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The Dearness of Life

7.14.08 @ 12:01AM

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McCain needs a young, dynamic conservative who will rally the conservative base and add luster to his morbid campaign. Such a candidate is Congressman Eric Cantor from Virginia.
-- Allen Roth

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
Re: Jay D. Homnick's Jesse Jr.'s Moment:

The Reverend Jackson is a joke. His comments have nothing to do with Mr. Obama. They have to do with his own increasing irrelevancy.

His life has been dedicated to creating strife and hatred over real and imagined racial inequities. If America elects this liberal, mixed race president, Mr. Jackson will be largely out of business. With his well publicized extra- marital affairs and at least one illegitimate child- from whom he was as Mr. Obama states it "AWOL" -- Mr. Jackson would be expected to be irate if one of his own community calls him what he is. Recognized hypocrisy is always upsetting.

Mr. Jackson is a fraud yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He and his friend and fellow schemer, the demented Al Sharpton, have inadvertently been exposed by their own candidate for what they are.
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

CHOICE CUTS
Re: Arnold Ahlert's letter (under "A Nightare, That's What") in Reader Mail's Arrogant Nonsense:

Okay -- I don't like abortion. But, for whatever reason the courts decided, Roe v. Wade is the law of the land until such time as the Supreme Court may reconsider the ruling. The Supremes interjected itself into what should have been a legislative matter; the Constitution doesn't address the issue -- and, on topics where the Constitution is mute, we have state and federal legislatures to write our laws. It's their job.

Still, concerning Arnold's definitions, even though I don't like abortion, I'm no fanatical zealot. In fact, I'm pro-CHOICE. My wife and I were/are pro-choice, but we chose to have three kids. And, further, can't help but resent any sanctimonious pontificator trying to tell my daughters what they can or cannot do with their bodies.

What is there about the word "choice" that the extreme right fails to grasp? As a Libertarian-leaning Independent and Deist, seems like a pretty logical observation.
-- frost

ONE PATH ONLY
Re: Mike Dooley's letter (under "From the Pulpit") in Reader Mail's Arrogant Nonsense:

If Mr. Dooley had read my original letter, it would have been clear to him that it was not about Mr. Obama's spiritual life but about his use of religious words to try to bamboozle Christian voters. I also made it very clear that I would be judging Mr. Obama's professed Christianity in my second letter by applying a very simple standard, that being: Whom do you say Christ is? If you subscribe to the belief that there are many roads to the Kingdom of Heaven, then you are not a person who believes in the Christ revealed in Scripture. The Christ revealed in the Scriptures says that He is THE way to the Kingdom, not simply one of many paths. This is what Obama has professed to believe, which is in direct conflict with the words of Jesus Himself!

And while I am not a theologian, nor do I claim to be, it does not take a theologian to understand the Gospel as it is relatively simple. That being that Jesus was born of a virgin, that He is the only Begotten Son of the eternal Father, that He was sent to redeem the sins of the world, that He was crucified and raised after three days, that He then preached for another forty days before ascending to Heaven, and that He is coming back to reclaim His Bride (the church). I do not need to be a theologian to understand John 1:1-5 or John 3:3-21; and as for the parable of the tares, I understand that the tares will be separated from the wheat at the harvest...but we had better be willing to acknowledge that there are tares among the wheat. God did not give us a spirit of discernment for us to not use it to spare the feelings of others.
-- Eric Edwards
Walnut Cove, North Carolina

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