tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post7925311795299883981..comments2024-03-12T08:04:47.314-07:00Comments on Naming His Grace: A warning of things to come, but a promiseViola Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09146967423654966140noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-30884098117512109692011-07-13T20:10:57.370-07:002011-07-13T20:10:57.370-07:00Both Anonymouses you cannot comment here if you d...Both Anonymouses you cannot comment here if you do not leave your name, city and state. If you have a need not to say you can e-mail me-?Viola Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09146967423654966140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-30082449487554595462011-07-13T19:42:34.139-07:002011-07-13T19:42:34.139-07:00Of course it would be foolish to forget that the c...Of course it would be foolish to forget that the conservative, or right wing impulse, is also totalitarian. As is any system based on doctrine instead of free will and free thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-84084722300268365072011-07-13T10:09:05.564-07:002011-07-13T10:09:05.564-07:00Speaking in a different context, commentator Denni...Speaking in a different context, commentator Dennis Prager frequently notes that the liberal or leftist impulse is, ultimately, a totalitarian impulse. <br />Miss Viola, it would seem that your friend, who spoke the truth on the floor of presbytery, ran up against that same ugly, controlling impulse as it most certainly and sadly is at work in the church just as it is in the realms of politics, social policy, and economics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-40001436677757998402011-07-12T22:40:13.532-07:002011-07-12T22:40:13.532-07:00I think we are going to see the bent toward immora...I think we are going to see the bent toward immorality grow as people attempt to gain what they see as equal rights for everyone. This happened in mainline churches in the early twentieth century with eugenics. They preached it and pushed it and it was considered a very moral thing to do, except by the evangelicals and Catholics. My second cousin who was much older than me and loved children was sterilized with the consent of two of my aunts-because of a child in the family with learning problems. When people began to discover how much freedom was being lost they begin to change. I don't see that happening with this issue. We are to far down the road as far as morality goes.Viola Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09146967423654966140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-79992672650077175112011-07-12T19:46:08.706-07:002011-07-12T19:46:08.706-07:00I remember reading several years ago something fro...I remember reading several years ago something from one of the leaders of the Covenant Network (and this isn't an exact citation, so I'm afraid it's just hearsay at this point) in which the person referred to "'sins' such as deceit." The person actually put "sins" in quotes in what he wrote, implying that to him, deceit was not a sin. So this sort of morality has been a long time coming.<br /><br />Debbie Berkley<br />Bellevue, WADebbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01755638934636386391noreply@blogger.com