Timothy Birdnow

I couldn't have said it better myself. This is exactly what I think.

We hired these people to do a job, not to act as our Lord and Master. And it was not "revenge" but dissatisfaction with the work they provided.

My mother once hired a handyman to do some plumbing work for her. He did very little of what he promised even while asking to be paid up front, and he screwed up what he did do. My mother fired him and hired a reputable plumber to fix the mess. Was that "revenge"?

This former Indiana rep doesn't understand the meaning of the word; it would be revenge if someone showed up at his house and broke his windows, or slashed his tires or something. It would be revenge if people went after him egally - say a local Sheriff arresting him for no good reason. It would be revenge if they grabbed him, tied him up, and made him watch The View. (That would go beyond revenge into torture.) But sacking this guy for poor job performance is not revenge.

This guy doesn't understand he represents the will of the People and not his own. He is not somehow our better who has to lead us benighted Yahoos into enlightenment. He serves at the pleasure of the People and the People were displeased.

Using Christianity as a sword to slash at those who kicked him out of office is low.

Sadly that is true of so many Republicans.

The essay also speaks to our Christian duty to fight when it is necessary. We are to care about our brothers and sisters, our neighbors and friends and even enemies. Love requires we do some hard things sometimes. Surrender to avoid a fight and letting an evil plant itself and grow is not love. There is a saying that says "the opposite of love is not hate but indifference". This is true to a point; it isn't true of the Left, who absolutely hates us and the nation we built and it's not out of spurned love, I assure you. But it would be true of us if we "go along to get along" as the GOP so often does. That would indeed be the opposite of love, and it is exactly what God does not want.

The story of Adam and Eve illustrates that. Adam didn't try to stop Eve, and when she nagged him he went along (probably because he couldn't bear to lose her). It was for this reason God heaped the curses on Adam that he did. Refusing to say no is as great a sin, if not greater, than the sin of Eve.

Ditto Cain. Cain asked "am I my brother's keeper" of God when God asked (rhetorically) where Abel was. The point was that, yes, Cain WAS Abel's keeper and so are all of us. We are supposed to care about our neighbors and brothers.

So this business of calling it "revenge" and saying it is unchristian to demand a figter who would oppose the evils that are in the Left and coming to America is but a ruse to excuse sloth and coldness towards our citizens.

The idea f the Christian soldier is an old and established one, and many a Roman soldier became Christian because he saw the need for a strong protector of the People of God. Nobody until the modern era thought this was wrong.

The modern era unfortunately has seen Christians cowed by the false application of half of the message of Jesus. The liberals take Jesus admonitions of private kindness and mercy and disregard the other half of the message, the one coming from the Conquering Messiah. Jesus often spoke of warfare, spiritual warfare, which entialed occasionally actual warfare with people.

Yes, Jesus did call off Peter when they seized Him in the Garden of Gethsemane, but that was to fulfill a mission; it was not an unilateral blanket surrender to evil. Christians are supposed to try peace first but eventually they may have to fight "Not Peace, but a Sword - "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. " Jesus is quoted in Matthew 11.

Surrender is not peace and caving to the demands of a sinful world is not building bridges. And it is not what our government officials were empowered to do by us. We want them to fight, not play pattycake with the darkness.

And preserving tradition at all cost is a betrayal of their oath of office; those traditions have been weaponized against the American People and so must be rooted out where they are shown to hurt us. Not redistricting to avoid making the opposition mad is a prime example; the Democrats have redistricted in their favor all over the country. We are just rebalancing. If this clown can't do that then he should be in another line of work (well, he probably will be).

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