"You need to lose some weight before you can wear those boots," is what I said. I will now pause for "station identification" so that some readers have the time necessary to complete a panic attack...
...hang on, we still have some foam that must be wiped away from a few mouths...
...okay, now we can move on...
May I take a stab at what some readers "heard" when I replied to my wife:
- "Your fat, ugly, and stupid..."
- "Your so fat that I don't love you anymore..."
- "If you don't lose some weight, I am going to leave you..."
- "You would be so ugly in those boots because you are so fat..."
Be honest now, how many "heard" at least one of these phrases or a variation thereof? I didn't say a thing about her being fat. I don't think that she is fat. She knows that I don't care what her weight is. If she wants to swallow an elephant, that is her freedom to do so. I will not love her any less.
She asked if the boots would look good on her. The truth of the matter was that she had put on weight recently, enough that wearing these particular boots would have called attention to the extra lbs, and of course, I guarantee this is not what she wanted. I focused on the specific question, "would the boots look good?" The straight-shooting, truthful answer was that, "no, right now they wouldn't, but after a bit of weight-loss, they would."
Why did I share this story besides the entertainment gained when imagining all the lemon-sucking facial expressions that are probably taking place at this very moment? It is an anecdote for those readers who are about to read further.
In the last post of this writer, I addressed the first argument from the blog posting, "The Conservative Christian Case For Supporting Obama", where it was argued that a vote for Obama was a conservative and Christian vote. Evidence was presented to show the contrary, that a vote for Obama could not be more of a liberal vote (the antithesis of conservatism). Now I will respond to the second half, the notion that a vote for Obama is a "Christian vote". A vote for Barack Obama is not a "Christian vote".
The following ideas may be "heard" by those reading this post:
- "He says that Barack Obama is not a Christian"
- "He thinks that a person cannot vote for Barack Obama and be a Christian"
- "He thinks that Christians should support John McCain"
As mentioned in the previous post, this writer is not qualified to assess Barack Obama's Christian faith. It is not my job. That is what God does.
If this writer is not qualified to determine the authenticity of Obama's Christianity, then it follows that he is not able to qualify others' Christian walks. If someone votes for Barack Obama, I still don't know the condition of his or her "heart". That is what God does.
To be honest, this writer could not care less about John McCain as a presidential candidate. He has not, and does not endorse John McCain for president. He does not look to a politician to fix everything that is wrong in this world. He looks to the ultimate Fixer, God.
Like the "boots", I will address the specific question, "Is a vote for Barack Obama a 'Christian vote'?" No, it is not.
Abortion. Is there anything more evil than killing babies? Seriously, now think about it. We actually have arguments over whether or not it is okay to kill babies. We argue about what is more important, stopping the killing of babies or taxing the "evil corporations" (who, by the way, are the ones that create the jobs that allow all of us to put food on our tables), that there are more important issues, that us conservative Christians are being manipulated into being single-issue voters.
...Single-issue voters, ...hmmmmm...THEY ARE KILLING BABIES!!!!
Jesus loved the children.
And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea...See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
I think He was pretty clear here that He doesn't want any harm to come to the children...THEY ARE KILLING BABIES!!!
God the Father was crystal clear when he spoke to Jeremiah the prophet and said, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations" (Jeremiah 1:5, NIV).
He was also to the point when He referred to John the Baptist in Luke 1:15 (NASB), "For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb."
Just to be perfectly clear that God perceives His creation in a womb a human life, read Isaiah 44:24 (NIV), "This is what the LORD says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself..."
When asked when life begins by Rick Warren, the senior pastor of Saddleback Church, Barack Obama said, "Well, you now, I, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade." (view it here)
Senator Obama, you make exponentially more than I do, and I can answer this questions with all the "specificity" that is in me. LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. I'm sure you already knew this, Senator Obama, since a vote for you is a "Christian vote". I'm sure that you are aware of all the scriptures in which God "specifically" said that a human life existed in the womb. It must have been that Rick Warren made you nervous with the question. Darn him for asking it!! You may, however, want to "get your story straight" because Jesus was pretty clear about how he felt regarding those who brought harm to the little children...THEY ARE KILLING BABIES!!!
Maybe, Senator Obama, you don't feel comfortable answering such a difficult question, even when God made the answer apparent. Maybe, you can't say when life begins, but surely, as a Christian, you don't think that it is okay to kill the unborn fetus that God "formed in the womb". Surely, had you lived during the time of John the Baptist, you would not have supported legislation that would have allowed Elizabeth to go to a "doctor" and ask him to stab little baby John the Baptist in the head after he was "filled with the Holy Spirit" in the womb.
What's that? I can't quite hear you, Senator Obama. What? Oh, ahhhaaa...oh, you would support such legislation. Mmmmhhhhh.....Mmmmmmhhh....Oh, you have already. What's that you say, you have a strong history of supporting abortion, including partial-birth abortions where labor is induced, the baby is stabbed in the head, then its bones are crushed? (see Michael Gerson's article, "Obama's Abortion Extremism" for more info.)
What's that? Mmmmhhhh...there's more, you wouldn't do what??!!! You wouldn't support a bill that mandated that children who survived the abortionist's attempts on their lives were to receive proper medical care???!!! (see "Obama's Abortion Challenge" by Ed Laskey, watch this video).
For all the other things to matter, the taxes, the health care, the social programs, the military, etc., etc., there has to be life. It is always "funny" to hear people say that the economy is a more important issue than fighting terrorism. YOU CANNOT BUY AND SELL GOODS WHEN YOU ARE DEAD!!!!
The same thing applies here. We have a citizenry that has romanticized all the "great things" that Barack Obama wants to bestow upon the world, yet the very fundamental element of protecting the lives of unborn children is not something that he supports. Instead, his record shows that he will fight to keep it as a right...A RIGHT TO KILL BABIES!!!!
Do I really need to go on? Purely on his abortion stance, can a vote for Obama be a "Christian" vote? No, it cannot, but I will go on...to be continued...
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