They got their man in the White House, but now issues are coming up that they never anticipated having to address and they're noticeably unprepared.
A government with Judeo-Christian values is one thing, but how many theocracies can we cite that are working?
per-pend
:verb
:Middle English, from Latin perpendere: from per- thoroughly + pendere: to weigh |
15th century
transitive verb : to reflect on carefully :PONDER
"It seems to me negligent, if after we have been confirmed in the faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe."
—St. Anselm (1033-1109)
Monday, April 03, 2006
This country was founded and built on the backs of immigrants (illegal and otherwise). And now that it's the most affluent, safest, and powerful nation in the world—what, we don't want to share? "Okay, you guys helped us get it the way we like it, now go home. We'll take it from here."
What happened to:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore; send these the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"?
Ran across this the other day:
"A Christianity which will bear witness to God's Word in Jesus will be a speaking, thinking,arguing, debating Christianity, which will not be afraid to engage in intellectual and philosophical contest with the prevailing dogmas of its day."
-- Oliver O'Donovan, Begotten or Made? (Clarendon Press, 1984)
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