Ronald Reagan with first wife, Jane Wyman
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." G.K. Chesterton http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/gk-chesterton-anarchy-of-rich.html
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"You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
English journalist and writer
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
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Dear Fred,
Here are my thoughts on "Obama Leaves God Out of Everything," a recent post by The Thinking Housewife. http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2013/11/obama-leaves-god-out/
Heads up... I encourage you to persevere through the final link below. It connects to a TED Talk given by Mohammed biographer, Lesley Hazleton.
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President Ronald Reagan
"Ronald Reagan didn't go to church at all, citing the hassle of making a church set up security screening for parishioners."
Amy Sullivan, Time Magazine
Apart from his lack of interest in religion, it is notable that Mr. Reagan was the only American president to divorce and remarry. Why did conservative Christians not protest Reagan's embodiment of an existential threat to gospel-validated marriage between one man and one woman - 'til death do they part?
Why do conservative Christians not protest Reagan's existential threat now?
Why, indeed, do they idolize him?
Are they that susceptible to the seductive blandishments of a B-actor?
Conservative Christians -- particularly those who consider Mr. Reagan a sort of saint (if not a demi-god) -- might benefit by contemplating Yeshua's view of divorce (and remarriage) as set forth in Mark, the earliest of the four canonical gospels.
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." G.K. Chesterton http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/gk-chesterton-anarchy-of-rich.html
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"You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
English journalist and writer
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
"You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
English journalist and writer
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
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Dear Fred,
Here are my thoughts on "Obama Leaves God Out of Everything," a recent post by The Thinking Housewife. http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2013/11/obama-leaves-god-out/
Heads up... I encourage you to persevere through the final link below. It connects to a TED Talk given by Mohammed biographer, Lesley Hazleton.
President Ronald Reagan
Here are my thoughts on "Obama Leaves God Out of Everything," a recent post by The Thinking Housewife. http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2013/11/obama-leaves-god-out/
Heads up... I encourage you to persevere through the final link below. It connects to a TED Talk given by Mohammed biographer, Lesley Hazleton.
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President Ronald Reagan
Apart from his lack of interest in religion, it is notable that Mr. Reagan was the only American president to divorce and remarry. Why did conservative Christians not protest Reagan's embodiment of an existential threat to gospel-validated marriage between one man and one woman - 'til death do they part?
Conservative Christians -- particularly those who consider Mr. Reagan a sort of saint (if not a demi-god) -- might benefit by contemplating Yeshua's view of divorce (and remarriage) as set forth in Mark, the earliest of the four canonical gospels.
Mark, Chapter 10
Divorce
1 Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them. 2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 “What did Moses command you?” he replied. 4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” 5 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. 11 He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
New International Version (NIV)
http://www.biblegateway.com/
From the vantage of conservative Christianity, reverence for the marital radicalism of Ronald Reagan is a peculiar position for people who see themselves as America's moral guardians.
From the vantage of conservative Christianity, reverence for the marital radicalism of Ronald Reagan is a peculiar position for people who see themselves as America's moral guardians.
Couple this reverence for Reagan with conservative Christian support for Willard "Mitt" Romney -- the first non-Christian presidential candidate -- and an odd gestalt takes further shape.
See: "Mormonism Is Not Christian and Founding Prophet, Joseph Smith, Was A Sexual Predator." (Joseph Smith's last act before dying was to fire every bullet in his Pepperbox pistol at a crowd of people he could not even see clearly.)
Personally, I find no fault with non-Christian presidential candidates.
However, it is odd that conservative Christians who consider themselves The Theocracy's moral arbiters should lend fervent support to candidate Romney.
Finally, consider tens of millions of conservative Christians who backed Paul Ryan (and other Republican "luminaries") despite their promotion of "Ayn Rand, Atheist Cornerstone of Tea Party Politics." http://paxonbothhouses.
Again, I have nothing against atheists in high office.
We are told to "render unto Caesar..."
However, it is befuddling that America's Christian gatekeepers applaud a philosopher who said "I am against God. I don't approve of religion. It is a sign of psychological weakness... I regard it as evil."
"Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: The Woe Passages"
http://paxonbothhouses.
To whom is Yeshua speaking in these Woe Passages?
Satanic liberals?
Or devout, church-going conservatives?
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"Liberalism: Satanic Rebellion Against God"
(Rumination on The Thinking Housewife)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/11/liberalism-satanic-rebellion-against-god.html
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Although Obama's church attendance has declined since election to The Oval Office -- as also occurred with other former presidents including "born again" George W. Bush -- Barack HUSSEIN Obama was a more faithful church-goer in his home town than any Republican president of the last hundred years.
Concerning the possible failure of Michelle and Barack's marriage...
Just stating the hypothesis conjures a polyphonic din of cognitive dissonance. It is clear that President Obama and wife, Michelle, are happily married and have raised two sweet daughters, Sasha and Malia, who attend a Christian school based on the peaceful principles at the heart of Yeshua's teaching. http://
It is an eighth wonder of the world that many (if not most) Christian conservatives condemn Pope Francis while "signing off" implicitly or explicitly on the teaching of a macabre atheist.
On balance, it seems that Christian conservatives conduct their lives with impaired judgment.
"Compendium of Pope Francis Links"
http://paxonbothhouses.
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Couple this reverence for Reagan with conservative Christian support for Willard "Mitt" Romney -- the first non-Christian presidential candidate -- and an odd gestalt takes further shape.
See: "Mormonism Is Not Christian and Founding Prophet, Joseph Smith, Was A Sexual Predator." (Joseph Smith's last act before dying was to fire every bullet in his Pepperbox pistol at a crowd of people he could not even see clearly.)
Personally, I find no fault with non-Christian presidential candidates.
However, it is odd that conservative Christians who consider themselves The Theocracy's moral arbiters should lend fervent support to candidate Romney.
Finally, consider tens of millions of conservative Christians who backed Paul Ryan (and other Republican "luminaries") despite their promotion of "Ayn Rand, Atheist Cornerstone of Tea Party Politics." http://paxonbothhouses.
Again, I have nothing against atheists in high office.
However, it is befuddling that America's Christian gatekeepers applaud a philosopher who said "I am against God. I don't approve of religion. It is a sign of psychological weakness... I regard it as evil."
To whom is Yeshua speaking in these Woe Passages?
Satanic liberals?
Or devout, church-going conservatives?
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"Liberalism: Satanic Rebellion Against God"
(Rumination on The Thinking Housewife)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/11/liberalism-satanic-rebellion-against-god.html
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Although Obama's church attendance has declined since election to The Oval Office -- as also occurred with other former presidents including "born again" George W. Bush -- Barack HUSSEIN Obama was a more faithful church-goer in his home town than any Republican president of the last hundred years.
Concerning the possible failure of Michelle and Barack's marriage...
It is an eighth wonder of the world that many (if not most) Christian conservatives condemn Pope Francis while "signing off" implicitly or explicitly on the teaching of a macabre atheist.
On balance, it seems that Christian conservatives conduct their lives with impaired judgment.
"Compendium of Pope Francis Links"
http://paxonbothhouses.
Obama Leaves God Out of Everything
Laura Wood - The Thinking Housewife
Thursday, November 21, 2013
http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2013/11/obama-leaves-god-out/
THE Catholic blogger Mundabor describes Obama as a “thoroughly secular man, very probably as atheist as Stalin, with a cultural predilection for the religion in which he grew up (Islam, of course), and just that ridiculously thin varnish of Christianity that is necessary to become President in the USA.”
POSTED BY LAURA WOOD. SEND COMMENTS TO: THETHINKINGHOUSEWIFE.
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In another of Mundabor's charming posts, "The Fag Prodigy and The Vatican," we learn that if a person is "not honourable" "he must not receive any honour, period." (sic)
And so, by his own standard, Mundabor sets a high bar for Ronald Reagan, adulterer.
Will The Thinking Housewife inform her readers that Saint Ronald is -- as demonstrated by observable fact --the only American president to be condemned for un-repented mortal sins by Jesus' own words.
Gospel of Mark 10: 6-12
"And in the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. 11. And He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; 12. and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery." 10. And in the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. 11. And He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; 12. and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.""
Speaking of Jesus...
I cannot imagine The Nazarene referring to any woman as "a slut" as "Catholic blogger Mundabor" casually categorizes Obama's mother.
If Mundabor and Laura were to imagine themselves in Jesus' presence, would they refer to the president's mother as slut?
And if they cannot imagine themselves using such vulgarity in Yestua's presence, what game are they playing?
Similarly, I cannot imagine Jesus declaring Pope Francis a heretical non-Catholic (as The Thinking Housewife does), when, according to the spoken counsels of Jesus himself, Francis' lived behavior is more closely aligned with that of Jesus than any pope in living memory... if not all time. The other popes would not want their ermine capes to get dirty... or to scuff their scarlet shoes. http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/paul-kramer-rejects-francis.htm
Notably, Laura's blog (and those of other Catholic traditionalists like Mundabor) casually condemn everyone outside the orthodox "fairy circle," never asking themselves if perhaps their condemnation of others redounds to condemnation of themselves (regardless the guilt or innocence of those they vilify).
Condemned or not, I trust they are all "under the mercy," and will -- along with the rest of humanity -- find their way back to Alpha. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/chesterton-on-charity-and-universal.html
"In the end, all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." Julian of Norwich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich
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At bottom I see conservative Christian judgmentalism as fundamentally uncharitable.
"Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; but that is not the virtue of hope. The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and eclipse. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
Heretics, ch. 12 (1905)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/chesterton-on-charity-and-universal.html
(How appropriate that this quotation is excerpted from a book entitled "Heretics" for the greatest heresy - perhaps the sin against the Holy Spirit - is to presume that salvation can be won without embodying indiscriminate charity.)
(How appropriate that this quotation is excerpted from a book entitled "Heretics" for the greatest heresy - perhaps the sin against the Holy Spirit - is to presume that salvation can be won without embodying indiscriminate charity.)
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"Chesterton Quotations"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/chesterton-quotations.html
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"Mohammed: Eliminate Doubt And What's Left Is Absolute, Heartless Perfection"
http://paxonbothhouses.
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"Mohammed: Eliminate Doubt And What's Left Is Absolute, Heartless Perfection"
http://paxonbothhouses.
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