Democrats won because they confessed their faith...

... and let that be a lesson to those of you who like having multiple tabs open at once.

Which incidentally is why so many kids grow up and leave the Church...

What's this? I thought it was because "they were among us but not of us"? Or from personal experience, because "I was among them, but they did not know...the God who called me out of them." "The Church" used in this context...seems to imply that most of what passes for "the Church [of Jesus Christ]" is "the Church of Jesus Christ." Sure they say they gather in His name but...they were gathered upon hearing a gospel where he stands at the door and knocks on their hearts just gushingly in adoration, desperately wanting to be accepted, rather than being LORD of all: it's like those Catholics from South America offended to hear Catholics spoken of by protestants as a visible or valid Church: just the mere anathema against the gospel should tell us what's what, and it's not just those South American ones: too many people today going "Reformed" (or whatever they go) get a little more educated ("learn more about Jesus"--actual quote) such that rather than having undergone conviction (by that certain special Person of the trinity who, you know, does that), sorrow (repentance) and...repentance, they're ambivalent at worst, apathetic about their former false religiosity at best:

So it's not a surprise to me that Keller et. al. is taking over: same spirit, and largely the same crowd (come in).

But are we *pansies* (in my youth we had another word that referred to a certain sex which is often characterizable by conflict avoidance) so much that we won't tell such who leave bad faith supposedly for the new that there is a real difference, and there was real sin before, and if that is not realized there shall it remain after? I was struck by the dichotomy about how we (as modern American Christians) treat those who leave one set of beliefs (in the name of Jesus) for another (in the name of Jesus) now, as opposed to the description of a certain pastor (recorded in "Revival and Revivalism") in the first (I think it was) Great Awakening, that those who had left mere Arminianism (as opposed to today's many christological heresies, soteriological heresies, eccelsiastical ones, ones that redefine what Christian love is...) sorrowed and counted their former life as deadness and false religion, not a mere stepping-stone in learning about God or Jesus or in development along the journey or path: how often is that seen when people come into a Presbyterian (your scene) or a Reformed Baptist (was my scene) church? How many pastors go "someone new, better test them--not just for defense of the flock, but also the sake of their souls too""? I went to a PCA for a bit and...there was a sense that some were very interested in people coming to get the numbers up. : (

...now that I've been critical and all...this otherwise is a great piece of writing!!! : ) Now if only so many weren't so unashamedly believing in outright evil: even them polytheistic pagans could be "very religious", our day is pure irreverence and shameless self-indulgence: I struggle with it too. : (

You older wider folks are very much welcome to correct this young, and very tired, guy as well btw.

By the way: Romney on same-sex "marriage"

"My view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman, and that's my own preference. I know other people have differing views. This is a very tender and sensitive topic, as are many social issues. But I have the same view I've had since running for office."

I'm not sure why a Christian parent would allow their children to have mobile devices.