Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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"No one can serve two masters...You are for Me or
against Me."
Jesus
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Because I've been
wrong about every election since 1972, I won't predict who will win on November
8.
Of course, I'd
never tell people who should get their votes during a worship service; not
because LBJ started the injustice of proscribing 1st Amendment rights from Christians
so happily expanding under "progressive" politicians, jurists,
educators, entertainers, media, and mainliners but because of what I just said
in the previous sentence-paragraph.
I've been wrong
so often about the qualifications and character of candidates as well as
election outcomes that I don't pretend to know who's best for anything with
absolute certainty.
I'm just guessing
when I vote for politicians who, like the rest of us, are so, uh, human.
Besides, it's not
my job to tell people who should get their votes.
It's my job to tell people who say
they're Christians to vote like it!
That means people
who say they're Christians should vote with Jesus in mind.
Jesus is the
focus and filter for everything said and done by Christians no matter who,
what, where, when, or why.
Christians are Christians in all things
with all people in all places at all times.
Christians are Christians in public and
private; saying and doing the same things no matter who, what, where,
when, or why.
Christians don't
pander to any audience and don't agree with the last person talked to like bad
sentences ending in prepositions.
Christians aren't
accused of lying because they always tell the truth with Jesus as Master, Bible
as manual, and common sense as governor.
Christians only
change their stories if corrected by Jesus, Bible, and common sense; and then
they confess error, pledge change, and ask forgiveness.
If I have to
explain that to you, you're not a Christian.
Obviously.
Back to November
8, I'm thinking anyone who campaigns for their candidate for the big
house as thaaaaaaat much
better than the other has two feet planted firmly in the air; and when Hillary
and Donald go after each other's past, present, and predicted futures, I wanna
scream rhetorically, "What's that I see in your eye?"
Frankly,
admitting there's still time for my mind to be changed, I'm not inclined to
vote for either of 'em.
Donald comes off
as a mostly mouthy offensive and often offensive while being defensive donkey;
noting donkey is a synonymatic euphemism for what's really on my mind. He
has turned avoiding taxes into an art form and can't brush off his boorish
brusqueness as lockerroom banter; recalling the adage, "What's deep in the
well comes up in the bucket!" Really, does anyone really know what
Donald really believes? I mean, c'mon, he's changed his positions on, uh,
just about everything as often as Hillary's "husband" has changed
paramours.
Hillary is a
pathological liar who doesn't blush at the butchering of babies a la partial
birth abortion, accepts money from sworn enemies of America and Israel,
has played politics with the lives of our women and men in uniform, and doesn't
recognize her shameless hypocrisy in claiming her opponent is a misogynist
while she enabled a sexual predator for a decade at minimum and did
her worst to discredit, defame, and destroy his and her victims.
Both belong on the
Mount Rushmore of condescendingly smug egomaniacs.
So,
again, when either say the other is not "fit" to be P, I wanna
scream rhetorically, "What's that I see in your eye?"
I was leaning
toward one over the other as a roll of the dice because I just can't imagine
having a notoriously scripted criminal as P; but then my
jurist-in-training son reminded, "Dad, you always taught us that the
lesser of two evils is still evil. You taught us that Jesus always has a
better way. So how can you now say you're going to vote for ___ because
she/he is the lesser of two evils? How are you going to explain that to
Jesus?"
Geez.
I can't stand it
when people quote me to correct me.
My boy brought
Cliff to mind.
Cliff is one of
the most faithful pastors, husbands, and dads that I've ever known; and I'll
never forget when he went to the microphone of a large church meeting in
Pittsburgh and yelled during a very contentious debate, "Vote for
Jesus!"
He's was right
then and now.
Vote for Jesus!
It's the only
Christian thing to do.
I'm not saying I
know for sure how
that plays out when it comes to Donald and Hillary.
I'm not
suggesting a write-in ballot.
I'm not
suggesting the other two make more sense.
I'm just saying
Christians vote with Jesus in mind.
Which of the two
or four or more best reflect Jesus in their words, actions, past, present, and
promises?
I'm not saying I
know for sure.
All I'm saying is
Christians vote with Jesus in mind.
It's the job of
Christians to do that and remind their sisters and brothers to do that.
Thanks, son!
Thanks, Cliff!
Vote for Jesus!
He's the only
Savior around.
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Blessings and Love!
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Salt! Shine! Leavenate!
Look up! Stand up! Speak up! Act up for Jesus!
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