In a Democratic Republic like we have, what are politicians supposed to do? There are two schools of thought on this. Some believe that they are elected to do what they think is best. They believe that we elect statesmen, that are better than us and that have our best interest at heart.
The other side believes that we elect mouthpieces—people that are to go to represent us and our opinions and values.
So which is happening here?
The old saying goes that the church is only 10 years behind the world morally/culturally. That was part of last night’s message looking into “respectable sins”—those sins that Christians commit that are ranked as “not bad” because “everyone does them.”
This is a charge that I’ve heard before, and I have to say that I agree with it. If you look back through the church’s history you’ll find that the church has changed in its behavior and its standards over many years.
There are some interesting quotes floating around the Internet I thought I would share:
A Page From History
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 to December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
The Socialist Party candidate for President of the U.S., Norman Thomas, said this in a 1944 speech: “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.! ” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.”
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
~~Margaret Thatcher~~
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who are not.
- Thomas Jefferson
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
- Adrian Rodgers
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If President-Elect Obama does well in office, what does that say about the qualifications to be president?
I’m no super-mom.
There’s no way I can follow the election, grade everyone’s papers, and keep the house clean.
Between now and the election, I will settle for keeping everyone fed, clothed, cleaned, and loved. We all have our regular house chores, but any major cleaning projects will just have to wait. If you visit me, my windows will be dirty. Deal with it. I have! 
We are LIVING history, right now. I don’t want my children to miss an awareness of it. Sure, I shelter them from the revolting Sarah Palin t-shirts and I pre-view all youtube videos; but I let them in on all that they can handle.
Unlike any election season that I can remember, this one has been filled with discussion about the place of religion in politics and how they line up. There are many reasons that this topic is being brought up:
It’s the last one that seems to be permeating the discussion, as of late.
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