Do you believe in God? Then you have a moral duty to fight climate change, writes Jim Antal

Your posts are childish, ignorant, and full of untruths.

First untruth is that you separate church and state. You clearly want the state to do the church’s job.

 

Why do you complain about how you are treated here when you put up garbage like this ?

 

One of the best examples of an “OXYMORON” I’ve seen!!!

 

There are no words......

 

I have friends who grew up in Sudan who would probably say the Muslim militia that machete their parents to death for being Christian and forced them to flee through the wilderness on foot for two years to reach a refugee camp in Kenya is a bigger problem. I suspect that the Architect that I work with who fled the crackdown on the underground church following Tiananmen Square and the Civil Engineer that fled Egypt as a Coptic Christian would agree with them that the Church has bigger problems than American Politics or evangelical political aspirations.

For that matter, give me misplaced activism over Laodecian apathy any day ... “So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.”

 

Don't worry, the liberal left and the RINO's will always see to it that the "needy" will get their cut. As for the Pentagon, that is something that is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution and without a strong military in a dangerous world like ours things could get awful bad for us real quick. And no, I do not like us sticking our noses in every corner of this world, but there are times when we need to flex our muscle and having a powerful military is just the thing to have.

As for all the social spending, I fail to see that kind of stuff mentioned in the Federal compact, but then again to folks like you the Constitution means little at this point and it is nothing but an impediment to all the things you really want to do to the rest of us.

 

My heart and prayers go out to true Christian martyrs. I have a friend who's an attorney from Syria. He and his parents barely got out of there alive but his fiancee was killed. He and his father spoke about their experience in our church. I consider helping refugees like those escaping from situations like you and I have described to be God's work. Trump and the Republican party want to make them return to die.

 

Yeah, like who prevented Christians from coming here to America in lieu of Muslims? Yes, that's right your "Dear Leader" Obama. For every one thousand Muslims, Obama let like one Christian come here to safety.

 

I'm talking about the true faith and not politics. My faith overrides politics. It just happens that I believe in Christ's command to take care of the needy. When there is political action in line with that I support it. I also resent being put in a box. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a liberal. I'm a Christian who sometimes aligns with their objectives.

 

I provided the Biblical reference supporting this view. That's my foundation.

 

I don't remember that. Can you provide us with some proof?

 

While I agree with the responsibility of the Church to care for the needy (starting within the Body), I see Government programs as an abdication of the responsibility of the Body of Christ (the only entity with the mandate and power to change hearts and lives with the Gospel) to the Government (who is charged with wielding the sword of justice and maintaining order). The results are the predictable failure we see played out before us of dependence and full prisons and a spirit of despair.

A single mother with three children needs more than food-stamps. She needs a Christian Community. She needs older women to teach her how to be a mother (which her mother likely never did). She needs people to be a family support net so she has someone who can watch a sick child when she needs to go to work. She needs friends to listen and share her life, and speak hope and encouragement into her. She needs God to change her from the inside out and restore what is broken.

The Government can do none of this. The Government was created to wield the sword of Justice.

 

LOL. You are a liberal democrat.

 

The only biblical reference I saw was you pointing at others and thanking God you weren’t one of them.

 

Even though there is no Federal constitutional mandate for such things? You need to go to your particular state government and agitate for that stuff, because the Federal government has limits placed on it by the Federal Constitution and rightly so. It's no wonder we are having such financial problems as a nation with all the un-constitutional Federal spending. The interest on the national debt alone is in the billions!

 

I absolutely agree that man does not live by bread alone. But the church has shown itself to be both unwilling and unable to provide the tremendous amount of help the poor in America need today. In light of this fact to say the church must do it is tantamount to saying you do not want for them to be helped.

 

According to State Department figures recorded in 2015, of the Iraqi refugees let into the country 2,098 were Muslims while only 53 were Christians. This even though Christian were being heavily persecuted. I don't understand this sort of thing.

 

atpollard posts a strong advocacy that churches need to step up to the plate and help the needy, and the above response twists that into an inference that atpollard does not want them to be helped. Talk about putting people in boxes!