… needs to face the fact that we learned all the wrong lessons from 9/11. We did not defeat the terrorists. We became them and we must repent or face our doom as a people:
We are a people building concentration camps, deploying Gestapo against the innocent, committing mass murder against the sick and poor around the world, and at war with our Constitution in order to give a rapist, traitor, fraud, and felon permanent, lawless dictatorial power over us in the name of racist spite. And the people most passionate about making it happen are blasphemously invoking the Name of Jesus Christ to bless it. We are a people who have, like Boromir, succumbed to the lure of the One Ring. But we can, like Boromir, still repent even if it is only in time to make an honorable end among the ruin we have called down on our own heads.
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:7–8)
Punishment for sin is not an external thing extraneous to the sin, like a sticker God applies to our forehead. It is the sin itself, in fruition. It is God letting us do what we insist he free us from our imaginary chains to do. It is us doing exactly what we want in defiance of his desire for our happiness. As such, it is as medicinal as he can make it for us. But if we persist in making even our medicine into poison by stubbornly overdosing, we can destroy ourselves. Whether we will achieve that in this hour of history depends profoundly on our own choice to obey or disobey him. If we obey, we may survive this era of history and we are promised we will ultimately survive the judgment on That Day. But we have no guarantees for this life except that nobody ultimately gets out of it alive according to the flesh. Our task is to do what is right. What cross awaits us as we do is up to God, for no disciple of Jesus escapes the cross. Our goal is not to save our skins, but to built the Kingdom and share in the resurrection and the life of the world to come. And that can only be done by grace, not in our own strength.
“Yet even now,” says the LORD,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
and tear your hearts and not your garments.”
Return to the LORD, your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in mercy,
and repents of evil.
Who knows whether he will not turn and repent,
and leave a blessing behind him?” (Joel 2:12–14)
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Let’s not forget the mass murder of the innocent unborn which is why so many could not bring themselves to vote blue. Its just a fact. I wish the Democrats would simply embrace the right perspective on this issue.
The two biggest drops in abortion rates have both occurred under Democrats. That’s because the #1 driver of abortion in the US is poverty, not Roe. The GOP has consistent seen abortion rates either rise under their policies or flatline after a long drop under Dems. Trump raised abortion rates after Obama brought them to their lowest point since Roe. If you are serious about lowering abortion rates, you vote Dem. If you want performative piety and use of the unborn as human shields for rape, greed, cruelty, concentration camps, fraud, felony, and murder, you vote Red. It’s really that simple.
It’s curious that MAGA Christians want to cut Medicaid, child nutrition programs and then complain about abortion. The phony piety is nauseating.
The comparison to Boromir is right on–may we really be able, like Boromir, see and repent.
By no means am I a proponent of abortion, especially as it can sometimes be practiced as a way of addressing economic and social uncertainty, but I have to take issue with the automatic description of the unborn as innocent as a way of advocating for their particular or more insistent call upon our moral conscience. Those in utero are no more or less innocent than the 1-year-old buried under rubble in Gaza or the 3-year-old living in poverty and neglect in the U.S. But even that does not serve a Gospel understanding of the love of God for all. Either we are ALL made in the image and likeness of a loving God, or none of us is. All means all. Not “all, except for these few outgroups that have made the poor choice to offend me” or “all, but especially this one ingroup that is made MORE in the image and likeness of a loving God than the others.” To set one group of the human family against another (or against the rest) is the work of the devil.