Un-Christian things going on in a once-Christian country (news, etc)

[ScaliaFan]

We have to be compassionate, kind, and forgiving. It is these characteristics that will give us happy and successful lives. We have to have compassion for ourselves and those we come across in everyday life. We must be examples of this Christlike behavior to our children and youth so they can carry the message even further than we do and we need the churches help to do it. We support our churches through tithing but sometimes that is not enough. Through fundraisers and programs like Cell Phones 4 Churches we can pick up the slack so our churches can afford the resources that are needed to better educate our children. Love everyone and treat others the way you want to be treated.

all this compassion stuff can be misleading

people go to Hell b/c they are taught to "love"... which is often translated into: accepting sin in others and self

 

[BARNEY BRIGHT]

people need to know that Trump is a con artist, as Rubio says. He didn't pay workers and now they are suing him. He supposedly has told a NYT staffer that his public views on illegal immigration are just campagn rhetoric. He is going to court soon for fraud. He is supposed to have connections w/ the mob. He outright LIED to Megyn Kelly at the debate when she said that his fake school got a D- w/ the Better Bus Bureau. He also lied when he said the school is only suspended. It is out of business, as Kelly confirmed to us on Kelly File

Then there is the way he incites violence at his rallies, telling people to hit others and he will "pay their legal fees"

Is this what our country has come to?

He is not winning either. As we can see, he gets an avg of about 37% of the vote. The other 60-70% (in some places way more) do NOT want him.

Where are all the Christians????​

:huh:

There is a book published in 2007 titled The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in the New World by Alan Greenspan. For almost 20 years Alan Greenspan was the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Board, which oversees the nation’s entire central banking system. Greenspan highlights the marked contrast between the world situation before 1914 and what followed, world War One:

In this book he stated: “By all contemporaneous accounts, the world prior to 1914 seemed to be moving irreversibly toward higher levels of civility and civilization; human society seemed perfectible. The nineteenth century had brought an end to the wretched slave trade. Dehumanizing violence seemed on the decline. . . . The pace of global invention had advanced throughout the nineteenth century, bringing railroads, the telephone, the electric light, cinema, the motor car, and household conveniences too numerous to mention. Medical science, improved nutrition, and the mass distribution of potable water had elevated life expectancy . . . The sense of the irreversibility of such progress was universal.”

But then World War One happened and it was more devastating to civility and civilization than the physically far more destructive World War Two: World War One destroyed an idea. I cannot erase the thought of those years before World War One, when the future of mankind appeared unencumbered and without limit. Today our outlook is starkly different from a century ago but perhaps a bit more consonant with reality. Will terror, global warming, or resurgent populism do to the current era of life-advancing globalization that World War One did to the previous one? No one can be confident of the answer.”

Greenspan recalled from his student days a statement by Economics Professor Benjamin M. Anderson (1886-1949): “Those who have an adult’s recollection and an adult’s understanding of the world which preceded World War One look back upon it with a great nostalgia. There was a sense of security then which has never since existed.” (Economics and the Public Welfare.)

A similar conclusion is reached in the volume book titled A World Undone, by G. J. Meyer, published in 2006 it reads: “Historic events are often said to have ‘changed everything.’ In the case of the Great War [1914-1918] this is, for once, true. The war really did change everything: not just borders, not just governments and the fate of nations, but the way people have seen the world and themselves ever since. It became a kind of hole in time, leaving the postwar world permanently disconnected from everything that had come before.”
These books show how people know in our time since 1914 that the World has drastically changed from what they thought before then a golden age to be coming. The scriptures at 2 Timothy 3:1-7 tell us: "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having an appearance of godliness but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. From among these arise men who slyly work their way into households and captivate weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth." Doesn't these scriptures show us we are indeed living in the last days.
Also don't the scriptures tell us that Satan is the God of this World we're living in(2Corinthians 4:4) so doesn't that mean Satan is the ruler of the nations? At John 14:30 Jesus Christ said, "the ruler of the world is coming, and he has no hold on me." If you think about it, especially since Satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world for one act of worship(Matthew 4:8,9) you will truly understand why the world is so messed up. All these nations including the U.S.A. belong to Satan and so will be destroyed at Armageddon. The only hope mankind has is the good news of the kingdom. What I'm speaking of is the Messianic kingdom that the Only Begotten Son of God Jesus Christ has been made King of. The True God who is the Father and God of his Only Begotten Son Jesus is working through his Only Begotten Son and will destroy all the nations and unrighteous people, and those who are judged righteous will be kept safe through that destruction of Armageddon and pass into the New Earth never having died. The True God working through his Only Begotten Son Jesus will undo everything that Satan has done since the rebellion in the garden of Eden. Everything we desire, the doing away of wars, sicknesses, hunger, people without homes or work, even sin and death will eventually be done away with. This is what the people of the True God want, but this wicked world we're living in that's ruled by Satan it doesn't want Jesus as it's king nor does it want the Messianic Kingdom, which is why this wicked world we're living in will be destroyed. Understand I'm saying the wicked world we're living in, not living on, will be destroyed.