Newt Gingrich and His Standing with "God"

This is going to be a touchy issue for a lot of readers if they are religiously inclined. You have heard that Newt said when it came his turn to talk about his 'character" that he said "Well, I've made mistakes and I have had to go to God for forgiveness". So does this "God" forgive everybody else with such ease? How about a child molester spending his 23rd year in prison for a crime committed in his youth and he is now middle aged? When does he get the OK sign from God? Never? That's what I thought. How about you and various relatives who hold old grudges against you and every holiday season you are reminded by them of your real or imagined shortcomings? Don't you think a little "forgiveness" would go nice here? Suppose you have some boss or superior with some real or imagined grudge against you and he does everything he can to block any promotion you might otherwise get, possibly even to the detriment of the business? So when does that situation get resolved and how come all the petetioning on your part to God won't change the heart of your boss? There are political vendettas where key pieces of legislation get held up, seemingly with assenine subbornness? So it's always not a neat and clean matter of going to a priest and obtaining forgiveness. But now let's talk about the whole thing about sin. David told God that he had sinned "Against God alone" in his murder of Uriah and taking his wife to wed. Well, I wonder how the now dead Uriah would feel about it if he were still alive? What about the institution of marriage? I have always had a problem with people who say "I didn't sin against YOU- - my only sin is a sin against God, and as for you, you can go to Hell as far as I care". How "Christian" is THAT? The thing is I don't even like the term of a sin "against God". For people like myself and Ron Hubbard, sin is sin and it exists apart from the object that may be affected. You can call it "abberation" or "error" or "sin", to me it's all the same thing. People do it and then they spot it once, but later on are back doing the same thing again. Just this morning Tuesday December 13th I corrected certain logical errors a couple of postings back on the subject of Kurtoosis. I saw my error and I fixed it as soon as I saw it, so future readers would not be misled on an already complicated subject. In other words I did a George Romney style revision. I mean does everything we publish in life have to have the permanence as a carving on Mt. Rushmore? I mean you will remember how Ted Kennedy did numerous "revisions" on his deposition concerning Chapiquittic. Newt used to be a Calvinist, and they believe every bit of merit we have before God is by grace alone. There is none of this "proving yourself worthy to be accepted by other Christians' that people have thrown in my face, personally, so many times. And if you believe this you also believe that the Lord is sovreign, and nothing is never "out of God's control" or escapes His notice. So the very idea that America has "departed from the will or plan of God" is an utterly non Calvinistic one. At no time can it ever be claimed by a Calvinist that somehow if God doesn't come through it's because we ourselves somehow Prevented God from doing what he WANTED to do for us, because of our own shortcomings so that God looked at us and said "well, I just can't forgive that fault"! In my own view of God, events never "get away from God" and God never has to "think anything over" before he acts. So this whole crap about "patience" is really silly.

So now let's just take another look at Newt and see if we want a man in the White House who has made as many "mistakes" as he has made. We know Newt lied about his involvement with Freddy Mac. But he's STILL lying and I'll tell you how. We know that Freddy Mac is not the thing that Caused the whole real estate bubble and crash of the economy. One might think it would be in Newt's OWN interest to come out and Say that Freddy Mac was NOT the problem. This reduce his own culpibility as well. But he won't say this in any debate. Why? I'll tell you. Because he is "towing the Party Line". The "Party Line" is that Freddy and Fanny CAUSED the whole real estate deboccle. And for Newt to depart from this would be to betray his tea party constituancy. Hence Newt defends a lie where telling the Truth would be in his own interest. Newt though will pride himself on "telling the Truth" concerning Israel and Palistine. Well, at least if he's going to SAY this shouldn't actually BE the Truth? The Saudi Arabian tribes weren't even a nation back in 1920 or whenever. Certainly this was the case in the 1800's. Israel was not yet a nation. But the people of Palestine inhabitted the land. Some were Sephardic Jews and others were Islamic or perhaps even Christian. They were not Saudis. The Saudi Arabs were in the Bible descended from Ketura, the third wife of father Abrahan. They are Dedan in the Bible. Now we come to the Ottoman Empire, which Newt says was run by Arabs and so since the Palistinians were in the Ottoman empire they had to be Arab. Of course the Ottoman empire was run by Turks. I researched this decades ago and the Turks are not even a semetic people. So they certainly not Arabic, who are semetic peoples. So the whole thing of Newt is one big LIE. Now as to the matter of his wife. He divorces his first wife as she was recovering from Cancer surgery. According to Hartman he divorced his second wife when she developed muscular dystrophy, though I couldn't find this in the Wickipedia. People say this is all "ancient history". Well Newt was judging Clinton's morals while all the while was engaged in an ongoing affair with staffer Colista. They did not marry till 2000 or something. Could not the Republican party at large claim that Newt was "tresspassing on their good name" because the Republicans lost house members in the 1998 election and blew their chances for impeachment conviction. And could not the Republicans also rightfully say "Please don't be responsable by your own careless actions of re electing yet another Democrat for a second term"? Newt did not convert to being Catholic till 2008 so this is very late in the day. Romney has every right to question Newt's constancy of Faith. Hasn't Newt sinned against children everywhere when he suggests there should be more orphanages. This is almost a Dickensian statement. Newt wants English as the only language when Jefferson and Franklin and a lot of them were as fluent in French as they were in English and who knows but that the whole Constitution might have been written in French. When he points to a Meet the Press tape and says "anybody who plays that tape is a liar", what are we to think. Isn't falsely accusing others a sin? I sure think so. Actually perhaps the word is transgress. In other words we tresspass on the rights of others. So what's Newt's real take on the whole Global Warming issue? Is it really some foreign plot to keep US oil production down and sabotage the American economy, or is it a genuine concern about the welfare of Planet Earth? Newt unlike me believed once that people should be forced to buy from these greedy health insurance policies in what ammounts to government enforced Capitalism at the point of a gun. Well now Newt says it took him a while to "figure out that this was wrong". Perhaps we ought to pick a President who is a bit quicker at "figuring things out". And anybody who accuses people who thinks some of our laws on business are inequitable of being "Communists" as Rush Limbaugh also does or calls the President of the United States a Marxist and a recent speech a Marxist manifesto- - I have to question their judgement on everything. If Newt is a historian he knows the writings of Karl Marx had virtually nothing to do with the sentaments President Obama expressed in Kansas last week, which was basically an appeal for Americans to just remember their history. It would seem that no Republican wants to study American History if it involves anything that's happened since the Spanish American War. These are things we should all keep in mind when we evaluate potential candidates for President next year.