That trucker convoy was a criminal event you cannot spin it to be just an expression of pride and political dissent. We elect people to Parliament to represent us, and locking down a city with noise and violence and unlawful behavior cannot be spun into righteousness. The book is rightfully being thrown at conservative types who evidently want to turn Canada into the little sister of the damnable GOP-leaning United States.
When David, king of Israel, led astray by his regal pride and human desires killed a man after sleeping with the man’s wife, the Lord took notice and imposed a penalty. It seems to me that people think that atrocities like Israeli theft of East Jerusalem property or homicides with guns in the United States of America will have no consequences. An eighteen year old shooting up children in their classroom in Texas is another example of evil individuals trying to stop the education of the next generation. The next generation, despite being targeted for assassination, will be more than patriotic and insular robots and the leadership that thinks it can stack the courts with tainted judges will wax worse and worse. Who can forget Mitch McConnell’s version of impartial justice or Devin Nunes’ trips to the White House during he impeachment of the 45th president? The homicidal outbursts in human history are the direct outcome of both of lawful and lawless obsession. In Texas they proudly drink the sauce of armed insurrection when a crooked businessman calls, and they guzzle inaction when the lives of innocent educators and their students scream, for almost an hour, for service and protection.
A drunken stupor affects large swathes of humanity, and it is not an exclusively American phenomenon.
The institutions and traditions of Israel and Judah have not been adopted by any civilization, so neither Jerusalem, the original beneficiary, nor any of the capitals claiming inspiration from Sinai or Golgotha have seen even a truncated era of proven viability. The fearful (and abominable, see Revelation 21:18) Caucasian crew that sees immigrants as a threat cannot be expected to be rational or neighborly. If a repeated mantra could convince the public that MAGA fans were to be trusted the quasi-governor of Texas just brought the house down.
The performance behind the microphone in Uvalde was Governor Abbot’s trademark bluster and bravado but it could not hide the outrage of police holding back the parents while an eighteen year old slaughtered their children in their classroom. People sworn to go towards gunfire in a jurisdiction where eighteen year olds can acquire a weapon designed for war who choose to wait while ten year olds are murdered need to be sworn out.
Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. (2 Samuel 12:9-10, NASB)
Perpetual violence in David’s household
There is a fantasy parading as fidelity to noble ideals is spreading all over the world. It sneaks around in places of worship and in legislatures desperately trying to wed the underlying evils of politics to a spiritual accountability.
The revolution will not be replayed and guns have not prevented the spread of fascism, nazism, or lying ignorant people posing as experts and leaders.
Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person. And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:25, NASB
But your eyes and your heart are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, and on shedding innocent blood and on practicing oppression and extortion.
Jeremiah 22:17, NASB
Freedom denied and slavery forgotten have unsheathed a sword on the United States that will never depart and the proof that one idolized amendment to a constitution will make an entire nation a bleeding mecca.
It is questionable that homicide – The American War of Independence – cut the ties between brutal England and her North American colonies. The military and peace officer services of the United States have not failed to keep alive atrocious attitudes, policies and practices. Texan official leadership publicly wants to be the Keeper of the Keys of the Right of Violent Insurrection, which only means that the rule of law is bovine fecal matter to such people. By their repeated kicking their responsibility for all the people and especially children down the road the people’s representatives – Democrat, Republican and Independent – are mired in genocidal icecream. They think that guns will save them when their day of decision comes. The civil war and the world trade center inferno have taught them nothing. So political hacks can say there’s nothing to see here. Whoop de do! Another bad guy committing a crime while they have done nothing to make sure that that crime can be reduced.
Resources to reduce murders are not in place but access to weapons of mass destruction is a rite of passage in Christian America. Politics and faith are strange bedfellows no matter what cliches believers use to prostitute themselves to the state. They really do not know what JESUS thinks of the enablers of the massacres of innocent children and non-Caucasian people. They ought to know what he has to say to the National Rifle Association and the political charlatans it bankrolls. Time’s up, pals.
The lovers of truth know that everything that is called “God” may give people comfort or at least a place to hide, but God cannot be reduced to a shifting panorama of political expediency and religious superiority. When the morality of Islam, Judaism and Christianity combined create the new society we will know that justice has no more masks. Presently, there is no evidence that the warring parties in anyone’s politics will form such a coalition. However, when the goals of decency and simple justice allow people to create good government we may all be dead, but the ever-living disciples of the man called The Way know that McConnell’s commitment to do the will of the accused 45th president ranks with the lowest and most acrid and deadly examples of smoke without fire.
Said McConnell, “Everything I do during this, I will be coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position…” (from the Atlantic, citing McConnell on Fox network). I suppose a great Christian leader can coordinate his journey along the way of the kingdom of God with the fallen angels. That kind of justice simply does not cut it.
When God gave the nations into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar he also placed limits on the actions the king could take against those peoples. The United Nation may be stymied by communists , despots, and amoral religious extremists but justice is going to have her day apart from the tribal instincts that have dominated international relations for the last century. No amount of media manipulation can prevail, and the time has come for the beasts to act with a human heart. There comes an end to vetoes over just resolutions.
20) He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms. 21) With you I shatter the horse and his rider, And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider, 22) And with you I shatter man and woman, And with you I shatter old man and youth, And with you I shatter young man and virgin, 23) And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with you I shatter the farmer and his team, And with you I shatter governors and prefects. 24) But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares the Lord,” declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 51:20-24, NASB)
The prediction of the last world ruling power specifies that they will not stay united, and it is clear that they (the Ten Horns, the original European kingdoms) did not with the defection of the United Kingdom.
“And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.”
Daniel 2:43, NASB
The European Union is now a different beast, no longer seven heads and ten horns, and clearly joined in heart and hand, doing the right thing.
A certain TV channel calling itself The New Forum was observed today labeling the brazen assault on Ottaws’s residents an expression of joyful giving. If one guest had said it might have slipped by as an item for which the host forgot to show the video. When the very next guest says the same words- verbatim – I knew that the station’s frequent legal expert guests are nothing more than a smoke screen for alternate realities like the happy tourists at the American capital on January 6th 2021.
These freedom loving occupiers of capital cities never heard about Caesar’s domain and Christ’s domain. Who believes that?
I am hoping that someone else notices and figures out how to get the CRTC to examine the station’s license. I am pretty sure that when Canadians discuss justice these days the topic is no longer focused on a juvenile attempt to imitate ancient Israel’s figleaf, or the wave-ruling Britannia, or the uniquely Canadian justice that colours our most recent holiday. How naive it is to think that the world is watching Canadian news and that people all over the globe are jumping on the insurrection bandwagon!
When the unmarked graves of First Nations children were discovered there was a whispered outrage for about as long as it took to endure the reports. Canadians are in wonderland over the right to protest science, the right to shape public opinion, the right to call ourselves good people. The facts are mounting to corroborate our greatest concerns about a homicidal gene in our DNA. It takes two years to reveal that all humans are deceitful and rebellion-prone. When the judges and their “long arm” stop negotiating with criminals, re-imagine the world without people calling themselves fundamental and extreme, and uproot the purveyors of the fuel for nationalism, religious bigotry, financial terrorism and the mishandling of our food and drink supply. When imitating the United States of America with its right to free speech and the proliferation of weapons becomes popular or even the focus of the media we are on a staircase down.
If you believe the dead are alive we ought to be interrogating the politicians, police departments, the priests, and anyone who heard the children and their families complain about their school mates. Gosh, are there not records?
If the silent and numerous pastors are any indication of progress it is netherbound. The name of Christ can be flashed in a violent overthrow of duly constituted government but it is certain that forked tongues are leading the intellect of many. They are silent about the difference between telling people what the Bible says and showing what it means. Freedom is absolute in our minds, but on the street Christians care about all their neighbours. They are silent about the plate they pass to support insurrection and lawlessness. Canadians are not buying American duplicity because the direction of the staircase is unmistakably down.
Is the interim Conservative leader trying to intimidate the Prime Minister by looking straight at him while addressing the Speaker of the House?
Guess who is shouting incessantly when the government has the floor to answer questions from members of parliament.
It is my considered opinion that the BQ and Conservatives are twins in their denial of their racist heritage and recent history. My mother is neither France nor England. I see the outrage and the right to protest barely rippling the pond when First Nations lives are being shattered by the discovery of more unmarked graves. What a time to be talking about the absolute right to shut down a city and commerce!
The Heckles and Jeckles of Canadian history have their hearts duct-taped, and the sounds coming from those hearts are getting more muffled, just like the tones in the nationalist and (necessarily) bigoted theological and insurrectionist constructs now popular in the capitals of some of the former imperial rapist nations. The Bloc and the Tories should seriously consider a makeover before the next generation grabs them by the ballot. Bullies never win.
We are not intolerant for saying no to insurrection and holding cities and a nation hostage. Sober people all over the world know the difference between a protest and a malicious mob. It is good thing the Queen’s loyal opposition have shown us their preference when it comes to holding the line against chaos, and, in parliament, their readiness to listen. Taking parliamentary opposition to illegal and disruptive levels is about as low as military discipline can go, and profoundly disappointing for a citizenry that understands the price Canadians have paid resisting authoritarianism.
The truth and our courage prevents Christians from seditious sentiment, and it is a rogue bishop who entertains poor rich heroes like the 45th US president, and I can hardly wait to hear the intellectual refuse spewing from their social media groups.
Surely there are better options for dialogue and solving problems.
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