meet our Maker which will come at our death or on the Last Day.

I agree. Tho not sure about the revival. I wonder if Billy Graham isn't the last big evangelist for the whole world. Nobody has been like him. He was able to go into communist countries that no one ever was able to do before. Time will tell.

It's been my thought that the end will come in my lifetime. I found a few things interesting of late. One is Al Gore doing his thing. Somebody sent me Gore on U-Tube in a holographic mode. Then I picked up Sunday's paper and a big article was given to this same topic.

It was really really like the Left Behind books coming true. Everybody getting the message at once in their own language. Gore was reaching the whole world via Washington speaking so that every language worldwide could understand simultaneously. Weird. Reminds me of Revelation where the world will wonder and worship the "image" of the beast. Also the whole world will watch the two dead witnesses for 3 days. How could this have been done even 20 yrs ago?

I agree with your pastor.



Thank your parents!!! They did something right!!

When this nation began there was no mail, no masses of people and scare resources, no A-bombs, no highways, no automobiles, people knew how to raise and cook their own food, produce their own energy: there were no standing armies, save he militia. Our Founders were literate men who studied a variety of scripture. Thomas Jefferson, for example, studied Hindu texts. Ben Franklin supported public education, libraries, and (I suspect) would not have understood the need to burn a book.

Where in our constition are these scriptual principles that can govern a nation? A scriptually based governance is a theocracy, much like the Muslim world values.

Tyranny is indeed coming to America. Its name is fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, Jewish.

Be well.

But is that not what they guarded against with the constitution? That so many sects push for something that is not yet to be, indicates that so far, it is working.

I don't see how you can come to this conclusion Sodaiho. First of all the Christians and the Jews are on the way DOWN. They are losing more and more power and rights daily. So that can't be true. But where I'd agree with you is Islam. They are breeding and spreading all over the world at an alarming rate. That's where I'd put my money on. Watch Europe and do a bit of research and you'll see that the Muslims will soon out populate the Europeans in the next few years.

Their hatred for anyone outside of their own religion will be something we are going to have to deal with in a real big way soon.

I deal with fundies all the time, entirely Christian and Jewish. I have yet to have to deal with a Muslim. You yourself have said your religion is superior, that you believe our government should be run on Christian principles. f it were up to you, my children and grandchildren would be saying the Lord's prayer in school, attending Christmas pagents in school, and your particular beliefs would be the rule of law. This is a theocratic belief, whether you acknowledge it to be so or not, and it is the same as the Islamic fundamentalist believe. When a non-Christian is offered an opprtunity to lead a prayer in the House or senate, it isn't the non-fundies who get all in a tither. It is the fundie Christins who squak like chiken little, oy, the sky is falling. Fundamentalism and absolutism are the marks of tyranny, and in my mind that;s evil.

Be well.

Well spoken, friend. With palms together and all that. Namaste.

The sky is very high. It takes a long time to fall. You don't believe how great this nation was when people prayed in school, people allowed Christmas pagents, and we didn't have to have so many laws because people had self control, and took responsibility for themselves. Those days are over. Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint. And we've lost the vision that kept this nation from falling apart. It's not going to finish falling apart today, maybe not even within our lifetimes, but the course is set.

I think you're being brainwashed dude.

Christians don't "hold the kite strings" of all people. How do you think rules and "morals" came about? Cooperation, society, social norms, all that far predates Christianity.

Humans have, from early times, learned and put into practice, behavioral expectations that were advantageous to them as individuals and as a group.