Amos was a unique prophet. He spoke into a culture that had grown too sophisticated for the God of Abraham, Moses and Isaiah. His listeners did not want to hear his call to repentence. They did not need repentence. They had wealth and comfort and intellectual satisfaction.
We need the voice of Amos today in our nation. We have become lovers of ourselves and not followers of the Lord.

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A wonderful thread on the Pacifism of Jesus:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657931/posts

POST 148

Jesus did warfare against the Romans, the Temple and others who set themselves up as God. His warfare was bloody and brutal. He put himself in harms way and became martyred by the forces of evil that surrounded him.

The sacrifice of his life was not an act of pacifism. It was in-your-face conflict. He encountered evil directly with the most powerful tool available, his life. His murder could never be construed as other than murder with evil intent. This is not the action of someone trying to avoid conflict. In fact Jesus forced conflict. He sought it out and demanded that evil show its hand.

So it is with armies of liberation. They force evil into the open. The war in Iraq is in the tradition of Christ and his war against evil. We have forced the evil doers onto the field by creating an environment of liberation from their tyranny that they cannot tolerate.

Our troops bring light into the darkness of Islamofascism. If these fascists were men of peace they would lay down their arms and celebrate the liberation of their people. Their bloodthirsty rampage proves their evil and we seek them out to encounter and destroy them.

We are God's army, bringing justice and freedom where before there was murder and mayhem. Our soldiers march under the rubric of the cross of Christ. There is no more powerful or profound tradition opposing evil.

148 posted on 06/30/2006 4:39:53 AM EDT by Amos the Prophet (Here come I, gravitas in tow.)

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IDIOCY ON PARADE No more so then those fawning liberal pundits whose drivel drips from their minds like spittle from a chaw.

Globe and Mail Op Ed Propaganda for Renewal of Eugenics LifeSiteNews ^ | 7/13/06 | Hilary White Posted on 07/13/2006 8:57:14 PM EDT by wagglebee

To: the invisib1e hand

Glad you asked.

For the past 150 years, the intent of futurists/socialists and those who favor the central authority of government in society has been to remove the authority of cultural tradition and religion from the public sector. Arguments for the privacy of religion and for multiculturism have been thinly veiled campaigns to relegate knowledge and experience from the past to a curio shop of cultural oddities.

This campaign (designed by Marx, Freud, Dewey, Spinoza, Darwin, Emerson and many others) has designed social structures oriented to a utopian future by breaking radically with the past. The viewpoint of each of these philosophers has been based in a belief that the evolution of society and the individual are hopelessly restricted by the influence of all that has gone before, especially by religion.

The central theme of cultural tradition and its concomitant, religion, is morality based on natural law. Our Constitution is the quintessential example of this. Futurists believe fervently in the absolute authority of government over all aspects of personal and social behavior. It is vital, therefor, for them to overcome the founding principles of the Constitution.

In an attempt to do this the Founders are denegrated as white, racists, slaveholders, capitalists and bigots to a man. Their appeals to the Creator and Natural Law are viewed by futurists as attempts to confine society to a narrow, provincial and wholly backward political system.

The reliance of the Constitution and its historical antecedents on morality are major stumbling blocks to the New World so fervently sought by socialists. This is precisely why it is critical for those who wish government to dominate society to root out all vestiges of religion and morality. They, then, can have a free hand to redisign man and society in their own image. This is the precise struggle in which we are engaged. It is a war for the continued existence of mankind centered on God. We are far along this path with no clear way back.

The World Council of Churches and all of the major denominations have bought into this campaign. They, too, view religion as deeply personal and private. Politics and society, in their view, can not be influenced by any but the most vague religious sentiments.

We will, consistent with this view, see H. Clinton portray herself as a Methodist but not as a Christian. She will stress the absolute privacy of her religious experience and will insist that it is inappropriate to apply her religious beliefs to her politics. Note, especially, that she uses the words "society" and "government" interchangably. This is a vital key to ferreting out the Marxists among us.

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Looking back at the Confederacy with modern eyes Posted by Amos the Prophet to Shooter 2.5 On News/Activism 01/26/2007 11:18:30 PM EST · 60 of 70

Reading the articles of dissolution by the several southern states from the Union I am struck by the duplicity of that same Federal government which forced Southern succession.

Surely slavery was an evil institution even in its day. No amount of economic rationale or racial stratification could suffice to justify slavery's legitimacy on moral grounds. Slavery was an abomination in the face of all that was sacred and holy, even in our very own Constitution. Notwithstanding the political maneuverings of slave owner states to legitimize their perfidy by legal means, slavery could not be tolerated.

It is astounding, given the expenditure of blood and high rhetoric to the protection of one of the most maligned and dependent classes in our nation, negro slaves, that those same high minded federalists should for nearly half a century cause to exist a slaughter of innocents that renders slavery by comparison a benign and trivial human rights violation.

Abortion, the wholesale slaughter of innocents in their absolute most dependent condition, is held a high holy right by the same sanctimonious butchers who drove us into a war between the states.

If the right of a woman to control every function of her body is absolute even when it necessitates the violent and forced killing of another wholly dependent upon her, then is not rape equally justifiable as the right of a man to control every function of his body even when it necessitates the violent and forced insemination of a woman? Are not these two acts of equal merit? Are not these two acts utterly depraved?

Is not a federal government that destroys the economic foundation of an entire region for moral reasons and then destroys tens of millions of citizens in the womb for political gain a disdainful, worthless and futile government?

There can be no greater evil than this, that millions may be murdered for the further political entrenchment of a ruling class.

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