Dangers of “Heated or Aggressive” Rhetoric by Political Leaders, and Academia

The knowledge that is true allows problems to be solved and avoided. If a car breaks down, mechanical knowledge is useful, otherwise, it is unnecessary. It is the same with all of life’s problems. God gives us the knowledge to help “fix” broken people, protect ourselves from the difficulties of life, and allow love to express itself in good works.

In order to dial down the rhetoric, one must have a working moral thermostat. That the Democrats or Republicans do not have. What they have is venomous anger stemming from Obama and Donald Trump’s theft of their so-called inheritance. Wisdom and knowledge, both recurring themes in the Bible, are related but not synonymous. The dictionary defines wisdom as “the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting.” Knowledge, on the other hand, is “information gained through experience, reasoning, or acquaintance.” Knowledge can exist without wisdom, but not the other way around. One can be knowledgeable without being wise. Knowledge is knowing how to use a gun; wisdom is knowing when to use it and when to keep it holstered.

Pew Research Center’s wide-ranging survey of attitudes about political speech and discourse in the U.S. was conducted April 29-May 13 among 10,170 adults. Among the other major findings:

Broad agreement on the dangers of “heated or aggressive” rhetoric by political leaders. A substantial majority (78%) says “heated or aggressive” language directed by elected officials against certain people or groups makes violence against them more likely. This view is more widely shared among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents than Republican and Republican leaners.

Partisans demand a higher standard of conduct from the other party than from their own. Majorities in both parties say it is very important that elected officials treat their opponents with respect. But while most Democrats (78%) say it is very important for Republican elected officials to treat Democratic officials with respect, only about half (47%) say it is very important for officials from their party to treat Republican politicians with respect. There is a similar divide in the opinions of Republicans; 75% say Democrats should be respectful of GOP officials, while only 49% say the same about Republicans’ treatment of Democratic officials. Pew

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart and turn for me to heal them.”

It was that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” Therefore, they could not believe. Isaiah again said, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart and turn for me to heal them”.

Education Is Useless Without the Bible (Daniel Webster)

  Original Message
From: Michelle Millar Fisher <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019, 8:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Reply To: Michelle Millar Fisher
Subject: Please support my campaign against Right Wing Nationalists

Hello,

My name is Michelle Millar Fisher and I am a curator and an architecture and
design historian. The recipient of an MA and an M.Phil in Art History from
the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and I received an M.Phil from and I am
currently completing my doctorate in architectural history at The Graduate
Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). I am currently The Louis
C. Madeira IV Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts and Design at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Recently I was instrumental to remove a work from our exhibition in the
Philadelphia Museum of Art called “Kissenger” by Adrian David Cheok and Emma
Yann Zhang. This was because I am disgusted with Adrian David Cheok’s
support of Trump and his right wing views on Twitter. I am now planning a
society for all art curators to remove right wing fascist artists from any
of their exhibitions.

I hope you can join my mission and this new anti right wing art society.

Thank you,
Michelle

One line in the familiar hymn “Amazing Grace” says, “I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.” We may have sung it a thousand times without realizing what lost means. The term lost is used in the Bible and in Christian circles to refer to persons who have not yet found eternal life in Christ. Jesus said, “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). Those who are spiritually lost are separated from God and unable to find their way back to Him.

To be lost is to have wandered away and to be helpless to find the way back. A hiker may be lost when he takes a wrong path and does not know how to return to the right one. A child may be lost when he wanders too far from his parents and does not know where they are. Human beings are spiritually lost because we have wandered away from God and we do not know how to find Him again.

In order to dial down the rhetoric, one must have a working moral thermostat. That the Democrats or Republicans do not have. What they have is venomous anger stemming from Obama and Donald Trump’s theft of their so-called inheritance.

StevieRay Hansen
Editor, HNewsWire.com

Jesus chastised religious leaders in the first century for not knowing the time of His arrival. Will we make the same mistake today? Christ stated how His second coming would be preceded by global events signifying the end of our age. We may not know the day or the hour, but we can know the season!

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” (Joel 2:28.)

Education is useless without the bible (Daniel Webster)

John Wesley who said that what we tolerate in our generation, will be embraced by the next. Wesley is 100% correct! We are living in sick times.

Usually, the Lord doth no great thing for or against his people, without giving warning of it before it comes.

They perverted justice among themselves (v. 7): “You turn judgment to wormwood, that is, you make your administrations of justice bitter and nauseous, and highly displeasing both to God and man.’’ That fruit has become a weed, a weed in the garden; as nothing is more venerable, nothing more valuable, than justice duly administered, so nothing is more hurtful, nothing more abominable, than designedly doing wrong under color and pretense of doing right. Corruptio optimi est pessima —The best, when corrupted, becomes the worst.

It is impossible to find anyone in the Bible who was a power for God who did not have enemies and was not hated.

2 Corinthians 4:8-11 New King James Version (NKJV)
8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.