Thankful for Joe Biden
President Joe Biden has always been known as a man of integrity. During his Senate tenure, legislators on both sides of the aisle knew and trusted his ability to bring people together and find common ground on important legislation. He’s proven during his time in office that he is still that same decent and honorable gentleman by following through on the promises he made when he inherited an economy in the depths of the worst recession since the great depression.
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, we came out of the recession earlier than any other industrialized nation. Then he did what the prior three presidents didn’t have the stomach for – withdrawing our troops from the decades-long quagmire in Afghanistan. During that action, 13 service members died at the hands of a suicide bomber. As bad as that was, it pales next to the 2,459 who gave their lives in pursuit of a failed nation-building experiment.
Every president since George W. Bush has promised to push for an infrastructure bill to repair our ailing roads and bridges. Biden finally got it done, with scant help from Republicans. I find it laughable that Republican legislators show up at job sites to brag about how they secured funding for the project, when they actually voted against the program that made funds available.
The CHIPS Act brought microchip manufacturing back to America as a matter of national security. He recognized that having all our high-tech weaponry powered by Chinese microchips was unsustainable. Made in America isn’t just a slogan for Biden; we’ve got the jobs to prove it.
With unemployment at near-record lows, the stock market at record highs and our reputation on the world stage restored, we can all proudly say, “Thanks Joe, job well done.”
Glenn Kolp, Andrews
Just speaking the real truth
According to Budget Watch 2024, a nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, not counting various COVID relief bills, my numbers regarding the national debt were correct. I would never intentionally spread false information.
If my last letter was “full” of statistical errors, then why was I only challenged on one of the five stats that I cited? I did write the factual truth.
Jack Montgomery, Ogreeta
Don’t pass the buck
In response to the letter from Tamara Phillips, let’ say you incited a riot, the police came, then you pointed, saying, “They did the rioting.” Or you show a not-quite-right teenager how to load and shoot a gun, but say, “He did the shooting.”
Extreme examples of passing the buck, I admit. But, aren’t you disingenuously passing the buck to firstliberty.org when you, using the Cherokee Scout as your soapbox, waved the flag explaining to pastors how they should help people register voters? Please, take responsibility.
Readers are too smart to be gaslighted.
I will try to say this as kindly as I can, but realize you will still think me hateful – can you not admit to the potential for, and the wrongness of, religious wars? Are mixing politics and religion really saintly? Do you believe every pastor knows right from wrong, that no pastor could take First Liberty’s words and stretch them, telling people whom they should vote for?
Frank Combs, in his letter on Sept. 4, wrote, “all across our world … ministers … are in our pulpits glorifying themselves … phony as a $3 bill … (they) preach their own special twist to the gospel … in such a smooth way that folks … are hooked by Satan’s cunning lies ...”
If you don’t see what has upset me, in Matthew 21, after evicting moneychangers and others from the temple, Jesus said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer.’ ”
Jesus was apolitical because grace knows no politics. If pastors want to dwell in the house of the Lord, they must become like Him by acting like Him.
Registering people to vote is politics.
Hopefully, anyone attending a church where they find politics, regardless of party, will run, not walk. Keep church sacred. Remember Combs’ letter.
David Bellino, Murphy
Abortion not only reason
Abortion has been the No. 1 political issue in the Christian world for years.
I’ve heard from many pulpits the rallying cry of getting rid of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court Decision that made abortion legal in 1973.
All that changed when the Supreme Court in the Dobbs decision of 2022 overturned Roe vs. Wade. The court said the federal government does not have the right to make abortion legal.
The Christian goal of overturning the decision that made abortion illegal had been reached. To many believers, abortion was a thing of the past.
Not so fast. All the Dobbs decision did was to take abortion out of federal hands and put it in the hands of individual states. Since then, many states have legalized abortions.
However, the total number of abortions in this nation has not gone down, but up. It is true that 14 states have banned abortion, but in surrounding states that allow it, the numbers have gotten dramatically higher.
According to the Apostle Paul, this is to be expected. Paul said in chapter 7 of Romans when he encouraged God’s law, it put in him the evil desire to break it. In verse 19, he goes on to say the good he wants to do he doesn’t do, but the evil that he hates is what he actually does.
We shouldn’t be surprised then that the overall numbers of abortions went up after the Dobbs decision. It is human nature. We don’t like having decisions made for us.
In my humble opinion, Christians made a deal with the devil to get Roe overturned. Abortion was declared to be the number one sin. As long as you opposed it, or as a friend of mine puts it, takes a stand against it, you are doing what God would have you to do.
In this way, many Christians have redefined holiness. The Bible says holiness is being like God. But the new definition of holiness says all you have to do is oppose abortion.
The new holiness being practiced allows for adultery, lying, racism, greed and many other foul sins. Many of the things Donald J. Trump is known for.
Am I perfect? Absolutely not. But when I sin, I go to God in prayer in the name of Jesus and ask forgiveness.
Will I vote for Trump, thinking I’m following God? Absolutely not.
Keith Williamson, Turtletown, Tenn.
Time to throw this one back
Kamala Harris does more flip-flopping on issues than a freshly caught fish on a pier’s hot floor. Beware.
Holding onto the slimy, squirming creature puts you in danger of the twisted, rusty, sharp hook in its mouth. From the outside, all appears safe. But the poisonous object can cause pain and maybe even death.
If left on Earth long enough, the stench from the scale-laden, cold-blooded entity is enough to make anyone sick to their stomach.
The best thing to do is throw the fishy thing back into the murky water from which it came so it can join other undesirables of the deep and swim away into oblivion, never to be seen again.
Mike David, Murphy