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Barack Obama and the Garden of Eden
As you sit with your number two pencil preparing to vote you should consider the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden. The forbidden fruit represents something we had not earned and were therefore not entitled to. Along comes a forked tongue serpent using misdirection to promise Eve a better life if she takes something that is not hers.
The result is now history.
This concept of not coveting something you are not entitled to is farther reinforced with the 10th commandment. If coveting your neighbors property is prohibited at a personal level, it is hard to believe it would be encouraged at the government level.
Obama is a true master of misdirection. Consider a recent statement where he stated that McCain would accuse him of being a socialist for sharing his toys when he was in preschool. If he truly shared his toys with Billy then he was a compassionate child. As an adult and Presidential Candidate he wishes to confiscate Johnny and Susie’s toys to share with Billy, this is what makes him a socialist.
It will take more than a silver tongued socialist devil to get us back to the Garden of Eden.
Mike Shardelman
Bremerton
The talking snakes I know say that the entire Garden Incident was blown out of proportion.
But seriously, this is why our efforts fail: because the wickedness of EVERY individual who wants to use government as their tool for evil must be punished.
If we could win tomorrow and have it our way, then it would be like killing Hitler and brokering a cease fire with the allies: all those Germans with their blackened little souls would have missed their punishment.
(This is why I think God protected Hitler that day when they tried to kill him).
Think about it, all those people who relished in the destruction of life, liberty, and property of others…. punished…
Master race? Your best and brightest rotting in the battlefield.
Germany uber alles? Now split up and bombed back to 1873.
Every evil done was necessary to fight Russia? Now they had half the country.
Don’t mind bombing and killing others for national(ist) goals? Now you are bombed and people you cared about killed.
So, what makes Americans so special that we are spared wrath?
Surely there were many Germans who may not have deserved what their country got on behalf of the wicked?
Yes indeed – but that’s why God emplaces people who do their best to warn others, even at great risk.
UPDATE: the Sun has now posted it, we hear, but only as a blog comment, online.
There is something that we need to understand when we hear OBama use the pronoun “we”.
He doesn’t use it the way we are used to having it used.
Please read the following about how monarchs and popes have used the pronoun “we”. Whenever you hear Obama say “we” he might not mean “we” in the way we in America use it but instead think of Queen Victoria.
Atypical uses of we
Main article: Pluralis Majestatis
A nosism is the use of ‘we’ to refer to oneself[1]. A common example is the royal we (Pluralis Majestatis), which is a nosism employed by a person of high office, such as a monarch or pope. It is also used in certain formal contexts by bishops and university rectors. The expression was first used in 1169 when English King Henry II (d. 1189), hard pressed by his barons over the investiture controversy, assumed the common theory of “divine right of kings,” that the monarch acted conjointly with the deity. Hence, he used “we” as “God and I…,” or so the legend goes. (See Rolls Series, 2.12)
In the public situations in which it is used, the monarch or other dignitary is typically speaking, not in his own proper person, but as leader of a nation or institution. Nevertheless, the habit of referring to leaders in the plural has influenced the grammar of several languages, in which plural forms tend to be perceived as deferential and more polite than singular forms. This grammatical feature is called a T-V distinction.
Popes have used the we as part of their formal speech with certain recent exceptions. The English translations of the documents of John Paul II dispensed with this practice, using the singular “I”, even though the Latin original usually continued to use the first person plural “We”.
I have always wondered what Obama meant when he said “We are the ones we have been waiting for”.
He could have meant “I (Obama using royal we) am the one you (his cult followers) have been waiting for”
Or “I am the one I have been waiting for.”
The first one makes more sense.