While I spent a good bit of my life as a leftist (when I left college, I was convinced America was truly evil and that Ronald Reagan was the embodiment of evil), I couldn’t reconcile my philosophy with life as I experienced it. The one thing I learned though as a leftist is to look at what I didn’t have, or look at what was wrong with my life, instead of looking at what all I did have and what was right with it. I used to think I didn’t have money b/c of an unfair system, not b/c I didn’t work hard enough or make good decisions about how to spend my money. Little by little I realized that the decisions I make have infinitely more impact on my life than anything that goes on in Washington. As a leftist though – you become incapable of being grateful for much of anything. Anything you have, well, it’s not enough, it’s not good enough, or you are enjoying it unfairly. Think about what it takes to sit around in America circa 2008, with ‘big’ problems being the internet being down or not driving a car that only takes premium gasoline – while people elsewhere are going through stuff like this, or a man has his wife dismembered and burned b/c he dares to oppose a tyrant – and think you’ve got it bad. Think about what it takes to claim we are living in a fascist country where political speech is being squelched when people are being tortured and killed for opposition. Think about , for a second, an Iranian or Zimbabwean version of Michael Moore – it’ll cause immediate cognitive dissonance b/c it’s impossible to even imagine such a thing. yet as a leftist, or should I say Progressive, you can live with all this greatness, and convince yourself life is terrible.

It’s shrill to say “liberalism is a mental disorder” , but honestly, it is fair to say that Progressives are all too often little more than spoiled ingrates in adult bodies. They get all worked up over Gitmo all the while giving the true torturers in Cuba a free pass (in many cases lauding him). they get all worked up about how we’ve lost our rights, and how terrible it is here in the states, ignoring the fact that people are truly suffering elsewhere. They obsess over Bush as though he’s the be all and end all of evil and political oppressions, as though the truly oppressed don’t exist. They call a cop killer, who, assuming he isn’t guilty, has a very compelling case against him – a political prisoner – and yet can ignore real political prisoners.

There are many things that I agree with the left on, at least as far as their rhetoric, but sadly there are so few leftist and progressives that truly practice what they preach – I could give away a dime for every non-hypocrite progressive in the US and it’d still be less than the taxes I pay every month ;-(.

Reading this just drives home the point of how wonderful our country is and how lucky we are to live here. There’s a lot more deserving people than me out in the world going through pure misery – it’s just too bad the left will never stand up for them, or if they do, do little more than a few obligatory words of mild condemnation.

Any person who feels that their faith is somehow threatened by someone else’s faith – never actually had any faith to begin with.

This helps to explain why many world religions use violence and hatred toward those who disagree with them. In addition, Christianity is not a religion; it is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, available to “whosoever will” partake.

G-d’s speed to all Christians being harmed, and murdered for their faith.

The religion of peace rules Iran.

Oh sorry i was dreaming….:)

“The church is growing at an absolutely phenomenal rate in Iran. Muslims are coming to know Christ

sweet! The Holy Spirit is much more powerful than any human invention such as government. The Truth is powerful. Good News INDEED. All you have to do is tell people who Christ is and what Christ did and they’ll love Him just like He loves them.

Muslims want to know Christ and love God too. They want to worship God. That is something that should be nurtured. They just need more Truth and less hatred taught in Islam.

I am a Child of the King, Jesus Christ, and will continue to ask Him to help me sort out the path Christians need to take in this time of terrible uncertainty. I don’t think we can any longer sit back and wait for the leaders in this country to figure it out.

Freedom to murder Christians is NOT part of the Freedom of Religion.

I honestly had no idea there was a clandestine house-church network operating in Iran. Though I can’t say I’m surprised.

I did only because my church supports a couple that has a radio program in Spain that transmits to Morocco, They also go into Morocco to hand out Bibles to these home church groups, It’s a dangerous job if your caught with a Bible in Morocco it’s a death sentence.
He said that this is going on all over the muslim world, this just confirms that he is right.