Sarah's Thoughts
Reason No. 268 …
not to vote for Barack Obama.
“As long as nuclear weapons exist, we’ll retain a strong deterrent. But we will make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element in our nuclear policy,” Obama said.
Of course! Why would we want to maintain a deterrent from attacks on our homeland? Those silly nukes are part of an old-school defense policy that contains nary a lick of hope and change.
While the messiah may believe he can wave his hand across all the lands and make nuclear weapons immediately disappear, it may not be that simple. At least all of our current world leaders are rational people who will be forthcoming in their shared desire to become weapon-free. Right?
The “I’m going to get rid of weapons and bad guys and school bullies and road rage and cuss words and we will all live in a world of peace and brotherhood” promises seem to be both arrogant and naive.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
For once, I agree Sarah. Why try for a goal that isn’t 100% achievable? That is why I gave up on the whole Christian thing, I can’t be perfect, so why bother trying?
July 16th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Sean….Being perfect is not required or even an attainable goal of a Christian, being repentant and forgiven by your faith in Christ is the life of a Christian. Of course you can’t be perfect, if you could, why would there be a need for Christ. You are trying to do what no man attain, that is why we need Christ. By your own words, you have shown the need for Christ to do what you cannot.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Sean, gonna back up Rick on this. One of the rudimentary tenets of Christianity is the impossibility of human perfection. Thus the need for grace.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:11 am
But you strive for perfection, in the sense of following Biblical principles and not sinning, no? Can you erase sin from your life? Maybe not, but you still try…same with Nukes, we may never be rid of them, but that doesn’t mean we don’t try.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Sean… you strive to do your best, because you want to honor God with your life. Can you erase sin? No, of course not,can we keep from sin, not in this world,that’s why we need Christ’s grace in order to take care of this. The intent is not to freely sin, as Paul said, just to let more of God’s grace take care of it, we are to strive to live a Christian life, in order to honor God. As you said, we may never be rid of “sin” here, but that does not mean that we don’t try.