It amazes me that Senator Rand Paul is courageous enough to stand up and stand out attempting to stop persecution of Christians when the ELCA, the Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Church and the Missouri Synod are silent. Maybe America based Lutherans don’t care about the welfare or fate of other Christians. The silence of the Churches further weakens their moral authority in an age where it is almost non existent anyway. However, Senator Rand Paul, who is unrecognized by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and March Levin, is a brave, honest and outstanding political leader who is not beholding to the talk show pundits. Seems, Rush, Sean and Marc prefer Ted Cruz to anyone else. Yet, it has been rand Paul who had led the fight for fairness in government. I believe it was Rand Paul who not only was an inspiration for Ted Cruz’ speech, but also an advisor, mentor and supporter. Yet not a word of recognition by the major conservative radio hosts. I guess, Senator Rand Paul does not EXACTLY fit their definition of Republican or conservative. And that is their downfall they define too narrowly the people with whom they are willing to work.
Category: Pope
Is Pope Francis to be treated like Obama?
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-wants-church-act-decisively-against-sex-120428259.html
It is distressing to see the mass media treating Pope Francis in the same way they are treating Obama. How? They are acting like there was no one good or meaningful or effective before Pope Francis. This article for instance, seems to state that the Roman Catholic Church has not acted decisively concerning sexual abuse in the Church. The writer is ignorant or refuses to acknowledge that Pope Benedict confronted the issue eight years ago, that he directed numerous advances against this abuse, and that he was consistent in his efforts to act decisively against them. However, with the writer’s comment, “…Pope Francis inherited…” these problems from his predecessor, the author seems to negate all the good work that was done before, as though Pope Francis’ mere statement that the Church needed to act decisively was actually something.
Is this merely more of the mass media’s preference for style over substance? Is this the same as Obama saying in speeches that we needed to make a budget but only four years later does he actually do the work of creating and submitting a budget? Words are nice and gestures are nice but actions are better. It does none of us any good for someone to say that others are supposed to do something, while we, ourselves, do nothing but talk.
I remember one of our most ineffective Presidents, Jimmy Carter. He carried his own suits, and walked to the curb with his guests. He also sat idly by while the militant Islamists invaded our embassy and imprisoned our embassy personnel. He sent in our helicopters, but he did not do the needed research work before that ill-fated involvement, resulting in a botched mission and the needless death of our personnel. Words are nice but without hard work implementing those words, people die!!
Let’s Honor our murdered dead
Please write your congress person to insist that these great American citizens who were wantonly murdered on their way to deployment should not only get a purple heart, but the increased benefits to their families that is required of our nation. That is, if are willing to be honest and insist that our dead, (they are dead brothers and sisters, and their children are without them!!). These American soldiers volunteered to serve the military mission of our nation. They were American service personnel. They would not have been brutally murdered if they were not on their way to carry out the commands of the American government. Yes, that means the orders of President Obama. (look folks, those are merely the facts and not anti Obama statements.) So let’s not be small-minded and childish in our treatment of these heroes. Yes, they did not die in combat, they were murdered. They were brutally and wantonly murdered by a fellow soldiers who was himself a secret terrorist. So they were killed by terrorists and we must demand that our military do the right thing and the right thing is NOT to allow Attorney General Holder’s insistence that this was “workplace violence”. Shame on us if we do not honor these service members with a purple heart and decent benefits to their spouses and children.
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