My Rant of the Week -- Bush Shoe Thrower Goes Free

Welcome to Monday. Time to rant, This week I heard the news that the Bush shoe thrower went free. His lawyer was very pleased and said that his client's actions were a justified end to the Bush invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Perhaps he would like Saddam Hussein back? Did he like the oppression of free speech he enjoyed under that regime where had he thrown a shoe at Saddam he would have been executed without due process of law for political sedition. As it was because of Bush's actions in Iraq he got a lawyer and was released. I don't know, there is obviously no logic in these Bush haters.

The Bush haters have always had a special place of irony. In order to hate Bush on the Iraq issue, you have to basically say the Iraqi people were better of under Saddam Hussein. A regime where rape, murder and real torture were the order of the day. Where free speech, such as throwing shoes at presidents, were illegal. Bush did the world and the Iraqi people a world of good when they both invaded and conquered Iraq. It is a safe country where people are now given due process instead of executed. Terrorists now have little power there (the surge worked) and now were going to continue ot make this issue that things would have been better off had we not gone in. What a laugh?

Ultimately this is what happens when you believe that the best foreign policy is to make every one like you instead of doing the right thing. This policy of making everyone feel good will ultimately destroy us. We need to understand that any treaty is nothing more than a piece of paper without the resolve to enforce it and ultimately this is what we have with Obama -- a man who believes in paper but does not have the resolve to enforce it. This will ultimately lead to two things:

1) Failure -- there will be a WMD attack on someone in the world.

2) A renewed enthusiasm from the terrorists that will lead to another terrorist attack on our own soil.

Rant complete.

Jesus Was Not A Pacifist

Every time some conservative group protests something and talks about guns and Jesus with a sign or words or anything else there will always be some ignorant liberal who will espouse their ignorance of Jesus by saying Christians should be bringing guns to protests because it insights violence and Jesus was non-violent.

I wouldn't mind so much if these people didn't have some politically correct axe to grind with an edited politically correct Jesus but I think they are missing a few points from Jesus life itself.

1. John the Baptist when addressing soldiers tells them to be content with their wages but never tells them to give up soldiering -- Jesus never refutes this. (Luke 3:14)
2. Jesus, not once but twice, drives out the money changers and their garbage from the temple and on both occasions created a weapon to do so. (John 2:13-25; Mark 11:15-18; Matthew 21:12-17)
3. Jesus himself said that he had not come to ring peace but a sword. (Matthew 10:34-39)
4. The reason two swords were at the garden in the end was at his request (Luke 22:36-38) -- I don't think Jesus had trouble with carrying weapons.
5. One ultimate thing -- if Jesus is a pacifist and would never hurt a fly, who then is represented in Revelation 19 where the king of kings slaughters his enemies and leaves blood standing that is bridle deep?

One other point, Jesus is the same God (If you beleive the Trinity) that in the Old Testament ordered the Israelites to war and genocide. Odd thing for a pacifist.

There is nothing in Jesus teaching that indicates pacifism. Great restraint and self control maybe in the face of personal insult is taught, but in matters of life and death Jesus is actually quite silent. Maybe he expects the rest of the Word that he inspired to speak for him.

One message to the gun control people -- make your argument but would you please stop using Jesus. The Jesus you believe in has been edited and watered down to fit your beliefs -- He is not the Jesus of Scripture because you are leaving a few things out.