Perspective evil, persecution

You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot the God who gave you birth.

The LORD saw this and rejected them
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

“I will hide my face from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children who are unfaithful.

They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

For a fire has been kindled by my wrath,
one that burns to the realm of death below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

[NIV Dt 32:18-22]

Reflections Scripture

And now for something completely different:

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit points out what others are beginning to see – there is something most bizarre with the increasing adoration of The One® (pbuh), highlighted in this blog post:

Obamania Nightmare (Sure to Be One in a Series)
Brian Doherty | November 13, 2008, 7:35pm

To sum it up – the adoration is moving beyond reason.

Really?

Coming from a Pro-Obama magazine, is that cause for concern?

Leave it to court jesters that when things get too serious, they’ll be there with some levity:

CharlesWT | November 13, 2008, 9:50pm | #

“Does it make you feel any better that Obama doesn’t have a Ben & Jerry’s flavor? Well, not yet.”

Suggestions from various sources. You decide…

Anti-Christ Crunch • Barackadamia Nut • Baraky Road • Cherries For Change • Cherries Messiah • Chocful o’ Hopee • Chocolate Chip • Chocolate Promise • ChocoNilla Swirl • Cinnamon Rocky Road • Clinton’s Revenge (rocky road redux) • Commie Crunch • Economic Crunch • Gooey Limo Surprise • Half and Half • Half Baked Hussien • Ice Cream Dream (pretty swirls, flavoring, candy bursts) • Ice Kareem • Lefty Licorice • Lenin Meringue Pice Cream • Marx Bar Crunch • Mecca Mocha • Mocha Fluff • Mocha Fluff (air,chocolate,flavorings) • Moonbat Mocha • Nagin Choco-Prezel Crunch • Neopolitician • Nihili-Vanilli • Nut ‘n Substantial • Obamaberry • Obamana Split • Obamanana Split • Oreo Cookie • Peanut Butter Barackle • Pink Lenin Ice Kareem • Soros Surprise • StrawBarry • Trotsky Ice-Picnic • Vary Barry Surprise • Yes Pecan!

So – which one’s your favorite?

(Kudos to CharlesWT for the compiliation.)

Political cult-of-personality, Obama, satire

You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other. From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.

[NIV Dt 4: 35-36]

Reflections Scripture

He rules forever by his power,
his eyes watch the nations—
let not the rebellious rise up against him.
Selah

Praise our God, O peoples,
let the sound of his praise be heard;

he has preserved our lives
and kept our feet from slipping.

For you, O God, tested us;
you refined us like silver.

You brought us into prison
and laid burdens on our backs.

You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but you brought us to a place of abundance.

[NIV Psalm 66:7-12]

Reflections Scripture

Numerous abortion-choicers are confused about the extent of almost the entire pro-life community’s mourning over the election results; to them it was simply an election. Across pro-life blogs there is a grave concern, but how do you summarize this?  The words most clearly expressing the event come from terminology used in Gonzales vs Carhart:

The thin bright line has moved outside the womb.

Can it ever be the same?

The law itself has not changed, but then again it has.

We are the law. If you want to describe a living breathing document – then the Constitution, as a set of principles, is found within us.

So what has happened in the US is that life – all life has now become suspect, because we have elected a chief executive who cannot tell the difference between right and wrong – indicating we ourselves do not know the difference.

It’s like entering a delusional state where the mind disconnects from reality, and the concern is on the “idea” and not the outworking of that “idea” in the real world.  

If Born Alive protections do not cover any child “born alive” then we have to include all those of us who’ve been born alive.

A simpler way – anyone and everyone is fair game for death.

Political BAIPA, Obama

Peter Hitchen’s posted a most interesting comment:

The night we waved goodbye to America… our last best hope on Earth
09 November 2008 1:32 AM

(excerpt)

As I walked, I crossed another of Washington’s secret frontiers. There had been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy.

They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.

Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.

These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.

They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth? (CA- my emphasis)

Our last best hope is not a country, but a person.
He’s here – you just can’t see him if you don’t open your eyes and your heart.

He is Y’shua – haMashiach : Jesus Christ.

[HT Athos]

Perspective election08, hope, Obama

“See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty.

But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the LORD, as in days gone by, as in former years.

“So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me,”says the LORD Almighty.

[NIV: Malachi 3:1-5]

Reflections Scripture, thrufire-verse

Does anyone else think Sarah Palin might be a great advocate for the the pro-life movement?

Leadership Palin, pro-life

From the front page blurb for a NYTimes editorial:

The Next President

Barack Obama won the election because he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens.

Given his votes on Illinois BAIPA, this is utter irony, don’t ya think?

Leave it to the New York Times to miss it completely.

So what happens when you put iron thrufire?

Political election08, humor, irony, NYT, Obama