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- Our USA resources as a defense against nature''s fury have been strained ever since the idiot-in-chief started a war over non-existent WMDs.
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- This is why people don''''t listen to you, Providence_9 (Providence_J, Providence_F) - your constant one-note strumming is like having a root canal without anesthetic - or Chinese water torture.
Posted by barbaraf4 at 08:36 PM : Jul 05, 2008
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ROTFLMAO!!!
That''s the best description I have ever read about these fundamentalist postings! - Reply to this comment
- tornadoes, tsunamis,Katrina, HIV,Herpes,global warming,wrecked economy, forest fires-Uh...did somebody suggest that all of this was just a polite warning?
Oops!
Posted by wl7bzh at 08:08 PM : Jul 05, 2008
Strong Winds Hamper Calif. Fire Efforts? We have fires, floods, tornadoes, crime and a bad economy, gas prices food prices no jobs losing of homes? Sounds a bit like Pharaoh saying no to God when Moses told him about the Lord?
Maybe, if we wanted a healthier better America we should turn to God to heal our land? Just think? It happened another time in the annuals of history? Yeah God was going to destroy this place called Nineveh and the people repented and God spared them. We could Pray for God to bless America again! - Reply to this comment
- For crying out loud - this article is about fires burning in California. Can''t we cease and desist with the religion talk? It just never ends and any and everything people say is just up for a God lecture. This is why people don''t listen to you, Providence_9 (Providence_J, Providence_F) - your constant one-note strumming is like having a root canal without anesthetic - or Chinese water torture.
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- Strong Winds Hamper Calif. Fire Efforts? We have fires, floods, tornadoes, crime and a bad economy, gas prices food prices no jobs losing of homes? Sounds a bit like Pharaoh saying no to God when Moses told him about the Lord?
Maybe, if we wanted a healthier better America we should turn to God to heal our land? Just think? It happened another time in the annuals of history? Yeah God was going to destroy this place called Nineveh and the people repented and God spared them. We could do this in America? - Reply to this comment
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
When he 14 he was appointed Congressional diplomatic ambassador to The Court of Catherine the Great of Russia! He served also as foreign ambassador, Secretary of state, U.S. representative, senator and of course President!
SPEECH BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS July 4, 1837
Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day. The fourth of July.
Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birth-day of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer%u2019s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?
John Quincy Adams said the biggest victory won in the revolution was that Christian Principles and Civil government would be tied together in an indissolubly bond! - Reply to this comment
- tornadoes, tsunamis,Katrina, HIV,Herpes,global warming,wrecked economy, forest fires-Uh...did somebody suggest that all of this was just a polite warning?
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- Does a Nation answer to God?
GEORGE MASON
The father of the bill of rights. Says,
As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this, by an inevitable chain of causes & effects, providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
God will deal with a nation here and now - Reply to this comment
- taotxzen said: "You get a totally different civilization and a totally different way of living according to whether your myth presents nature as fallen or whether nature is in itself a manifestation of divinity, and the spirit is the revelation of the divinity that is inherent in nature."
In studying the force of spirit, Campbell became a powerful spiritual force of his own. - Reply to this comment
- Time, Today
Place, America!
We are looking at the statue of liberty? You see she has been wounded and there is no one who can stop her from bleeding? God can you help Miss Liberty from bleeding? The flame that she holds has been put out by people like us who just want what we want? We want the wrong that we do without the consequences? We want to shed the liberty of truth to other lands by our diplomacy but there is no one shedding the liberty to our own that are starving, homeless and dying! Yes Miss Liberty is dying and only God can stop her from bleeding! Lets help others in strange lands to know we are there but lets not let someone here know that she is here for them!
Miss liberty idea for liberty for all I thought was those who hold the truths of our founding fathers to be self evident a belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ to bring salvation to an individual and a country. Not a butchery of innocent babies who only crime in life is that they exist in the mothers womb who wants to love and be loved! We do not care for the lives of our men losing their lives in strange lands for a cause few understand there that it is liberty one should choose to guide their cause. Will anyone out there shed a tear for Miss Liberty when she is no more? - Reply to this comment
- Hello my name is America,
And I am dying?
Who will help me?
I am about 230 years old.
I had been born out of the prayer in men%u2019s hearts who understood what true liberty is.
My name is America and God knows about me, but people do not care about God they have kicked Him out of politics and schools someday they may show Him the door out of the country!
People do not care about me America. There is no more love of being an American!
People are murdering every day in regard to aborted babies and again they do not care of what true liberty is for all!
Hello I am America who will save me! People raise flags in remembrance of me, but who will raise their heart in the principles by which we stand?
Hello I am America and I am crying for the injustice being done in my name. Where O where are the citizens that will help me and turn towards God to heal me? Where are the Americans who will fight for me? What will happen to me? My name is America who will love me? Who will pray to God for me? - Reply to this comment
- MOYERS: In the Christian story the serpent is the seducer.
CAMPBELL: That amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every natural impulse is sinful unless it has been circumcised or baptized. The serpent was the one who brought sin into the world. And the woman was the one who handed the apple to man. This identification of the woman with sin, of the serpent with sin, and thus of life with sin, is the twist that has been given to the whole story in the biblical myth and doctrine of the Fall.
MOYERS: Does the idea of woman as sinner appear in other mythologies?
CAMPBELL: No, I don''t know of it elsewhere. The closest thing to it would be perhaps Pandora with Pandora''s box, but that''s not sin, that''s just trouble. The idea in the biblical tradition of the Fall is that nature as we know it is corrupt, *** in itself is corrupt, and the female as the epitome of *** is a corrupter. ...The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this was the idea that finally turned that world into something like a wasteland, a land where people were living inauthentic lives, never doing a thing they truly wanted to because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their clergy. In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is a killer.
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The twelfth-century troubadour poetry of courtly love was a protest against this supernaturally justified violation of life''s joy in truth. So too the Tristan legend and at least one of the great versions of the legend of the Grail, that of Wolfram von Eschenbach. The spirit is really the bouquet of life. It is not something breathed into life, it comes out of life. This is one of the glorious things about the mother-goddess religions, where the world is the body of the Goddess, divine in itself, and divinity isn''t something ruling over and above a fallen nature. There was something of this spirit in the medieval cult of the Virgin, out of which all the beautiful thirteenth-century French cathedrals arose.However, our story of the Fall in the Garden sees nature as corrupt; and that myth corrupts the whole world for us. Because nature is thought of as corrupt, every spontaneous act is sinful and must not be yielded to. You get a totally different civilization and a totally different way of living according to whether your myth presents nature as fallen or whether nature is in itself a manifestation of divinity, and the spirit is the revelation of the divinity that is inherent in nature. - Reply to this comment
- Strong Winds Hamper Calif. Fire Efforts? We have fires, floods, tornadoes, crime and a bad economy, gas prices food prices no jobs losing of homes? Sounds a bit like Pharaoh saying no to God when Moses told him about the Lord?
Maybe, if we wanted a healthier better America we should turn to God to heal our land? Just think? It happened another time in the annuals of history? Yeah God was going to destroy this place called Nineveh and the people repented and God spared them. We could do this in America? - Reply to this comment
