Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
So what would a conservative Mennonite care about mere earthly politics? And why?
Re: That comparison you made between Governor Brewer and President Obama
That was coarse. 🙁
And particularly so for a woman.
And even more for a Christian woman. (I see you told Time that you’re a “Bible-believing Christian.”)
Just a thought: Next time, use guts or backbone instead.
Check out these two excerpts from the 1691 New England Primer:
In Adam’s Fall
We Sinned all.Thy Life to Mend
This Book Attend.
Where were the protesters and objectors and suers?
And the parents — didn’t they care?!
Where were the legislatures and the courts and the governors and the city counselors and the district attorneys and the meter maids?
What about equality and equal time and fairness doctrines for other religions and non-religions?
Didn’t they care separation of church and state?
And the poor children with such dreadful thoughts poked in their heads!
🙄
Ah, those were the days. No wonder the country then was in such poor shape. 😯
(And I suppose next we’ll hear parents spanked their children and made them be quiet at the table and didn’t let them play all rowdy-like on Sundays.)
A poll shows Georgia is the most pro-life state in the union, indicating that 57% of voters favor the overthrow of Roe vs. Wade.
This is roughly ___ points above the next nearest state polled.
How many percentage points do you think Georgia is ahead of the next nearest state? (I was surprised.)
Here’s the opening paragraph of the source story:
On July 20th of this year, the voters in over forty-five Georgia counties, representing all thirteen Congressional Districts, will have an opportunity to answer the pressing question of when life begins. Appearing on the July 20th Primary ballot is the following poll, “Do you support an amendment to the Georgia state constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in each human being from the earliest biological beginning until natural death?”
Whether or not you vote in Georgia, pray for God-honoring, life-supporting results.
(Isn’t Georgia the peach state?)
So I suppose you’re thinking I’m going to blame Russia’s Putin for the plane crash that killed Poland’s president and others.
Oh. Please. 🙄
OK, the “I am not a kook” disclaimer aside, I admit to wondering if the above tragedy was an orchestrated event or will lead to orchestrated events or both or neither.
Watch Russia, that’s what I say.
Was Poland’s leader a nationalist?
Was he a so-called right winger?
What influences will Russia exert in the Leader Replacement Process in Poland?
Russia aside, will The Mysterious They use this as another step toward OWG?
Who’s next?
For the record, I learned about this on Twitter when I saw Poland and Polish President as trending topics.
Furthermore, I have read only one very short news article on this disaster.
Whatever happened, is happening, and will happen, nothing is a surprise to God nor beyond His control.
May God be able to comfort the families and friends of the dead.
May God use my former student and his wife and their colleagues serving in Poland.
May God use His other people in Poland.
And may God bless Poland.
Some comments and some questions, none of them intended to be political even though they reflect on and about a political issue:
It came today.
I haven’t opened it yet.
Maybe I shouldn’t. It doesn’t have my name on it. Instead it has TO RESIDENT AT. 😯
How lame is that?!
Tain’t my name.
Never has been.
Maybe I should mark the envelope “Return to Sender” and give it back to the Postal Service.
🙄
(Some folks think Christians shouldn’t fill out the census. I disagree.)
We have customers who finally had to move from Germany to another European country for the same reason the Romeikes moved to the US:
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike may have been considered outside the norms of civil society in their native Germany, but not in Morristown, Tennessee, where they and their five children now live. The Romeikes are homeschoolers who are determined to provide the education for their children, ranging in age from two to twelve. In Morristown, that is about as controversial as bass fishing, but in Germany it is a crime.
The Romeike's tale is big news today, with both TIME Magazine and The New York Times devoting major stories to their plight, and to the fact that a federal immigration judge in Memphis granted them asylum — and homeschooling is the reason.
As Campbell Robertson reports in today’s edition of The New York Times, the Romeike’s determination to homeschool their children ran into direct collision with German laws banning the practice: “Among European countries, Germany is nearly alone in requiring, and enforcing, attendance of children at an officially recognized school. The school can be private or religious, but it must be a school. Exceptions can be made for health reasons but not for principled objections.”
I am thankful for the freedom we have in the United States (yet) to educate our children according to the dictates of our conscience.