Why I haven't been posting much......

[Dale Smith]

My life has been a whirlwind since my interview with John B. Wells on his show "Caravan To Midnight". I have had too many messages and well wishes to count and I can't seem to catch up....but I will personally "thank" every single person that took the time no matter how long it takes. It is very humbling to have so many people from all over the U.S and Europe to express how what I had to say resonated with them. I give all the praise and glory to my Lord and Savior. I have had so many heartfelt messages from people telling me "thank you" for saying the things that so many are too timid to speak about and for being a voice. I have so much admiration for John because he took a chance on me and gave me a huge platform from which to speak. Let me tell ya something about this patriot. He could have been bigger than any talk show host out there but he refused to play the game. His deep, booming voice, his way of articulating his thoughts, his interviewing skills? He could be a millionaire many times over but he refused to sell us out. He can't be bought and he won't be sold to the highest bidder. It's not easy to put yourself out there against a media that is dominated by six huge conglomerates that control 90 percent of all media but John does himself right proud.

Just some food for thought....I reached more people in an hour and a half than all you fabian socialist, purse swinging, emotionally disturbed sheeple could ever hope to reach in thousands of lifetimes. I have taken this to the next level while you commie loving morons impotently flail away..........#WINNING!!!!!

 

[emilynghiem]

Wow Dale Smith with this following, why not set up a group and a podcast. you can pray together and really solidify and empower your circle of influence.
good for you and keep up the great outreach!

 

[Mousterian]

Careful you don't trip over that ego, Dale. The Lord is keen on humility....

 

[emilynghiem]

Careful you don't trip over that ego, Dale. The Lord is keen on humility....

Good point Mousterian
The advantage to a group is letting other people speak and share as equals.
The focus being on the fellowship in Christ and not on any one person more than another.

 

[Toro]

Congratulations on your release from the FEMA camp.

 

[Toro]

Careful you don't trip over that ego, Dale. The Lord is keen on humility....

If the Lord is keen on humility, why do we have worship Him so much?

 

[emilynghiem]

Careful you don't trip over that ego, Dale. The Lord is keen on humility....

If the Lord is keen on humility, why do we have worship Him so much?

Because worshipping a central agreed figure outside ourselves makes the rest of us equal (the trick being to agree on what this collective entity is that is universal to all people and groups so it DOESN'T become domination by one group over others but includes and covers them all the same as equal, sort of like the states in the union all under one AGREED central authority)

 

[Toro]

Why is this thread in Politics?

 

[emilynghiem]

Good question, Should it be under Media? Announcements and Feedback? Dale Smith Kat flacaltenn let me know if this is okay. Thanks!

ps Dale Smith Do you want this to be a discussion of religion and ethics?
If you are commenting about other people's use of media, that may be about
media and feedback on the forum.

If you want to follow up on the posts added about whether religious outreach
is useful or useless, do you want this under religion? it's your thread, so I would
recommend whatever direction you'd rather go with this. Thanks!

 

[midcan5]

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." H. L. Mencken

Dale Smith, just another religious hater, egads do you people ever grow up?

"Put differently, there are two equal but opposite errors into which Christians have fallen in the modern world. One error is to "privatize" faith, interpreting and applying it to the personal and spiritual realm only. That way faith loses its integrity and becomes "privately engaging and publicly irrelevant." ¶ The other error, represented by the Religious Left in the 1960s and the Religious Right since the late 1970s, is to "politicize" faith, using faith to express essentially political points that have lost touch with biblical truth. That way faith loses its independence, the church becomes "the regime at prayer," Christians become the "useful idiots" or "biddable foot soldiers" for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology in its purest form: Christian beliefs are used as weapons for political interests. In short, out of anxiety about a vanishing culture or in a foolish exchange for an illusory promise of power, Christians are cheated into bartering away their identity, motives, language, passions, and votes.

... Christians have already lost their independence when they attempt to find political solutions for problems that are essentially cultural and prepolitical — in other words, when they ask politics to do what politics cannot do.

When there has been a profound sea change in culture, as the United States has experienced since the 1960s, it is both foolish and futile to think that it can be reversed and restored by politics alone. That approach will always fail, and can only fail. Politics is downstream from the deep and important changes in American culture, and what lies upstream is mostly beyond the reach of political action. Thus overreaching political activism is bound not only to fail, but to leave the cultural changes more deeply entrenched than ever and those fighting them weaker than ever."

Os Guinness 'The Case For Civility" http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002XUM2GU/?tag=ff0d01-20
"The Threat of Islam" by Sociologist Os Guinness

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi

 

[emilynghiem]

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." H. L. Mencken

Dale Smith, just another religious hater, egads do you people ever grow up?

"Put differently, there are two equal but opposite errors into which Christians have fallen in the modern world. One error is to "privatize" faith, interpreting and applying it to the personal and spiritual realm only. That way faith loses its integrity and becomes "privately engaging and publicly irrelevant." ¶ The other error, represented by the Religious Left in the 1960s and the Religious Right since the late 1970s, is to "politicize" faith, using faith to express essentially political points that have lost touch with biblical truth. That way faith loses its independence, the church becomes "the regime at prayer," Christians become the "useful idiots" or "biddable foot soldiers" for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology in its purest form: Christian beliefs are used as weapons for political interests. In short, out of anxiety about a vanishing culture or in a foolish exchange for an illusory promise of power, Christians are cheated into bartering away their identity, motives, language, passions, and votes.

... Christians have already lost their independence when they attempt to find political solutions for problems that are essentially cultural and prepolitical — in other words, when they ask politics to do what politics cannot do.

When there has been a profound sea change in culture, as the United States has experienced since the 1960s, it is both foolish and futile to think that it can be reversed and restored by politics alone. That approach will always fail, and can only fail. Politics is downstream from the deep and important changes in American culture, and what lies upstream is mostly beyond the reach of political action. Thus overreaching political activism is bound not only to fail, but to leave the cultural changes more deeply entrenched than ever and those fighting them weaker than ever."

Os Guinness 'The Case For Civility" The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It: Os Guinness: 8601420838673: Amazon.com: Books
"The Threat of Islam" by Sociologist Os Guinness

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi

midcan5 A smart man and minister once advised me
not to confuse political freedom with spiritual freedom.

The church is supposed to rebuke its members using spiritual laws and authority. the state uses secular laws and authority.
these are not hostile to each other, but check and balance from equal perspectives. As mother and father work as partners, as husbands and wives and male/female. So should church/state be in harmony
and not at odds.

Both sets of laws operate by truth and justice to establish peace.
But the spiritual laws can address individuals internally in making decisions BEFORE a violation or crime is committed. States can't intrude on individual free choice and liberty until a person is convicted of a crime.
And govt has authority to judge and punish after civil or criminal laws are broken, where churches have no authority to mandate or impose on the public but remain optional under free exercise of religion outside govt.

These two realms should operate in agreement, and where conflicts arise these should be resolved so both standards are met and neither violated.

 

[cnm]

Just some food for thought....I reached more people in an hour and a half than all you fabian socialist, purse swinging, emotionally disturbed sheeple could ever hope to reach in thousands of lifetimes.

Reached more loonies, maybe.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Damn, just damn.

When I used to be the "expert" on an "ask the expert" radio show here in town several years back, I had no idea I was changing people's lives forever.

I just figured I was answering their questions.

Is it too late to re-size my head so it doesn't fit through the door?

 

[Rob37]

I feel like we on the right need to get together and cut a deal to trade Dale Smith to the Russian team.


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[Dale Smith]

Careful you don't trip over that ego, Dale. The Lord is keen on humility....

I am very humble....and grateful for the opportunity to share. I am grateful for the unbelievable outpouring of responses....how you can say that I am "ego-tripping" is amusing. I am simply tweaking the noses of the leftard clown posse of sniveling pussies and fools....which category do you fall in???

 

[Dale Smith]

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." H. L. Mencken

Dale Smith, just another religious hater, egads do you people ever grow up?

"Put differently, there are two equal but opposite errors into which Christians have fallen in the modern world. One error is to "privatize" faith, interpreting and applying it to the personal and spiritual realm only. That way faith loses its integrity and becomes "privately engaging and publicly irrelevant." ¶ The other error, represented by the Religious Left in the 1960s and the Religious Right since the late 1970s, is to "politicize" faith, using faith to express essentially political points that have lost touch with biblical truth. That way faith loses its independence, the church becomes "the regime at prayer," Christians become the "useful idiots" or "biddable foot soldiers" for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology in its purest form: Christian beliefs are used as weapons for political interests. In short, out of anxiety about a vanishing culture or in a foolish exchange for an illusory promise of power, Christians are cheated into bartering away their identity, motives, language, passions, and votes.

... Christians have already lost their independence when they attempt to find political solutions for problems that are essentially cultural and prepolitical — in other words, when they ask politics to do what politics cannot do.

When there has been a profound sea change in culture, as the United States has experienced since the 1960s, it is both foolish and futile to think that it can be reversed and restored by politics alone. That approach will always fail, and can only fail. Politics is downstream from the deep and important changes in American culture, and what lies upstream is mostly beyond the reach of political action. Thus overreaching political activism is bound not only to fail, but to leave the cultural changes more deeply entrenched than ever and those fighting them weaker than ever."

Os Guinness 'The Case For Civility" The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It: Os Guinness: 8601420838673: Amazon.com: Books
"The Threat of Islam" by Sociologist Os Guinness

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi

I know more than you....keep hanging onto that Fabian socialist agenda and let me know how that works out for ya. As for me and MILLIONS like myself? We don't want your socialist agenda because the next step is communism. You are not gonna get that in YOUR lifetime. The very powers that you claim to be working against are using you like the useful idiots that you are.....just little pawns that will be discarded once you have no further use. Step up to the plate and debate me, punkinpuss ....because I will bury you under an avalanche of facts.