The personal thoughts, opinions and typos of Ron Shank
NRO reports Episcopal Church has gone off the deep end. SHOCKING!!!
Scrappleface may just be the first prophet of sarcasm. Stop doing that Scott.
On a more serious note: This is what happens when you start picking and choosing the scriptures you want to obey or not.
OneNewsNow.com reports Lou Sheldon is backing Gov. Mitt Romney for President.
What bothers me the most are Sheldon’s responses. First where he says he won’t back others on the ticket because…
“…it would be impractical to endorse one of them because winning the White House requires a lot of money and a large, experienced staff like Romney has.”
In other words, “I am betting on the horse with the best odds”, or “I am not concerned about principle, as much as I am winning.” More disturbing than that however is his defense of Romney’s Mormonism.
“He reads the Bible regularly. He has said — and I asked him — that he has received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior,” the pastor declares. “He believes that Jesus Christ is the divine Son of God, only Son of God divine, and was crucified, buried and raised from the dead for our behalf. So, I think as he addresses those issues, that’s certainly going to ignite good feeling [among Christians].”
First, Mormonism is a cult. Lou Sheldon certainly knows that. They frequently use similar terms as Christianity, but have a completely different understanding of things such as God, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Heaven, Hell, etc.
Secondly, IF Romney were truly born-again, he would repent and leave the Mormon Church or at the very least be extremely uncomfortable within it and in the process of leaving. Before some of you explode on me, no, I can not judge whether a person is truly saved, but we can look for visible signs of repentance and faith in Christ. If he just lacks knowledge, I’ll pray that he finds the truth and leaves the church he so adamantly defends.
Which brings up the question – Is Mitt Romney Good Enough to Get Into Heaven? Are YOU?
According to this short quiz, Tancredo and Hunter are the current candidates that lineup most with my political positions. Tancredo got a score of 70% overall. Hunter 65%. Interesting Ron Paul (whose “The-Constitution-says-this-the-Constitution-says-that” message really appeals to me) only scores a 40% and 19% on social issues. That puts him just a few points ahead of Joe Biden! Also real interesting to me is that Rudy is lower than Bill Richardson. That should tell you something right there. Not that I ever thought he was conservative.
You can take the quiz here (check my note at the end of this post)
Here’s my results (let me know how yours match up)… Continue reading “Who the computer says I should vote for…”
If you are not checking for comments often on my blog, here are a couple good ones of late:
Psychologist, Dr. X, chimes in on “Why Evolution Matters”
and Pumkinhead brings up an excellent point on Ron Paul and whether his views of evolution matter as president.
And the UMC (of which I am a member) continues to wonder why the denomination is loosing membership.
Minister Clayton Childers of the Capitol Hill-based United Methodist Board of Church and Society said the presence of a national flag can imply endorsement of national policies, which often are counter to the teachings of Christ. Childers even noted that the Swastika flag was displayed prominently in German churches during the Nazi era.
Mark Tooley is with the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD). “Obviously,” he notes, “there are a number of serious problems with that Nazi-American analogy; but one of the problems, of course, is that American churches display the American flag completely voluntarily. No one is compelling them to do it — whereas, of course, in Nazi Germany the totalitarian state compelled its churches not only to display the flag but to support the government’s policies.”
Read the full story at OneNewsNow.com