Living with the Sin of others

In the wake of the controversy surrounding Phil Robertson and his comments in a recent interview for GQ magazine. I feel compelled to make a few comments.

First, it angers me as a Christian to hear how the liberal media has taken his comments and twisted them, contorted and bastardized them to again fit their agenda. Granted Phil Robertson's comments were blunt, frank and "in your face". But they were his comments, his beliefs, his views. He has the right to hold those views and to express them. For A&E Network to behave as if they are surprised by his comments is a farce. Phil has made the A&E network millions of dollars. They knew what they were getting when they hired him and his family to do the show. Straight talking, bible walking, honest God fearing people. 

As a Christian, I admire Phil for his stance, for his guts and willingness to say the truth of what the bible says. Hollywood and the liberal media can pervert the scriptures, adjust their morals, and cast stones at everyone who doesn't embrace their lifestyle. However, as a Christian, the word is clear. Anyone who chooses to live a life of sin, blatant sin has a tattered relationship with God and are in need of repentance.

I am comforted by the fact that I am a sinner in need of grace and God and has offered His grace to me and everyone who seeks his face. 

I pray that those who find offensive the comments Mr. Robertson made will also understand that their lifestyle is offensive to me and my family. I am asked, forced to witness their displays of affection, their constant badgering on the TV and their desires to be recognized all the while showing nothing but disdain for anyone who disagrees with their lifestyle. 

For me its simple. Homosexuality is a sin. I do not want to have their sin thrust into my life or family's exposure any more than i want the sin of adultery or prostitution, thrust into my life or family's exposure. 

I have the right to not have the sins of others thrust into my life.  

America's Tolerance is out of Control

In the wake of all the attention the Mosque is getting in New York, and this "Pastor" is getting in Florida for wanting to burn the Koran - its time that I took a stance.

First- does it really take a mental giant to see that building a mosque anywhere near the site of the 9/11/2001 attacks is degrading to America and also insulting to the victims of those atrocities? I think not - their argument is that they have a "right" to build it there. Well here again we Americans are confusing what is a "right" and what is a privilege. No one has a "right" to build anything anywhere - that is ludicrous to believe much less say - we have no inalienable right to build anything......construction is a privilege bestowed upon us by development boards, planning commissions, and those who control the development of a populous area. No one has a right to build anything, it is a privilege -that being the case, their argument is moot. The decision falls into the hands of the development committee who made a bad decision. Their fear of reprisals from the Islamic world caused them to cave in. Everyday they refuse building requests for different reasons - some of these reasons are frivolous at best.....but in this case they chose the cowardly way out and granted the permit. Contrary to the beliefs of the majority of Americans and New Yorkers. Once again - in the name of "tolerance" we have allowed the opinions, statements, and threats of the minority dictate to the majority what is going to happen.

We have allowed a belief in tolerance taint our American values and statutes. Make no mistake, America was not founded for "religious freedom" it was founded by speculators who saw a way to make money - in this process, CHRISTIANS who were being persecuted in England because they were not of the Church of England came here to practice Christian worship how they believed they were to worship. -

The separation of church and state as outlined in our constitution has been perverted, manipulated and distorted. The men who included this in the Bill of Rights, were speaking of one thing only - "there shall be no Federally controlled Church" (paraphrase) no where in their thoughts, was this to be applied to anything other than stopping a repeat of the Church of England. No where does it include anything outside Christianity. Therefore, there is no constitutional protection for any "religion" outside of Christianity. We are a Christian country, we were founded by Christians, and we need to remain a Christian Country.

In the name of "tolerance" we have watered down the principals Christians believe in. We have begun to accept lifestyles that are blatantly contrary to scripture, we have watered down sin in every area of life, from sex, to gambling, promiscuity, profanity, you name it and its watered down. Sin is vogue, instead of being embarrassed by sin we honor it and cheer it on. Some of our "hero's" are those who commit the most sin and seem to get away with it.

We need to step back and look at our tolerance stance and see - is being tolerant really what we need to be doing? We are tolerant of homosexuality and intolerant of immigrants. We are tolerant of abortion, and intolerant of father's rights. We are tolerant of criminals, and intolerant of victims rights.

Our tolerance is out of control.......many Americans are so afraid of offending someone that they don't take a stance on anything. We don't want to offend the Muslims, so we allow them to run all over us. We are tolerant of Muslims, but intolerant of Christians.

No the Mosque does not need to be built. The city of New York should do the honorable thing and revoke the building permit. And the idiot in Florida who calls himself a Pastor, should not be burning Koran's - that serves no purpose other than what he has already gotten. It is self promoting and self indulging. Let that story die.

Someone said on the news - "Jesus wouldn't burn a Koran." I spit my coffee when I heard this, the stupidity of that statement is beyond belief. But for the record.....you are right, he wouldn't because it wouldn't have been a threat in his life, because only 1% of the population could READ! So there would have been no need to burn it. But let's be clear-----no where in the Bible can you find anything that promotes tolerance of other religions. On the contrary - Jesus is very clear. "No one comes to the father but through me"(Jn 14:6), "I am the door....."(Jn 10:9) "Anyone who calls on the name of Christ will be saved...."(Acts 2:21) etc. There are NO allowances for other beliefs, other "religions" other faiths. There is one and one only........ I am in not position to speak of what Jesus would and wouldn't do - but I am certain of one thing......he would not have agreed that Islam is the way - he would have said to all who were Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, etc that there is only one way to heaven and only one God - and yours ain't it!

World Cup Embarrassment

I watched in disgust yesterday as Spain won the world cup of soccer (football). I cannot believe the way they played the game. I am by no means even a casual soccer fan. And I don't pretend to know the nuances of the game. But I know a dive when i see one, and Spain should have won the world cup of diving - not soccer. It was embarrassing to watch as time after time the Spanish players would dive anytime a player from Holland got even close. Shadow diving, slow motion replays showed time and again the Spanish players flailing their arms, skidding across the ground wincing in pain trying to get Yellow cards against the Netherlands team. And unfortunately the referee fell for the trick far too often. 9 Yellow cards against one team in the World Cup final is embarrassing.

Spain should be embarrassed and ashamed at how they won that match. They have the trophy, but they were not the best team, and they didn't play like Champions. Prior to this match I had enjoyed watching the matches. On many occasions I saw excellent skill and gamesmanship. Until Sunday. I'm just glad its 4 more years before we have to watch that spectacle like that again.