Bob – According to a liberal friend (the one I refer to as YF on here), although people of both Democrat or Republican persuasion have some very anti-science ideas, Republicans are worse, because being anti-science fits their “mindset” more.
Karen, I know! 🙂 I really shook my head when I read that.
On the persecution issue:
Frank Wolf, retired congressman who recently co-founded the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative and accepted an appointment to a newly endowed chair for religious freedom at Baylor University:
“I think America has lost much of its influence partially because our leaders aren’t articulating human rights as a driving issue… Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution should stand as a covenant not only between American citizens, but also between America and a Chinese dissident in Beijing, a Coptic Christian in the upper Nile, or a Chaldean who is being gunned down in Iraq. By maintaining economic ability to deal with issues of persecution, America can still be the dominant power to defend human rights and religious freedom.”
The success of Fifty Shades of Grey puts the results of recent elections in a new light. Perhaps most Americans are not liberal, ignorant, lazy or greedy. Maybe they are masochists.
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Democrats in the Senate refusing to allow the DHS funding bill to go forward. “It is all the Republicans fault!” Says the MSM.
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Bob – According to a liberal friend (the one I refer to as YF on here), although people of both Democrat or Republican persuasion have some very anti-science ideas, Republicans are worse, because being anti-science fits their “mindset” more.
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Interesting post from one of our local lawmakers today:
Happy President’s Day! Especially to President #Obama, who courageously led America out of two wars & a recession.
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Donna – So there really is an alternate universe somewhere!
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Karen, I know! 🙂 I really shook my head when I read that.
On the persecution issue:
Frank Wolf, retired congressman who recently co-founded the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative and accepted an appointment to a newly endowed chair for religious freedom at Baylor University:
“I think America has lost much of its influence partially because our leaders aren’t articulating human rights as a driving issue… Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution should stand as a covenant not only between American citizens, but also between America and a Chinese dissident in Beijing, a Coptic Christian in the upper Nile, or a Chaldean who is being gunned down in Iraq. By maintaining economic ability to deal with issues of persecution, America can still be the dominant power to defend human rights and religious freedom.”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2015/february/genocidal-onslaught-middle-east-christians-isil-beheading-o.html
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And, Karen, here’s further evidence (headline on a column from one of our area’s alternative papers):
“Obama will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents”
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“And, Karen, here’s further evidence (headline on a column from one of our area’s alternative papers):”
That “alternative paper” wouldn’t be The Los Angeles Times South Bay Edition” would it?
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Bob, no, much more alternative than that, one of our far left weeklies
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The success of Fifty Shades of Grey puts the results of recent elections in a new light. Perhaps most Americans are not liberal, ignorant, lazy or greedy. Maybe they are masochists.
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Some good prayer prompts for the recent Egyptian Christian killings:
http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2015/02/16/tom-schreiner-a-biblical-meditation-on-the-isis-execution-of-21-christians/
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It may seem far fetched, but God can save one of the men wielding the knife.
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Not even that far-fetched, really. God has done a miraculous work in all of us, after all. 🙂
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