Even better than that, but to say more would give away too much.
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When rubbish is spoken about someone else’s religion? What to do.
My son told me that last Saturday in Torah study a participant made a stupid and ignorant remark about Christianity. My son didn’t say what it was, only that he considered walking out, but did not.
My immediate response was that if he were to leave he should first wait to see if any of the other participants spoke out. We talked about that a little until we realized that he should have spoken up immediately himself. The hope would be that the speaker would realize their mistake and withdraw the remark or engage in discussion and then withdraw the remark.
In the absence of that we would expect that one, if not some, if not all of the participants would support the objection.
If none did they would all be complicit and we would know more about them than we wanted to. That would be the time to leave!
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It would be wrong to say “gop” instead of GOP.
It is wrong to intentionally mispronounce anyone’s name. It is just a matter of simple respect!
Many years ago when I was taking a private bus to work, I was the first passenger and was alone to chat with the driver for several minutes every day. He may have been a Black Muslim since it seemed by his way of talking about it that he might be. Be that as it may, one day, with my world saving answer at the ready, I asked, “What is the most fundamental principle by which people should get along?” His instantaneous answer was RESPECT!
YES!!!
My answer, whatever it was, was immediately swept away. RESPECT is the “most fundamental principle by which people should get along” and beyond that, to the limit of the beyond:
RESPECT for every thing and in every sense is the ultimate principle of LIFE!!!
I would love to say, “gop” instead of GOP, but aren’t there so many things that we might want to do, but don’t because we know they are wrong to do.
In this narrow case it is only the simplest respect to call people how they choose to call themselves and want to be called.
The shoe of this particular subject is on the other foot when Democratic is intentionally and meanly mispronounced.
We should all honor and respect RESPECT!
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Poor babies! Poor babies!
Is this what Capitalism is really about? Using the government to impede the initial development of a competing product, (not covered in this article), and using it now to strangle it once it has gotten some headway.
This echoes the loss of the television industry by protecting in the short run a losing yet profitable technology, and losing the whole ball of wax in the long.
But this is much bigger!
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What a Difference Context Makes! A passage cited by vicious people addressed!
Romans 1:18 through 2:5
The Condemnation of the Unrighteous (captions by Net.Bible.Org)
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, 1:19 because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 1:20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse. 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
So what follows applies to idolaters!
1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
And to creation worshippers!
1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
To whom does what follows apply? Just “particular men and women,” as if the preceding verses did not exist? Or idolaters and creation worshippers? Or everyone who is guilty of the following?
1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 1:29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.
Does the next verse apply only to “particular men and women” or to all of the above?
1:32 Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
Besides, they may deserve to die, but does this verse authorize going out to kill them!
The Condemnation of the Moralist
If we ignore the division here from chapter 1 to chapter 2 and appreciate that verse numbers and chapter divisions were not specifications made by the scripture writers, but later by editors who made these divisions for our convenience and theirs, we will get an entirely different message from the passage taken as a whole!!!
2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
Each and every thing? so if you practice some of them but not all, you are exempt from this? or this applies to you if you practice only some of them? perhaps only one!
2:2 Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things. 2:3 And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment? 2:4 Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!
Romans: From the New American Standard Bible as found on Net.Bible.Org
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Worth reading from the New York Times
Has the G.O.P. Gone Off the Deep End?
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/has-the-g-o-p-gone-off-the-deep-end/?src=me&ref=general
Only misses one thing: The program of the lunatic fringe is to take over the Party, even if the process makes it useless to own! Perhaps they hope to build it back up, but the demographic shift, providentially, will take them out!