Wow, not to waste any time eh? Right off, I'm dealing with someone who confesses to being right all (most) of the time, and has issues with conservative evangelicals, of which, yes, I am one. With that in mind, I will write more to congeal my own thoughts than try to convince you of anything. It's better that way.
First, your including a couple more paragraphs around Obama's quote on the civilian military did nothing to dispel the huge question of: Why? As large, as well funded, as our real military? What's that about. Help me. He wants to save the planet, aka global warming, and restore our place in the world. GW relying on bogus science (I can be specific if you like), and our new apologizer-in-chief, as some on both sides of the aisle call he and Hillary, wanting to restore our standing in the world? Watch what he does, not what he says.
And my question of the day: Why do most liberals assume in a knee jerk sort of way that capitalism is somehow now responsible for the evils of the day, and socialism is the way out? We are asked to ignore history in order to go there, including the most recent 200+ years of our own. No, the bible doesn't contain either word, so we must get the "sense" of meaning from the Scripture. That unfortunately can easily degenerate into a "he said, she said" sort of thing. Not productive between the faithful on each side.
Let's both agree that the Word wants us to be compassionate to the poor. We differ on how to deliver that compassion. Liberals, of which you are one, prefer the financial help to be taken from those that have. Conservatives, of which I am one, prefer that we ALL give out of a heart of compassion. The wealthy have more to give, to be sure, but the Lord was big on the widow's mite. We're all in it, not just those above the average income line.
Love,
Dad
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I know it is ill advised to broach a complex and heated topic at bed time, but I think in some cases "conservative" and "evangelical" are lumped together where it would make sense to view them apart. (I am a conservative evangelical.)
ReplyDeleteOn the topic of health care it might be useful to take that approach. As a conservative I am passionate about the constitution and believe that it is being systematiclly set aside to accomplish what appears to be a social agenda on the surface.
As a Christian, I, like both of you, strive to meet the needs of the poor. I want all to have access to the best health care.
We need a rational, bipartisan approach to address this challenge. I have been a long time advocate of forming a "Manhattan Project" for health care. Politics stands in the way of that.
There are currently 3 health care bills authored by republicans that never made it out of committee. Why? ObamaCare or nothing!
Poppy,
ReplyDeleteThank you for these comments, I completely agree with you about needing a bipartisan approach--compromise seems necessary here to accomplish anything useful, and I am frustrated by the all-or-nothing approach of Obama and the Democrats.