bukka
Well-Known Member
As a believer, your loyalties should lie with the Kingdom of God first. Sounds like your priorities are messed up a bit.
So now you rely on the government and have made it your god.
The black community is not suppressed, you're free and you don't know it. There are many, many in the black community who know this and have made a good life for themselves, are successful and they in no way support BLM. They know what's right. They are not fooled with the rest of you.
Thanks for your views, Agios. I was slow to respond since I was at lunch. I do accept the Kingdom of God first. The Kingdom of God is within. I emphatically reject theocracies which do not provide reliable government and are usually tyrannies.
I would agree that the black community has come a long way since the death of Martin Luther King. I would state that we do have much freedom, but we still have unsolved issues remaining. We still have the situation of police murder which caused the BLM to come into existence. That problem has existed for 25 years. We still have other serious problems dealing voter suppression in many areas. On this thread, the BLM was identified as criminal, and various member of this forum denied that they had the right of assembly to seek redress of grievances.
I don't believe in special rights. I believe in equal rights for all and equal responsibility for all. As a Christian, this means I support the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and Scripture, which includes the Golden Rule. I become wary when I see others not supporting those things.
I've seen much political talk posted on this forum, but I don't see any connection to it with God and the Bible. Politics has been defined as organized or social hatred. But should Christians hate? This is the question. Can we be quick to judgement when we disagree? I think not. What you've raised about the incident in Seattle needs to be checked out, and I'll check it out. But everything needs to be checked out. Everything needs to be challenged. Prayer Warrior has challenged me concerning some YouTube videos. I have to supply them. I have to supply supporting information when challenged. I have to admit that I'm wrong when I'm wrong; and, I must say I have been wrong in the past. But what I'm saying is that this goes for everybody. Nobody gets a free ride. From what I can tell, too much of that has been going on in this forum. The give and take in political discourse is not weakness. It is a sign of strength. Steel sharpens steel as the saying goes. This is the way things used to be in America.
In order for a community and a country to be a peaceful, harmonious place, there must be the acceptance of the Golden Rule, at minimum, as the basis of human relations. We need to love one another as we wish ourselves to be loved. This will, with God's grace, bring us to empathy for others, patience when we experience ourselves to be wronged, hope in God, in that we see Christ manifesting himself in the love of other people, and respect for other people, in that we respect God. If we do this, I think the country will be much better.
And I agree with you, racial hatred doesn't build anything. It only destroys.