It is apparently official now that Mubarak has resigned as president.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/0...ak-future.html
No thoughts from me right now.
Get on my horse.
It is apparently official now that Mubarak has resigned as president.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/0...ak-future.html
No thoughts from me right now.
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth… He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics.
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Excellent news for the German and Swiss economies.
"MISSION: To rescue Christians enslaved by manmade religion and to bring them to the freedom of Jesus."
Deadpan Snarker
Now we wait and see who comes to power.
Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it on the islands from afar, and say, "He Who scattered Israel will gather them together and watch them as a shepherd his flock."
Jeremiah 31:9
Formerly moonglow
Wow I am surprised after all the tough talk yesterday. From what I heard on the news the VP is exactly like Mubarak so if he takes over nothing will change.
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson
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Terrorists and Jihadists.Originally Posted by Fenris
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Egypt had a monarchy until 1952 when it was overthrown by Colonel Nasser. Then came Sadat, also military, then Mubarak, also military. Now apparently, the military is - still - in charge. Maybe this whole thing was orchestrated by the military because they didn't want Mubarak's son (non military) to come to power in September.
It is possible this will settle down and fundamentally, nothing is changed. If a power sharing arrangement with the Muslim Brotherhood results, I fear we'll have another unstable Islamic state like Pakistan.
In Christ,
-- Rev
“To preserve the government we must also preserve morals. Morality rests on religion; if you destroy the foundation, the superstructure must fall. When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are a nullity and constitutions are waste paper.” – Daniel Webster, 4th of July, 1800, Oration at Hanover, N.H.
Post Tenebras Lux
Here's some wisdom from Edmund Burke that I saw David Frum post at his website.
'When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose; but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. I should, therefore, suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France until I was informed how it had been combined with government, with public force, with the discipline and obedience of armies, with the collection of an effective and well-distributed revenue, with morality and religion, with the solidity of property, with peace and order, with civil and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things, too, and without them liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate, insulated, private men, but liberty, when men act in bodies, is power. Considerate people, before they declare themselves, will observe the use which is made of power and particularly of so trying a thing as new power in new persons of whose principles, tempers, and dispositions they have little or no experience, and in situations where those who appear the most stirring in the scene may possibly not be the real movers.' Edmund Burke
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