recent editorial in my local paper-Good God(oh,wait-librals don't believe in god)

[w8liftinglady]

more at site,if you dare


http://www.elliscountypress.com/news/126/ARTICLE/6428/2010-05-20.html


Normal life

JIMMIE SIMMONS
May 20th, 2010

Normal life (whatever that is) has its share of ups and downs along the way, we learn. So, no surprises there; as adults we expect the valleys along with the mountains and we sometimes learn to take most of them in stride, wobbly though the strides may be.

Politics and the people making up that genre are a whole different ballgame. Here, experience teaches us we will be disappointed a whole lot more than the times we will be pleased.

Laura Bush is a case in point. Though not heretofore political, Ms. Bush may be stepping out from the shadows to reveal who she really is, with the publication of her new book, "Spoken From the Heart." Maybe she’s not a goody-two-shoes after all and I am genuinely surprised by what I’m hearing. Not surprised, as in pleased…

I have not read the book…and don’t plan to do so. I will listen, however, to book reviewers, if you will, for that will get me far enough to form a good-enough opinion based on what I’ve already decided about the W-end of the Bush regime.

It’s no secret a majority of (serious) Christian activists have come on board with the Republicans since, at least, the times of Ronald Reagan. It was a no-brainer, as the other major party has been more and more controlled by the Hard Left since at least the mid 60s.

The Left’s baggage is not one to be approved by serious Christians. Not even by serious moral people who may not necessarily be religiously inclined at present. Pro-abortion, anti-Second Amendment, Big Government advocates with its attendant Big Taxes, a "Living" Constitution mindset, anti-God, especially a Christian God; the list could go on and on.

New activists having a moral or Christian mindset had no real choice, so they joined with the Republicans, a major influx beginning in the early 80s. They have had an important impact on that party.

After Reagan, Republicans, though seemingly eternally hopeful for candidates with a Rea-ganesque worldview, have had to bite the bullet and settle for what appeared to be the least of two evils, when it came to presidential candidate choices. Too often, the Republican turned out to be either Tweedle Dee Dee or Tweedle Dee Dumb.

[AmericaIsGreat]

1. Jimmie's right

Things like tolerance, efforts to curb global warming, a focus on science and math, etc. are not to be approved by serious Christians. After all, lesbians need to be reprimanded for their unnatural behavior, only god can affect the climate, and science and math are just opinions of men and the work of the devil to try to disprove God.

Glad I don't live in an area where I'd have to read that kind of crap.

[w8liftinglady]

2. I usually throw Bible quotes at guys like Jimmie-shuts them right up

Of course,they aren't used to having their opinions challenged down here.

[DailyGrind51]

3. Jimmie is wrong!

Most of those right-of-center calling themselves "Christians" have never read the New Testament or they would know that Jesus and his apostles spoke for tolerance and peace, favored progressive taxation, opposed weapons, and condemned "the rich".

[katzenjammers]

5. Right-wing and christian are mutually exclusive.

Most self-identified "christians" these days go ballistic when the actual teachings of Jesus are pointed out to them in their own book.

[gratuitous]

4. Oops, looks like Jimmie might want to go re-read some of his Bible

Because he's missing great big swaths of all kinds of really good stuff. I mean, there's the obvious thing about judging others or being measured by the standards you yourself use (Spoiler alert: According to Jesus, it doesn't usually turn out very good for the folks setting themselves up to play God). But there's quite a bit more about various forms of morality, and how those who set themselves up to be the paragons and arbiters often turn out to have feet of clay.

I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I do know that if a coherent synthesis is going to come out of such a diverse collection of writings, you have to take all kinds of things into account that seem to have slipped right by our Jimmie.