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T-Bone said:Smellin Coffee said:T-Bone said:Smellin Coffee said:T-Bone said:Just a thought...Sander's being the extreme, but overall the democrats who want control over our lives and make us dependent on the government for everything are totalitarian by both definition and necessity!
Both major parties want control, not just the Dems. The NC law is just another red flag, not particularly in the bathroom issue, but in the way the state limited local governing bodies to make local decisions and opened up discrimination by allowing people to be fired for being old or gay. What the Republicans are doing is giving extraordinary freedoms to Big Biz so Big Biz can line their pocketbooks in exchange for power. Then they use the media to whine when Big Biz decides to go cultural (Target).
In a democracy, the cultural majority should determine the laws being made. Localities should have a voice if not the choice in matters that aren't interwoven with other states' rights. The government was set up for cultural rule so if the culture deteriorates, that is how the government should be set up. We aren't set up to have a dictator or dictatorial party rule, benevolent or evil. So we have means by which we can protest. I'm OK with people boycotting Target if it violates their principles. Just don't expect everyone else's to conform.
Both sides are dictatorial in intent.
First, I'm glad I'm not a part of either party and have not been for over 30 years. Secondly, I don't expect everyone else to conform to what I choose to do, but I do expect professing Christians to stand up for what is morally & biblically right...but hey that's just me!
So I take it you are for gun control, anti-capital punishment and anti-war. Cool!
(My point is some of us are standing for our morality and what we believe God intended to be biblical, but we disagree on how that exactly plays out. Don't assume a single hermeneutic position should control governmental legislation.)
No, pro 2nd Ammendment...pro capital punishment for capital crimes & when it comes to war, I take the "just war" position (knowing that not all wars fought fit that category).
If ones hermeneutics place them opposite of biblical truth, then they are being driven by the flesh rather than the Spirit...and from an honest biblical evaluation, that is clear to see.
"hermeneutics...opposite of biblical truth" - defined as "having a different, thus sinful perspective when interpreting the Scriptures"
The idea of what 'biblical truth' is generally a point of view. Granted, it doesn't mean it is the right point of view but if executing someone who was created in the image of my God, like my Savior was executed is the bee's knees, who am I to object? And can one have "an honest biblical evaluation" and still not align with mainstream Evangelicalism?