Pensees: 40 Years

“We must pray for this President.” Right - 1 Tim. 2:1-4.

“His ethics and morality are highly disturbing to any thoughtful believer.” Agreed.

“Praise God for this victory. Let’s rejoice” Huh? Over the election of one who is arguably the most liberal, radical president we have ever elected, and who will change the face of the Supreme Court and thus America for a couple of generations?

There wouldn’t have been any more to praise God for if the divorced man who is rich because of his wife’s liquor inheritance had been elected.

I think we ought rather to rest in the assurances of a sovereign God as given us in Daniel 4:17, 25, 26.

And we need to pray and wait on God for a good, old fashioned, Isaiah 64 type revival.

Oh gag, enough of this rejoicing, wonderful tribute, America is a great country nonsense, all because we elected a black guy for the first time in history.

I can care less what color he is. This guy is a zero with charisma and we’re supposed to think that America has some shred of virtue because she didn’t discriminate against the color of this communist baby-murderer? I guess, as a nation, we’re pretty much over racism now, but if it’s for the wrong reasons…

(which would be any reason other than every man is made in the image of God and we are all from one blood)

..it’s not really a virtue.

I’m a regular reader but rarely comment,and I hesitate to do so especially given the sensitivity of this issue.

But I do have to question, is Mr. Obama truly “black” in the socio-historic context that you have place him? I very much understand and am digusted by the serious sin and divisiveness of American racism, but I hardly find Mr. Obama’s election as a triumph over this deep-rooted issue. His heritage is a white middle class, military family, and his birth father, while African, not was American and therefore not subject to the prejudices and repression that the African-American community has been subject to for hundreds of years.

Given that, I can’t agree that this election marks much of a turning point for race relations in America. Perhaps the day a black man from Atlanta or Birmingham is elected president, perhaps then we will know that God has begun to cleanse this terrible blot.

I’m with you Bob. That same part of me is also rejoicing through the disappointment.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/081103a.html

interesting perspective in this piece

Correction: please delete “military” - don’t know where that came from. just have to blame early morning before coffee. thanks