Just A Couple More Politics 2008 Thoughts

Joshua Luper had a great thought at his blog on how low American Christian expectations have become. Things have gotten so low in this country that we (and I include myself here) are massively impressed when a mother doesn’t kill her child. Think about all the kudos that Sarah and Bristol Palin are getting for not murdering their children. Now don’t get me wrong. I am ecstatic that they didn’t murder their children but is the ethic of not murdering your children one that should really impress us about somebody? What next … resume enhancements for not being a nymphomaniac? Career advancement for not being an embezzler? Husband of the year for not being an adulterer and wife beater?
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The argument for voting for McCain by those who say they don’t like McCain often reduces to…”I am fearful of an Obama presidency.”

I thought as Christians we were only to fear God. I thought as Christians that fear of God was supposed to be one motivation to do right. Instead we are doing wrong (voting for a wicked man) out of fear of an Obama Presidency. Most curious.
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Word is that Oprah doesn’t want to book Sarah Palin on her show. This is fantastic for Republicans as such an attitude will increasingly make it apparent that the election is about how one race often lines up with a particular ideology. Oprah not booking Palin will just make
typical traditional White people (to use Obama’s phrase) realize how much they are disliked by typical traditional black people.
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Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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