San Antonio Thought Police Win the Battle

"But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive."

Genesis 50:20

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I made my bed, I'll lie in it; I made my bed I'll die in it...."

Hole, Miss World

They did it; the San Antonio City Council voted to approve Julian Castro's censorship ordinance.

Municipal government in San Antonio will now enforce restrictions on personal beliefs; with the bonus of forcing businesses to allow men in women's restrooms.

The question becomes: how will people react?!?

It's an open question.  We'd love to get all 'rah, rah' on our soapbox and talk about how this will not stand.  But we don't know.

There's certainly recourse.  The San Antonio city charter provides for recalls.  But a successful recall drive will take a lot of work.

As a resident of Austin, this isn't our fight.  San Antonio residents must take the lead.  A successful recall campaign will only be won neighbor-to-neighbor.

If you live in San Antonio, and you don't agree with what just happened, you better get off your ass on this one....

Pastor Stephen Broden: God and Country 2012

Cahnman's Musings got to see Pastor Broden speak earlier today; the video from that event isn't online yet, so, for now, enjoy this speech he gave last year:



Highlights:

• The seeding ground for what we face today took place in the 18th and 19th centuries.

• "America is like a healthy body, it's resistence is three-fold: it's patirotism, its morality, and its spiritual life; if we can undermine these three things, America will collapse from within." Joseph Stalin

• God keeps bringing back 'social' issues; we won't fix the economy until we get 'social' issues right.

• Banhoeffer was speaking to the Church.

• You can't speak of American exceptionalism outside of our Judeo-Christian heritage; American exceptionalism is a result of our Judeo-Christian heritage.

The Faith of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This is a fascinating talk about how Dietrich Bonhoeffer developed his personal faith:


Highlights:

• Bonhoeffer came from an amazing family.

• Bonhoeffer's family was the foundation of his faith.

• Bonhoeffer got his Phd. at 21; he split Atoms with Einstein

• Spent a year in New York City during 1930/31, where he was active in a black church; seeing such faithful Christianity in pre-Civil Rights black America caused him to deepen his faith.

• Upon his return to Germany, Bonhoeffer started saying very provocative anti-Nazi stuff.

• The Nazi's infiltrated the German Church with their propaganda.

• Unlike the rest of the German Church, Bonhoeffer knew they had to resist the Nazi's.

• The Nazi's tried to remove the Old Testament from the German Church; Bonhoeffer responded by writing a book about Psalms.

• If you want to remove Jewish influence from Chrisitanity: "Good Luck with that!"

• Bonhoeffer understood that if you have a relationship with God, you don't have to fear death.