Good People Pray For the Losers.
Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009
by straight talk
I just reviewed a segment on a 90 year old man who lost his fortune to the tune of $700,000 to Madoff. He is back at work as a greeter at 90 making $300.00 a week and trying to stay a float. Madoff, the alleged thief, w ell he sits in a swanky pent house and at his age he may never see the inside of a jail.
Need we say anything else? No as I wrote in my last article, there really isn't anything else to say. If we look around we see the same MOTIS operandi. They come in light but are really ravenous wolves. Is the politician who takes a lobby donation to pass through legislation and law favorable to another person or entity any less guilty? Is the one who charges usury and then takes full advantage of unscrupulous laws to destroy people any less guilty? How about the misleading advertisements and legal wording which basically say sorry you can do nothing, read before you buy. Are they any less guilty for formulating that type of legal wording? Rhetorically, if honest, why need it?
The sins of these leaders at every social level of our nation be it government, business, church sums up what we are experiencing. So a 90 year old will start over and worry about his family, his spouse, his loved ones, while the fat cats will preach, talk about us having to be educated to be responsible and write lwas demanding that. How to learn how mind you to use credit. Yes even while they bailout the same types as they. Eevn while they rack up trillions in debt. How dare they these champions of what, these captains of business, really?
How, yes how do they live with themselves? One who has the attributes of mercy, compassion, love of neighbor, kindness and other moral virtues cannot reason as to how theses types can live with themselves. Well the answer is they can't. The Easter Bunny on the outside but deep down where it counts they are as cold as ice. They have no natural affection and it works for me their battle cry. Theya re truly dead, no not in body dead forever, in soul.
So believers, good people, decent folk will pray for them. They will find excuses for them. They will forgive them and they, well they could care less, regardless of all the thanking and humbleness thy project. In my opinion no more then a charade, a facade for the masses to digest. In this they have no peers.
Now I too forgive them but I don't have to like or condone what they do. I don't have to accept their failures, their crimes, their mediocrity their greed and selfishness. No, as a believer I am required to speak out, to confront and identify and to bring them and all they do into the light. Once done they stand naked in that light with a choice. That is ignore or repent. Yet it is now on the books so to speak for all to recognize. They then have no where to hide. They can only dance.
Now in my opinion they could care less because their God, their agenda, their goal is of this world and all that they want to make this world into. Of course they bring it to evryone as it being light but whatever they do turns to darkness. It is what it is by facts. Only they prosper. Only they gain. Only their allies the same. It is before us all as fact.
Yes we should pray for them because the chain they weave is a heavy chain indeed. Yes and before they pass over they need to make restitution and repent. Certainly we all do, but they , like I said before, carry a Scrooge like chain who's chain was far greater, heavier and longer then Marley's. Yes it is right that Good people pray for the losers because without those prayers just where would these poor lost souls be?
Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2009 Copyright 2009 Robert Melaccio Sr .
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Robert, You are so right, these leaches are under the guise of the light, the perception of "What I can do for you, while I take, and ingest your life earnings). I doubt that they even care about the 90 year old that can barely stand at 90, to make his 300.00 a week. These criminals will have their judgement day, I like what you so eloquently phrased; and I quote,"Now I too forgive them but I don't have to like or condone what they do. I don't have to accept their failures, their crimes, their mediocrity their greed and selfishness. No, as a believer I am required to speak out, to confront and identify and to bring them and all they do into the light. Once done they stand naked in that light with a choice. That is ignore or repent. Yet it is now on the books so to speak for all to recognize. They then have no where to hide. They can only dance".Well said! And I totally agree with you. I feel the same way....they will have to face the music, by then, even with all of the good praying, by then it may be to late for them. As usual, I find your work to be well thought out, well documented, and informed....Great read...Thank you for being you. Your friend in pen.....Gary...I am mentioning you in one of my articles called "What is a Fan". I hope you don't mind, its all good.....Please log in to respond to this comment.Gary, not at all, it is a mutual feeling without being a patronizer. As you say along with me, all of us concerned for our loved ones must speak out and now! They literally fear the electorate and we will have a mighty voice if we blow the horn in Zion. Personally, just today, I wrote to my state representative on a project I submitted to this governor two years ago, which is evidently sitting in a closet or trash bucket. It could literally create many jobs and revenue that could save this county, one of the worst in the nation and this state. I also asked for grant money assistance to start my new business putting people back to work. I don't know your situation or where you are in Texas but it is time to get going, to take action. There are opportunities for Americans if we pull together for Americans. God bless, thanks so much for your kindness. Robert.Please log in to respond to this comment.
Robert, I am sorry but I do not agree with the religious spin you put on these scammer fat-cats.As a Agnostic Theist, I see the scammers as horrible people who ought to be jailed.They do not deserve to be preyed for because, first, even if their is a heaven, they shouldn't be allowed in. Should Adolf Hitler be in Heaven?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I agree with what all of what you wrote, just excluding the religious jabbering.Please log in to respond to this comment.Gregory, I sincerely respect that comment and opinion but while I do not expect anyone who holds different or no religious beliefs to accept that as a person who does believe I and all are required, that is if we truly are who we profess to be, to pray for all. I do not foster that or my belief on anyone. I only ask they consider what I state and addressed that to believers. Now as I stated I do appreciate your work as well and certainly we all have to come to our own conclusions. So hopefully if I do not offend you, which is not my intent, most likely I and other Christians will pray for you as well. best wishes and keep me on the mark, thanks much, Robert.Please log in to respond to this comment.Your certainly did not offend me and I am hoping I didn't offend you in any way.But just curious, does Adolf Hitler deserve to be forgiven?The 6+ Jewish People he systimatically exterminated deserve to be in the best damn Heaven poissible and it would be an extremely UNFAIR and unbalanced Universe if Adolf Hitler joined the Holocaust survivers in Heaven.Do you agree?Please log in to respond to this comment.Now that is an interesting question to pose. To answer that we must use varied perspectives. As a Christian we do not and should not condone sin. Should Hitler be forgiven verses should he pay the price? Now to forgive is totally separate from the deed. That is key. I must admit this is a test for all of us who profess. That is why we pray suffer us not the trial because it is a trial and torment. Yet we must forgive the person, regardless of the horror of their deed, not easy at all, and let God deal with the vengeance. I give you the saints who prayed this even while being out to death. Now we must not forget that have the law of man. Which we as humans and believers are obligated to obey as well. You can't look the other way while someone jumps over the fence, or steals, etc. Of course in this matter if he would have been captured and tried he most likely would have been executed. The horror of the acts can never be justified to any decent people or person. Yet if we lower ourselves to vengeance in the human sense we would have made ourselves exactly like him and we would not be who we profess to be. In fact I will give you one I ponder but also the answer. If Christ died for our sins, all of them, then even Hitler in his most gross form if he called on God to save Him most likely would have been saved. Hard to accept perhaps but the Word. Now saved is way different from punishment. That act of asking for mercy would have rescued him from hell but not the punishment associated with those sins. People miss this point. immensely. That is why you pray often for mercy and forgiveness. Those prayers don't save you. Jesus did when you asked Him into your life. They are offered to God for less punishment. Did Hitler ask for mercy and pray, who knows? I suspect not since he took his own life. If he did not repent of murder then he surely must be in Hell. Which is an absence from God. In my opinion that is most likely the case. Now scripture states that all souls pass through the fire. Ones goods deeds stay and the bad are burned away. Keep in mind that all sin is forgiven save that against the Holy Spirit. It is however also required that when one comes to the Lord it must be in TRUE sorrow and repenting. I think not in this case as well. Just an opinion. So just saying Born Again is worthless if you stay in sin. You evidently never intended to part from those bad ways. I hope this helps with a very difficult topic. The answers my friend are simple within the Word. Now they are hard for us who profess to follow. That is the separator between those who merely profess and those who do. The great majority of Christians today in my opinion by their works, what they do and fail to do, merely professors. Best wishes, Robert.Please log in to respond to this comment.I mean, ok, lets say Hitler repented or whatever and he is before got with true sorrow.NO MATTER WHAT THE HELL HE DOES HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE IN A PLACE THE 6+ MILLION JEWISH ARE ARE IN;IF THERE IS A HEAVEN, THERE MUST BE A SPECIAL SECTION FOR THOSE 6+ MILLION JEWISH PEOPLE; AND TO BE FAIR; TO ALL THE AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO DIED ABOARD SHIPS THAT CARRIED THEM FROM AFRICA TO THE NEW WORLD, PEOPLE WHO WENT THROUGH THOSE TYPES OF HARDSHIPS DESERVE TO BE IN A PLACE ABOVE HEAVEN.Those who are truly sorry to God yet stil did those things, such as Hitler, where does he belong? You never mentioned where he belongs; you just said God is the one to punish him. But what can God do? Send him back to hell to send him to Heaven? I don't understand; it's not like our penal system works God aint gonna impose a sentence "200 years in the oven than you can go cool off in Heaven" it should be "a full aftertime in the oven" or atleast "100000 years of pain in the oven, than you are reborn as a person who lives a truly miserable life....even than he doesn't deserve to be in the special part of Heaven reserved for whose who truly suffered; if Hitler went through that punichment maybe he deserves like an inbetween again this is after Burning and feeling pain for like a million years than living a horrible life in our reality than he dies and than he can be like in pergatory or something.Please log in to respond to this comment.You evidently missed what I stated on a topic you are evidently emotional concerning this and i do not wish to get you more upset. The answer, is He will be punished and yes if he "truly" repents then one has to assume he is saved. Once again two separate deeds. Mercy and punishment for the sin. As I said I don't think you have to worry where he is. If no God with the Worms, if a God well only he can answer where he went. We will all find out when we pass on. I hope this answers the question? Peace.Please log in to respond to this comment.
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