This is, quite frankly, completely backwards (not only in logic, but according to Scripture).
Men, look to your households. Men, when your house is in order, look to your communities. Men, when you communities are in order, the state will follow. When the states follow, so will the nation. It is a huge challenge, but I know that men, when encouraged by good women, are quite up to the task.
Control what you can. Control your own passions. Find a wife who is Biblically minded. Raise your children in a home that reveres God. Fill it with laughter and love and limits. Then take it to the community. God created man and told him to go fill the Earth. This is exactly the same principle.
To believe that the government at the top, no matter who is in charge, will correct anything is wrong-think.
The answer to this and most questions is right there in Genesis 3:16.
Women, by nature, will want to rule over her husband. Once accomplished, she will want to rule over the family, the community, the state, the nation, the world. But there are two sides to every coin. The other side is weak men. Weak men will gladly abdicate their God-given authority to loud obnoxious women bullies.
When men (speaking generally of the world) take back up their authority and are willing to stand up for their women, their families, their communities, then the order will be restored. Women, in turn, must allow them to do that and submit to their husbands' authority.
I'm a woman, blessed with a strong husband, by the way.
Thank you. I've come to a similar conclusion. It seems that each person has to reach their "No more" point for themselves. I reached it yesterday. Others reached it long ago, and still others not yet. Real action will come when a whole lot of people say, "Enough." I pray that happens before it's too late.
By the way, I don't have a physical disability. I have a religious objection, and that pushes this into the realm of the civil rights act. I've decided to write a letter to the office in the hopes that we can work out a solution, and also have the opportunity to explain to them why they need to help stand in the gap.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
That is just what I decided last night. Thanks for that confirmation. And thanks for taking the time to reply. I truly appreciate it.
Thanks. I have been asked to leave numerous places, and I do it without a fuss, so I understand your point and agree. Had this business told me the day I first walked in that they couldn't accommodate me, that would have been the end of it.
I also understand that the business folk are trying to figure everything out as we go, and so I try to extend some grace. However, it has been a year now. Surely, they should have put some policies in place to handle folks like me? And then the question becomes, when do we stop accommodating them on their discrimination? When is discrimination okay?
In my state, the governor has removed the mask mandate, and so the county boards are requiring masking, although they have no legal standing They have put the businesses as a front man for their terrible rulings. And I really think they count on our compassion to keep us from stopping this, because we will hurt "innocent business owners". Yet, that business owner was also guilty of discriminating against me and for what reason? Certainly not because I don't wear a mask, otherwise they would have stopped me from coming in that first day.
Anyway, as you can see, I'm a bit frustrated. Thanks for listening.
I think you're very wise on that. I don't want money or to make them pay or anything like that. I abhor being disobedient to authority or going against the tide. I've always been a good citizen. I just want this foolishness to stop at all levels, and we have to start somewhere and soon.
Refusing to wear a mask isn't enough to stop the momentum that is leading this country over the cliff . Where I am, the vaccine will be available for everyone by the beginning of April. Then they will monitor to see how popular it is and determine their course of action based on our acceptance or rejection. Then they will soft-coerce the rest of us to take it. Then comes the hard coercion. We had best stop this now, because we won't be able to later.
I'm not scared for myself because my eternity is assured, but I am terrified for those I love who are caught in this evil web.
I think where we disconnect is that I'm framing everything as an individual and you're framing everything as political and cultural. There's a huge divide between the two.
I'm not saying you're wrong about the political climate. I in large part agree that that's how it is in that world. What I'm saying is each of us has the power to choose which world we live in.
That's one reason why, I believe, Jesus talked so much about the Kingdom and contrasted the difference between the godless world and the His world. You've got to pick where you stand and then stand! One world brings continual defeat. The other brings complete victory.