"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to device." -Sir Walter Scott
First of all, I'd like to say that there are two more paragraphs to this article which you can read here.
Second, for those of you who do not know me well, I am posting this NOT as a POLITICAL or RELIGIOUS opinion, but because I think the point is interesting. I remember distinctly becoming "old and wise" enough to realize that peoples' "gods" change according to who/what group is in power (has the most money). There is a saying that I've heard, though I cannot tell you who said it, that states simply, "What do you do when G_d gives you lemons? Get a new G_d."
Lastly, and for the record, MY CREATOR does not change according to politics. The expectations are the same; Do all the good I can, in all ways I can. Do the best I can, then do better.
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OBAMA or A MORMON??
-Frank 'Appolus'.
It will be interesting to see how the Evangelical community responds to Governor Romney. The vast majority of Evangelicals consider Mormonism to be a cult and heretical... Will they vote for, not only a cult member, but one of high standing within the cult? It seems clear to me that G_d is creating a set of circumstances to expose what truly lies in the hearts of those who call themselves Christians.
For decades now the notion has been put forward, as a reason for being involved in politics, that we need more Christian men on Capitol Hill, we need a Christian man in the White-House. Nowhere was this more clearly seen and heard than when President Bush was running and re-running for office. Now, where will all those arguments go?
Will we be deafened by the silence of those whose true loyalty may lie in other places rather than in the Lord? Will we hear perhaps that "Mormonism is not really that bad, it may not even be a cult (shush, no using the "cult" word for the next 6 months, it will make people very uncomfortable)....
THE MANIPULATING of THE CHRISTIAN "POWER BLOK"
-by 'Davo'. (USA).
There is a recent history lesson in all this. I am old enough to recall the inception of the "Moral Majority" in the late 70´s and the rise of the religious right.
The religious right and it´s rise, as I recall, was focused on the issue of abortion. President Jimmy Carter professed to be a Christian and claimed a personal objection to abortion but was determined to uphold Roe v Wade as the law of the land. The opposition to abortion and Jimmy Carter by association and the dreaded Equal Rights Amendment were the two prominent issues that I remember that helped advance the so-called "Moral Majority" of that time. Ronald Reagan became the darling of the moral majority crowd and then there was the idea for a National Prayer Amendment to allow prayer back into schools which became another hook for getting more and more Christians on board to getting Reagan elected.
Well, the prayer amendment initially flopped and to pursue it was too costly from a political standpoint for Reagen so it was dropped.
The appointment of supreme court justices by both Reagan and Bush Sr., who weren't as conservative as promised, derailed the overturning of the abortion ruling. They did stop the ERA, barely.
I forget the dreadful evil that this amendment was supposed to have caused.
With all the religious political bluster that began in those days what has actually been accomplished in relation to it´s initial goals and all the promised expectations? Have they stopped abortion? No.
Did they get prayer back in schools? No. Have they thwarted the homosexual agenda? No. What about evolution being taught in schools? Did they keep the ten commandments in school? Are they stopping the assault on marriage and family today?
If G_d is with us why can´t we win these battles? If this is G_d and His leading, why has there been no fruit? Why all the failure?
As I look at things today in this country I have concluded that it hasn't made anything better but has likely made it worse. It has prejudiced many, many people against the gospel. Christianity has been reduced in many people´s minds as to fighting for religious control of this world as opposed to fighting for the eternal souls of those who are lost and dying in this world. You end up fighting the ones you are supposedly trying to reach.
