Another One Bites the Dust. 2
ASZ has the goods on another person who arrogates to himself the privilege of telling us how to conduct ourselves.
I have no problem with persons who let their faith guide their votes. That is their right.
Frankly, I have no problems with someone who wishes to discuss his or her faith as it relates to his or her political beliefs.
I do sort of draw a line when someone wants to tell me that “God wants you to vote for X.” God talked directly with Moses and Elijah. I do not think he talked directly to Pat Robertson, despite Mr. Robertson’s claims to the contrary.
And I have a lot of problems with hypocrites. But, then, my two or three regular readers know that.
July 21, 2007 at 2:07 pm
OK, you are going to get me to preaching here. I do think that God does talk directly to some people. (Well, so do you, as in your reference to Moses and Elijah.) But I also think you have this spectrum of human experience where God talks to some people and they try to read way too much into what He said, and beyond that I think there are also people who think God talked to them when it wasn’t God at all.
And then there are people I’ve known who can’t seem to settle for what they’re told in the Bible. They keep waiting for some special message from God when I don’t understand why they can’t settle for going ahead and doing what the Bible tells everyone to do.
July 25, 2007 at 12:55 am
I do indeed believe that God speaks to some persons. Actually, to any persons that care to listen.
But I have developed a serious skepticism of those who claim publically in these times that God has given them the right to tell the rest of us how to behave, while they, themselves, behave in a quite contrary manner.
I have seen no evidence that Elijah or Jeremiah or Isaiah or any of the others whose words are enshrined in the Bible said one thing and did another.
Sadly, one cannot say the same about those who today arrogate to themselves the right to speak for God.
Matthew 6: 5. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Our society is replete with hypocrites, praying loudly on the street corners. Those who pray loudly on the street corners should be treated with great caution.