Posted on 01/19/2013 9:06:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Mr. President, you and I disagree about almost everything.
Over the past four years, I’ve utilized both the written and spoken word through radio broadcasts, columns, emails, and lectures in order to point out what I consider to be the tragic path that our country is currently traveling down, an ill-advised course that you have chosen and fully embrace.
In some instances our differences of opinion are very minor, but in most cases the differences are extremely significant.
Where there were positions you took that I agreed with (and that happened very rarely, I might add), I was quick to point that out or as Fox News would say “fair and balanced.”
Indeed, I do not take my role in the fourth estate lightly.
Recently, you spoke about your 23 executive orders regarding gun control, a highly charged issue that will foster great debate.
I would just like to know if I fall under your proposal to “direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.”
The written and spoken word is a very powerful weapon; does that make me a dangerous person?
When most people were focusing on your executive orders, they were missing perhaps the most telling comment that you’ve made since you took office.
You said, “we are all responsible for each other.”
Mr. President, in communist collectives we are all responsible for each other and in socialist communes we are all responsible for each other.
In the United States of America, as envisioned by our Founding Fathers; we are responsible to God, our country, our family, and ourselves and no one else.
Therefore, if my neighbor has a string of bad luck and decides to do nothing about it, I can choose to help him, but he is not my responsibility.
If a woman decides to take advantage of the system by having several children, I can empathize, I can educate, but she is not my responsibility.
While being encouraged to do so by our elected officials, corporations that play fast and loose with the laws and then subsequently fail and collapse, their sustainment is not my responsibility.
Mr. President, you use these words: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Contrary to what you believe, the Founding Fathers did not guarantee success or happiness; they guaranteed the ability to pursue it.
Indeed, the nanny state is a flawed human attempt at creating the reign of God on earth by human means. It’s a very natural thing to wish for, but it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.
Usually the Holy Spirit is kind and loving. The Holy Spirit can sharply correct as well, however. In some historically uncommon but still notable instances, the Holy Spirit killed people who brazenly misrepresented themselves to Him. God won’t brook willful lying to Him.
He was a Deist at the time of the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Deism was trendy at the time but died out around 1810 for lack of interest.
It’s complicated.
God in 3 persons, but ya’ll wont get my guns.
Funny we have 3 branches of office.
Variation riffs off the bible are nothing new. I pays my money and I takes my choice with the orthodox, who say the entire thing is there because God wanted to make a statement to a lost humanity that needs salvation through the entire thing. I’d tell a Jefferson that his view was more incomplete than it was wrong.
I’ve heard some tie it to Montesquieu’s philosophy that derived from the biblical idea of God being judge and lawmaker and king. I won’t go out on a limb there and insist on that, but it seems a valiant attempt to do something that a sinless God would never need in himself, that is to wall off flaws through the famous principle of checks and balances. That noble concept all goes to hell when the parts of the government are all in bed with one another. What can I say, it’s part of a now flawed creation and we shouldn’t expect it to generate miracles.
I certainly do not expect miracles from the Gov.
The bible itself tells the story of seizing arms in the context of subjugation of a people. And even the peaceful Jesus, once he was about to pass from the presence of his disciples as a man with miracles on tap (he could do things like walk through hostile crowds unscathed), advised keeping arms ready. Not even modern police can protect us from all crimes.
And no it won’t generate them. God can of course work miracles with any medium he chooses, and for a time in America’s history, God worked miracles through the people and its government (or rather, through its government’s restraint to what was proper for it). God did that because most believed. It was an unusual, blessed time of history.
Molon labe
Obummer belongs in the National Zoo.
I want to be his Zookeeper.
Take it. Ammo first!
“Brother’s keeper”: simple act of burying bodies under my house.
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