Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
How spiritually and morally bankrupt is the United States of America? (Substitute your country if you prefer.)
This nation founded on many Christian principles is so deep in moral and spiritual debt that she can never dig out on her own. (Of course, that’s the case with every nation and every soul in every nation.)
But it doesn’t seem that the USA has reached yet the depravity of Sodom: Read it all
I know few people who would flatly assert their goodness makes an apology unnecessary. (OK, I don’t think I know anyone like that.)
But if I changed the focus from words to attitudes, then some folks I know come across as just being too good to apologize. I would even have to acknowledge that my own heart isn’t above such prideful self-righteousness.
Last night I came up with three short statements on the subject… Read it all
I know — that sounds like a racist statement made worse with the class-warfare element.
But it’s the truth, isn’t it?
And can you blame him for making that kind of selection for running mate?
I mean, hasn’t that route worked for every single President of the United States? Read it all
I have never seen a real live President of the United States.
But I have been within chair-throwing distance of a real live President of Mexico. (No, I didn’t throw a chair at him, nor did I have such an inclination, OK?)
So I understand my cousin’s giddy awe.
And I can identify very closely with the lesson she extracts: Read it all
You know about Jerry Sandusky and Pennsylvania State University and the sodomy stuff, right? Sure you do (you’re online, after all).
Do you also know about Nineveh and the evil in that city?
Well, Jonah certainly knew about Nineveh…and he certainly wasn’t going there on any errand of grace and mercy! But now look what I did; I got ahead of myself… Read it all
Believer, the scornful unbeliever watches you, too:
Andée Seu Peterson @WORLD_mag — "But sometimes we Christians have to own up to our bad press and think about it."
— Mark Roth (@anabaptist) June 29, 2012