Bush Whacked
So, the Texan won the shoot out and swaggers back into the saloon. Well, I still have grave reservations but God appoints our leaders over us and He knows what He is doing so lets see what happens. Maybe we are on a path of an all out war of cultures, both of the politized Church versus secular humanism and the western (Christian) World versus Islam. I do have sympathy with Christian American voters concerning the first of these. The Devil is at work in the World, selling bad as good and good as bad. A dogmatic belief in truth, sin and salvation, is viewed as evil whilst un-Godly sexual relationships are seen as healthy. I deplore this thing that is happening and I am so glad that there are so many Christians in America who are prepared to fight it. But I look at some of the reactionary elements to this, the anti-intellectualism and militancy and it's troubling. And all the while nationalism looms behind everything like a dark specter.
posted by Bizkitz at
9:46 AM
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Well, I still have grave reservations but God appoints our leaders over us and He knows what He is doing so lets see what happens.Well, I feel simply terrible about disagreeing with you, but your statement here assumes that God's Will is always done in the world. It seems fairly obvious to me that this is not the case.
I could launch into an enormous essay about Our Free Will and God's Will, and the contradictions therein, but I doubt I could fit it all into a single post - or even a hundred posts.
Let me just say this, then: There is little doubt in my mind that there are a great many world leaders who God would rather not have in power - in the same sense that God would rather not have us "regular folk" be drunkards or womanizers or the like.
Yet we have been created to make our own choices, so the Almighty Creator of the Universe stands helpless when a wandering drunk lifts a bottle of gin to his lips.
I can't be completely sure, but I think that God has a better leader for America than George W. Bush. I think that God's plan for America involves more than starting short-sighted wars with already blighted countries. God's Will is thwarted by our Will, however, and there is simply no escaping that - no matter how much we would like to.
So what is a Christian to do? The same thing we always do: pray for those who lead, even as they thwart God's plan for the world. Pray for wisdom, pray for peace. Live like Christ and be a City on a Hill.
When we do these things, God works though us to let "his Will be done". This, ultimately, is how God's Will is really carried out. Not so much at the ballot box, or at gunpoint, but through Love.
Glad you're back, btw. Keep posting!
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Karl, at 8 November 2004 11:01 PM
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