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2001 Soap Box Archives Turning The Other Cheek I have received a few e-mails from people lately concerning September 11 and turning the other cheek. As a Christian I certainly believe in turning the other cheek. I believe that it applies to our daily lives just as the other teachings of Jesus. Another part of these same passages says not to resist violence. But I do not believe that Jesus meant that we should just lay down and let somebody kill us. Turning the other cheek when someone insults you or when someone threatens you or even lays a hand on you is certainly the Christian thing to do. But there are times when it’s time to stand up and defend ourselves, our families and our nation. If someone breaks into your home with the intentions of raping your wife or harming your children, do you really believe that Jesus would want you stand passively by and let the interloper have his way? As the spiritual head of your family you are charged with protecting and defending them. If you’re any kind of a man at all you’re going to jump out of bed and grab the first things you can lay your hands on and take the scum bag apart. I believe that the same thing applies when it comes to our nation. We have been viciously attacked and violated beyond description. Our very existence of the most benevolent nation on earth is at risk. Without America who would preach the gospel, who would feed the hungry, who would defend the weak, who would give home and shelter to those who seek freedom and a better way of life? If not the United States of America, then who? The truth is that there is not another nation on earth powerful enough, rich enough and bountiful enough to take our place and very few who would be inclined to do so even if they were able to. I am 100% patriotic but I am neither blind nor deaf to the problems and inequities we have in this country. Nor am I unsympathetic to them, but I’m sick to the point of regurgitation of people who blame the wanton deaths of six thousand of our citizens on American foreign policy. I know that our foreign policy has not always been cohesive, in fact, it was all but nonexistent in the Clinton years, but to say that, it justifies the murder of innocent people is too asinine to articulate. Osama Bin Laden and his kind are the mortal enemy of all free men and their claim of doing their evil in the name of God is nothing more than a travesty. The God I serve doesn’t advocate this kind of wickedness. They will only stop if they are forced to and that means hunting them down and taking them out, plain and simple. We have to be the most hated nation on earth, yet we continue to send thousands of tons of food to the hungry. The most talked about nation on earth and yet we continue to export our medicine and medical expertise to a sick world. The most envied nation on earth and we open our arms to the world at large. Peace is only preserved by great strength and the willingness to use it. Our beloved nation has been blessed with great strength and we must maintain the willingness to use it. What do you think? God
Bless America
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