Two Against One
October 14, 2012
Soon after our current leader’s same-sex marriage beliefs were announced, this blog became very political in nature. Previously, the blog concerned itself mainly with spiritual, Scriptural and theological issues. But after serious consideration, I apologized to my readers and told them that I would return to the blog’s original intent, Biblical-based themes. But since the disgraceful display of the Vice-President of the United States at this week’s debate, I will be writing political posts until the election is over (hopefully, with a new leader for this country). And the main reason for this shift in focus (besides Biden’s awful behavior), is that the moderator, Martha Raddatz, was so unfair in how she conducted herself. It was two against one.
Yes, Joe Biden was not, on Thursday evening, what we would hope our children would grow up to be. He was condescending, rude, disrespectful and even hateful to his counterpart, Congressman Paul Ryan. Also, some have estimated that Joe interrupted Paul Ryan around 80-plus times during the hour-and-a-half debate. But what is more disturbing, is that the moderator, Martha Raddatz, interrupted the Congressman close to ten times. This is an outrage. This supposed impartial media personality was anything but impartial.
Here’s the good news: the American people saw right through this deplorable behavior by Martha and Joe. And I believe that they will respond at the ballot-box. The American people know when a fight is not fair and when one side is not being treated right, and this was the case on Thursday night.
There is so much at stake in this election. It is, indeed, the most important election of our lifetimes. Our country may not recover if the current administration is put back into power. My prayer is this: “Lord, give us a godly leader who will lead us back to you.”
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Amen and amen! Great post Scott!!! God bless you! There is indeed too much at stake. I have been trying to stay away from politics myself, but sometimes you just have to stand up!!!
Hi Patricia. I don’t have my hope, faith and trust in a party, ideology or man other than the man, Jesus. God bless you.
The deck is stacked against us, as God is being driven from our nation. I say Merry Christmas, I say thank God, I will never deny my faith to anybody. There is a war going on within this nation and it is for our religious freedoms. It might not be fought with guns but sometimes wars need no guns. God Bless.
You are correct, Troy. The “deck is stacked.” But God is “the God of the impossible.” He can do anything!
So true.
Thank you, Lou Ann.
I really doubt that Governor Romney, the affirmed Mormon, is God’s answer to a “godly man.” From what I saw of his tactics against President Obama in the first debate, he started the rudeness and the disrespect and set the stage for it to continue.
Mormonism isn’t something God would approve of.. in any way, shape, or form. If you think I’m mistaken about this, read about it.
One of these men *will* be our president. Frankly, they are both probably two sides of the same coin, New World Order, (both freemasons), but President Obama, at the very least, exhibits more of a Christ-like attitude toward struggling, and poor Americans than does Romney. Romney loves money and encourages the love of money first and foremost through everything he says and does.
Good morning. I agree with you that Mormonism is, indeed, a cult and not true Christianity. But I am voting for Mr. Romney for three reasons: his stance on abortion, same-sex marriage and Israel. Our current leader has the most radical position on abortion. As an Illinois state senator he voted three times against “born-alive” legislation that would have protected the life of a baby in the event of a “botched” abortion. This is unthinkable.
Of course, he “came out of the closet” on his support of legalized perversion. This goes against the teaching of the Bible and of several thousand years of Western Civilization.
And although Israel is the only republic in the Middle-East and one of our few allies in that region, he has yet to visit that nation. His support for Israel has only been lip-service.
Regarding his “exhibiting a Christ-like attitude toward the struggling,” the unemployment rate for this group is far higher than the national average. And the on the subject of the “love of money,” the Democrats and groups like Planned Parenthood, have made billions on the lives of dead infants.
Yes, both of these candidates have “issues” that trouble me. But I cannot and will not support the current administration because of its support of the “gay agenda” and their non-support of the unborn and of the nation of Israel.
The whole debate was a disgrace, the Commission should re-evauluate how they run the debates and choose moderators. Shameful.
Hi David. Yes, it “was a disgrace.” And it appears that CNN and Candy Crowley are trying to “rig” tomorrow night’s debate by changing some of the moderator’s authority (basically, they have changed the rules that both campaigns agreed to).
Wonderful…
My point is that based upon their various points of view and actions exhibited, *both* of these candidates are hardly “God’s best.” I don’t think we can turn Governor Romney into anything even remotely resembling a Christian despite his one flip flop of becoming “pro-life” in order to get the Christian/Catholic vote.
The sin of homosexuality does not seem a greater sin than the sin of lusting after pornography, making money an idol, killing by the millions through unnecessary war to make profit, and a host of other disgusting sin that I know God finds just as abominable. If you study upon Mormonism at length though, you will find that Mormons worship another god, other than the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They worship a prophet and he isn’t Jesus.
At least Obama claims to be saved and says he believes in Jesus Christ. Certainly the abortion stance is worrisome, but I don’t think he is actually in favor of abortion personally. I think he’s looking at it from the pov of Roe v Wade being completely done away with, along with contraception/sexual education.
We as Christians are being asked to choose between the lessor of two evils and I think this is a very subjective matter that we should each be praying about. For me, I don’t believe Governor Romney is going to be good for our country; in fact, I am frightened of this man based upon what is on the record about his past. I don’t see much authenticity or genuineness there. I see very little integrity and no authentic emotion/empathy from him. No compassion for his fellow men and women.
I don’t think we can advise anyone else on who to vote for because neither man is up to God’s standard as set forth within the bible. We will each have to make up our own minds between us and God and hope for the best, I guess.
Warrioress, you say that you think Mr. Obama is just saying this because Roe v Wade is established law, by saying that you are ignoring his own words, especially his speech before the Illinois Senate when he was a State Senator and the bill before them was to protect the life of a baby born alive after being aborted. He was the only person to argue against the law that was being put forward to provide medical care and he argued it went against the mother’s intent. Can you truly say that he was interested in life? As for unneeded wars and costing the lives of people, again you are comparing Mr. Romney who has never started a war, or even contributed to one, to a man that by his actions has caused the loss of life of thousands of Americans and perhaps millions of others across the world. He has ignored the killing of Christians in the middle east, as well as the destruction of churches, and yet speaks out against anyone who even speaks against muslims. You judge what a person believes by their actions, words are empty. You say the Bible tells you not to judge and you are right judgement is the Lords, but we are told to observe and correct when possible, and to deny them when not. Mr. Obama claims to be a Christian, therefore he must be held to a higher standard, the standard that Jesus himself gave us. Mr. Obama has exhibited no signs that he has “put off the old man and put on the new”. His actions are the actions of an unbeliever, and if you say that he is doing it for political expediency, that makes it even worse. We are instructed to follow the laws and yet he makes it a practice to only follow the ones he wants to. Perhaps you could excuse this if the were laws that went against the word of God and he was trying to please God. Instead the laws that he seems so determined to break are the very laws that support Christians and Christian principles, DOMA for one. It was passed almost without objection, and yet he didn’t like it and therefore refuses to enforce it. His argument that it is unconstitutional is not based on fact for the very simple reason that it has not reached the Supreme Court and been judged that way yet. His lawlessness and lying are unprecedented. This is not the behavior of a Christian.
As for Mr. Romney, Scott made the point that he supports him because of his actions, if you think that he is not worth supporting fine, don’t vote for him, but my friend, if you believe that Mr. Obama is more of a Christian because he calls himself one, you are sadly, deliberately deceiving yourself. To support a man that promotes a culture of death, is choosing to support that same culture yourself. God bless you Addy and I hope that I am wrong and that you do not truly believe that supporting him is to further the will of God. God bless you!
Thank you for speaking the truth, Patricia.
Pat,
For me, I don’t see Obama’s delusions as worse than those of Romney’s. Romney isn’t “pro-life.” He’s phony and a liar. He flip flops and tells us whatever we want to hear because his only objective is to be president of this country of ours. His is a cult. He doesn’t believe in what we believe in, Christianity-wise.
He could care less about the poor, the sick, the elderly, or the disabled. He loves money. It’s all about money for him. There is no empathy or compassion present within this man; his past shows he is cruel and not compassionate with even his own animal. He was cruel as a college student with a young man who was gay, whose hair he cut off in the attempt to humiliate and bully the man.
Maybe Obama is no better, but I don’t get that sense from him. Perhaps he is a lukewarm Christian — I don’t have any idea, but I don’t think any of us can say with certainty that one of these men are absolutely whom we as Christians should get behind and support. I feel internally that Obama is not as dangerous to our country and I’m voting as I am because when I compare the two men, I see more of Jesus within Obama, in my personal opinion. I see more of Jesus Christ inherent within the concerns of the Democrats as opposed to the Republicans, based upon the things that they do, and what they support, and how they vote.
Abortion is a disgusting practice but so is capital punishment and war through taking innocent life for greed and money. I have no earthly idea how we can justify one sin and rail about another; this seems very hypocritical to me.
Adrienne
Addy you sound like you are just continuing the Democrat talking points with no basis in reality! Obama’s delusions could matter less to me, I am talking about his reality, what he has actually done my friend. Far from being a lukewarm Christian, Mr. Obama’s practices are anti-Christian. But let me examine your comments about Mr. Romney.
You say that he could care less about the poor, the sick, the elderly, or the disabled, personally I really would like to know where you are getting your information, but to the point, Mr. Romney has given much more of his personal wealth to charity that anyone else that even attempted to enter the race, and that is not just this year, but since he has been an adult. He has gone out of his way to help people, there have been many people that have come forward with testimonies to that fact if you are interested in checking it out. Where exactly do you find that he is cruel and not compassionate? Are you basing your ideas on a lie put out by someone on the other side and disproved by the man’s family? Who would you rather believe, the man’s family who has no angle or someone who hates Romney and supports the other side?
Now to Mr. Obama, you say that you feel internally that he is not dangerous to our country! Wow!!!! No one has done more in the history of this country to run up the debt, antagonize our allies, including Israel, lower our defenses (both by decreasing the security of our borders, arming our enemies, providing aid to those who would rather see us destroyed and removing our own ability to provide for our families. He is cutting off our options to provide energy, limiting our ability to provide food with the restrictions that he is putting on farmers, they are regulating dirt now, did you know that? Farmers can not farm when the amount of dust they stir up is greater than what Mr. Obama’s EPA decides is the right size! As far as seeing Jesus more in Mr. Obama than in Mr. Romney, may I ask what you see? I see a man that promotes death, prohibits my religious freedom, breaks laws, lies, gives succor to those that worship false idols, promotes the stealing of other peoples property, promotes perversion and shows no love for the Father. If you feel I am wrong on this, please give me an example to show me the error.
You said “Abortion is a disgusting practice but so is capital punishment and war through taking innocent life for greed and money. I have no earthly idea how we can justify one sin and rail about another; this seems very hypocritical to me.” And you are right on at least part of what you said! Abortion is far more than a disgusting practice, it is murder, murder of children that God knows even in the womb which you know is the truth because you do read the Bible. Capital punishment is sometimes needed and also allowed in the Bible, God asks us to forgive those who commit crimes, but He also says that they must pay the price.
As for war, sometimes it is needed, but no war that we have been involved in in the last thirty years has been needed. Mr. Obama has done more to get our own people involved in such wars than any President in recent memory, even more than George W. Bush, whom I didn’t support either. Mr. Obama has involved us in Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, and if now sending troops to Jorden. I read an intelligence report recently that stated that Mr. Obama had sent Americans to military actions in over 40 different countries. Does this sound like a man that hesitates to get involved in the killing of innocents? We are also in Angola and Syria for example. The Middle East is more on fire that it has been in my memory and I am sixty years old. He has ignored the will of Congress and the will of the American people. He is giving arms to our enemies, he is giving the secrets of our allies, Great Britian, Poland, Israel and others, to their enemies and our own. He is refusing to protect our allies that we are under treaty with, such as Poland, Israel, and Tawain. Even when they have begged us for help and Congress has okayed it. He has flat out disregarded laws that have been passed and involved us in ways that no other President ever has. Can you truly say that Mr. Obama has more Jesus like tendancies? To me this is more the actions of Satan and his minions that it is a follower of Christ. He is far from the actions that Christ instructed us in.
Very good Patricia. Remind me to not get you riled up.
Patricia, thank you for standing up for the unborn.
God bless you Scott!!!!
Thank you Scott. If Christians don’t speak up against evil, who will. Through our beliefs (or doubts) and actions (or non-actions), we always choose sides in the issues before us. I also have taken a somewhat different track during this election season. It is crucial for us to stand up for true Christianity among those who are confused about reality. I haven’t been writing blogs on the issues (I thank you for doing so), but I am active on FaceBook and emails.
Thank you, Woody.
I’m sorry that we disagree, Patricia, because you know I care about you and have supported many conservative points of view in the past. I just don’t feel that I can continue to do so when I see so much hypocrisy emanating from a lot of Christians on these issues.
I’m someone who is in favor of everyone’s right to their own opinion, who isn’t going to judge those who perceive things differently than I do. For example, I will not judge your status with Christ Jesus or your Christianity, just because you don’t agree with me or you think I’m wrong.
Yet, I see many Christians blatantly judging those of us who support President Obama, who are Christian. I see a nitpicking between whose sin is greater, and a questioning of whether or not we really love the Lord because of how we intend to vote.
I could feel the same because I see immense hypocrisy from these points of view and a denial of reality, but i know it’s wrong to judge anyone based upon how they are going to vote. This voting is a personal matter and we are family within the body of Christ. Let’s all try and remember that is our status FIRST.
Love in Christ,
Adrienne
I am sorry as well Addy, I care about you as well, and yes I do know you have supported conservative views in the past. You are accusing a lot of Christians of hypocrisy and if fact there are many who claim to be Christians who are guilty of that. But you are also wrong on a few things Addy! You are wrong when you believe that everyone has a right to their own opinion, I am sorry but that is not what Jesus taught. Our opinions are worthless, they simply do not count, only God’s word counts. That is what Jesus taught, the first great commandment is to Love the Father “Matthew 22:37-38
King James Version (KJV)
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
If you love the Father, you will love the Son, if you love the Son you will obey the principle that He Himself set forth for followers.
Do you truly think that we should not look at Mr. Obama’s words and actions and make our decisions based upon them? The Bible itself tells us that we make such choices, to ignore them is to choose in itself. As for your statement that we as followers of Christ are all family and seem to imply that because Mr. Obama claims to be such a follower, that we should support him without question, please read
James 5:19-20
James 5:19-20
King James Version (KJV)
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
2John :5-10
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
Many Pastors have warned Mr. Obama of the error of his ways and he mocks and reviles them and turns a blind eye to the Word of God. My friend if you think that it is hypocritical to deny him support when he goes against the will of God, i must question where you yourself have gotten your information. God does not have an opinion, He has given us the Word, if we do not follow it, that is the essence of nypocrisy.
You have said that you can not vote for Mr. Romney because he is not a Christian, and that is a very good point, however that is not why Scott is voting for him or supporting him. It would be nice if Mr. Romney believed exactly the way that we do, but that is not a preresiquite for my vote. I personally am voting for the candidate that supports the values that God requires from me. Mr. Obama neither shares those values by the words that he says, nor by the actions that he does. Which is the real hypocrisy Addy? To support someone who makes a claim to follow Christ but shows by their actions that they are in fact a liar, or to support someone who by their actions furthers Christian values.