Wow, you nailed it. I’d like everyone to send it to Mike Johnson. Then I’d like to hear reporters push him on this. The press has failed over the past ten years.
1. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.”
2. “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.”
3. “Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
But to respond to your message. You engaged in the fallacy “Ignoratio Elenchi.” or missing the point.
It would be like me dismissing you by saying “You made no mention of people dying of cancer as Trump cuts of research funding. You made no mention of veterans as Trump cuts off Veteran suicide prevention resources.
You made no mention of ending rape though Trump has been found to be a rapist in court.”
I could go on but if you don’t get the point yet you lack the capacity to at all.
At age 12, without my parents' blessing, I joined a fundamentalist evangelical church, went to a church-sponsored college and thought I was getting a good Biblical and moral education. However, my dad supported the ACLU, was a Democratic Socialist and as a "working man," a member of the AFL/CIO. I read his books and magazines and imbibed his teaching. Guess what? Because the Bible does support genuine righteousness, mercy and justice, the two teachings dovetailed in many ways for me. (Back in the '60's, I was almost expelled from my racist, fundamentalist college just because I had attended and supported a rally for Civil Rights.)
I never became a Republican, or a "conservative" and I left the narrow teaching of my youth to become a liberal, politically and a "progressive," spiritually. Decades ago, I lost any regard for D. James Kennedy and Coral Ridge when they climbed onto the "Moral Majority" Bandwagon. People who would crown themselves "moral" and "the Majority" are Pharisees -- tied to a flawed Calvinistic doctrine, and handmaidens of muscular political influence via the abortion issue. No thanks.
Wow, you nailed it. I’d like everyone to send it to Mike Johnson. Then I’d like to hear reporters push him on this. The press has failed over the past ten years.
Thank you, Nadine. The simple truths of Bishop Budde & your words cut through like bright shafts of moral light and hope in this time of darkness.
LOL she wants mercy for illegal aliens, but makes no mention of Americans killed and raped by illegals.
Yep. Jesus called for mercy repeatedly:
1. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.”
2. “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.”
3. “Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
But to respond to your message. You engaged in the fallacy “Ignoratio Elenchi.” or missing the point.
It would be like me dismissing you by saying “You made no mention of people dying of cancer as Trump cuts of research funding. You made no mention of veterans as Trump cuts off Veteran suicide prevention resources.
You made no mention of ending rape though Trump has been found to be a rapist in court.”
I could go on but if you don’t get the point yet you lack the capacity to at all.
At age 12, without my parents' blessing, I joined a fundamentalist evangelical church, went to a church-sponsored college and thought I was getting a good Biblical and moral education. However, my dad supported the ACLU, was a Democratic Socialist and as a "working man," a member of the AFL/CIO. I read his books and magazines and imbibed his teaching. Guess what? Because the Bible does support genuine righteousness, mercy and justice, the two teachings dovetailed in many ways for me. (Back in the '60's, I was almost expelled from my racist, fundamentalist college just because I had attended and supported a rally for Civil Rights.)
I never became a Republican, or a "conservative" and I left the narrow teaching of my youth to become a liberal, politically and a "progressive," spiritually. Decades ago, I lost any regard for D. James Kennedy and Coral Ridge when they climbed onto the "Moral Majority" Bandwagon. People who would crown themselves "moral" and "the Majority" are Pharisees -- tied to a flawed Calvinistic doctrine, and handmaidens of muscular political influence via the abortion issue. No thanks.