Today's news on Fox News Channel was practically aghast at Obama's latest version of Attorney General, with her latest comments about how we should treat I.S.I.S. terrorists with love, to defeat their hatred, and violence. One has to wonder if she means before, or after we are beheaded, or burned alive???
I get where she is coming from, the beatitudes of the Gospel, where Jesus preached at the "Sermon on the Mount" (see Matthew 5 through 7, especially chapter 5, verse 44), that we should, "love your enemies...(and) bless those who curse you...(and) pray for those who despitefully use you". This is a perfect example of, "a text, taken out of context, is a pretext!", as the old Sunday School adage says. Yes, we should love our enemies, in spite of their evil intentions towards us, but that is after they have been subdued and can no longer harm you, or if they repent of their evil towards you, or surrender as with the Germans, and the Japanese, after World War II. Instead of the vengeance Germany received after World War I, we gave them the Marshall Plan, and rebuilt both their countries, literally from the ground up.
The important issue here, that Attorney General Loretta Lynch apparently ignores, is the context in which Jesus was preaching. He was talking to a conquered people, whose enemies were their very rulers, and would love an excuse to commit mass murder, for practically any reason. In essence He was cautioning the listeners to be blameless before their rulers, and even willing to be loving to them, when it appears they are ready to receive it. (Remember, the people were mostly expecting Him to lead them in a violent revolt against the Romans. He was trying to explain that this was not the reason why He came to them.)
But, that didn't mean they were to charge a column of Roman soldiers (obviously bent on killing them) with the intention of throwing their arms around them, and hugging them, and kissing them on the cheek!!! Jesus obviously didn't feel it was necessary to clarify that point, because He knew He was speaking to people who had a reasonable modicum of common sense. You could not survive long without it, in that environment. Many didn't survive long with it!!! So He didn't waste their time preaching the obvious to them...He wanted to get to the heart of the matter quickly, before sending them home (either to buy food, or to eat before they go! [See the, "feeding of the five thousand".])
It's too bad we have an Administration run by people without the common sense that Jesus knew these people possessed. A little bit of common sense would go a long way in the Obama administration. Unfortunately, common sense seems to be in very short supply in the Obama Administration (i.e., Obama's U.N. Ambassador; all I.S.I.S. terrorists need are "more jobs"). And, it all begins with a President who prefers to live in obvious denial about his degree of success in countering I.S.I.S. troop movements abroad, as well as "lone wolf" domestic activity. While he glibly chortles on about how weak I.S.I.S. is becoming, his very own intelligence directors, both military and civilian, are fairly screaming to the press that the opposite is really true!
I don't know which is worse, an Attorney General who believes in a twisted version of the Bible, or a President who obviously doesn't believe in anything, other than (perhaps) the Koran!
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