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by Robert_S » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:24 pm
http://stevedutch.blogspot.com/2012/07/ ... lical.html
From the blog post:
If we do not exercise our stewardship faithfully, God can take it away from us. Rand Paul, the GOP candidate in Kentucky, is under fire for expressing doubts about the Civil Rights Act. In principle, the decision whether to rent or sell to or hire another person should belong solely to the owner of a business. In practice, so many people abused their property rights to harm other people that God stripped that right away. In fact, pretty much every Government regulation that people complain about was God stripping away rights because people failed to exercise proper stewardship. If you use your freedom to produce defective products or engage in deceptive practices, or pay slave wages just because you can get away with it, God will take that freedom away from you. Don't like teachers' unions? You should have thought of that every time a teacher got fired for discussing something controversial in class, or decisions were based on cronyism rather than quality.
I've been watching the teabagger and birther movements, and there is only one thing that can explain how so many people got so deranged and irrational so fast. God has utterly removed His grace and protection from them. "Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden." (Romans 9:18) "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear" (Romans 11:7) "Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done." (Romans 1:28). Or, as the writer Euripides put it, "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:28 pm
Nice Poe.
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by Robert_S » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:33 pm
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Nice Poe.
It is a great answer to the biblical wing of the fag-hating, pro-bullying, anti-woman's rights twats in the Rethuglican't party.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
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by JimC » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:21 am
Busy little fucker, this god dude...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
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