Waiting for King Jesus

"Taking human life should be criminal, because it denies the essential humanity of the victim."

That's a pretty blanket statement...do you support the death penalty? War? Weapons of Mass Destruction?

If you were truly Pro-Life and respected the sanctity of life from conception to death--including those items listed above then I say you should be a one-issue voter. But it appears you do not, thus you cannot call yourself Pro-Life and if I were you I would examine what it is you think Jesus would think about those topics and how you teach them in your classes.

Gladerunner

The Republican Partty is a party almost exclusively of white people.

What is wrong with this picture? Plenty, I think. Obviously, you do not see anything wrong. You have chosen your side the, the side that you think is right, and if all of the non-Caucausion people have chosen the opposoing side, then it is because there is something wrong with ALL of them, and not with you.

Basically, you have just proved my point.

danielinthelionsden:"the Republican Party is over 99% white and is unwelcoming to non-white, non-Caucaision people"

Memebership in ANY party is voluntary. Anyone can join, support or vote for the party. How exactly is the GOP 'unwelcoming'? Examples please?
The better question is , why do most blacks/minorities not support the GOP? Why are they so unwelcoming of the party? I have a suspision that it comes down to platform and policy, which makes it a political choice not a racial issue.

Abortion doesn't matter for brown-skinned people. It's fine to kill Muslim children in the womb.

Irishredeemed

People who are better Christians than you make ZERO impression on you. You don't get it; you are practically unconscious of the world around you, and in which you dwell. You can quote all you want from the Bible, and speak with all the authority that you can muster on what God likes and doesn't like, and what God wants and doesn't want, but that does make you anymore of God's Spokesman than my mother's poodle. You are not God, and it is taking the Lord's name in vain to speak as though your voice is the voice of God. That is what I believe. You have ZERO credibility for things that you said in your post.

I recoognize that for the first time in America, a black man may be President. That is THE event of the day. You cling to any lie and any distortion to prove that he is not a good person. He doesn't hate gays enough; he cannot be President; what a ridiculous insult to Jesus Christ is your claim of Christianity.

Black people were good enough to build the White House. But they are not good enough to live in it? Why? Only white people are good? Only white people will go to Heaven? God only loves white people?

I know that you will deny that there is any reacial motivation in your comments and in your anti-Obama rhetoric. But just take a minute and think about it; Republican values equate with Christian values; but the Republican Party is over 99% white and is unwelcoming to non-white, non-Caucaision people. You have attached youself and the core values of your Christian belief to a system that is fundamentally flawed, and even decadent in its white exclusivity.

Obama acts very white, and is in fact, half white. But still, that is not white enough. For there is really no black person anywhere, who is going to be Republican enough for you to vote for, not even Colin Powell, and so, you are in fact, by the way you think and live and promote your beliefs and arguments, a white racist, who regards your "white people" as superior.

ishiredeemed wrote:
"A lemon tree can call itself a peach tree all it wants, but if it bears lemons, it doesn’t take much brainwork to realize it’s a lemon tree."

I agree. And those of you who claim to follow a leader who dined with sinners and showed compassion for all are subject to the lemon test as well.

I was quite surprised to see that no Christians have responded to your blog. I was looking for the website to email Ms. Palin when I stumbled across your article. Unlike your other commentators, I am pleased to hear that you are going to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. Jesus said, “He who is not with me is against me…”. The Bible also states… the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1Corinthians 1:25. Some may see McCain/Palin as a foolish characters, even some Christians, but I feel far more safer in a camp full of fools trusting in God and upholding His principles, then with all the wise men of the world. God has never instructed us to vote for the greatest economist, but He has made clear instruction what principles a nation must uphold in order to receive His grace and favor. Proverbs 14:34 tell us that Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people. God states that “If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land. Murder is one of those things God calls sin, whether it is inside the womb or not. God is not going to favor a nation that chooses to exterminate their babies by the millions. Furthermore, we find two cities in history that the Bible speaks of that were totally annihilated for allowing homosexual practices to overrun them – Sodom and Gomorrah. In Romans chapter one in the Bible it describes the progression of sin and finally were God draws the line. Homosexuality was at the end of this list. Obama supports both these issues wholeheartedly. Don’t be fooled into believing he is a Christian. He can call himself a Christian all he wants, but he is truly not for God or the principles of God. The Bible states that you will know a Christian by their fruit. A lemon tree can call itself a peach tree all it wants, but if it bears lemons, it doesn’t take much brainwork to realize it’s a lemon tree. God puts it simply, you’re either for me or against me. Our choices this Tuesday, will decide the outcome of our countries success; no man has the power to make our country flourish or prosper; only God can do that.

Another pathetic, delusional, narrow, one-issue, voter.

So you'll be voting for life? Whose life? The life of a mentally ill person in Texas executed by George Bush? The life of an Iraqi mother and the lives of her children snuffed out by a not-so-smart bomb? The life of an American mother, father, daughter, son, sister, brother, that the Right Reverend Dick Cheney sent to die in a bogus war? The life of the 2000-year-old Christian community in Iraq that the Reverend Cheney has destroyed? The lives of the Americans and Iranians who would die in the war that McCain is itching to start and bound to lose? The lives of the 550,000 Americans and uncounted millions elsewhere who will have died of cancer in 2008? The life of a teenager pregnant after incestuous rape? The lives of the poor?

You are pro-death.

Read the Sunday WP article on losing. Get over it. This is a secular state, bound by the all-encompassing moral vision that is so strong in secular humanists, to protect its citizens from domestic as well as foreign enemies. And from religion, as mandated in the Constitution. Your twisted, corrupt religious dictates will not govern this country, even if the morally superior McCain-Palin ticket is elected. If you really must live in a state governed by absolute moral certitude, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Taliban, and Al-Qa'eda are welcoming converts.

And stop worrying about your gods. They've had 100,000 years to intervene to improve the human condition, but they haven't done anything yet. Or are they still "testing our faith" with the games they play? How many tests do the meek need to pass before they inherit the Earth? And when will the peacemakers cease to be called the children of Satan?

David Illig

If Barack Hussein Obama = terrorist, George Bush composed The Messiah.

norriehoyt
I am not much for Mr. Reynolds vision of spiritual viability, but the fact that he votes for McCain and Palin does in no way prove he is "lacking compassion and even a minimal understanding of law and civil society." I would guess that he is a good man that somehow truly believes what he does, and that Jesus returns as King. Allow him this belief without attacking it as false. Who knows the full purpose of life, and why we come to our beliefs. I am not a literalist at all but, who knows? Do you?

norriehoyt
I am not much for Mr. Reynolds vision of spiritual viability, but the fact that he votes for McCain and Palin does in no way prove he is "lacking compassion and even a minimal understanding of law and civil society." I would guess that he is a good man that somehow truly believes what he does, and that Jesus returns as King. Allow him this belief without attacking it as false. Who knows the full purpose of life, and why we come to our beliefs. I am not a literalist at all but, who knows? Do you?

"... but this traditional Christian will vote for John McCain and enthusiastically for Sarah Palin."

Thereby revealing yourself to be not a Christian, but a Christianist, lacking compassion and even a minimal understanding of law and civil society.

eileenflemingWAWABLOG:
Thanks Eileen. Nice post. Would that the evangelical core get that they follow a form of christianity that is the modern day outcome of elaborations of dogma developed by church heirarchy than on the direct expression of the life and teachings of Jesus himself. I am sure that he would not get it, what passes for his teaching today.

Gee, I was going to comment but Eileen Fleming pretty much beat me to the punch.

I think the best way to protect the unborn is to give mothers better choices to make: to put our efforts into creating a society where an unplanned pregnancy is not considered a punishment for a woman's (but not a man's) unapproved behavior. A child is a child, and until we all think of ourselves as its mothers and fathers there will be women forced to choose between their own aspirations and the lives inside them.

Christianity was founded by radicals, rebels, revolutionaries and dissidents, not conservatives or neo-cons.

Christians supposedly understand that God is LOVE and he created ALL and said it was GOOD!

The way any two adults give and take LOVE is their business- NOT the business of church or state!

Following the traditions of man, is certainly NOT following Jesus-and Jesus who was NEVER a Christian!

The term 'Christian' was not even coined until the days of Paul, about 3 decades after Jesus/The Prince of Peace-who promised it is the PEACEMAKERS who are the children of God-walked the earth a man.

2,000 years ago The Cross had NO symbolic religious meaning and was not a piece of jewelry.

When JC said: "Pick up your cross and follow me" everyone THEN understood he was issuing a POLITICAL statement, for the main roads in Jerusalem were lined with crucified agitators, rebels, dissidents and any who disturbed the status quo of the Roman Empire and Military Occupying Forces.

Jesus, while never a Christian, was a social, justice, radical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road warrior who rose up against the corrupt Temple authorities and challenged their job security by teaching the people they did NOT need to pay the priests for ritual baths or sacrificing livestock to be OK with God; for God LOVED them just as they were:

Sinners, poor, diseased, outcasts, widows, orphans, refugees and prisoners all living under the Roman Empire and Military Occupation.

What got the NONVIOLENT Jesus crucified was disturbing the status quo of the Roman Empire and Occupying Forces by teaching the subversive concept that God preferred the humble sinner, the poor, diseased, outcasts, widows, orphans, refugees and prisoners all living under the Roman Empire and Military Occupation above the elite and arrogant.

Being pro-life should also require one honor ALL life and NOT bomb, torture or occupy any others!

"We hope for a society where virtue is more likely to be rewarded than vice." (as long as they have the sole say-so on what is virtue and what is vice - by controlling the definitions, they control the society)

No more years.

Why don't you step out of your comfort zone and vote for Obama? Why don't you step our of your Republican bubble, and extend your hand to all that exist exterior to it? We're not gonna bite you.

The Republican Party is an almost purely white-people's party. Just on that alone, there is something wrong, weird, creepy, and even immoral about it. How can you be mixed up in, and attracted to, such an organization?

Do you believe that only white people go to Heaven, that God only loves white people? Then why are you associating yourself with a party that is for white people alone, and only for whites?

Did you know that at the Republican Convention, there were only 36 black delegates? Aren't you ashamed? And if not, what does that say about you? Take a look at your party; white only; it is like stepping back into the 1950's. What is wrong with this picture?

So you really believe Obama is a baby-killer,that he is going to make your children turn gay, that he is a secret Muslim, that he was really born in Nigeria, that he is a socialist, that he is a Marxist, that he has some sort of secret plan to subvert all that we know?

He is just a person, running for President who happens to be racially, different from yourself; he is a non-Caucasian; your discomfort with this says loads about yourself, and the type of "Christianity" that you are promoting, and it is not good.

Funny- I always thought true christians believed in tolerance, compassion and love of their fellow man. Oh well, wrong again.

real Christians vote Obama-Biden (and so do we Jews!)