tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post1350553031315808136..comments2024-01-20T11:56:48.682+01:00Comments on WindRose Hotel: The Two CitiesS.R. Piccolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622464895435470724noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-7035315304912641242011-11-12T18:59:52.346+01:002011-11-12T18:59:52.346+01:00Love this Augustine stuff Rob; the reason I first ...Love this Augustine stuff Rob; the reason I first started reading your blog was because of a posting about Augustine. <br />Regarding this post, and some of what Mirino said, about the 'will of the people' and the Earthly City. There is a frighteningly large and growing number of people that embrace the Earthly City and reject the City of God; so much so I think we may be at a tipping point where most of the people of the world prefer the Earthly City, ruled by the Adversary, to the City of God. It astonishes me people would rather live under tyranny, and claim it is liberty, than actually live a life of liberty, under God's rule. This was personally brought home to me when a family member said she would rather live in a communist ruled State than a government of practicing Christians. This is the kind of thinking at the base of the claim the Reagan and Bush II administrations were oppressive theocracies. You're right, Rob, we had best learn Augustine's lesson. The selfish and foul have the upper hand, and is being embraced by a growing number. It's almost like we've come full circle to the times of Apostle Paul. He faced massive paganism and the rule of the Earthly State like we do now. The City of God is weakened, but there are enough Christian Church goers that can push back and bring God's Kingdom back into our realm. Let's pray we have the strength and fortitude, like Paul and the early Christians, to take back our Earthly Realm and reconnect it with the Heavenly Kingdom.Steven Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-51039775445607372152011-11-07T09:32:06.619+01:002011-11-07T09:32:06.619+01:00Those who try to destroy freedom or repress the wi...Those who try to destroy freedom or repress the will of the people in God's name, who claim to represent Him, are the epitome of evil, because although their feign humility, they set themselves above Him by deforming or dismissing <a href="http://mirino-viewfinder.blogspot.com/2009/03/la-chute-des-anges.html" rel="nofollow">His will</a>.<br /><br />Too many today, the eternal antithetics, prefer to turn the tables, claiming that this would apply to leaders such as Bush, Blair, and since then Sarkozy and Cameron, or even to Shimon Peres. In their eyes the 'bellicosity' of Israel and the USA, expansionist 'Zionism' and Western 'imperialism', are the cause of all the world's evil. But thus one fully legitimises tyranny, the self same monster that raised its head seventy three years ago, and naturally this, only as long as one isn't directly effected by it in any negative way. An attitude that could determine a repetition of history, and a terrible illusion, as 11/9 showed so atrociously clearly.Mirinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.com