I know many Christians who voted for Barack Obama, and when I ask some of them how they can justify voting for a very leftist politician they say, “Well, because we Christians need to back off on the homosexual issue and the abortion issue because they are never going to be changed to our liking. There’s more important issues we need to be focusing our energy on, and I think Pres. Obama is the man to do it.”
Well, it seems that Pres. Obama is focusing on the issues that you consider irrelevant. Are you happy with that?
I’m indignant today over the state of our country as well as the state of the church. I honestly cannot believe that some Christians are caving to the pressure to accept homosexuality and homosexual marriage as normal. Rick Warren has now done a 180 since November on Proposition 8.
Rick…Rick…you stood so strong for so long. Your inauguration invocation was bold by invoking the name of Jesus several times when a select minority hoped you wouldn’t utter His Name even just once. Why cave now? Is the President offering you and your church immunity if you turn now so when he does invoke hate speech laws similar to Canada’s your church will be safe? Is the almighty dollar your ultimate caving point? Are you afraid that the spotlight on you will dim if you don’t float on the winds of popular opinion? If any of this is true then, Rev. Warren, you and your church have definitely lost your PURPOSE as far as I and many others are concerned.
Also, Pres. Obama has appointed the person to his Faith Based Committee who was his most vocal critic over Rick Warren being his choice to give his inaugural prayer . This is the article that really got my blood boiling today, because this seems to be another appeasement appointment for Obama, and I have no doubt that Pres. Obama fully supports the radical views of Mr Knox. Just take a look at the heart of the article:
In a debate with the Rev. Gino Jennings recorded Nov. 28, 2004 at the First Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Philadelphia, the two men sparred over various biblical verses references homosexual behavior.
This included the Book of Romans, in which St. Paul wrote, “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”
After reading the scripture, Jennings asked, “Do you believe that? That if a man lie with a man or a woman with a woman it is against nature?”
“I do not believe it,” answered Knox, who at the time was the program director for the group Freedom to Marry.
Jennings responded, “So this is a lie?”
Knox affirmed, “That is not true.”
“Paul did not have any idea of the kind of love that I feel for a partner when I am partnered. He didn’t know what that was about,” Knox said. “The straight man, the heterosexual man who got the privilege of writing the book, the educated, rich, heterosexual man, Paul, who got to write the book, didn’t think it was natural because for him it must not have been.”
Jennings later responded that Paul was not the sole author of the writings. “So you are saying Paul was just closed-minded. I totally disagree because the book says this, the book tells us that all scripture, all of the scripture, not some of it, but all scripture are given by the inspiration of God,” said Jennings.
Hey folks…you may not feel as passionate about this as I do, but you do need to be informed about the type of folks Pres. Obama is appointing to committees that decide what organizations get faith-based initiative funding. You may brush it off now, but you can’t say you haven’t been warned when the implications of all this hits home.
Oh, and to top it all off Tony Blair (who I thought was more conservative than most in Great Britain) had few “enlightened” things to say this week when he decided to jump on the recent hot trend of criticizing the Pope over the church’s hard line on sexual morality. I’m not Catholic nor do I agree with the Pope on all things theological, but I think it’s another sign of the apocalypse when folks start bashing the Pope as vehemently as he’s been bashed recently. Here are a few of Tony’s comments:
“Actually, we need an attitude of mind where rethinking and the concept of evolving attitudes becomes part of the discipline with which you approach your religious faith,” Blair said in an interview published in Attitude, a magazine aimed at gays.
and this…
“And there’s probably that same fear amongst religious leaders that if you concede ground on an issue like this because attitudes and thinking evolve over time, where does that end?” Blair said.
“You’d start having to rethink many, many things. Now, my view is that rethinking is good, so let’s carry on rethinking.”
And then he tried to gloss over his criticism with this…
“Look, there are many good and great things the Catholic Church does, and there are many fantastic things this pope stands for,” Blair said.
“But I think what is interesting is that if you went into any Catholic church, particularly a well-attended one, on any Sunday here and did a poll of the congregation, you’d be surprised at how liberal-minded people were.”
So, “Rev. Tony” you say that religious leaders should submit to opinions of its parishioners and should change their views to match the views of the day instead of standing on scriptural beliefs or time-tested moral values? To think…you just converted to Catholicism in 2007. Why would you convert to a religion who holds values you are most adamantly against? Frankly, I’m confused.
Sounds an awful lot like politics to me. But wait…I briefly forgot you were a politician and NOT A RELIGIOUS LEADER. Silly me.
See, that’s the point. Politicians and government want power over EVERYTHING including your religious views and what you should accept as normal. These are just a few examples of the gamut of things that have developed in just the last few days. Do you see a pattern here? They have effectively wormed their way into every aspect of our life, and the shocking thing is most people a.k.a. “sheeple” don’t even care.
So, those of you who voted for Barack Obama and consider yourselves conservative Christians how do you feel about your vote now?
See the malted milk balls and chocolate covered raisins got me off track…anyhoo, back to the real subject of this post…words!
I just love that wall color! It’s official name is “Delta Sandbar”, but Eddie calls it “Wendy’s Frosty Brown”. After six years of doing home improvement projects I have finally gotten the hang of picking out colors for a room. The room has a south facing window, so I knew I could go darker and not make the room feel too boxed in by dark color. However, I do find myself craving chocolate every time I walk in there.
