“Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind,
as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
G.K. Chesterton
(the sole remaining apple as the deer ate the other one / Julie Cook / 2017)
On Wednesday there was a confrontation.
The confrontation being just one more bizarre piece to an already bizarre and crazy puzzle
that seems to be continually playing out now daily in our lives.
Sigh.
There was a senate confirmation hearing for the position of deputy director of the
White House Office of Management and Budget.
Now that doesn’t sound like a fun job to me but I suppose someone has got to do it and
what a good thing that there are those who want to do so…..
The fellow up for the post is Russell Vought, President’s Trump’s nominee…
who just so happens to be a practicing Christian.
Meaning, Mr Vought is committed to his faith and tries to live his life accordingly.
This seems to be problematic for Senator Bernie Sanders who maliciously grilled
the nominee over, not his competency for the position but rather of all things, his faith.
It seems that Mr. Sanders does not believe that someone who holds the belief that
Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation is competent to hold office.
Last I checked that was pretty much the primary tenant to Christianity…
and Christians have been holding all kinds of posts and jobs since the
formation of this nation of ours with little to no issue over salvation….
The exchange on Mr. Sander’s part was exceedingly heated…even caustic…
culminating in a rant.
However for his part, Mr Vought maintained his position throughout the exchange
in a calm, respectful and dignified manner.
The following link is the story recap to the event:
So just when I thought that maybe, just maybe, the country…meaning the news media,
the politicians, the lawmakers, the “leaders”, the followers… could all just finally get
back to the business of simply running the country, reporting on real news and simply
getting back to the task of living so that the rest of us could do the same…
here comes Senator Bernie Sanders who is appalled that Christians think that the only way
to salvation is through Jesus Christ…
Newsflash Senator….they’ve been thinking that way for the past 2000 years….
because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved.
For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his
lips and so is saved.
Romans 9:9-10
cookiecrumbstoliveby 
I think Sanders was just putting on the pressure on Vought to see if yet another good man would set himself up for total ruin.
Even if he was merely goading him, Mr Sanders should know better– also I commented in a post or two if you’d but I fear I am in the awaiting moderation world of limbo 😝
Interesting perspective. but I doubt it.
I doubt it too Don — Mr Sanders knows better but knowing better no longer seems to matter to this new days form of vehemence
Amen Julie!!
Thank you my little glow worm
😍 You’re very welcome Julie 😍
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Thanks for the information. I had missed that. Some how the media doesn’t pay much attention to persecution of Christians. I dare say Mr. Sanders would not have ask a Muslim if he could be unbiased in his treatment of Christians, nor ridicules him for his believe in Mohamed. Terrible!
Oh they are all jackasses braying their loud and obnoxious noises because they didn’t get their way. So they pick on conservatives and Christians because apparently we are all deplorables!!! Whaa, whaa, whaa!!!! It’s just sickening! 😦 😦 😦
keep hitting that nail on the head!!!!!
Bernie Sanders represents a substantial part of the Democratic Party. What he was advocating is exactly what our children are being taught in the public school system, Multiculturalism.
Once people start believing all religions are equally valid — that all truths are equally valid — we have a logical conundrum. If Islam teaches that one must be a Muslim to be saved, and Christianity teaches that Jesus is the way to salvation, then both cannot be true. Yet Multiculturalism teaches that both are equally valid. What is the only way out of this conundrum? Both religions are equally false.
What does Sanders believe? Who knows?
=>https://newrepublic.com/minutes/129118/bernie-sanders-just-reveal-true-religious-beliefs
I dare suspect a Jew in name only–
So where does this leave the Faithful Tom?
As we continue to share the Gospel to an ever hostile post Christian world?
Paul managed to spread the Gospel during the era of the Roman Empire. In a new age of paganism, I suspect we can do the same.
Then we shall go onward and indeed upward!
I’m glad more people are speaking out against this
I wish more were
I agrre