1989 Issue 4 - Calvin on Pluralism - Counsel of Chalcedon
Therefore let us notice that it was God's will that false prophets should be rooted out from among his people. Now at first sight this Law seems overly strict. Is it fitting that a man should be punished so severely for speaking his mind? Isn't it a wonder that we can tolerate that someone be punished for speaking against a mortal man, yet find it in our hearts to let a man escape unpunished who has blasphemed the living God?
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back anything, or bringing the tyrant to
Florida "for trial. Removing dependents
of servicemen from Panama has been re-
viewed but no military reprisals have
been seriously considered After all, a
kinder and gentler America must re-
spond as a wimp nation or be called
names such as "imperialist,".or "aggres-
sor" and that would be bad in Washing-
ton for the image of bipartisan govern-
ment. Jimmy Carter tried the kinder and
gentler America once, and we forgot
one of the major lessons Georgia's
Great Helmsman taught us. Bipartisan- ·
ship in foreign policy often means
surrender to anti-American forces.
Perhaps Noriega is not harrassed by
the American media the way Samoza
was because he is already an adequate,
embarrassing, anti-American dictator. A
Daniel Ortega is not needed in Panama.
Panama is already kinder and gentler,
just as Nicaragua is. As far as the media
is concerned, could there really be
another Panamanian who could degrade
the United States as effectively as
Noriega does? For our servicemen, the
situation in Panama is kinder and gent-
ler all the time, as the muggings and
beatings become more frequent But the
story might not be covered here until
that coverage is useful to the blame-
America-frrst crowd.
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Knowing that "the only language
they (television executives) speak is
money," the Rev. Donald Wildman of
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the American Family Association,
threatened during the first week of April
to organize. a boycott of PepsiCo pro-
ducts if a blasphemous cola commercial
wasn't taken off the air. It was taken off
the llit, and reports were then the com-
pany could lose a cool $5 million as a
result of its contract with the "star"
used in advertisement. That star was
Louise Veronica Ciccone, or Madonna.
Her interweaving of a Catholic altar,
idolatrous sex,. and, in her recent video,·
the piercing of her own hands so that
they appear to bleed, reaffinn her status
as Jezebel, (Rev. 2:18-29).
PepsiCo company spokesmen say
they fear the negative publicity Wild-
man can cause more than they are afraid
of a boycott. Who cares. They yanked
the ad.
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The Lord works in mysterious ways.
U.S. Attorney General Richard Thorn-
burgh· is ·an exceptionally smooth and
adroit politician who seems to know,
least for the moment, how to promotx: a
Christian cause or two without invig-
orating Ed Meese's old foes. Meese was ·
Attorney General under Ronald Reagan.
Meese understood the Constitution
haps better than any Attorney General
in recent times, but Thornburgh is us-
ing a court case handpicked by William
Bradford Reynolds in 1988 to be the
case used to try to overturn Roe v.
Wade. Thornburgh's image is kinder and
gentler, but he may prove, with our
prayers and God's sovereign mercy, to
have substance on the abortion issue.
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