I've had quit a number of links come across my path from conservative christian organizations proclaiming the woes of the US election results. Some of the comments quit frankly baffle me.
Some rant about how the scriptures that proclaim God has placed authority over us are not being inturprited properly because It wasn't God's will for Barak Obama to be elected. How christians failed in there duty to vote properly. No doubt many of these would be the same people that would have cried out "don't touch the lord's anointed" when voices were raised up in protest to Bush.
Proclamations have been made that if you are a christian and you voted for Obama you are now under God's judgement. I if you are a pastor and you we're silent and didn't exhort your church to vote against Obama you are now under judgment. If you are a pastor and you encouraged your people to vote for Obama your entire congrigation is now under judgement.
We are warned by these folks that America has been sold out. That Obama is weak, young, and inexperienced and will draw terrorist fire to the country. His associations are dubious. He's a communist. He is a bell weather for the new world order... But most of the fur is flying around his "pro-choice" position.
I'm often confused because a large portion of the anti abortion voices are pro-capital punishment, pro-war, and pro-big buisness.
Being prolife involves much more than one issue. To be prolife is to be slow to exact an eye for an eye. To be more concerned with forgivness and restoritive justice. To be pro-life is to seek a more Christ like solution to retaliation than just war theory. Love your enimies, do good and bless those... To be prolife is to seek justice on behalf of the explotated poor. To be prolife is to be opposed to dehumanising people and seeing them only as a commodity market. To be prolife is to concerned about the social wealth fare of the aged the sick, dispossed, minorites, the mentally incompasitated, and living as well as unborn children. Who is my nieghbour? Add to this list the care for God's good earth. These are are prolife issues*.
To emphisis one to the ignoring of the others, let alone their rejection borders on ludicrus.Many of the articles make a point of driving home the fact that due to America's choice of Obama judgment is coming to their nation in the form of finacial woes, natural disasters and more homeland violence. I scratch my head in wonder.
The greatest finacial disaster in American history happened under who's watch? George Bush. The most sever natural disater in American history, hurricane Katrina, happend while who was president? George Bush. The most horrific attack on American soil happend while who was guardian of the nation? George Bush.
I guess my burning question is: Under Bush's watch was all this woe the savage attack of satan on america or God's judgement? Hey just a question.
[* to fair and balanced I'm just as preplexed by those who are pastionate about saving the planet, whales, baby seals, yet are in favour of killing unborn humans]
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