Cezar wrote:
America needs to rebuild its Manufacturing and agricultural base.
America needs to do a lot of insourcing.

Mike wrote:
Meanwhile the feds are letting millions of illegals come over the border

Written in Heaven wrote:
As for me a believer in Christ, any flag is nothing but cloth. The heathen esteem it highly though, and teach their children to stand before it in reverence and pledge allegiance to it.

A Christian man could have more of an issue with your pledge of allegiance. A case could be made that this was misuse, but this localised custom is hardly grounds for the abolition of the right use of flags as a national symbol the world over.

I'm surprised you haven't said anything about the parading of national flags and symbols and bringing them into the assemblies of the kingdom that is not of this world (another localised custom).

Perhaps you might like to do some travelling and see some of the other 95% world. But I suggest you light no fires as you go. Also make yourself aware of laws of lèse-majesté.

Written in Heaven wrote:
"Abuse of anyone's flag is disrespectful."
Seems reasonable from this comment.

First example. Union jack underpants are disrespectful to the flag and the nation it represents and the sacrifices made by many to protect the people of that realm. But I have never seen anyone worship a pair of union jack underpants as an idol.

Written in Heaven wrote:
Are you saying that God wants his people to respect idols?

Scott McMahan wrote:
Deflation? Really? I see nothing but inflation - bills I have to pay increasing, the price of medicine increasing, etc. My money doesn't go as far as it used to. I think these inflation numbers are made up: if they increase, then interest rates increase. If interest rates increase, the fragile stimulus-based, debt-based economy would blow up.
I'll believe there's deflation when medicine prices and free-agent pro sports contracts start decreasing.

Needless to say the banks are not following through on cutting the effective price of cash today. I no more expect retailers or pharmaceutical companies to do so than the banks.

And you can have deflation generally in an economy whilst maintaining spiralling sports contracts.

However Sweden is one of 27 EU countries. The Christian homeschoolers may very soon wish to avail themselves of their legal right to live and work and in any one of the other 26 member countries... or elsewhere - unless the evangelicals elsewhere manage to put an end to immigration as some seem intent on doing.

John Yurich USA wrote:
Why would you be offended by the quotations from the Pope being aired on Christian radio stations? Just do not pay attention to the quotations from the Pope. That is what I do. I do not pay any attention to what the Pope states and therefore I am not offended.

I do not expect you to understand the difference and will not reply further.

Rick wrote:
The point is, here is an organization that uses the name Christian and is censoring christian activity.

That said some of the social programs of the YMCA are excellent and praiseworthy in and of themselves.

Rick wrote:
I used to lift with a group of Powerlifters at a local YMCA and many of us are Christians. We were grieved when one of the instructors there was told not to have the radio on Christian stations because it might offend people. Never mind offending christian powerlifters that were benching 600 lbs, and squating 800 lbs.

Written in Heaven wrote:
Since the American flag is a worshiped idol, I wonder what would happen if God's people would burn it?

The PROPOSAL of having women bishops WON VICTORY.

What was DEFEATED was the COMPROMISE measure that would have provided alternative means for those who rejected women in yet further authority over them in the CofE to have a male alternative.

Mike wrote:
Government.

There will be major layoffs in government as soon as the bond markets absorb the news that has been obvious for sometime, that these debts are ultimately as credit worthy as a "subprime" (that is major credit risk by another name) mortgage.

[Edit: Just realised the article refers to 65000 government jobs a month already going.]

The worst IS probably yet to come.

Scott McMahan wrote:
This is news? Basketball season is over (both college and pro), the World Cup (people watch that?) just ended, football is several months away, and baseball is at the all-star break. There aren't even any Olympics (people watch that?) this year.

Nor is it news that with a proliferation of hundreds of satellite and cable channels that the big 4 networks' ratings have suffered.

Nor is it news to any sermonaudio reader that there is an increasing Spanish TV watching population in the USA.

The Olympics were in February Scott and you probably missed it because the USA was not top of the gold medal table.

savedbygrace wrote:
Since you desired a positive character assessment, where is your documentation against the character of this man?

Metaphorical language, you say.

You remind me sir of the evangelical anglicans defending the Anglican liturgies that postively declare a baptised infant as "born again" and "an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven" by saying "If you take suchlike language out of context then it is arrant nonsense and I would not defend it for a moment. But this is liturgical language. And liturgies must be based on the supposition that people mean what they say."

Something that is not true does not become "liturgically true" when it is in a liturgy.

savedbygrace wrote:
Calvin Coolidge. If ever there was a man of no false pretense it was him.

Is it really a surprise that - with such high level public confusion over what is truly a "spiritual reference", "hallowed ground", "a sacred relic", "consecrated" and "spiritual events" - in time this "celebration" supplanted the Lord's Day in America's collective priority.

A bad tree is known by its bad fruit.

The one redeeming feature of the article was when it raised the potentially discerning question "Was this a shallow political appeal to the nation’s sense of civil religion?". Unfortunately the writer answered "Certainly not."

from the right wrote:
Now I wonder what political philosophy made you shout that stout fellow?

It's a bit like these sermonaudio forums, with rare exceptions.

Guinness wrote:
for the private sector can demonstrably 'print more money' even more voraciously than government!