Is Mark Sanford really like King David? Is that a good reason for him to stay in office?
I am not an expert on either Mark Sanford or King David. However from what little I know, King David was... umm... a king. Kings don't resign.
Nor are they accountable in any ordinary sense for their misdemeanours. If they're going to be got rid of at all, it generally involves civil war and revolution. Also if I remember rightly King David was a hero of his people and saved them in war from a powerful enemy.
That entitles you to be cut some slack on your other shortcomings. (See also JFK and Martin Luther King. ) However, I suspect that he is using a language and an analogy that is not that unusual in people who turn to the Bible as a reference point for decision making.It's probably not that unusual in Christian circles to use Biblical examples of adultery as comparison points on how to think about the issue.
Btw, I would expect to not only lose my job but also face criminal charges if I stole from my boss. However, if I cheated on a spouse (not that I have one) I would not expect to lose my job. Finally, might I remind people of the little known case of Bill Clinton?
If you felt then that a person's sex life had no automatic relationship to their job performance, you might logically think the same again.
What an idiot. It amazes me that these bozo's always make it worse. Come on, everyone.
Let's hear the best line from the other politicians. Here's one. Idaho Larry "...wide stance.
As a registered Republican I feel that Mark Sanford is a conservative and conservatives inhabit a special little world that is different than you and me, it’s kind of like the world that is habited by people like Al Sharpton and Noam Chomsky, they either are lying or are so delusional that they really believe what they say.
Mark Sanford often includes spiritual references and talks of God’s will. Last week, for example, he compared himself to King David, and this week he said that God wants him to stay in office. Jon Stewart and others have ridiculed him for these statements.
But what do experts on faith and religious life think of Mr. Sanford’s use of biblical analogies, and what lessons do these references contain? Chuck Colson is the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries. As a longtime fan of Governor Sanford and as one who has sympathy for people who have fallen from grace (as I have), I have one piece of advice for the governor: go home and get your family in order.
I have no doubt the governor is sincere believing that God has spoken to him; we all have experiences of that. But the only way to test whether God has really spoken is to see if what you think He has said is confirmed by Scripture. If the governor looks at the Bible, he will see that the story of David is told as a cautionary tale (not something to be emulated) and that it led to the greatest writing of confession and repentance in the Bible (Psalm 51).
He will also, if he reads Scripture, realize that a believer’s priorities are first to love God, second to love his family, and third to pursue his calling. When God created humans, His first act was to join the first man and woman as one flesh.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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