For Faith & Family

1 On Aug 28th, 2006, at 1:37pm, Tom Dunham wrote:

I would like to say yes. I love my country and if I were young enough I would be again serving in the military.

I am a retired Chief of Police and am sorry to say that the places you can live where you are treated fairly and decently are rapidly dwindling.

I have seen corruption and favoritism in person and see it as another sign of the end times.  As an insider of law enforcement I see police corruption practiced every day.  The reasons there is no outcry is because 1. People are exposed to it every day and are used to it. 2. People are ignorant of their rights and how our government officials are supposed to act.

Most importantly, our government, our elected officials and agencies are a reflection of the majority of our society.  As it says in the Bible, we reap what we sow.  If we elect and tolerate morally corrupt government officials then we get what we deserve.

3 On Sep 12th, 2006, at 8:11am, Richard M. Landess wrote:

Despite some rotten eggs, I think on the whole, people are treated as fair and in many cases much fairer than in any other nation in the world. Despite the ACLU we still have many people who are willing to openly acknowledge their faith in God. I understand that we have a higher percentage of church attendance than any other major nation in the world. I am glad to live in a country where morality is still a valid concept.

5 On Sep 15th, 2006, at 10:21am, Staff wrote:

Thanks for taking the time to comment Paul. I’ll agree with your note about the double standard on mentioning anything related to Christianity.

However, I disagree with your assertion that we (USA) “do nothing” when it comes to helping those in need. 

According to the American Association of Fundraising Counsel, Americans gave almost $250 Billion (with a ‘B’) to charitable organizations in 2004. 

I presume this number doesn’t include humanitarian efforts by the US gov’t, particularly in areas like Afghanistan and Iraq. 

Within the Southern Baptist convention alone, more than 70% of Cooperative Program funds go directly to missions, nationally and internationally.

Certainly, we can always do more, both individually and as a country, financially gifted as we are. But to say that we “do nothing” is, quite frankly, inaccuate.

7 On Sep 30th, 2006, at 10:39am, M Southall wrote:

I believe, as Niebuhr stated, that the capacity for self-deception among humans is almost limitless.  We need to be cognizant that a sinful nature can cause us to practice self-deception, leading others to recognise our hypocrisy even if we don’t readily see it ourselves. Because we believe in objective truth, and that Christianity is in essence this end truth, we can fall into the trap of not examining our own motives and desires because we naturally ascribe them to Christian motives - which is all too often not the case. We need to ask ourselves if we have adequately examined ourselves before we try to make policy, since the Bible tells us that there is “no one without sin” and that includes Christians, and if we do not believe that we are still sinners, we are liars. One of the great cognitive dissonance issues is the tension between love of God and love of country, especially when love of country pulls us in directions away from our Lord’s teachings.

9 On Oct 12th, 2006, at 6:46am, Rev Michael Bresciani wrote:

America has been fair and decent from the beginning but these things are changing faster than most of us can keep up with.

It seems we are holding off liberalism and organizations like ACLU but anything less than diligence will not do.

The nature of offences all the way from the U.S. Congress (Foley,Studds, Frank etc) all the way to the average man (Amish slayings, Coumbine etc) have gone off the map.

Christians must take up the slack. We have to be a little less religious and a whole lot more Christ like to win. But win we will.

Rev Michael Bresciani

11 On Dec 23rd, 2006, at 11:59am, Jeffery G. wrote:

No. I can’t call America or its government “fair and decent” any more than I could call a tiger a kitten.

13 On Mar 12th, 2007, at 6:45pm, eric wrote:

On Oct 12th, 2006, at 6:46am, Rev Michael Bresciani wrote:

“America has been fair and decent from the beginning but these things are changing faster than most of us can keep up with.”

Try selling that ‘fair and decent’ line to the indiginous populations whose cultures were eradicated by the Europeans, under the banner of bringing ‘Christianity’ to the ‘heathens’.

It seems we are holding off liberalism and organizations like ACLU but anything less than diligence will not do.

Jesus was a liberal; feeding the masses, caring for the downtrodden, spending time with the common [in all senses of the term] woman. A pity you apparently have usurped the ‘reverend’ title. He changed water into wine, not ‘kool-aid’.

If the ACLU is all that stands between me and another of your crusades, I’ll double my contribution.