\nBe forewarned: If you willfully disobey God on life and marriage because of race or false hope for the economy, you will usher in the kind of change that brought the Soviet Union to collapse.<\/p>\n
But the warning goes far beyond that. To those who think that God’s grace gives them license to willfully disobey Him without consequences – think again:<\/em><\/p>\nNot everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?" And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!" (Matthew 7:21-23)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That deals with your eternity. Matthew 7:26-27 says if you don’t obey God, prepare for a crash even sooner that that:<\/p>\n
But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it<\/em> is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash (Matthew 7:26-27).<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI just hope you won’t take the rest of the nation with you.<\/p>\n
If the word of God matters more to you than your perception of personal gain, Joel 2:12 issues a call to repentance I pray you will heed:<\/p>\n
"Now, therefore," says the LORD, ‘Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning’" (Joel 2:12).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then obey Him in the voting booth and out of it. If not, do us all a favor and quit calling yourself a Christian.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Right. I get the message…<\/p>\n
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The America where everyone has a right to their own life, their own bodies, their own conscience, is something you couldn’t have any less use for. The American Dream of liberty and justice for all is apostasy as far as you’re concerned. America belongs to fundamentalist Christians. The rest of us just live here. Conditionally.<\/p>\n
America’s biggest sin isn’t abortion is it Janet. It isn’t same sex marriage. It isn’t pornography. America’s biggest, most unforgivable sin is this…<\/p>\n
\nWe the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThere’s where it all went wrong, isn’t it Janet? Justice? Domestic Tranquility? Common defense? General Welfare? Blessings of Liberty? Makes you sick to your stomach to read it, doesn’t it Janet? And this…this must make you positively livid…<\/p>\n
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The New Colossus<\/strong><\/p>\nNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
\nWith conquering limbs astride from land to land;
\nHere at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
\nA mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
\nIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name
\nMother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
\nGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
\nThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
\n"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
\nWith silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!" <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The Golden Door. The Golden Door. Does that make you want to laugh Janet, or puke? The people who fled the old world and its state churches and religious wars didn’t found a new nation dedicated to freedom of worship just so babbling Darbyite pre-millenial nutcases like you could build a theocracy over their graves. Do us all a favor and stop calling yourself an American Janet. You are a Christian Nationalist<\/em>, and the United States of America is to you as a cricket is to a digger wasp. \n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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