hunter2012 said:txags92 said:japantiger said:murphyag said:samurai_science said:njohn87 said:
Let's be honest, the bloated philanderer he's running against shouldn't anyone's ideal model of masculinity either.
No one cares about the wife cheating anymore, Democrats think it's a wedge issue but it's not
True Christians should still care about wife cheating. The Ten Commandments aren't just a suggestion.
True Christians do care about adultery. I've seen too much of this and marriages destroyed by it. It is a basic human failing.
What I have to balance that with is the other side is running a psychopath. If you believe there are 6 sexes; you're a psychopath. If you believe in destroying young bodies in the name of sexual deviancy, you're a psychopath. If you don't believe we know what a woman is ("friends with uteruses), then you're a psychopath. These three things alone mean you cannot be trusted with any basic decision. All this even before the discussion on him being a heretic and false prophet.
As for my Christianity, for Paxton, I pray for his family. As for Talerico, I pray that God casts out demons from the leftist intelligentsia that is trying to destroy the very fabric of society. But, in the secular, political, world, I have to take the best I can get.
This is not really a hard choice.
True Christians should follow the "judge not lest ye be judged yourself" mindset. I am not in a position to decide whether Paxton should be condemned for his sin of adultery. What I should care about is whether his past adultery makes him incapable of doing the job I am voting for him to do. If adultery is disqualifying, we are going to need a bunch more senators.
You do know the point of that biblical scene was that there was one there that could cast the first stone but refused to do so. He didn't say, "go back to your sinful life because God wants you to be happy." but instead, "go and sin no more." Adultery is a sin and hopefully Paxton repents, Talarico however IS an willful heretic that celebrates sin and aims for the destruction of our society's foundation, that being a God fearing people. "Don't judge", doesn't mean "don't discern".
I agree. I was talking to the people who felt like Rs should be judging Paxton for his adultery and refusing to vote for him because of the adultery. I am not condoning it or celebrating it. What his ultimate outcome is with God is between him and God. My position is that there are good and bad people all over the world and throughout the political spectrum that commit adultery. I am not going to single one of them out and decide that is a bright red line and that I can't vote for him, especially when he is not running for the position of being the husband to somebody I care about. He is running to be a senator representing the state of Texas, and in that position, I like his previous work representing Texas as AG and I think Talarico is a charlatan and a lunatic. So Paxton's adultery doesn't move the needle at all for changing my vote.
