Why are some posters consumed with politics

well, right here we have a problem. He would be the Christian that posted pornography telling other Christians to stop posting pornography and wondering why they were obsessed with pornography. Can't see the nose on his face.

They're both neverTrumpers and wannabee psychiatrists. TDS is pathological too, you know.

 

Agree. No surprises so far. When I think about it too much I have nothing but dread for what's coming.

Duh, yea. This is all about Globalism. Trump attempted to pull us out of it, the Globalists fought him tooth and nail for four years and it appears they have prevailed.

It's all about balance, ain't it?

 

I agree, but why, if this isn't our world, are Christians so consumed with it?

I would suggest that if a forum claims to be Christian, then perhaps it shouldn't even have a section that opens the door to the possibility of openly criticizing public officials.
God says it's wrong.

Personally speaking ( as I cannot speak for Austin ), that wouldn't be my purpose at all.
But, since judgment begins at the house of God, then what I'd be doing is reminding my brothers and sisters that ours is not the place to criticize those whom the Lord has ordained to be in office.

Plainly stated,
Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump deserve the same respect that Caesar, Felix, Festus and Agrippa did in Paul's day.

 

So far, you still live in a free country that still allows a board such as this to have political/news forums, and, so far, each and every member of said board still has the right to choose whether to participate on said political/news forums.

Are you advocating censorship in the guise of religion?

No one is twisting your arm to read the forums, you know.

 

Well, yeah, it's always best to have trust and hope in God rather that some governmental entity, party or person. You may not have TDS or whatever it's called for people that hate and complain about everything Biden says and does but the OP has an advanced case of TDS. He ran around calling Trump a narcissist and his supporters part of a cult of personality just like you'd expect to hear out of some PMSMBC hack and his mind was nailed shut. Don't need lectures on Christian etiquette from someone like that.

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If you must take the tack that the Lord ordained them to hold office, then shouldn't you also embrace the terms? The USA was founded, ordained by the Lord from your own viewpoint, on the principle that the government is of "we, the people" and holds elections for the purpose. Every officeholder is beholden to "we, the people" and subject to their criticism and even judgment, albeit indirectly.

If anything, Christians have a greater responsibility than the average citizen to point out what is right and what is wrong in the nation. You could renounce your citizenship, if you think it right. But you have no biblical example of that, do you? Certainly not the apostle Paul. But then perhaps China or Russia or Iran or North Korea would take you, and perhaps you would finally find your mission field.

 

People throw around the term narcissist a lot. Here are the DSMV symptoms for narcissistic personality disorder.


What are the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)?

 

Hmmm. Had. Is that a tacit admission Trump is now cured? To imagine that Trump has a bigger ego than the Dems, or that their lockstep cult hasn't millions upon millions of followers, would be to qualify for a top fantasy award. That false narrative is certainly popular though.

Yes, it was rather amusing to watch those hypocrites being beaten at their own game for a while. To see them screech like banshees every time Trump tweaked them with a tweet and become so unhinged they completely outed themselves, their deep corruption, and fake news, did produce a certain satisfaction.

 

FYI, IMO, you have a disturbing and theologically fatalistic view of God’s attributes and abuse your doctrines of determinism to justify your own preferred unconscionable political short-comings.

Me, I will put my faith in that God is Only Good and Truth and will bring about what is right despite this evil that the men in this world have brought upon us. Any repentance of my despair in this matter of the corrupt leadership our country is now facing will be that my growing affliction of BDS will be tempered with justified reasoning.

 

The word source means where information comes from. A primary source for a news article is the person or group they are quoting. Data never exists in a vacuum. Someone had to compile that data. That is the source. Sometimes they will just publish raw data but most groups try to write something (journal article, press release, website) to explain how they got their data, their methodology, their conclusions and what sources they themselves used. This then allows others reading that data to critique and judge for themselves how valid that data may be. It also allows us to then try and reproduce any experiment and confirm the results.

When looking at data from sources that have historically been untrustworthy with transparency of data like some authoritarian countries with their health statistics, we should definitely have a particularly skeptical view. When compiling data across countries, you use the best data you have available to you, often with the caveat that all of them have some level of error. When there is evidence that the data for a country is so errorneous as to be unusable and no alternative source exists, that data should be removed from the analysis.

 

Trump's ability to stand against the fake news, hypocrisy, and other corruption of the Dems cannot be attributed solely to ego. That's far too simplistic. And Trump wasn't alone. But I certainly didn't mean any Dem would stand against corruption, as they are that corruption.

The false narrative mentioned would be limited and twofold: that Trump is more egotistical than the Dems, and that their lockstep cult isn't populated by many millions. The devious egotism of the Dems, who believe they deserve all the power they can steal, rivals that of the devil himself and they have deceived millions upon millions.

 

Agreed.

 

I thought that was why the Puritans came to America.

 

This is appreciated, but doesn't get to the heart of the matter, namely that politics skews reports considerably, and no source can be trusted without serious vetting.

Further, no one is obligated to accept data that hasn't been fully vetted. Accepting what one considers to be the best available data is a matter of judgment, which is bound to be skewed by prior political biases, which naturally generates suspicion.

In the case of this pandemic, the truth may not be available for a very long time, especially because of all the politicization. This is unfortunate but inevitable because of the source of the pandemic, the Chinese Communists, and their bedfellows, which includes many entities around the world.