For some reason, people find it necessary to pollute or morph Christian holidays/holy days with fictitious characters that completely detract from the true meaning of the day. Jesus stated that we would be persecuted for his sake and, I guess, that is the cross that Christians must bear. But why do we allow a fat elf in a red suit or a bunny with colored eggs dominate the day? To tell me that it is innocuous is to defile your believes in GOD. He is not to be replaced or substituted with anything else. Kids having both religious and a pseudo-secular meaning of the day only confuses the child and misrepresents the days strong impact on the being and soul. You, as a Christian, can’t afford to muddle the meaning in the mind of your children if they are to have a true religious understanding of the importance of GOD in their lives. Children learn things early and quick so don’t fool yourself or do you and your children a grave disservice. The day is being used by those that want to sell you needs, like candy, eggs for coloring, baskets and the like. The only need you have this day is to know Christ died for your sins and to be glad that you have salvation and a chance for eternal life. If you want a bunny to give you “things”, make a special day for it. Christians should always fight back to have this abomination removed from Easter. The only time a bunny fits into the occasion is if it happens to be on the supper menu. True Christians who know this bunny thing does harm, never adds it or replaces it for Jesus.. It’s all pretty cut and dried. I know the easter bunny can’t resurrect your soul. Do you know it?
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It appears that you all need to talk about this. 28 people are dead. The killer is dead. The mother, a school teacher, is dead as is most of her class at school. This we know. I heard it on the radio while driving home from work yesterday. I turned the radio off after 10 minutes. All the news on the TV was about this killing. I watched something else. Gun control was said to be needed now. Of course they would say that. This was a tragedy and I accept that. I have become callous to this type event anymore. The whole world is full of anger and evil and this is just another every day occurrence within it. You have your say and hash it out here but after I say my piece.
I talked to a lady in line at the store today. The cashiers were exceptionally slow. I found out that she is 73 and has 11 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. She was a pharmacist for over 15 years and unhappy until GOD came to her and told her where she would be happy–working at a senior home. She is a very passionate woman with a lot of love. When she talked of things, she was hard pressed to hold back the tears of both joy and sorrow. She detests this president and the congresses for many decades. She hates how the government uses military personnel as pawns and the scarring they receive for life. She can’t understand how things have gotten out of control but she is doing her calling and happy for it. She blessed me and mine and I hers. We wished each other Merry Christmas and I told her I fondly wished our paths would cross again. We both came away better for the encounter.
The hypocrites will talk here about gun control for some tragedies of late that has occurred on our soil. Thing is, where is the outrage I don’t hear about for the school buses blown up in Israel? Those are children too. Genocide from made dictators because of skin color or religion. Hackings and beheadings of innocents for no particular reason. The baby drowning in a toilet or bathtub. The negligent parents who allows the child to get out of sight and hit by a car. The men, women and children that suffocate in a truck or sea container. The abortions. Those kids won’t have another or any Christmas. Those people won’t be able to grow and enjoy life. If but one person dies a senseless death ANYWHERE, it is a tragedy. Where is the voice and constant outrage for them? You will have many excuses but they will be hollow and of no worth.
You can teach right and wrong but that isn’t enough. Right and wrong has very little consequence. You must add good and evil and you must add GOD. Not a false god or prophet but the one and only true Father in Heaven. When you teach good and evil and everlasting life and damnation, that shows consequence. When you think that 60 or 80 years on this earth and then death is all there is, what is the point? Where are the boundaries and lines not crossed? GOD doesn’t allow or make these things happen. Man and free will do it alone. GOD gives standards and guidance to follow. It is HIS punishment we need teach and worry about. Time here is finite. We are given instructions on how to act. It appears, like most other instruction manuals, that they are discarded and some of us feel we can figure it out on our own. Those instruction manuals have warnings and dangers that need to be heeded and consequences can ensue with improper operation. Babble on about what you believe is the problem and solution but you most assuredly will miss the core value. These tragedies happen every day and will continue to until we learn to read the instruction manual and heed the warnings. I find all the tragedies of the world disgusting but not as much as the people that lay blame other than where it belongs–within ourselves.
I have had my say. I need say no more or rebut/answer comments here.
UPDATE: Words from a liberal that makes sense.
TURN OFF THE NEWS……. Morgan Freeman’s brilliant take on what happened yesterday : “You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here’s why. It’s because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he’ll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody. CNN’s article says that if the body count “holds up”, this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer’s face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer’s identity? None that I’ve seen yet. Because they don’t sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you’ve just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next. You can help by forgetting you ever read this man’s name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news.”
It’s Christmas time and the Salvation Army is tying its very best to hire bell ringers to collect for charitable needs. These are the people that will accept your change or just your best wishes and smile at you. They also help the most because of the Christians they are. But they do have a shortage of bell ringers here and other places. But this is just a small problem facing the SA.
There is an article here that shows how some may be annoyed by these people of peace.. Then there are the imposters trying to ruin the charity and the good it does.. And then you have the non-believers. This asshole had to repeat himself over again because he must feel the reader couldn’t “hear” what he typed. LOUD AND CLEAR IN BOTH EARS…….ASSHOLE! Atheists are obnoxious slugs, aren’t they?
If you thought you had problems, it is already evident in the numerous articles I have read that the Salvation Army is hurting in both recruits and donations. When they don’t have the means, others without the means suffer in their needs. Charity may end as we know it with the liberal Grinch eroding our society. Give what you can, when you can and wish all a Merry Christmas loudly and with a smile.
There is an elderly widow of my acquaintance who is quite well off — she owns three houses (plus a vacant waterfront lot in one of the richest neighborhood of her Tidewater city), has a guaranteed-for-life pension courtesy of the US taxpayers, Social Security on top of that, Medicare and TriCare, and over the last two years has inherited several hundred thousand dollars. This woman believes that it is “immoral” that we do not have universal, single-payer health coverage a la Canada. When asked whether the government should legislate morality, she hesitated (sensing the trap but seeing no way out) and said, “No, but we should be moral. We should take care of our own.” (Of course, she does not attend church.)
Now, there is a poor, uninsured, middle-aged friend of hers who needs a heart valve operation. She, of course, is not willing to pay for it.
This is the “morality” of the left — generosity with everyone else’s money, but not willing to help her own friends in need.
An interesting article in the WSJ talks about the church pulpit pushing early voting in many parts of Florida, where Romney seems to be in the lead and both sides insist that Romney must win Florida to win the election. Conservative churches are pushing people to vote their values while many Negro churches are busing voters to the early polls. The Negro churches feel that the new law that shortened early voting is unfair and that voting now (pushing their congregations) only helps Obama. Why would they want to do that when Obama and liberals suppress the poor and Negro in every shape and form?
Both liberals and conservative churches are handing out information at their churches and pushing for the “values” vote. Yet what seems to conflict some Negro congregations are the assaults on religion and Obama’s pro view for same sex marriage. This statement seems to sum up things pretty handily:
“Without warning [Mr. Obama] assaulted our faith by contradicting the word of God and redefining the concept of family” said the Rev. Anthony Evans, president of the National Black Church Initiative. Mr Evans said he was “praying” about whether to vote for the president.
God doesn’t worry about man’s law, only God’s law. If you state that Obama assaults your religion and that you vote “values” then what is there to pray about? This is the key question you need to understand and you don’t think the quandary has anything to do with race? I think there needs to be some soul searching within the church and its pastors.
Word went out to the staff of the American embassy in Egypt–go home because we may have a protest moment. Seems the Egyptians were mad because of a film made by someone ( I have heard the southern preacher who had the Quaran burning, another about a Dutch filmmaker but it seems it can’t be pinned down) that depicts Mohammed in a less than holy light. So they storm the walls, shots are fired but no one knows by who, the protesters rip down the American flag and fly some crap flag. No protesters were killed if found on sovereign soil but I don’t know why not. An apology (pre-written I am sure) denounced those persons who degraded the Muslim religion. No formal, informal or shout-out denouncements were made for the trespass on American soil. Egypt’s democracy government is still intact and waiting for our next hand out. That is all.
Lets see. We have a barnyard full of freaks and animals, many of whom self identify as jack asses. The pig pen is full of fawning media types from MSM, gorging on the slop thrown to them by farmer Obama, who moonlights as a big tent ringleader. We got legions of clowns. Wasserman Shultz is eating fire, while Axelrod is juggling. One washed up vaudeville act after another — look its Michelle. She is telling a story about Barak’s rusty old car. Why was a lawyer from an Ivy League school driving a rusty old car? They drove the rusty old car to her parents country home, talking all the while about how money does not matter. The Obama’s are only worth $7M, how would they know money does not matter? Both went to Ivy League prep schools, and from there to the Ivy League. How did they learn that money does not matter? Someone was even selling popcorn and Tofu-corn dogs during this act. Yep. This is a circus. The Democrats have come to town of Charlotte NC, and the wheels have come off the clown car.
Bill Clinton will be taking the stage tonight. He is the man on the tight rope. I am sure he wants to help Barack Obama. Why? Because Bubba is just fine with his wife losing her bid for the presidency, and doing so in a grinding, underhanded and nasty primary campaign. Then there was the issue of Bill having the race card being played on him. I guess that knocked his honorary title of the first black president off his head and into the round file. Then there is the campaign in 2016 to think about, we can’t have Bill not playing the role elder statesman, gazing with approval upon his successor. Bill is just looking for someone to carry his bags, he said so to Ted Kennedy.
We also have the bearded women from NOW. These are serious women. Not a shred of humor to be found. Not a single funny bone in the lot. These serious women want people to think seriously about serious women’s issues. With 23M people unemployed or under employed, are these serious thinking women thinking about how do women find employment, keep their jobs, put food on the table and a roof over the heads of their families? Why no. These women are seriously fixated on getting public funding for abortions. They are so serious about this that it is now a plank in the Democrat party platform for this. This is serious business in a country where there are over 5000 abortions performed everyday. All Just to stop the so called Republican War on Women? Seriously? We are supposed to take the bearded women from NOW seriously?
So. How did the wheels come off the clown car? Well, remember that party platform we mentioned earlier? It no longer had language recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the one last reference to God, had been removed. A small matter, except for the possible loss of the Jewish and non-Atheist voting blocs. But hey, this is Barack’s Democrat National Convention and he runs a tight ship right? Uh. Not really. The rules were suspended so that two planks in the party platform could be amended, returning language regarding Jerusalem and God back into the platform. The clowns were pouring out from under the hood and through the windows at this point.
This language would not have made it back in had the votes been counted. But Mayor Villaraigosa, the man with the top hat on stilts, pulled a move that would have made any Tammany Democrat proud. He declared it passed. Passed by two thirds majority? Really? It sounded like the motion did not even command a simple majority, no matter how often he called the vote. This fiasco is the mother of all unforced errors. The best part is that Democrat operatives have called this a Republican dirty trick. Really? Did Republicans write the Democrat party platform? Did Republicans make the motion on the floor to suspend the rules, introduce the new language, or vote against it? It must be George Bush’s fault.
These people want to lead our country? Really? Seriously?
