Bryan Horton

“And if I perish, I perish.” —Esther

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

PSA regarding flock cameras and the like:

It is entirely possible to enforce the laws of our nation in a manner consistent with the liberties which we cherish—and which are the bedrock of truly makes America great—without becoming the embodiment of Orwellian tyranny.

Yet I would be remiss to not point out that tyranny rises commensurate with a decline in morality. We cannot have liberty if we will not embrace restraint.

In fact, we are already captives because of wickedness; a truly free people would have not for a second tolerated these cameras. Not for one second. That’s the funny thing about sin. It makes us weak and unable to oppose tyrants, even as they lead us to our cages. The why may be even more sad: We come to believe this is necessary, for the best, and that’s because it’s true.

Democracy nor liberty can be possessed by all people, but only those worthy of it via moral restraint.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@KevinHedges13 @realMaalouf If you want to get technical, He said nothing about if you were spit on.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@RepThomasMassie @nickshirleyy @grok “Offer an amendment.”

That’s like tell your boss, “I tried, but got nothing done.”

Or it’s like throwing a rock at a battleship and saying I tried to sink it.

That’s what most of Congress does. Plays games that get nowhere.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

One of the reasons I can’t fit in why so many of the adherents to some form of proclaimed Christian faith is simply because I’m not a pacifist, and I refuse to believe a call to follow Christ is a call to absolute pacifism in every case and context, for all time. I don’t believe that at all.

A couple of years back I saw a picture (Christian pic / post) of some weak and pathetic looking man wearing a pink sweater with kittens on it, next to his wife and daughters, wearing the same, all cuddly and harmless. Adorable.

It just makes me angry. Not sorry.

If that’s the picture of Christianity, you can keep it.

Obviously the Kingdom is not to be advanced with violence. But neither will it be advanced with impotence.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

The birthright—even our inheritance which other men bled out for— of an American citizen provides much blessings and benefit therein.

Perhaps chief of this regard is a broad liberty to be unmolested by the government.

I do not hold it excessive to consider these voyeur cameras law enforcement agencies have deployed abroad as anything less than rape of the populace.

Have these tyrants not taken, quite apart from the will and permission of the people, their very innocence? Indeed, they have made all criminals, taking as it were, their presumption of innocence by placing them under constant surveillance; moreover, they have stolen what is intensely intimate and valuable in a political sense: liberty.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

PSA regarding flock cameras and the like:

It is entirely possible to enforce the laws of our nation in a manner consistent with the liberties which we cherish—and which are the bedrock of truly makes America great—without becoming the embodiment of Orwellian tyranny.

Yet I would be remiss to not point out that tyranny rises commensurate with a decline in morality. We cannot have liberty if we will not embrace restraint.

In fact, we are already captives because of wickedness; a truly free people would have not for a second tolerated these cameras. Not for one second. That’s the funny thing about sin. It makes us weak and unable to oppose tyrants, even as they lead us to our cages. The why may be even more sad: We come to believe this is necessary, for the best, and that’s because it’s true.

Democracy nor liberty can be possessed by all people, but only those worthy of it via moral restraint.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@Danny429300 @Bspursrevenge @grok @GuntherEagleman The answer is, it depends on the true facts of the case; the reality of “murder” doesn’t become true just because you want to use the word in a an exchange of rhetoric, to justify your own ideas and thoughts about a matter.
Now goodbye. You’re rather annoying.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@Danny429300 @Bspursrevenge @grok @GuntherEagleman You poor soul. So impassioned, and so ignorant. Try looking up the definition of the word murder.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

Not the point. Though I fail in all Ten Commandments, that changes the truth of none of them. That’s the point.

And no matter how much you spew nonsensical bile from your mouth to justify your evil heart, God’s truth will remain true. You will be gone soon enough; God’s Word will not.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@Bspursrevenge @Danny429300 @grok @GuntherEagleman The word wouldn’t need to appear.
We are also not explicitly told not to jump out of a fifty foot tree onto our heads.
We are already told not to murder.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@Bspursrevenge @Danny429300 @grok @GuntherEagleman I was actually a little harsher (initially) to you than I probably needed to be. You seem to have a spirit that is at least in search of truth. I’m human.
I get annoyed. Apologies.
Peace.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@Danny429300 @grok @Bspursrevenge @GuntherEagleman Not by my judgment. By the judgment of the Scripture.
It’s the destruction of life created in His image. Period. It has nothing to do with me, despite your attempts to make it so.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

This question gets into edge cases. It’s a fair question, but I think it’s good not to lose focus on the whole because of edge cases.
I’d have to do my best to consider a case at a given time. In general, if the mother’s life is going to be lost , I would make the call for the mother. Maybe I’m wrong for that. It’s not an easy question.
Regarding rape? How do we consider this? Is it a horrible thing? Yes. Does it give us right to destroy life created In God’s image, I think not. Either life is sacred or it’s not, regardless of other tragedies that befall us. That’s my immediate sense of it, but it’s a question that deserves careful scrutiny.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@grok @Bspursrevenge @Danny429300 @GuntherEagleman I rest my case. Please return to your sunbathing.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

Nope. No further need. I would only make the claim that calling sin what God has called sin, is not the type of judgment in the first place which Jesus was referring to when he said, “Do not judge.”
In other words, making a truth claim based upon the commandment of the Scripture is not logically the same as judgment of a person. And I’m very weary of people hiding behind that verse.
I say. “The Scripture says not to bear false witness.” And They say: “Do not judge.” That’s in improper invocation of that text. It’s not judgment to state a fact.
So when I say the Scripture forbids murder, it has nothing to do with judgment of persons, and everything to do with the truth of what the Scripture states. It’s a truth judgment, not a personal one.

Moreover, even if I had judgment in my heart towards a person (which only I can know for sure) the requirement is to make sure my own life is clean before having it.
Feel free to provide your take on my words, as to their veracity.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@grok @Bspursrevenge @Danny429300 @GuntherEagleman Correct answer grok. Proud of you for actually reading the Scripture—well…sort of.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@grok @Bspursrevenge @Danny429300 @GuntherEagleman Ah you did. I didn’t catch that. But in fact, may NT verses describe proper use of judgment do they not? I know the answer, but why don’t you tell us?

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@Danny429300 @grok @Bspursrevenge @GuntherEagleman Incorrect.
Moreover, any abortion is murder.

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@grok @Bspursrevenge @Danny429300 @GuntherEagleman @grok does not Jesus also say to judge with righteous judgment?

[Bryan Horton @1911Stand]

@ElectricFlyZap @Bspursrevenge @GuntherEagleman @grok Actually we’re not, because I’m
Done with this conversation, and unlike you, when I say I’m done, I’m done.