I just found the blog post to end the discussion. This one!

If she kills moose I think thats kind of cool. I prefer women who are on the outgoing side.

Okay, the term “woman priest” is one of those fingernails-on-the-chalkboard screeches with me.

English already HAS have a feminine form of the word “priest”: PRIESTESS.

“Is it the place of the pastor to deal with these matters, and where is it on the priority list?”-Mike

No, the role of the Pastor is to shepherd the flock the Lord has placed him over and teach Biblical truth. The Pastor should encourage us to participate in our community and pray for our leaders as scripture commands us to but not how to participate. As far as priority: preach/teach the Gospel, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, heal/comfort the sick…, it is way down the line. Our Lord did not tell the Centurion or the tax collector what his politics should be. By the by, I am about as far right wing as you can get if you are into name calling and grouping.

Yea, but it does make me feel better…

It’s not just “saying makes it so.” Iran is gay-free for the same reason (and similar methods) the Third Reich was Jew-free.

Grace and Peace from the One not defined by red or blue! — Jordan

You DO know Obama’s starting to get nicknamed “The One”, don’t you? (I believe it started out as a Matrix reference directed at his highly-vocal fanboys.)

We’re amazed at the caricature of Christianity others see us as….and yet when religion intersects with media…reporters don’t ask careful thinkers like J.P. Moreland or Dan Wallace or Greg Koukl, etc. They just ask Joel Osteen or Falwell, etc., what we think. — Chad Winters

Osteen or Falwell?
Not Fred Phelps?

My friends and relatives are stunned that anyone anywhere is actually considering voting for Democrats and believe the election will be a Republican landslide. — Rob Loftland

Encountering something similar here in SoCal, behind the Orange Curtain. Reminds me of the Mackinista who witnessed to me (in the mid-Nineties) how Apple WOULD drive Microsoft into bankruptcy by the year 2000. When pointed out this wasn’t realistic, his face turned purple, his eyes bugged out, and the screams of “DIE, HERETIC!” began.

It’s not just the USSR and its descendants who made Politics into a religion. This election is actually following a Pre-Mil End-of-the-World script (at least in mythic overtones):

Since 2000, through Bush Derangement Syndroms and other Conspiracy Theories, Bush has been cast as The Antichrist, and his time in office as the Great Tribulation, a time of unrelenting darkness.

After years of dystopia after dystopia, you either go nihilistic or suicidal. Or look to a Man on the White Horse to Save You from the unrelenting darkness — Messiah Politics.

Enter one Barack Obama, charismatic Chicago Machine pol. Just as Bush has been cast as The Antichrist, so Obama has stepped into the role of the Coming Christ figure who will cast Bush the Beast and all his works into the Lake of Fire and usher in The Kingdom.

The way I see it, we all live in America but we do not all believe America is a good country. If you say you love your wife yet want to change her height, weight, how she laughs, the way she talks, her opinions do you really love her? What if you feel that way about your country?

Both sides are guilty of this to some extent. Freedom is the cornerstone of this country. Freedom to succede, to fail, to associate with who we want, to say what we want, read what we want, watch what we want to follow whatever religion (or none at all) we want.

At this point in our history, the Democrats want to choose who we can associate with,what religions should be expressed publically, to punish those who succede with high taxes and give it to those who fail or never even tried, and limit what we can say with “hate crimes” legislation.

The Republicans want to take away our freedom to associate with who we want, seem to want to make laws enforce Christianity and marginalize (though not punish) all other religions, regulate what we can read and watch, encourage locust like success with little or no help for the failures.

I could probably go through each ammendent in the Bill of Rights and point out where each party is trying to walk over it.

If you tell me you want to kill your neighbor, ask me for a loan to go buy the gun to do it, am I complicit when you go shoot and kill your neighbor? What if you tell me specifically that you want the money to buy the gun to kill your neighbor?

Is abortion any different? If you provide support for people who are open about the fact that they want to kill unborn babies aren’t you complicit in those murders?

While we may all be Americans we are NOT all on the same side. We are all after what’s best for us and those like us or seems to be best. When was the last time you heard an elected official say “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” and mean it?

DD

and a moose killer too…whoa!