Quote "....convicted in Virginia in 1990 of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm during drug trafficking."
According to Mike Christians have liberty to do this stuff - all things are lawful and all that!
I guess he was only selling produce of the herb of the feilds ater all.
Sounds like a colourful character, wonder what the preaching was about? I can just imagine Fred Phelps doing this - "homos are worthy of death" Pow! Pow! (Just shot the homo stage dummy with the pink shorts).
Jesus was certainly not born in December according to the Holy Bible, and irrespective if you think Christians should celebrate Jesus birth or not the pagan connection to this date cannot honestly be denied.
Neil, the point is that the NT does speak of the church's (singular) title - it is Christ's church and identified simply by it's geographical location. To take on another title or denominational type tag is to play the harlot quite frankly.
But you said "Governments care not a whit for "the children."
I contend that the principal of government was established by God, thus it is manifest that much of what they do is good, even in this age.
For example the compulsory use of child car seats is stipulated by the government for the protection of children. Yet you would likely argue that it is your right what you do in your car.
I had an American friend who was like this... refused to wear seatbelts because he didn't like them and it wasn't the governments place to tell him what to do in his own car. He is survived by his wife and several young children; he almost certainly would be alive now if he obeyed the seatbelt law.
Yeah, I like freedom too but there is a reason God told us to submit to government authority & that it was a force for good (waiting the the 9/11 troll to hijacker this thread & run it into something now....).
The bottom line is some balance is needed - your house might be your castle but you can't grow dope there and dismember your kids just because you feel you are 'free' to do this.
What's your problem.... selfishness? Smoke somewhere else if you must, the government is just trying to protects kids from ferals here. Are you pro-abort also; that would be another 'freedom' right?
In the Yamillian bible of no good works: "Given a choice I would blot out your name from the book of life but beacuse of OSAS it looks like I'm stuck with you because I can't blot peoples names out anyway. And all the other NT warnings to believers? Well they were..... just for fun really."