Comments on: Hope and Justice in Difficult Times http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/12/hope-and-justice-in-difficult-times/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Robert D. Colborn, Jr. http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/12/hope-and-justice-in-difficult-times/#comment-565314 Robert D. Colborn, Jr. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:11:39 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9106#comment-565314 I do not have an "agenda"... I am here only to offer my support to end poverty. I do on the other hand take issue with the "I support their help, but ONLY if they don't talk about things I personally do not believe in." And I do not impose my beliefs onto others, but I take offense when I have others attack the fundementals of what I believe in over someone elese's false sense of entitlement of thinking that you have some right to never be offended. Evangelicals have a calling in life, and that is to reach out to the lost in an effort to gather the flock, that is what they do. Those who do not wish the to hear the messege are not forced to, but it is very counter productive to say "I don't think evangelicals should be offering aid to end poverty if they are going to preach something I personally do not believe in while doing it..." I do not have an “agenda”… I am here only to offer my support to end poverty. I do on the other hand take issue with the “I support their help, but ONLY if they don’t talk about things I personally do not believe in.”

And I do not impose my beliefs onto others, but I take offense when I have others attack the fundementals of what I believe in over someone elese’s false sense of entitlement of thinking that you have some right to never be offended.

Evangelicals have a calling in life, and that is to reach out to the lost in an effort to gather the flock, that is what they do. Those who do not wish the to hear the messege are not forced to, but it is very counter productive to say “I don’t think evangelicals should be offering aid to end poverty if they are going to preach something I personally do not believe in while doing it…”

]]> By: Robert Gonzalez http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/12/hope-and-justice-in-difficult-times/#comment-565313 Robert Gonzalez Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:01:14 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9106#comment-565313 ...and as I suspected, yours is a hidden agenda. Why can't you simply feed and love people for who they are without trying to save them? Just because they are poor and hungry doesn't mean they should be imposed upon by primitive beliefs that they need to be saved. …and as I suspected, yours is a hidden agenda. Why can’t you simply feed and love people for who they are without trying to save them? Just because they are poor and hungry doesn’t mean they should be imposed upon by primitive beliefs that they need to be saved.

]]> By: Robert Gonzalez http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/12/hope-and-justice-in-difficult-times/#comment-565312 Robert Gonzalez Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:57:38 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9106#comment-565312 Mr. Colborn, My judgement, as you say, is based on observation of past behavior. Aside from some of the most embarassing scandals, evangelicals have only served to impose themselves on countless others. As usual it is people like you who have decided they crave His words. This is a choice we must all make individually. Evangelicals have had a long and sordid history of cramming their morals and beliefs on those who they only "think" crave the Word. If people want to hear the Word they will ask. It is not up to you or anyone else to determine that for them. Mr. Colborn,
My judgement, as you say, is based on observation of past behavior. Aside from some of the most embarassing scandals, evangelicals have only served to impose themselves on countless others. As usual it is people like you who have decided they crave His words. This is a choice we must all make individually. Evangelicals have had a long and sordid history of cramming their morals and beliefs on those who they only “think” crave the Word. If people want to hear the Word they will ask. It is not up to you or anyone else to determine that for them.

]]> By: Robert D. Colborn, Jr. http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/12/hope-and-justice-in-difficult-times/#comment-565309 Robert D. Colborn, Jr. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:57:52 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9106#comment-565309 Robert Gonzalez, Are those evangelicals any more judgemental than you are being now? If someone wishes to ignore the word of God, they have the option to turn and walk away, but why must those who crave his words be denied because others choose just because others choose to be denied? If evangelicals are reaching out with the word of God to others, why is it your choice to deny them that? Robert Gonzalez,

Are those evangelicals any more judgemental than you are being now?

If someone wishes to ignore the word of God, they have the option to turn and walk away, but why must those who crave his words be denied because others choose just because others choose to be denied?

If evangelicals are reaching out with the word of God to others, why is it your choice to deny them that?

]]> By: Robert D. Colborn, Jr. http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/12/hope-and-justice-in-difficult-times/#comment-565308 Robert D. Colborn, Jr. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:43:47 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9106#comment-565308 Isn't it time that we stop seeing colors and boarders, and start seeing what we truly are? Fellow inhabitants of this rock called earth, fellow human beings. It is past the time to wave our hands and speak soft words as we pass by those who need us. It is time we reach out our hands to help them along the journey! Banks and automiles will still be around long after we are gone, but those who are suffering in poverty only have ONE life they can live, Why must they spend that life in agony while our government continues to line the pockets of greedy corporate giants? I have hope for not just our nation, but for ALL of mankind, but hope cannot do it alone. Hope needs action in order to be fulfilled. Isn’t it time that we stop seeing colors and boarders, and start seeing what we truly are? Fellow inhabitants of this rock called earth, fellow human beings. It is past the time to wave our hands and speak soft words as we pass by those who need us. It is time we reach out our hands to help them along the journey!

Banks and automiles will still be around long after we are gone, but those who are suffering in poverty only have ONE life they can live, Why must they spend that life in agony while our government continues to line the pockets of greedy corporate giants?

I have hope for not just our nation, but for ALL of mankind, but hope cannot do it alone. Hope needs action in order to be fulfilled.

]]> By: Robert Gonzalez http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/12/hope-and-justice-in-difficult-times/#comment-565306 Robert Gonzalez Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:19:32 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9106#comment-565306 As has happened so many times in the past evangelicals feel a need to push their morals and religions upon the people of other countries. If they stay out of that arena then I welcome them into the fold. We don't need judgement and proselytizing in these matters. As has happened so many times in the past evangelicals feel a need to push their morals and religions upon the people of other countries. If they stay out of that arena then I welcome them into the fold. We don’t need judgement and proselytizing in these matters.

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