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  • Reply to blog post: Taking Pride in Ignorance by thecritical
    Comment written 6 days ago
    Mussolini said, "Don't call it Fascism, call it Corporatism. Corporations control everything." Sounds familiar doesn't it. Halliburton and KBR wag Baghdad Bush and Chicken-vulture Cheney all the way tot he bank. Taxes are never likely to be fair but they probably weren't fair in Jesus' day either and Jesus and Paul told Christians to pay their taxes. We need responsible government, not an administration that refuses to be accountable for anything. www.robert-flynn.net
  • Reply to blog post: Obama's Pastor by robertflynn
    Comment written 3 months ago

    I've profited off every war I haven't served it and so has everyone else. That's what George Bush asked us to do, party while others died for us. Of course I've served Mammon. That's our economic system. Jesus said that we can't serve God and Mammon but he was wrong about that, just as he was wrong about loving our enemies, praying for those who hate us, praying and doing charity in private. What's the profit in that?

  • Reply to blog post: For the Love of Agape or Eros Without Error, a religious sex shop by robertflynn
    Comment written 6 months ago

    While visiting a Seminary to hear a friend speak I read a letter from a seminary student to a student newspaper complaining that his recent marriage was in trouble because neither he nor his wife knew anything about sexual relations.  That was the inspiration for a story about a religious sex shop.  It is not intended as a guide to marital relations but a request that religions do a better job of preparing the young for sexually fulfilling marriages. 

  • Reply to blog post: Pastor Hagee "Interview" by robertflynn
    Comment written 6 months ago

    Gen. 15:18, God promised the Land to Abraham’s descendants.  That includes Ishmael, the first born.

     

    As Pastor Rich Nathan, a Jewish Christian, has pointed out, the Promised Land was a gift of God not a legal right.  God also promised that if those occupying the Promised Land were disobedient, God would take the land from them  Lev. 18: 24, 28 and Deut. 4:25-27.  And so it happened. 

     

    The descendants of Abraham, both Jews and Arabs practice circumcision, but the Apostle Paul wrote that a Jew was one who had a circumcised heart, Romans 2:29.  And in Romans 4: 13 Paul writes that Abraham was father of those of faith and therefore 4:17, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations...)  What are those nations?  Do Palestinian Christians have a right to their land, their homes?

  • Reply to blog post: Best Known Christian by robertflynn
    Comment written 6 months ago
    Exactly.  I didn't write that Hitler was the "best" Christian.  I wrote that he was the "best known" Christian.  He was recognized as a Christian by many, even in the US before Pearl Harbor, and is still remembered as a Christian by many.  Does Osama bin Laden represent Islam?  He doesn't represent any Muslim I know and I have never been threatened or mistreated in an Islamic country.  Jesus said, "By their fruits you will know them."  That's why I think we should never say "America is a Christian nation."  I also think we should go back to what the first Christians called themselves: People of the way.  It's too easy to claim that you're a Christian.  Look at the politicians who wrap themselves in the cross and the flag.  It's hard to call yourself one of The Way if you're not walking The Way. 
  • Reply to blog post: Best Known Christian by robertflynn
    Comment written 6 months ago
    Hitler said he was a Christian.  He said he was born a Catholic and he would die a Catholic.  He was never excommunicated.  Reagan was another Christian who dabbled in the occult.  Germany was one of the most Christian nations in Europe but had a tradition of anti-semitism.  The first religious group to be persecuted was Jehovah's Witness but Christians were quiet about it as Pastor Martin Niemoller confessed.  The Confessing Church did oppose Hitler and Nazism but represented a minority view.  Were Christians in Germany and Austria misled by Christian nationalism?  Yes.  That's the point of the blog isn't it? 
  • Reply to a comment on: The Curse of the Luddite God by robertflynn
    Comment written 7 months ago
    Thanks.
  • Reply to blog post: Pastor Hagee "Interview" by robertflynn
    Comment written 7 months ago
    Is the senator investigating clerical collar crime investigating Pastor Hagee?
  • Reply to blog post: John Wayne Must Die by robertflynn
    Comment written 7 months ago
    Let's see, draft dodger, war-profiteer. Those are great American values as exemplified by the current commander in chief.

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