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To: logos
We are enjoined to render unto God that which is God's and unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. But how do we know which is which and how do we find the courage to carry it out? Judging from your about page, you are well aware that the Christian tradition says that the discernment comes with God's grace.

It is ironic that the left could not stop fretting that George Bush was leading the country into fascism when his whole Christian experience dictates that that was a moral impossibility for the man. Because Bush was spiritually alive, he grappled with determining that which was god' s and which was Caesar's. That is a definition of humility.

Barak Obama is not encumbered with such humility and its absence is a signal that he is a risk for fascism. Obama is not troubled to distinguish between God's realm and the realm of the practical politician because he is a God player and a stranger to the first two commandments.

We voters are a hypocritical bunch. On the whole we Americans say we want religious men to hold public office. So Bill Clinton makes broad his phylacteries by carrying the world's largest Bible ostentatiously to church. We complain when Senator Ensign does in the bedroom what we often want our politicians to do in the Oval Office, that is, render unto Caesar that which is not his.

We have gone from a president in George Bush who eschewed loyalty to party to a president Obama who will exploit party loyalty to make himself a god.


35 posted on 06/19/2009 4:22:30 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford
"We are enjoined to render unto God that which is God's and unto Caesar that which is Caesar's."

So true. Although I have never quite determined what Caesar has that is not God's first. In truth all things belong to God. Caesar is a renter - if only he knew...

36 posted on 06/19/2009 5:39:30 AM PDT by logos (I have enough ammo to get more.)
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