Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: "We Will Stand" stolen by Clinton
From: malee@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu
Date: 8 Nov 92 14:42:58 EDT
Organization: Miami University, Hamilton campus

In article <1992Nov4.213122.28302@cbnews.cb.att.com>, ajw@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.j.whitman) writes:
> In article <1992Nov4.081656.1@ualr.edu> bproden@ualr.edu writes:
>>This DOES have to do with Christian music.
>>
>>About 11:00 CST I came out of my computer room to check the returns on TV.
>>I thought I recognized the melody being sung by a choir outside the Old 
>>State House here in Little Rock.  As I watched the crowd swaying with clasped
>>hands lifted high, I realized the song was the chorus from Ruff Taff's
>>"We Will Stand."  But it had been reworded, and I couldn't make out the 
>>changes they had made.
> 
> This ALSO has to do with Christian music.
> 
> Yeah, right.
> 
> "In those days John Sununu took a vacation with taxpayer's money, and took
> the presidential nominee with him.  And while they were swimming in the 
> Hilton pool, the spirit of God descended from the heavens in the shape
> of an elephant, and a voice thundered from above, 'This is my beloved
> GOP candidate, with whom I am well pleased.  Listen to him.'"  
> 
> "And from that day forth the candidate went out and spake unto the masses
> saying, "'Hey, it's really not that bad.  Consider this recession thing.
> You cannot find jobs, and you neither toil not, neither do you reap.
> And yet I tell you that not even Ross Perot in all his glory has the
> kind of vision, you know, the kind of really special sight thing, to
> stay the course and to stick with it and to put one's nose to the 
> grindstone and to tough it out and get the job done.  Thank you very
> much and God bless America.'"
> 
> "And some considered this a hard saying, and many left him in those days.  
> But to the faithful remnant he said, 'To you it has been granted the 
> secrets of the Kingdom.  Here's the biggest one yet: I'm God's right-hand 
> man.  Many will fall away and will chase after harlots and idols and 
> Democrats, and will wear condoms.  What concern is this to you?  You are 
> to be about my business, which is prayer in the public schools.'"
> 
> "But lo, the masses did reject him.  He was defeated for our 
> transgressions and lazy working habits which sent jobs to foreign
> lands, and by his Oxford cloth stripes some were indeed well-heeled.
> And God was wroth and sorely vexed, and pronounced a curse upon the 
> land because His Boy had lost: 'Verily, shalt thou be lifted up, O 
> America?  No, thou shalt not be lifted up, but thou shalt be forced 
> to hire sinners and relate to gay people and listen to Russ Taff music
> (see, I knew I could fit it in somehow).  For I am the Alpha and 
> the Omega, Pi to the power of infinity, and a member of Delta Chi,
> as is my beloved candidate, and I hereby cast you rebellious 
> Democratic turncoats into the outer darkness, which is somewhere
> near Lubbock, Texas.  And read my lips: there you will find weeping 
> and gnashing of teeth and higher taxes.'"
> 
> "Then the abomination of desolation (let the reader understand) was
> installed in his white temple, and the righteous, rejected 
> candidate did commune with his God by going to his private compound
> in Maine.  And there was evening and there was morning, the first
> day."
> 
> Obligatory Christian Music content:  I have no idea who Russ Taff
> is or what he sounds like.  
> 
> Andy Whitman
> AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
> att!cblpn!ajw  or
> ajw@cblpn.att.com

	You mock God well.  Perhaps you have neglected to remember that 
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools* despise 
wisdom and discipline." (NIV)
* The Hebrew words rendered fool in Proverbs, and often eslewhere in the 
Old Testament, denote one who is morally deficient.
	Perhaps you should remember to encourage and/or correct your brother,
but to mock both him and God is to tear yourself from salvation.  I agree that
this is not the best newsgroup to post about this issue.  However, we are 
brothers in Christ and as such we should not tear asunder the unity of the 
Church with hate and arrogance.
	As for your defense against Clinton, at least Bush voiced his aversion
to the slaughtering of children.  Abortion is murder!
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew* you, before you were born I set you
apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (NIV)
* or chose 
	Whether Bush meant what he said or not, at least he proposed a return to
morality.  However, it seems that today people are less concerned with morality
and knowing Christ and more concerned with economic worries and things of this 
earth which will pass away.  The "freedom" to choose to only sin which is all
this world can offer is not freedom.  True freedom comes from being free from 
sin and knowing Christ and the wonderful things that He enables us to do 
through His grace.
	I say none of this to belittle anyone's opinion, or to boost my own ego.
Rather, I say this so that you will think of your Christian brothers before you 
seek to stone them.  We are one in Christ.

-- 
Yours in Christ,

	Matthew

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