I am waiting for them to pass thus term limits law:
One bad vote and banned from elected office for life.
Yes, they are that bad.
One bad vote and banned from elected office for life.
Yes, they are that bad.
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In a popular quotation that is believed to be apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"[5][6] This quotation first appeared twenty years after Jackson had died, in newspaper publisher Horace Greeley's 1865 history of the U.S. Civil War, The American Conflict.[6] It was, however, reported in the press in March 1832 that Jackson was unlikely to aid in carrying out the court's decision if his assistance were to be requested.[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
In church a week and a half ago I thought I saw a gun sticking out of someone's pocket and I was fixated on it, horrified, unable to concentrate on God. I didn't know whether to leave or vomit.
But it is always fascinating to me that some people feel so much horror in their lives that they feel the need to carry a gun to church.
Many churches are extremely dangerous places, but mainly due to demonic teachings, not firearms.
Every so often you might get some psychopath set on gunnin' down a congregation and in that case a good, reliable piece might save the day!
Those who feel the need can weep and wail over the psycho's body and lament what he "could have been". Others might spin the wheels on their smoking revolvers and smile, knowing they made that option possible.
Turn the Other Cheek"But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
Turn the Other Cheek
This is a good and short discussion of what it meant to Jews to have the face slapped. It was an considered a severe insult (and less infliction of pain/injury). In quoting the Bible it is best to understand the context of the verse/chapter as it was meant then instead of assuming it meant the same back then as it does today.
Which is why being a believer is a lifelong work and not a one and done. Even at my age I am still learning new meanings to biblical passages.....most I have to find on my own since rarely do church sermons and 'bible studies' reveal this info as they tend to be somewhat shallow (IMO). A good place to start is a commentary to help you fill in the blanks.I understand that context makes a difference. Which, I suppose, renders the Bible only meaningful to those who know sufficient amounts of information related to civilizations over 2,000 years old.
I wish there was a book of rules relating to unchanging morality that spoke across the millennia and across time from a God who saw all of time and would have planned for such eventuality.
Which is why being a believer is a lifelong work and not a one and done. Even at my age I am still learning new meanings to biblical passages.....most I have to find on my own since rarely do church sermons and 'bible studies' reveal this info as they tend to be somewhat shallow (IMO). A good place to start is a commentary to help you fill in the blanks.
Who needs a gun?Absolutely Machiavellian.