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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
–1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)–

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step
with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners
take or sit in the company of mockers.
–Psalm 1:1 (NIV)–

Don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink,
or for not celebrating certain holy days
or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
–Colossians 2:16 (NLT)–

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Sick

Walk down the realm
Hint to no one that this
Generic bond exists
Evil shows another side

And like before, makes no sense
Never coming, always leaving
Right before, hooked on substance
Digging deeper, can’t reveal

Why we leave well enough alone
Never thought about the shame
So!

So fed up, what’s with the scenes?
Observe and leave instead
This pity wagon penetrates my skin
So sensitive, makes me sick

And like before, makes no sense
Never coming, always leaving
Right before, hooked on substance
Digging deeper, can’t reveal

Why we leave well enough alone
Never thought about the shame
Oh

(Oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh, oh)
The old and the aged pulled
Never knew what hit
The old and the aged rolled
Never knew what hit

And like before, makes no sense
Never coming, always leaving
Right before, hooked on substance
Digging deeper, can’t reveal

Why we leave well enough alone
Never thought about the shame

We leave, we leave

–Chevelle, “Well Enough Alone”–

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. –Matthew 15:8 (KJV)

I believe that Calvinism encourages people to be passive about political activism, just as it encourages lukewarm non-evangelistic preaching in the pulpit. This then opens the door for worldly anti-Christian men to take power in the government. Its always the Arminians that get politically involved for the notable causes of good: Wilberforce, the Quakers, and Wesley (abolition of slavery, Anglicans), Finney (abolition of slavery, prohibition of alcohol), Billy Sunday (prohibition of alcohol, IFB Arminian), Washington (revolution against an English tyrant, Anglican), Pat Robertson and CBN (Pentecostal Arminian), Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority (IFB Arminian), oh yeah and the Catholic Legion of Decency is what gave us all those clean TCM movies from 1935 to 1955. While the Reformed Calvinist pastors sit back, interlock their fingers, relax, trust the sovereignty of God, and benefit from all the hard work that the Arminians did with their free wills in the sphere of government, taking political action with the help of the God in whom they trust. While its true that Spurgeon spoke against slavery, he’s not known for abolitionism–Whitefield and Edwards were actually slaveowners. Too much Calvinism means political passivity and maybe even Islamic invasion! God has always intended for Christians to take responsibility in government, from Joseph, to Moses, to Joshua, to the judges, to the kings, to Daniel, to Esther, to Constantine, to Luther, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and to the founding of the United States.