tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12391603.post6539857216145501476..comments2024-03-24T23:41:23.944-07:00Comments on Talk Wisdom: Keys to Unlocking the FutureChristinewjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18434229284833642438noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12391603.post-3593299725980629822012-01-03T08:01:58.284-08:002012-01-03T08:01:58.284-08:00CJW: ”The media of mass deception has been trying ...CJW: <i>”The media of mass deception has been trying to predict the future Republican election results ad nauseam. They think that hundreds of polls taken over the last few months will give us an indication of who the nominee eventually will be.”</i><br />That's because it's <i>news,</i> and everyone is wondering anyway. We know who the Democratic nominee is already, right? Besides, it's been quite a while since the Republican field was so crowded.<br />There's a High Mormon, a Weathervane Serial Adulterer, a People's Christian Nationalist, a Radical Patriot, a High Christian Nationalist, and a Low Mormon. What a circus! The Sloganeer and the pseudo-Birther have left the ring, although the latter is thinking of returning. <br /><br /><i>”The majority of unredeemed men obviously do not have the honest capability to present a silly poll correctly, no less predict an election outcome!”</i> <br />As you say, everyone is curious about the future, but forecasting that future has always been a tricky business. One prominent Christian forecaster, in the late '70s, confidently predicted war with the USSR over Israel in 1982. Of the three players mentioned, one no longer exists...and it wasn't due to a war. More recently, another Christian forecaster predicted the end of the world last October 21st...but in fact it was the end of the world only for Moammar Khadafy. Those failed predictions say much about the level of <i>their</i> redemption and honest capability, doesn't it?<br />People have a way of upsetting carefully-planned schedules, even God's.<br /><br /><i>”The conversion of Muslims to Christianity in Iraq, for example, is quite a change from when Saddam Hussein was in power. Yet, the persecution of new believers from radical Islam severely tests the new believers because they could lose their lives as a result of their faith in Jesus Christ.”</i><br />There have always been Christians in Iraq. Saddam left them alone, mainly because they were no threat to his power. He persecuted the Kurds because they <i>were</i>, and because they occupied one of the more productive regions of the country. <br />The war changed everything; it has become “all against all”, and while Sunni and Shia neighborhoods have clearly marked themselves as such, Iraqi Christians are now seen as symbols of an alien religion whose other followers have brought war and strife to their land. There used to be about 4 million Christians in Iraq. Now there's less than half that many. Most are among the 3 million refugees who have streamed into Iraq's neighbors since 2003, and the rest are lying low, for obvious reasons.<br />The “Prince of Peace” meets the “Religion of Peace”. A pox on both your houses!GMpilothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07189308176043748343noreply@blogger.com